CLUBS LISTINGS
£2/£2.50 for members. 29 May. Misery: miz’er-i. n. wretchedness; extreme pain; miserable conditions; very unhappy experience; a doleful person (colloq). Dictionary definitions are sometimes spot on. Legendary.
I hole at The Cooler. 10pm-4am. £2.50. 22 May. Fortnightly. Settling nicely into it’s new home. playing a mix of ska. dub. reggae. ragga. dancehall and On-U sounds. Good music + good people = good club.
I lied ilot Pepper Club lOpm—4am. £4. See Fridays.
I Rock Crgastn at The Mission. 10.30pm-4am. £2. Weekly rock night. with an all-encompassing playlist of rock and lots of leather-clad. happy. hairy people. Happy hour 11pm-1am.
I Sex Machine at The Vaults. 11pm—4am. £4/£3. Busy club. playing a selection of funk and acid-jazz. with a newly installed bigger sound system and regular guest DJs and bands. See news section.
I Shaft at Moray House Union. 11pm—4am. £4. 29 May. The original. Experience a pie-eyed grin-athon at this tacky 70s funfest of funky sounds. rare groove and disco. Still one of the busiest. Fortnight] .
I Superan at The Store. 11pm—4am. £4. Weekly club in this re-vamped venue. with DJ Fred playing a broad cross- section of excellent dance music and disco sounds to keep your feet movin‘ and the dance floor full. I Tattoo at the Citrus Club. 1 1pm—4am. Members £5. Highly recommended weekly dance club. with regular DJs Gareth and David playing upfront house and garage sounds. guaranteed busy night with a jumping dance floor. I T" Your Finger at Ex-S. llpm—4am. £5. 22 May. DJs Andy Williams and John Gianni playing a mixture of bouncy balearic tunes and oh-so-good dance vibes. with some excellent guest DJs lined up for the not-too-distant future.
Sundays
I AM. at The Subway. 11pm—4am. £2. See Fridays.
I Buster Browns 10.30pm—3am. £2 before ll.30pm/£3 after. Buster’s Sunday soul night.
I The Biz 10.30pm—4am. Free. See Fridays.
I Century m0 10pm—4am. £3/£2 before midnight.
I The Edge 4pm—2.30am. With a live band every week.
I lassoo at The Pelican Bistro. 9pm-2am. Free. Get your Stetson and cowboy boots on for Sunday’s silliest (only) Country & Western night.
I Red Hot Pepper Club 10pm—3am. £4. See Fridays.
I The Sunday Club at Ex-S. 11pm—4am. £3 with ticket. Wonderful. wonderful gay night featuring male go-go dancers and some of the worst PAs we’ve ever seen. I Thelonlous at The Bare Story. 7pm—1am. Free. The ‘fattest’ in jazz from DJs Simon. Mark and Angus.
I Thewarp at The Mission. 11pm—4am. Free before midnight/£2 after. 'Iimewarp starts up again with a very w—i—d—e playlist indeed. 60s. 70s. 803. 903 and onwards!
Mondays
I AM. at The Subway. 11pm—4am. £2/50p with matric between midnight—1am. when all spirits are £1. See Fridays.
I 2W Miles of Corduroy at The Venue. 9pm—1ate. £6. 24 May. See One-Offs for full details and preview for interview.
I EX-S 11pm—3am. £l. New weekly night in this recently re-named venue. In true Sesame Street style. todays number is the number ONE. entry is £l. all drinks are £1 all night and all tunes are old No 1 hits from the 603 through to the 905.
I The Monday Club at The Calton. 10pm-3am. £2. Weekly night for this
excellent alternative club. with a playlist covering the whole spectrum of alternative music; the busiest and best.
Tuesdays
I AM. at The Subway. 11pm—4am. £2/50p with matric between midnight-1am. All spirits are £1 between» midnight-lam. See Fridays.
I Eskimos and Egypt at The Venue. 9pm—late. £5. 25 May. See One-Offs for full details.
Wednesdays
I AM. at The Subway. llpm—4am. £2/50p with matric between midnight—lam. All spirits are £1 between midnight-1am. See Fridays.
I Bliss at The Store. 11pm—4am. £2. A new gay night featuring a broad mixture of pop and dance club sounds.
I Delirium at The Music Box. 10.30pm—3am. £2. Intriguineg diverse club playing the likes of Bob Marley. Utah Saints. Funkadelic and Chumbawamba. Busy dance floor all night with a crowd as diverse as the music played.
I Ex-S 10pm—3am. £3. Over 235 only. Weekly singles night for all you lonely mid-twenties love seeking people.
