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Aug. The Cavendish turns over the last Fri of the month to thanking those devoted souls who provide our emergency services. If you’re a nurse, fire-fighter, policeman or the like, organise your free tickets and get down to a selection of 705, 805 and 90s tunes.
I The Subway at The Subway. 9pm—5am. Free before 11pm; £3 (£1) after. Weekly. See Thu.
I The Subway West End at The Subway West End. 4pm-5am. Free before 11pm; £3 (£1) after. Weekly. See
Thu.
I The Time Tunnel at Club Mercado. 10pm—5am. £5. Weekly. Trendy Wendy and Vince Stilton the Cheesemaster disrupt the space-time continuum with tunes from 605, 705 and 805 (or maybe it’s 'ust the alcohol).
I hy Not? at Why Not? 10pm-5am. £5. Weekly. Mainstream chart and disco at this po ular city centre venue.
I Yum um at Revolution. 10pm-5am. £5-£7. Weekly. Chart and dance night at this very popular club.
EDINBURGH SATURDAYS
Pro-club I Atomic Baby at Bliss. Next date 26
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I goombox at PopRokit. 9pm-3am. Free. 19 Aug only. The Tribal Funktion crew bring their new incarnation down to PopRokit, playing out the hard and funky tunes.
I Cuba Norte at Cuba Norte. 10pm-3am. Free. Weekly. It’s Sat so it must be salsa.
I Funk And Disorderly at The City Cafe. 9pm-3am. 25 Aug. Fortnightly. Yogi Haughton supplies the best in dancefloor ’azz, R&B and vocal garage. I Futuristica at Q Bar. Fortnightly. 9pm-3am. Free. 19 Aug only. Things are a-changing down at 0 Bar so this is your last chance to catch the quality tunes of Joseph Malik (Lizzard Lounge), Daryl G and special guest Demusphere (Parallax Records and Jazz Joint). On the tunes front, expect a typically broad-ranging selection, taking in the newest and best
jazz and beats-inspired releases.
I Gilded Saloon at Gilded Saloon. 11pm—4am. Free. Weekly. Niall Young, Scott McKenzie, Scott Elliot and guests provide a selection of smooth dance grooves.
I Immersed In Music at Five. 9pm—1am. Free. 19 Aug. Weekly. Top notch house grooves from Stuart Duncan and Scott Brown of Atomic Baby.
I Latino Loco at El Barrio. 8pm-3am. Free. Weekly. Go mad for it Latin style as DJs deliver up the latest Latin hits and hottest beats from the barrio. More info from events@elbarrio.co.uk.
I Made In Iguana at Iguana. 9pm-3am. Free. Weekly. Top tunes from deep house man Colin Cook
(Ultra roove).
I NY at Bliss. 9pm—3am. Free. 19 Aug. Fortnightly. Stephen Allen brings the house and garage sounds of New York to our fair city.
I Oxygen at Oxygen. 8.30pm-3am. Free. 19 Aug. Weekly. Beats ‘n’ breaks man Steve Austin (Headspin) is in charge of the tunes.
I Thirsty Sessions at Q Bar has finished.
I Underground Bugalu at 0 Bar has finished.
I Underworld Vibes at Bannerrnan’s. 9pm—3am. Free. Weekly. Sean Pearson and Neil Ferguson go all garage and house.
I Yushl at the City Cafe. 9pm-5am. Free. 19 Aug. Fortnightly. A.J. from Blacka’nised selects the upbeat hip hop, funk and ragga.
Club
I Acetate at The Liquid Room. 10.30pm-5am. £8 (£7). 19 Aug. Monthly. A collaboration between two
faces on the local scene which means that you can enjoy your house beats deep ‘n’ funky (courtesy of Rebel Waltz’s Murray Richardson) and hard ‘n’ pumping (courtesy of Shebang’s Gail Sellars).
I Atomic Baby at La Belle Angele. Next date 26 Aug.
I Barry Cabanas at The Liquid Room. Monthly. Next date 9 Sep.
I Blast at Club Mercado. Fortnightly. Next date 26 Aug.
I Blue Strawberry at The Liquid Room. Next date 2 Sep.
I Boogie Mo Dynamo at The Bongo Club. Monthly. Next date 26 Aug with the Plum DJs.
