Scottish duo Optimo have revealed in a statement that they paused the music during their set at Playground Festival as an act of retaliation toward festival organisers over an alleged pay dispute. The ...

Optimo, the Glasgow party run by JD Twitch and Jonnie Wilkes, is to mark 25 years since its first event with a new compilation, due out in early 2024. Optimo 25 ran on Sunday nights at Glasgow’s Sub ...

Clubbing has lost one of its most significant, transformative and widely loved figures with the death of Scottish DJ Keith McIvor, who as JD Twitch co-founded seminal Glasgow club Optimo (Espacio) ...

"It's important to stress how advanced, inoperable and untreatable this particular tumor is," the Crowdfunder page notes. By Katie Bain A fundraiser has been launched for JD Twitch, one half of the ...

For years now, the Scottish DJ duo Optimo have been pulverizing genre lines and finding commonalities between songs that seem to have absolutely zero to do with each other. It's always thrilling to ...

Keith McIvor, one half of Glasgow club duo Optimo, has died aged 57. Known by the stage name JD Twitch, he was diagnosed with an untreatable brain tumour earlier this year. In a statement posted on ...