Optimo Espacio

In the weeks before his recent untimely death, Keith McIvor, aka JD Twitch, revisited the birth of Optimo Espacio, the celebrated Glasgow club night he helmed with Jonnie Wilkes, from 1997 to 2010 and beyond 

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