I Boom ox at The Venue. Monthly. Next date 26 Aug with Halo and Hipp-E of the H Foundation.
I C.C. Blooms at CC. Blooms. 10.30pm—5am (bar from 6pm). Free. Weekly. DJ Ally is back again with more of her trademark high-camp-to-house musical action.
I Cool Runnings at The Venue (downstairs). 10.3pm-5am. £3. 19 Aug only. A one-off from DJ Dirtsman, who’s behind the long-running Bonaf'ide Love night in Glasgow, with a hip hop, R&B and ragga flavour.
I Digital at The Venue (top floor). 10.30pm-5am. £5 (£4). 19 Aug. Fortnightly. A haven for underground techno and tech-house tunes created by residents Mitchell, J. Cammera and Finnie. Tonight, they also welcome A] Space (Apex and Loop) and Le] (Storm). Advanced warning for 2 Sep, which sees a live set from Pure Science and, after that, well, you’ll just have to read next issue to find out.
I Disco Dock at Club Java has moved to Fri.
I The Egg at The Wee Red Bar. 11pm—4am. £4 (£3.50). Weekly. A mix of indie, 60$ garage, Northern soul, ska, soundtracks and all things groovy at this ever-po ular Art College student union. I Eye andy at Club Mercado. 11pm-5am. £10 (£8); £6 for the boldly and the beautifully dressed. 19 Aug. Fortnightly. Graeme Popstar and Nejat Barton are the team with the glam house dream and Edinburgh’s clubbers are lapping it up. Watch out for the ‘dress glam or scram’ dress code.
I Fiesta Latina at Teviot Row Union returns on 14 Oct.
I Headspin at The Bongo Club. Monthly. Next date 9 Sep.
I Jazz Joint at The Jazz Joint. 10pm-5am. £5. 19 Aug. Weekly. Masquenada, featuring former Midnight Blue Band trumpeter Colin Steele, amount to more than a hill of beans with their fired-up Latin-jazz selection.
I Joy at Ego (formerly Eden). 11pm-5am. £10 (£8). 19 Aug. Monthly. Joy move to Ego for a Festival one-off featuing the same hard house, trance and funky techno tunes that rock Wilkie House the rest of the year, courtesy of Alan and Maggie. Sally and Trendy Wendy will be doing their dance classics thing downstairs in the Cocteau Lounge and, if it gets anywhere near as hot and sweaty as Luvely was a fortnight ago, then they’ll no doubt let you lucky clubbers chill out on the outside patio too.
I Jungle Magic at The Liquid Room. Monthly. Next date 26 Aug.
I Last Night A DJ Stole My Wife at P0 Na Na. 11pm—5am. £3. Weekly. DJ 4th Varmint, keeping it real with the old skool to nu skool beats thing.
I Latin Explosion at The Cavendish. 10pm—5am. £5. Weekly. A night for lovers of all things Latin from Salsa Connections, with top tunes and totally tro ical dancefloor action.
I uvely at Wilkie House. Next date 7 Sep. Look out for a combined bank holiday special at Teviot featuring Luvely, Taste and Joy on 27 Aug and on 2 Sep, Luvely will be organising the Edinburgh
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debut of London hard housers Trade.
I The Mambo Club at The Cavendish. 10pm-5am. £4 before midnight; £5 after. Weekly. Your second serving of music of black origin this week, on a reggae, ragga, R&B, rap and hip hop tip. Or head upstairs for salsa action at Latin Exflosion (see separate listing).
I essenger Sound System at The Bongo Club. 11pm—5am. £8 (£7). 19 Aug. Fortnightly. Bass-heavy roots reggae and dub played on a custom- build sound system, and tonight’s event sees a collaboration with London’s Manasseh HiFi (Kiss FM).
I Mingin' at Studio 24 (upstairs). Fortnightly. Next date 26 Aug.
I The Mission at Studio 24. 11pm-5am. £5 (£4). 19 Aug. Fortnightly. Following in the tradition of The Mission (Victoria Street) with three floors of alternative sounds: head upstairs for goth and industrial goings- on, to the main floor for rock, nu metal and guitar-based sounds and up to the wee front room for general weirdness, sometimes on a skate, punk or indie slant.
