CLUBS FESTIVAL
[MUST 1_ hillrzfllfélflill° Dove tales
moves north from its
Brixton base to funk up the festival with a Mystic Dove come Mambo Mix. Oh. and Glasgow, write
there‘s the Kool Cafe Ole. NO holds barred. no peace transcendently sexy songs,
for the wicked. no and nObOdy,S heard Of problem. as they say.
The Playhouse Studios. 1 them yet' ExceptoAndy everynightdurlngthe Weatherall, that 15. Oh,
Mi“ 1 1” "Ham and our man with his I The UN Club All the way
from Brighton. the United finger on the pUISe ’ cralg Notions Organisation McLean,
bring you six wildly varied club nights. Somethingto
Plcasc CVCFYOHC~ "0 Behind closed doors, away from i doll“; , _ prying eyes and ears. the revolution The Calton Studios.
continues. Tracks that will
ultimately become music for the
; masses.pulse-pumping signature
tunes that crowd the dancefloors.
g emerge from nowhere. Enigmatic.
; plain-sleeved releases. the minimum
Edinburgh's {,cndicst ofscrawled detail. just slaps ofvinyl
. club _ dress up, it's time to made in this guy’s bedroom. that
5 get funky. z dude’s living room, these boffins‘
The Designer Frames home studio. From the few to the
I G“’l¢”."~ el'éjr.“ "lg/1! many. The white label is the
‘hm’lglh" H-"ll'al- hallmark ofdance culture, an
; “pm—4”” updating ofthe I-can-do-that punk
- I lflllllllllall“ Ask any policy. and a process that sees bods
Edlnburgh ClUbbcr‘"Cl“b like Cola Boy reaching national
film" whcrclhcy g0. stardom on the back of a few
w hen everything else 15 17; h . h . h . fh d
mcmnd you H get the .. inc es int c rig t pairs 0 an 5.
same reply. Mini“. You Consequent to all this, when we
really have to go. Honest. 35k ‘Who the hell are DOVC?‘ our
MON-Sal during the ignorance can be excused because.
. Festival. IOpm—éam of course. all the bestest tunes are
. Fri-54f? l lpm-4wn invariably the ones nobody seems to
'llo’l‘HW" know funk all about.
; l Pure Edinburgh‘s finest ‘Me and Dot met in the Cul De Sac
? dfmcc ClUl“ Presenting last September,‘ is the first bit of
El'grdljfiglcsr‘z)‘;lljs ‘0 a background we need to know. ‘Me‘
The Venue. every Fridav ls Jlm MCKmYen' 2mg he‘s the
during the Festival. ' pl‘i’gmmme’ ' .Dot 15 Dorothy
11p,,,_4a,,,. Alli‘son ,dand she sings a bit. Together
' ' wit stu io man Ian Carmichael they
form Dove; Glasgow-based mellow
everybodvscup Oma‘ movers whose debut Single, Darkest ' Hour, all 1000 copies ofit, is out this
good night out just once in 1 week. In true word-to-the-wise style,
Sun-Fri during the Festival. 1 [pm—4am.
lTattoo No.nottha!
l Tattoo.Thisisan
' altogether more groovy i experience. Currently
1 but it can provide ajolly
' a while. As wellasdanec the white labelwill reach all the right . . _ , , music. there's comedy. ; deck-spinning groovers and shakers, together without knowing who each : interest in. the track is genuinely
: cabaret. and a ceilidh as x and all the correct specialist shops_ other was. and he was well impressed mUSlcal — ll ll W35 for all}. 0thr
' Cll-ll“ well. You can't go wrong
Eastern Bloc. 23rd Precinct, Flying With her dancing. . .‘ PCB-“OIL like milklng monQF “'C‘d
j Jazz, world. {can},
have said no.‘ § [00980. '0“. TeviotRow. everynlght
In the meantime. after recent club
Records, Woolworths. It‘s good. The next thing you know. wouldya
I I “new... dun-"gm Festival. 3 Flutteringly simple, transcendently belleVC ll, Ol’ ADdY‘S 0“ the Ph0n0~ ; g '. , I 1 I . 5 blsculls or golf. 9pm_2,3oam ; sexy. and like most mighty dance loves the record. Wants lo d0 21 ; ‘lPPcal’anCC5 “ “ll W C‘ltllu‘lll m Whatovortypa I The Mambo cm tracks. naggineg difficult to imagine remix. and is popping up to Glasgow I Scotland. and Once DUI S WCOVCFCd 5 of clubboryou Scouandsonlv re um 3 without the environs ofa smokey to check out what‘s going down and I from 'd Parllwlarll' “ii-*1}: lmUlOl _ ; are. there's world music ' g club. Suffice it to say. that Darkest on. Whether that version ofthe l lOOd P01§0mllgi DOW “'lll be JOlnmg ; something extravaganza. with Si, Hour‘s spacey. breathy, sensual trip single will eventually appear on the i the .PA CerUll- Aml lQrgCl an." i ll'" l°lY°ll' Ossieonthe wheelsof f is pleasure incarnate. Slam ‘Soma‘ label like this initial “Ollons OlPUlCll'FllmCill ; steel. i And just to make the story more . pressing. or via some liaison with Programm?(l Stelllllye - - 'Thc 0an ‘ "F’M'O’kl‘? “"613. "0." interesting. and to prove that I’m not Weatherall‘s ‘Boy‘s Own' collective. . names l_d like to ll“k OUFSClVCS [0 are l Toggldwmg’h" Fesm‘lh 1 making all this up, the remixing is as yet unclear. People llkc M355“? Attack and ' g .. 0pm—3am. I royalty~s grand duke is well into No worries then ofsuch a link-up Galliano. A wee bit of fusion . . . W e g . Dove too. resulting in the remixer's name don't really lllfC being lOCde In 000 ; ‘Andy Weatherall got his hands on taking precedence overthe song‘s sti’|¢.1tdoesp thelpyoutogrow g : if. saysjim‘ .and happened to come creators? BaSically we ll nick. from anything. ; ' across Dot. He's never left us since. ‘Oh aye, we're not kidding thech WWW)" blls- l The guys from Slam were over in ourselves on, that is part of it. But Dove appear at DUNS (Win brother's d Rimini doing a club festival, and we you‘re between a rock and a hard club, Tattoo. at the Designer Frames . just wcm out there to see what was place. lfyou're given a chance to Gallery. Edinburgh on 16 Aug. . a happening. It was that fate thing. climb a ladder. you don‘t go, “Aye. ‘Darkesr Hour'_t.s~ released on Slam 3' Weatherall and Dot started dancing but what‘ll I find at the top?" But his ‘Soma' label this week.
58 The List 16— 22 August 1991