Polaroid Club

6 years!? How did that happen? It was only supposed to last a couple of months, but here we are 6 years older and not much wiser! It’s not often we blow our own trumpet at Polaroid towers, we prefer to let the music do the talking, but after putting on monthly parties almost consecutively for 6 years, for a small independently run underground club night its no mean feat I’m sure you’ll agree. We also think it’s earned us a much needed rest. So not only will this party be our birthday, it will also be our last, for a while. We can’t say for how long, we don’t know. We’ll still be around doing our thing; we just need a break from putting on monthly parties for a little while…

So we want to ask you to join us for our birthday and going away double header. As always the music supplied will be second to none. Joining us on guest DJ duties will be Phoreski, a DJ who shares our vision and passion for whacked out disco and acid house music. With releases on such esteemed labels as Mule Musiq and Eskimo and a regular feature at red hot London night Bad Passion, Phoreski has buit a huge following for his DJ skills and has spun at parties around the globe. A Phoreski DJ set is something so unique in its track selection, programming and mixing, that it has crowds flocking to the DJ booth to find out what he has just played. Read the rest of this entry »

We have been featured on the rather excellent Warm HQ blog, with a little write up accompanied by a recent DJ mix that includes two of our own tracks. Check it out.

Wire has been nominated for best small club in DJ Magazine’s Best of British awards. Read the rest of this entry »

Polaroid l Friday 6th November

With Very Special Guests… THE GLIMMERS

£5 advance tickets from Resident Advisor

After the huge Greg Wilson night last month, there is no let up in quality as we present The Glimmers to rock Polaroid this time. Hailing from Gent in Belgium, Mo & David have been Djing for 20 years and have been responsible for some the best mix CDs around. Their DJ Kicks and Fabric albums are seminal mixes showcasing their dirty, sleazy & punky disco sound perfectly and reflect their DJ sets which are full of fun with emphasis on the party. This will be one not to be missed… Read the rest of this entry »

Primitive Minds Mix by Nick Smith

1. Floating Points – Vacuum Boogie/Superstars Of Rock – Orange Sunshine Acapella
2. Zwicker – Dragon Fly (Soultourist Remix)
3. Ilija Rudman – Night People (Garage Mix)
4. Bleep District – Revelations (Rapture Rub)
5. Chamboche – Ipso Facto (Pete Herbert Remix)
6. Toby Tobias – In Your Eyes (Tensnake Remix)
7. LSB – F.O.G Dub
8. Zopelar – Till Now (Zopelar Remix)
9. Chamboche – Feverish (The Revenge Remix)
10. Zepp001 – Don’t Sleep
11. Canyons – Fire Eyes
12. Q&A – Tumbling Cubes
13. Precious System – The Voice From Plant Love (Dixon’s Edit)
14. Munk – You Never See Me Back Down (Cut Copy Mix)

To help us with the launch of our brand new Funktion One sound system, we have invited a true legend of the dance world.

For the uninitiated, however unlikely that may seem, Greg Wilson made his name in the 70’s and 80’s where he was a pioneer of the predominantly black electro-funk sound at seminal Manchester clubs like Legends and Hacienda, where he was the first ever resident DJ. Credited with starting it’s first dance night he helped the club develop its reputation as the home of cutting edge new music. He was also the first DJ to mix records live on TV on The Tube show in 1983, and went on to produce and co-write the Street Sounds ‘UK Electro’ LP in 1984, as well as compiling the ‘Classic Electro Mastercuts’ LP in 1994, cementing himself as an oracle of the genre. Read the rest of this entry »

This is the new Polaroid website. Feel free to pull up a chair and have a look around…

Here’s some hot tracks we are currently loving to match the soaring temperatures we are enjoying, with some upcoming DJ dates also.

Arriba. Read the rest of this entry »