Dance music should be fun, and fun is very often filthy and dangerous, something Shitdisco understand. They’re Glasgow art school anarchists throwing parties in the oddest places, infamous for their shenanigans and regarded for their dance punk sound. They play BonBon on Friday.

Do you guys still live in a toilet factory? Have you ever used a Chinese toilet before?

Unfortunately the Toilet Factory was demolished for the gentrification of the area, although in light of the economic meltdown I think there's going to be more demand for cheap or free places to live than there is for the luxury apartments being built there... Our drummer still squats, though, in an abandoned pub on a council estate. Never used a Chinese toilet, is it going to be a surprise? I heard there's a place called 'toilet city' over there...

I read you threw all these famous house parties and then got evicted. What was the most memorable state of disrepair you've ever woken up in?

I think the morning after we played in a Tunnel half a mile underneath Glasgow may be one of the worst... we all had unbelievable headaches from the petrol generator fumes. Joe woke up in the tunnel at eleven the next morning but there was no light down there by that point so he had no idea where he was. Waking up in hospital sometimes happens too, that's pretty bad. Darren woke up after one of the house parties to find the landlord standing over his bed screaming 'You fucking bastaaard! I sue you!! I sue you for ten thousand pounds!!!' The lawsuit was eventually dropped.

Why do you like to throw parties in transgressive places? Microsoft says 'transgressive' isn't a word, but you know what I mean.

There's an irony, Microsoft doesn't recognize 'transgressive'... We started because there were no clubs where you could behave however you want. There still aren't really, not in the United Kingdom of Fear anyway. The problem is security guards, no smoking anywhere, no crowd-surfing, no fun. It's only 'underground' parties where you're free to do what you like, which by their nature are temporary. Since we've had offers to come and play in real clubs it seems hypocritical not to see if we can try to make a better environment, although there's the obvious problems associated with officially- sanctioned clubs.

Your parties sound a little like old school drum and bass squats. Do you connect what you do with the old spirit of rave?

Yes, inasmuch as rave was just another expression of the millennia-old impulse for humans to come together and dance. It's depressing though how the original rave movement had the energy to scare the Government into passing the U.K. Criminal Justice Bill whereas something in the same spirit today became immediately absorbed into the corporate mainstream which shat it back out as fluro-clad horror.

I don't want to use a loaded word like 'anarchy,' but do you guys consciously try to battle convention?

Personally speaking, I believe human beings by nature abuse power. We also tend towards violence, which is why I think the restriction of certain behavior is necessary. So, without writing an essay here, my 2 cents is: Anarchy (ie, chaos, violence et al) = bad. Anarchism (ie. the taking of full responsibility for governance by the citizen and the dissolution of the political class) = good.

Why are you called 'Shitdisco?'

'Shitdisco' was the name of the parties we threw in five large industrial shipping containers as a piece of performance art in 2003 when we were studying at Glasgow School of Art. We threw parties in these (tiny) spaces and invited passers- by on the street to join in the making of music to soundtrack the events, with bizarre and sometimes unsettling results. When we started throwing the parties in other locations, and when people started offering us shows in official venues the name followed us, for good or ill.

Why did you name an album after a Hunter S Thompson book ‘Kingdom of Fear?’

In memorial tribute to the Good Doctor himself, of course, but also because the phase 'Kingdom of Fear' so literally describes the current state of terror that grips our Island nation. They've installed LCD screens everywhere broadcasting adverts, celebrity news and terror alerts, 24 hrs a day. Horrific violence waits to erupt anywhere, for no reason at all. The downstairs neighbors bloody their knuckles, punching the walls in despair and frustration. Everywhere people fear their fellow man.

You're pretty famous for the silly antics. Why are you so silly?

Silly is allowing your employer to buy your time from you and use up the irreversible minutes of your life making you carry out dull and pointless tasks for the enrichment of the Boss or that abstract entity 'the economy'. When you're a child they tell you in school you can make your life whatever you want, then you find out the only way to acquire freedom is to buy it.

Is it about the performance, or is it about the music? Is there even a difference?

Good question... the music has always been the most important thing for us, but really you're right, performance and music are the same. I've always felt like seeing a band play and feeling the air in the room vibrate is more powerful than listening to a record, no matter how well produced it is.

What's it like since band member Jan Lee left Shitdisco?

I was totally gutted when he left, as he's one of the nicest guys you'll ever meet as well as being enormously talented. But we all understood he had too many opportunities for a really big career in design to pass up. Having a new member (Tom) has changed the dynamic of the band quite a lot, which was probably necessary after two and a half years of touring the first album songs. Perhaps it was fate forcing us to evolve the sound.

You are a band that started DJing. Have you ever though about integrating live elements into a DJ set?

Yeah, we use percussion sometimes, whatever is around that can be banged to produce a noise. When the crowd is up for it you can launch yourself into them as well, like a meet-and-greet on the dance floor. Our drummer likes to crowd surf in a chair, but we don't play instruments in DJ sets for the same reason we don't use a laptop on stage- live shows are too physical for delicate electronic equipment to survive. I feel terrible guilt over all the vintage 70s synthesisers I've destroyed on stage (never on purpose).

You'll be playing to a Chinese crowd. Is there anything you'd like to learn to say in Chinese to prepare?

'Which way is Toilet City?'

What can people expect from the show?

Unbridled joy.