CLUBS LISTINGS
I meant Sound at Under Ventura. 8pm-midnight. Free. Dub of the highest order.
I Wednesday Hight Fever at The Cotton Club. 10pm-2am. £2 (£1 with matric card). Very busy 70s night with a lot of people having a lot of fun. Becks at £1.
Thursdays
I Bar 10 9pm-midnight. Rub A Dub records guesting on the last Thursday of every month with Stevie. Dominic and Nick taking it in turns on the intervening weeks. I Bloomers at Cleopatra‘s. llpm—2.30am. £2 (£1 with ticket). I Club Havana at the Baby Grand, Elmbank Gardens. 9.30pm—lam. Free. See Cotton Club Sundays. I Club Latokah at Caledonian University Union, Cowcaddens Road. 9pm—2am. £2.50 (£1). Students and guests only. New progressive house club, 18 Nov and fortnightly, with DJs Bizzy and Danny from Desert Storm. I Club le Gangster at The 13th Note (downstairs). 8pm-midnight. Free. The ‘street sounds of the 70s’ — that means the Two Tone sound. I Club Vlrunga at The Volcano. 10.30pm—2.30am. £3 (£2). DJ Tchico plays African, reggae and similar groovy sounds. I Club Xchange llpm—3am. £2.50 (£2 with flyer). DJ Stevie and happy hour all night. I Contamination at The Power Station. Cheapside Street. lOpm—2am. £2. The popular industrial and goth club relocates and continues to plug a gaping hole in clubland. I C.I.S.C.C. Inferno at Reds. 10.30pm—2am. Students £2 (before ll.30pm). 70$ disco. pop and glam plus ! Becks for £1 (all drinks £1 before midnight). I Disney Fist at The Cathouse. Studio 3. 10pm-2am. £2. Alternative sounds to replace the departed Contamination. I Glanorous Clue at Rhapsody (under Follies). First night Thurs 25 Nov. Dave Ross embarks on an ambitious project in Rhapsody attempting to utilise the full potential of the venue. A dance orientated playlist combines with live acts and ‘events' through the back. I Holy Cu at the Arches. 10.30pm—2am. £2. Student night with live music every week. happy house sounds from DJ Malkie, free sweets and a pantomime cow. I touched: at Fury Murry’s. 10.30pm-2am. £2 (£1). From the people who bring you Sonic and The Beat Club
(nee ZFD), a newish venture with the same kind of musical spread.
I October Cate (top floor. Princes Square). 7pm-midnight. Free. A packed October Café is aurally contented by DJs Steve and Derek offering up a cool and current selection of dance tunes. Perfect as a pre-Tunnel warm-up and with more promos than you can shake a short review at earning its ‘Happy music for happy people’ tag. Look out for the first birthday.
I Shaft at The Cathouse. 10pm—2am. £2. A shameless 70$ disco funfest. with the added attraction of regular dn'nks promos. I Shine at the Cotton Club. lOpm—Zam. £2. DJ Scud plays happy house and funk. Becks at £1.
I The Slow Club at The 13th Note (upstairs). 8pm—midnight. The original ambient club with the great man Michael Finnie ensuring a discerning crowd get happy in a quiet kind of way.
I Strathclyde University Union 9pm—2am. Free. A legendary night in the annals of studentdom. Michael Davis in
‘ Level 8 and Retro Active in Reds.
‘ I The Tunnel lOpm—2am. £4 (£2 with
mauic card). Well-mixed indie and dance ' tunes for the assembled student throng.
? I XIII-8 at The Hive. lOpm—lam. Free.
. Students and guests. Top gear dance
sounds with DJ Paul McGilly. Plus drinks promos.
3 EDINBURGH
3 Fridays
I Alternator at the Subway. 8pm— 1 .30am. £1.50. A lethal combination of three happy hours with death metal and
. industrial sounds. A night of hardcore i rock oblivion assured.
I Anthem downstairs at The Calton.
I lOpm—late. £4. Regular DJs playing a mix 3 of original underground sounds to a busy.
sweaty crowd.
I Beatbox at Teviot Row Union. 7pm-2am. £2 (£3 non-students). Students and guests only. Big beat chart disco. with Strangeways offering more alternative sounds in the basement.
I Bubblegum at Potterrow. 9pm-2am. £1 (£2 non-students). Students and guests only. Indie music.