I Funky love at The Pelican. 10pm—1am. Free. DJ 2 Smoove starting the Pelican's week off with a scorching selection of soulful grooves.
I lite at The Subway. 10pm-4am. £2.50/£2. £1.50 with flyer. A new club playing industrial. torture tech. grunge. grind-core and hardcore dance. with DJ s from Apocalypse and Twitch.
I love Shack at Century 2000. 10pm-3am. 50p with matric card. Century 2000's busy student night with drinks promos.
I Teaseage at The Citrus Club. 11pm—3.30am. £2/£l.50 with matric card. Student-orientated indie club with cheap
drinks and free lollies behind the bar.
I Wobble at The Wee Red Bar. lOpm—3am. £3/£2 with flyer. 26 May. Only the second outing for Wobble. but if the first was any indication then this will be an excellent night. With a diverse playlist including Public Enemy, Dee-lite. The Shamen and Rage Against The Machine.
Thursdays
I AM. at The Subway. l 1pm—4am. £2/50p with matric between midnight-1am. See Fridays.
I Apocalypse at Shady Lady’s. 11pm—4am. £2.50. Happy hour llpm—lam. A new night in a driven hardcore stylee. with an alternative slant. diverse playlist including alternative. industrial and hardcore sounds.
I Big Maraccas at The Pelican. lOpm—lam. Free. DJ 2 Smoove spinning pure Latin. Latin jazz. jazz funk and any other variant on those three styles you care to think up.
I The Biz 10.30pm—4am. Free. See Fridays.
I Century 2W0 10pm—late. £3l£2 before midnight. Dance and chart sounds.
I Chocolate City at The Venue. 11pm—5am. £4/£3 members. 3 June. Edinburgh’s premier retro-funk club. with DJs Jamie and Whitney playing danceable funky grooves upstairs and chill-out reggae. dub and jazz downstairs.
I The Edge 4pm—2.30am. See Fridays. I Minus One at The Carlton Highland Hotel. £2.50. See Fridays.
I Panic Cafe at The Citrus. 10.30pm-3am. £3/£2.50. Busy weekly club featuring DJs from Shag and Katch. playing a wide range of dance. indie and 60s pop. to a busy student crowd.
I The necession Session at Ex-S. ~11pm—4am. Girls £6. guys £8. All main spirits. draught beers. lagers and ciders. wines and soft drinks are free. With absolutely no limit all night. drink yourself to death for roughly the same
price as a new LP.
I Sauce at The Store. 11pm—4am. £3/£2.50. New night for The Store playing a wide range of 605 pop. 70s groove. 80s indie. Motown and stax. with DJs from Chelsea and Twiggy with drinks promos every week.
I Shag at The Mission. 11pm-3.30am. £2.50. Popular student club. noteworthy for its truly appalling playlist and free chocolate.
I Solid Bass at The Music Box. 10pm—3am. £3/£2.50 with matric/£2. 27 May. A new night for 9c. playing a floor- shaking selection of hip-hop. swing. heavy dub and 100% genuine raggamuffin. all courtesy of the Zulu
posse.
I Tribal Funktlon at The Venue. 11pm—5am. £4/£3. Fortnightly. 27 May. One of Edinburgh's best. playing a mixture of sexy. chunky house beats upstairs and hip-hop/funk flavoured grooves downstairs in the Cooler.
OUT OF TOWN
I Dream at The Outhouse. Stirling. Saturdays. 10.30pm—2am. £5/£3. The Dream machine makes a welcome return to Stirling. with DJs lain Paterson and Trevor Price playing the best in sexy underground house sounds in this weekly club.
I Metropolis Hamilton Street. Saltcoats. Saturdays. 8.30pm—2am. £8. After their last minute pull out a fortnight ago. N-Joi have now been re-scheduled for 22 May. tickets are £12. 29 May sees The Dream Frequency doing their live set with the regular Metropolis DJs playing a mix of house and garage sounds. in a club that continually brings top quality PAs and
DJs to the West Coast. A busy night guaranteed. with coaches running from several towns. For details phone 0294 602213 or 0294 68187.
I Vanilla Suburbs at JFKs. Kirkcaldy. Fridays. 9pm—2am. £2.50. 29 May. New fortnightly club with DJs Andy. Toni and DJ J spinning an upfront mixture of hip- hop. acid-jazz. rare-groove and Northern soul.
I 2001 Miles Of Corduroy at The Venue. 9pm—Iate. £6. 24 May. The Acid Jazz entourage hits Edinburgh with Corduroy supported by label-mates Mother Earth. plus guest djs. See preview.