I Noa at Noa. 10pm—3am. Free entry before midnight; £6 after. Weekly. Jon Flowers, Martin Valentine (Taste) and Craig Phillips mix up US house and garage.
I Nuspirit at The Jazz Joint. See Fri. I Oxygen at Studio 24. Monthly. Next date 9 Sep with Lisa Loud (to be confirmed). See below for Oxygen Presents at Walkers.
I Oxygen Presents Tidy Trax at Walkers. 10pm—5am. £15. 19 Aug only. Glam house night Oxygen move to the West End for this one-off, featuring the hard house talents of the Tidy Boys (aka Andy and Amadeus) who are behind label of the same genre Tidy Trax. Also on the billing are Trade’s Fergie and fellow Sundissential regular Nick Rafferty, alongside Oxygen’s own Alpha and Dowzer. The fun doesn’t stop there, because upstairs we have Andy Junior, Tob and Billy too.
I Phosphorescence at The Venue. Monthly. Next date 2 Sep.
I Rio at Ego (formerly Eden). Monthly. Next date 9 Sep.
I Saturday Night Live at The Venue. Monthly. Next date 9 Sep.
I Scratch at The Venue (t0p floor). Monthly. Next date 26 Aug.
I Shebang at Wilkie House will return on 23 Sep with DJ Angel.
I Spectrum at Club Java. 10pm—3am. £5 (£4). Weekly. Leith’s little haven of best beats is doing so well that it will be going weekly from now on. Not only do you get to enjoy a stylish bar and dancefloor, but the upstairs section can cater for every Iounger’s needs, with copious quantities of couching and some cosy little booths. And there’s music too of course. The new regime sees Unkle
Fawaz and friends (19 Aug) rotating with and Joseph Malik and Eh! Wun (26 Aug) on a fortnightly basis, with a range of quality tunes from hip hop and drum & bass to reggae R&B and mellow house.
I Substantial at La Belle Angele. 11.30pm-5am. £10. 19 Aug. Monthly. Soulful house and garage man Craig Smith (aka Soul Renegades) is the resident, and Substantial continue their tradition of impressive guests with DJ
J .D. (confusingly enough) who, as one half of Deep Swing, was responsible for last year’s hit ‘Rescue Me’.
I Tease Age at The Citrus Club. 11pm-5am. £4. Weekly. Indie, with a touch of dance and funk, played to a packed and sweaty crowd. The Citrus Club now boasts a non-smoking policy in the bar area.
I Trade at Wilkie House will be landing on 2 Sep.
I Ultragroove at La Belle Angele. Bank holiday special on Sun 27 Aug with Elliot Eastwick.
I Vegas at Ego (formerly Eden). Monthly. Next date 26 Aug.
I Zealous at Studio 24. See Fri.
Chart & party
I Desire at Eros/Elite. 9.30pm—5am. £5 (£4) before 11 pm; £6 (£5) before midnight; £7 (£6) after. Weekly. Mainstream chart and party grooves for over-21$ at this heaving club. To organise a bus, call the venue.
I Hanky Panky at Loca. 10pm-5am. £5 (£4 with flyer). Weekly. A shameless mix of 703, 805 and 905 chart and dance tunes.
I Lovegroove at Gaia. 10pm—5am. £4 (£2). Weekly. A smooth groove dance party on the main floor while Deke Patton takes over the upstairs lounge with a selection of swing, jazz, soul and east listening 455.
I he Party at Revolution. 10pm—5am. £5-£7. Weekly. Mainstream and dance anthems.
I Saturday Sensation at The Cavendish. 10pm—5am. £6 (free membership and discounted tickets available). Weekly. 705, 803 and 908 tunes. Over 255.
I The Subway at The Subway. 7pm—5am. Free before 11pm; £3 (£1) after. Weekly. See Thu.
I The Subway West End at The Subway West End. 7pm-5am. Free before 11 pm; £3 (£1) after. Weekly. See Th
u. I Weekender at The Ark. 10pm-Sam. £6 (£5). Weekly. Party and dance music at this capacity night. I Why Not? at Why Not? 10pm-Sam. £7.50. Weekly. Chart, dance, mainstream and all your favourite club anthems at this popular city centre venue.
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