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Talking of German mentalists, Saturday sees the collaboration of legendary 1960s club UFO and legendary-as-it-has-a-similar-name-to-that-famous-London-electro-club, Tramp, featuring a DJ set from everyone’s favourite man machine Wolfgang Flur.

If the effect here is to recreate all the fun of wandering around a concrete sprawl attempting to find an underground bunker then they’re certainly going the right way around it. Club Underground isn’t exactly the most salubrious of venues - the toilets alone look like they were last cleaned in the 1960s - but with enough cheap vodka and men assembled in white coats looking like something out of a Super Furry Animals video whilst creating mad swirly colourful patterns on projectors around the room, you gradually feel yourself being swept up into the evening’s proceedings.

In the flesh, Wolfgang Flur looks more like an IKEA furniture designer than a dapper cyborg (despite all the images which flash onto the screen behind him during his set, a worrying number of which involve him getting his bum out).

And despite a few technical glitches at the beginning of his DJ set, he manages to play a diverse array of tunes - everything from Can to the Chemical Brothers - which ensure that there’s not one person in the place not dancing their socks off, or at least tapping a toe or two. It’s somewhat pleasing to see that he remains as enigmatic as ever though - refusing to shake hands or pose for pictures with numerous members of the audience. Well, every legend’s got to retain some scant air of mystery, hey?

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