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This 11-Hour Glasgow Party is Going Down in Total Darkness

Promoter Animal Farm’s “Blackout” nights aim for an immersive clubbing experience.
Inside The Glue Factory, via the official website

A new party series in Glasgow is giving clubbers the kind of blackout that won't leave them hungover the next morning.

As reported by Synth Glasgow, local promoter Animal Farm are launching Blackout, a new club series that aims to totally immerse attendees by erasing their sense of time and place. How do they plan to achieve this? By keeping everything pitch black over the course of its 11-hour duration, and also by moving to another venue partway through.

The party, which features performances from Dax J, Abdulla Rashim, Somewhen, and Stephanie Sykes, will kick off at 4pm inside arts venue and workspace The Glue Factory before heading to Joytown Grand Electric Theatre, an old snooker hall that Animal Farm's Quail describes as "[feeling] like a real seedy, underground joint from Glasgow's past; still quite raw."

"We plan on keeping things pretty pitch-black in terms of production and musical programming," Quail said. "Having an early start, we want to transfer what we do in a club environment to a venue with no natural light, allowing the clubber to immerse themselves in the experience and forget about the outside world."

Aside from the immersive experience, Quail also emphasizes that the 11-hour length is about pacing oneself through the night rather than trying to cram everything into a few hours, which he says often leads to people already over their limit before leaving the house. "With Blackout, we aim to change the clubbing mentality a little to perhaps mirror that of the continent, where having more time equates to spreading the party out a little and focusing more on the music and experience rather than getting into a stupor and forgetting you were even out."