It’s a very sad day for club diehards everywhere, with news emerging that the long-running Scottish club night run by beloved DJ team Optimo is coming to a close after twelve long years in the business of boogying.

In a statement issued by the Optimo duo of JD Twitch and JG Wilkes and picked up by The Daily Swarm, the pair revealed that they’d be inking the final chapter of their Optimo (Espacio) club night at Glasgow’s Sub Club on April 25th.

“We have loved doing Optimo with all our hearts, but our hearts are also telling us it is time to call a halt to it. Playing at, organising and promoting a weekly night takes up an enormous amount of energy and there are so many other things we want to do that some of that energy is needed for other projects. We also need to get our lives and weeks back a little bit and take on new challenges and opportunities (we have to turn down an awful lot of opportunities by being committed to being in Glasgow every Sunday and being wiped out every Monday).”

Before things get too misty-eyed around these parts the Optimo duo did reveal that although their club night is over, their partnership as Optimo is as strong as ever, saying that they had a raft of new projects on the boiler.

“Twitch and Wilkes will continue to promote Sunday nights at The Sub Club under an as yet to be announced name. The new night will give a platform to the plethora of great djs in Glasgow, bring djs we love to Glasgow and bring live acts nobody else would bring to this city. Sometimes Twitch or Wilkes may play alongside them and sometimes Twitch and Wilkes will play together on a Sunday night but, without Twitch and Wilkes playing together weekly, it won’t and can’t be Optimo.”

For more Optimo juice, just check out ITM’s recent interview with the dynamic duo, who spoke all about their fabled club night before their Australian tour earlier this month.