I Buster Browns 10.30pm—3am. Girls free before midnight (£2 after). guys £2 before midnight (£3 after). Mainstream, chart and oldies. Available Mon-Thurs for private parties.
I Cathouse at The Mission. llpm—3am. £2.50 (£2 with flyer). Crowded night running the gamut of rock from heavy
metal to grunge to thrash.
I Century 2W0 10pm-4am. £5. Mainstream. chart and oldies.
I Cheeks at Moray House. llpm—3am. £4. Fri 26. Day-glo. poptastic club with a gloriously tacky, chart-bound music policy and giant smoke-dispensing
buttocks. Fortnightly with
Partyceilidhdisco.
I City 2 Downstairs at City Cafe. 8pm—lam. Free. Underground house and progressive dance in the pre-club club.
I Cool Lemon at The Citrus Club. llpm-4am. £7. Fri 19 Nov. Zesty house tunes from regulars Trevor Price and lain Paterson and a guest spot from Terry Farley.
I Ilucktoot 9pm—3am. £3.50 (£2.50 before 11pm). New weekly night of house and garage.
I The Edge 4pm—2.30am. Mainstream. chart and oldies, Happy Hour 4—10pm. Available for private hire Mon—Wed.
I Evol at Wilkie House. 10.30pm—3am. £3 (£2.50). lndie sounds from the 60s, 70s and 80s through to current releases on the indie scene. courtesy of resident DJs Kieren and Amanda. Regularly busy night.
I Junction 69 at Riccarton Union. 10pm-3am. Fri 19. Students and guests. 69p drinks promos in the refurbished Heriot Watt union.
I Ketch at Shady Lady’s. llpm—3am. £2.50 (£2 with flyer). Lively club with a playlist consisting mainly of 80s and 90s indie dance.
I lite And Times at Ex-S. 10pm—4am. £5 (£4 members). US house and garage, top name DJs. an up-for-it crowd and a nice line in flyers all add up to a rather decent new club night.
I Made In Heaven at The Pelican. 10pm-3am. Free. Back to ye olde golden days of late night Pelican pranks. with DJ Simon playing a mix of garage, house and a dose of funky stuff.
I Marley’s Reggae Illub at The Cavendish. 11pm—4am. £3 (£2.50). The city’s longest-running night. with a
playlist consisting of roots, ragga. lovers. heavyweight dub and dancehall. Busy night guaranteed.
I Minus One at The Carlton Highland Hotel. lOpm—3am. £5 (free for members). A relaxed, very plush venue for the more mature seekers of night life.
I 99 Club at The Music Box. 9pm—3am. £2.99. Funked up dance, chart and 70s from the regular Dls with all pints/selected bottles and spirits at 99p. I Partyceilidhdisco at Moray House Student Union. 9pm—3am. £2.50 (£1 for Heriot Watt, Art College. Moray House and Galashiels students; free entry for all until 10pm). Fri 19. All drinks £1.40. Three hours of ceilidh. including live sounds from Bon Accord, and three hours of classic disco.
I Passion at The Vaults. 10am-3pm. £5 (£4 before midnight). Fri 19 Nov only. Scott Gibson (Rhumba) playing house and garage in the main vault with reggae and hip-hop in the chill-out area.
I Pure at The Venue. 10.30pm—3am. £7 (£5 members). Organic techno-meisters Twitch and Brainstorm forge the soundtrack in this club/institution. Continuing the three-year-old tradition of dressed-less ambience and future-perfect rhythms. Fri 26: Dribbler and David Holmes guesting.
I lied Hot Pepper Club lOpm—3am. £4. Mainstream and chart sounds.
I Satire at The Vaults. 10pm—4am. £4 (£3.50; members £2). Fri 26. The dub. ragga and heavy dance soundclash moves to the Vaults for a night of tranced-out dub-ology. Live percussion and the regular MCs Scott and Warren are joined by SP23 (the Spiral Tribe DJ squad) for an extra skankin‘. spliffed-up and spaced out evening.
I Squid at La Belle Angele. 10pm—3am. £5 (£3). Multi-media aquatic theme club. offering surreality. tropicality, liquidity and cabaret in unequal measure. Get there early to submerge in the more progressive ambient wash of sound. Door reductions for marine-themed attire. Fri 19 live band, Rocket.
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64 The List 19 November—2 December 1993