A few years ago midweek nights used to be about underground dance music or indie, but now pop rules the roost. If you want to launch a new night there’s some tough competition and you want to be doing something different. Luckily Audio have found a niche for Bastard Pop, and despite the name the hedonism is, well, kinda classy. Blame it on the two-for-one cocktails but where other nights crash around in big balls of energy, BP is sexy and not too debauched. There’s a real energy to the drunkenness – maybe it’s the high you get off cocktails, maybe it’s the pop-meets-house music policy. The added bonus of the terrace makes this a great summer session, with cool air to calm down all that dancing. Lads be warned, Bastard Pop is full of girls – really full of them – if you can deal with that. Ladies be warned, the mojitos can run out quickly. Apart from that, there’s no complaints.
FYI
AUGUST EVENTS: Every Thursday at Audio
WEB: tiny.cc/bastardface
FREE BEFORE: 12.30, with Facebook guestlist
TOP TEN
Jay-Z ‘Big Pimpin”
Missy Elliot ‘Get Ur Freak On’
Dave Darell ‘Children (Club Mix)’
Basement Jaxx ‘Raindrops (Funkagenda & Paul Thomas Re-Dux)’
Jean Elan ‘Killer (Jean Elan Mix)’
The Noisettes ‘Don’t Upset the Rhythm (Kissy Sell Out In The Black Lodge Dub)’
Example ‘Kickstart (Bar9 Remix)’
Mr Oizo ‘Flat Beat’
The Killers ‘Mr. Brightside (Jacques Lu Cont’s Thin White Duke Mix)’
Mamas Gun ‘Finger On It’
