- On the Sunday night before Christmas, Jackmaster threw what was (surprisingly enough) the first hometown edition of his gloriously crowd-pleasing Tweak-A-Holic party. Given the buzz surrounding the event, it's unlikely to be the last. The concept—a club night with a house party soundtrack of disco, funk and old pop records—was a perfect fit for the legendary delirium of the festive season in Glasgow. The venue for this five-hours of joy was inevitably Sub Club, the basement space that's been home to so many of Jackmaster and the Numbers crew's finest moments.
My first Tweak-A-Holic was on an uncharacteristically chilly night at last summer's Primavera Sound Festival in Barcelona, where innumerable cockles were warmed by the likes of Fleetwood Mac and Prince as cold winds sliced in from the Mediterranean. A similar glow enveloped this sold-out crowd throughout the night, as "Purple Rain," a slow-and-low version of R. Kelly's "Bump'n'Grind" and The Pointer Sisters' "Automatic" rubbed up against the likes of "House Nation" and other classic house cuts.
As "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" hovered into view, some may have yearned for the tempering hand of JD Twitch, who hilariously cut off the Cindy Lauper hit mid-verse when Jackmaster played it on Boiler Room at Unknown Festival last summer. But by that late stage, the goodwill in the room would likely have absorbed throwaway fluff right up to and including Daphne & Celeste's "Ooh Stick You." Certainly, by the time Whitney Houston's "How Will I Know" closed things out, the general consensus among the 500 or so grinning attendees was that the festive season couldn't have gotten off to a better start.