Y2K Weekender – The Handyman

03 Oct 2025

Handyman Pub

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Cast your mind back to the year 2000. There’s a universally popular prime minister, a Labour one at that. Double denim is the thing in fashion circles, and musically, Britney Spears, Eminem and Linkin Park dominate. It’s also the reference point for the Y2K Weekender, a brand new club night launching in October that celebrates Liverpool’s millennium-era nightlife.

The brainchild of former pub landlord Ian Evans and DJ and journalist ‘General’ Jimmy Coultas, Y2K reflects their clubbing experiences in Liverpool when they arrived as students. They and thousands of others would flock to clubs like Cream, Bugged Out! Garlands, Chibuku Shake Shake and more, at a time when trance, house, techno, UK garage and more was the soundtrack for endlessly hedonistic weekends out.

The first lineup celebrates DJs from that era, headlined by Jim Bane, one of Coultas’ neighbours in Carnatic halls. He has since run legendary Manchester record shop Eastern Bloc and regularly plays for the Warehouse Project, Dimensions festival and more. In a further nod to 2000, one of the promoters who started Chibuku that year, Dirty Damo, will also play, alongside a host of familiar names from anyone who partied in the city then.

Spread across one weekend, Friday night takes place in Smithdown Rd brewery The Handyman Pub, then a day later 24 Kitchen St is the venue for a daytime party on Saturday.