I Eskimos 8: Egypt at The Venue (Edinburgh). 9pm—iate. £5. Tue 25 May. New Mancunian techno/rock group Eskimos and Egypt. with Pure’s Brainstorm on the decks for what will be an undoubtedly superb night. See preview. I Intensity at The Music Box. 8pm-3am. £12 at the door/£10 tickets. Fri 21 May. Live PAs from Dream Frequency and Q- Tex. with a large DJ line-up including Bass Generator. De-V8. Ross Keddie. Enigma and very special guest DJ Vertigo. also MC Magika being squeezed in somewhere in the massive line-up.
I Z-Beaerection at The Royal Highland Centre. lngliston. 8pm—8am. £23.50. Sat 29 May. Another Rezerection descends upon lngliston. with live PAs by N-Joi and SL2. Also another massive line-up of DJs including Joey Beltram. Grooverider. Bass Generator. Rap. Marc Smith. Ss and local boy DJ Scott. Tickets from the usual outlets. plus we’ve got three pairs of tickets to give away on this issue’s competition page.
CLUBS
All clubs listed above take place at one or the following venues. which can be contacted for further details.
I The Arches Midland Street (off Jamaica Street). 221 9736.
I Bennet’s 80—90 Glassford Street. 552 5761.
I The oathouse 9 Brown Street. 248 6606.
I Circa Custom House Quay. 221 0865. I Cleopatra’s 508 Great Western Road. Kelvinbridge. 334 0560.
I Club Xchange 23 Royal Exchange Square. 204 4599.
I Cotton Cillb 5 Scott Street. 332 0712. I Follies 193 Pitt Street. 332 7322/7522. I Fury Murry's 96 Maxwell Street. 221 6511.
I Glasgow Polytechnic 70 Cowcaddens Road, 332 0681.
I Glasgow School of Art 167 Renfrew Street. 332 9797.
I Club lndustria 15 Union Street. 221 611 1.
I Mardi tires 73 Dunlop Street. 221 3623.
I Maytair 490 Sauchiehall Street. 332 3872.
I Reds Upstairs at Nico’s. 379 Sauchiehall Street. 331 1635.
I 116s 73 Queen Street. 041 221 2200. I Rooftops 92 Sauchiehall Street. 332 5883.
I Sub Club 22 Jamaica Street. 248 4600. I The 13th Note 80 Glassford Street. 553 1638.
I The Tunnel 84 Mitchell Street. 204 1000.
I Under Ventura 50—60 King Street. 552 1388.
I The Venue 474 Sauchiehall Street. 332 3872.
I The Volcano 15 Benalder Street. 337 1100.
EDINBURGH
I Blue Oyster Club 96a Rose Street Lane North. 226 6458.
I Buster Browns 25—27 Market Street. 226 4224.
I The 311 23 Lothian Road. 229 8000.
I The Calton Calton Road. 558 3758.
I Cavendish West Tollcross. 228 3252. I Century 20” 31 Lothian Road. 229 7670.
I The Citrus Club 40—42 Grindlay Street. 229 6697.
I Club Snipe 16 Home Street. Tollcross. 228 8645.
I The Cooler (Under The Venue) Calton Road. 557 3073.
I The Edge 37b George Street. 226 3111. I 51-3 12 Shandwick Place. 226 2266. I Finsbury Park 3—5 South St Andrew Street. 556 1020.
I la Belle Angelo 11 Hasties Close. 225 2774.
I liberty’s Greenside Place. 557 3807. I Madison’s Greenside Place. 557 3807. I Minus Cne (Carlton Highland Hotel) North Bridge. 556 7277.
I The Mission Victoria Street. 225 3326. I Moray House Student Union Holyrood Road. 556 5184.
I The Music Box 9c Victoria Street. 225 2564.
I The Pelican 235 Cowgate. 225 5413. I Potterrow Student Union Bristo Square. 650 8090.
I The have Save 69 Cowgate.
I lied Hot Pepper Club 3 Semple Street. Tollcross. 229 7733.
I The Store (formerly Millionaires) 2 Niddry Street. 556 6050.
I Shady Lady's Cowgate. 225 3326.
I Tevlot Student Union Bristo Square, 650 4673.
I The Vaults 15—17 Niddry Street. 556 7018.
I The Venue Calton Road. 557 3073.
I Wee and Bar at Edinburgh College or ‘ Art. Lauriston Place. 229 1442.
I Wilkle House Cowgate. 226 2151.
- 02 The List 21 May—3 June 1993