Optimo (Espacio)
@optimo-espacio.bsky.social
Global, anti-racist, anti-classist, pro-love dancefloor duo since 1997. Booking : caroline@spunoutagency.com
Ace night with @optimo-espacio.bsky.social in the park! Great to meet up with old friends and loads of the 1 of 100 community 🤝😄
It's almost exactly 15 years since the last weekly Optimo. Coincidentally I just found this which we handed out on the last night - 250 Optimo tunes as chosen by those who attended. Had we picked them I think it would have been a much cooler selection.
Saturday at The Berkeley Suite 11 - 4. Dreaming is free.....
We totally need s group to call themselves The Tesla Bombers and come out with something as good as this. Can be done I feel. @optimo-espacio.bsky.social #2025 #fuckthenazis optimomusic.bandcamp.com/track/break-...
Break The Ice at Parties, by The Tesco Bombers
from the album [Cease & Desist] DIY! (Cult Classics From The Post Punk Era 1978-1982)
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Friday night, JD Twitch @ Todmorden Golden Lion. Strictly for creatures of the night.
Does anyone have any inside info as to what time tomorrow the Wyndford flats in Glasgow are getting demolished?
Sisters Of Mercy's - First And Last And Always is 40 today. I last saw them live 40 years ago yesterday - sisterswiki.org/Sun,_10-Mar-... I've not seen them since but am going to see them this summer as they are playing practically next to my house. Will I regret it?
Sun, 10-Mar-1985 - SistersWiki.org - The Sisters Of Mercy Fan Wiki
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Tomorrow night’s all night Optimo party at Fold is sold out but there will be 20 tix on the door to incentivise some early arrivals. See you there!
Tonight - our final time playing Zukunft in Zurich. After 20 years of playing the club is sadly closing, (plus it’s probably the end of the world anyway….) We are on 01.00 - 07.00 Sunday, at Berlin Panorama Bar 20.00 - 24.00
So long, Gene Hackman, perhaps my favourite American actor. So many great lines! "You pick your feet in Poughkeepsie?" "My name is Harry Caul..I was sick as a child..." "Now you listen to ME you backward shit-ass you, go get me yr fckn boss before i kick the fckn door in"
Our Watching Trees festival is sold out but there are some resale tickets going to be made available on Friday at 11am. watching-trees.eventcube.io/events/68381...
Watching Trees 2025
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Tristwch y Fenywod at St Ninian's Church, Glasgow = the perfect act in the perfect location. Ultragoth +++
Back at The Berkeley Suite, Glasgow on Saturday with Trystero, the new act from Optimo Music's MR TC with Low Bat on vocals. Their self released "Sfumare e Vedere" album was one of our faves of 2024. Psyched to have their Scottish debut. On stage around 00.15 - 01.00 and then we are on 'til 4.
The acclaimed festival Sancho Panza will return this summer for more no-holds barred fun, joined by a stellar lineup of DJs, including @optimo-espacio.bsky.social, Luke Una, Tiger Balm and loads more. www.theransomnote.com/music/events... #festival #sanchopanza #optimoespacio
Optimo, Luke Una & more to play Campo Sancho 2025 - Ransom Note
The acclaimed festival will return this summer for more no holds barred fun joined by a stellar line up of DJ's.
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Good times at Creeping Bent's 30th anniversary / endgame in Glasgow tonight. End of an era. It featured the 1st gig by Glasgow's finest avant-funksters, MacKenzies, in 40 years. They were sensational! Whole thing was great - the best of Glasgow!
Femi Kuti at Celtic Connections tonight - 🔥🔥🔥🔥 As outspoken as his dad. Encored with Fela's "Beast Of No Nation" and "Water Get No Enemy" Whole thing was epic.
Back on NTS Radio at 17.00 - 19.00 GMT with a David Lynch tribute hour for the 1st hour.
David Lynch / Captain Beefheart - ELECTRICITY www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3Wz...
David Lynch / Captain Beefheart - ELECTRICITY
YouTube video by bowly
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I got to share a smoke with David Lynch outside the Glasgow Film Theatre when he was giving a talk on Transcendental Meditation. Possibly the only good thing that came out of being a smoker, which is of course what did for DL. 💔💔 #don’tsmoke
Have had this record forever yet somehow didn't notice its greatness until today. So awesome! I'm almost prepared to absolve Richard Branson of all his evils for giving the world the Front Line label back in the 70s (though he had next to nothing to do with it). www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUYJ...
Joyella Blade – Cairo & Cairo Dub (Front Line) 1978
YouTube video by Rootswise
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I used to keep a diary of record purchases so know that 40 years ago today I bought Treasure by Cocteau Twins (a little while after it came out). I adore this album & have recently fallen in love with it all over again, John Bonham OTT drum samples and all. Treasure fans, what's yr favourite track?
At last! Possibly the greatest synth pop album ever made, Testpattern's Après-Midi (produced by Haruomi Hosono) gets a reissue. A shame they didn't consider including a bonus 12" to include Testpattern's seminal non albumi tracks.
Après-Midi
TESTPATTERN are MASAO HIRUMA & FUMIO ICHIMURA All instruments played by MASAO HIRUMA Equipments: ROLAND, KORG, EMULATOR, PROPHET, LINN Lyrics anglicisted by PETER BARAKAN & french teacher-KISEKO MUROI...
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Tomorrow - Optimo New Year's Day Meltdown '25 @BerkeleySuite 01/01/25 Upstairs bar open at 22.00. Dancefloor open 23.00. On til 04.00. A very Happy New Year to you when it comes. xxx