CLUBS LISTINGS
I Crash west at Cleopatra's. lO.30pm-3am. £2.(£l with ticket). Gary Unett and a mix of mainsteam pop and dance.
I Horn at The 13th Note. 8pm—midnight. ‘Japanese techno and white trash noise.’ Whatever next?
I Soap on a hope at The Attic (formerly the Cameo Suite). 10.30—3am. £1. Andy and Gerry bring you a squeaky-clean mix of new and retro tunes. Stella Dry £1.
I Squash at The Tunnel. llpm-3am. £2 (£1). Student night from Love Junkies. Sara and John (Harmony).
Tuesdays
I Marple: at the Nice 'n’ Sleazy. 8.30pm—midnight. Ambient. dub. trance. acid pub club with DJs Trezzar. Tab and S.R.l.. for those who like to take it just that bit slower.
I Bingo at Cafe Ventura. 7.30pm-3am. ‘28 June and then monthly. Those ever hard to pin down bingo bonces become even harder to locate now they have plumped to play a different venue on the last Tuesday of each month. Such footloose frolics come after a recent fracas concerning a club manager. a smoke machine and an ideology.
I Boudoir downstairs at The 13th Note. 8pm—midnight. Free. Easy music with a twist. Your hosts for the evening: EJ. (that's ‘Easy Jock’), Ian and Dr. Paul.
I Club Sechaba at Fury Murry’s. lO.30pm—3am. 22 June and then monthly. World music from DJ Owuso. New club backed by the cultural organisation of the Anti Apartheid Movement to provide a platform for Scottish aid agencies to ‘highlight the social problems affecting us today‘. Opening night will feature Scottish AIDS Monitor. with subsequent nights publicising Zero Tolerance and Homelessness.
I .loJos at Club Xchange llpm-3am. £2.50. Gay. ‘Suave‘ Gav with his choice of dance and chart sounds. £1.25 spirits and pints. Pitched as the only gay night in town tonight.
I Moist at The Cathouse. 10pm—3am. £1. A mish-mash of poppy and Studenty-type sounds. plus all drinks for £1.20!
I Sirlnuny Club at Bennet’s. 10.30pm—3am. £2. Legendary. drunken. 'mixed‘, longest-running club night in town with Craig Davis. Mainstream dance and chart. £1.10 promo beers. More girls in the boy’s toilets than boys for some reason.
I The Tsrdls in the Attic (formerly the Cameo Suite). 10.30—3am. £1. ‘A journey through space and time that takes you from the 605 to the 905 and back via rock/pop and soul'. All drinks £1.
I Trading Post at Cleopatra’s. 10.30pm—2.30am. £2 (£1 with ticket). Chan. mainstream and 60s for the pub/club staff crowd.
Wednesdays
I Bull 10.30pm—3am. £5 (Half price
with flyer). House and garage with DJ Gary Menzies.
I Bennet’s llpm—3am. £1. Gay. 70p vodka and gin! DJ Sara.
I Ceroc at Eruption. 7.30—10.30pm. Modern jive based on the french LeRoc. Includes 45-minute beginners class at 7.30pm followed by dance sounds from the 40s to the 90s.
I Chopper at Club Xchange. lO.30pm—3.30am. £3 (£2). Garage. house and 90s disco. More hands in the air than a bank robbery. Double vodka £1.
I Fair at Reds. llpm—3am. £3 (£2). The Fab Boys play a many and varied funky and bassy soundtrack tojump along to. TAG £1.50. vodka~mix £l.
I Go West at Cleopatra‘s. 10.30pm—2.30am. £2 (£1 with ticket). A mainly student-orientated bill of fare.
I Horizontal at The Volcano. 10.30pm—3am. £3 (£2). Jazz and rare groove from the eminently funky Nick Peacock.
I Love Train at Cafe Cini. 9pm—midnight. Free. Selected beers for £1. Joe Deacon playing the best in classic soul. funk and piano house.
I lied October at the October Cafe. 8pm-midnight. Free. Gavin Lawson and Paul Crainie mixing up a bit of house. disco and garage to keep you off the streets of a Wednesday night.
I narnpant Sound at Under Ventura. 8pm-midnight. Free. Dub of the highest order.
I Superrly at The Attic (formerly the Cameo Suite). lO.30pm—3am. £1. Marc Capriat with ska and soul. All drinks £1.50.
I Tarnla Motown at The 13th Note. Free. Listen to Marvin all night long at this pre- club celebration of 60s and 70s classic soul from labels like Motown. Stax. Atlantic, Okeh and Ric-Tic.
I Wednesday Night Fever at The Cotton Club. lO.30pm—3am. £3 (£2 with matric card). Positively a towering inferno of rekindled kitsch. Busy? You betcha. Drinks promos.
Thursdays
I Banus lO.30pm—3am. £5 (half price with flyer). House and garage with DJ Gary Menzies.
I eeliyhutton at the Volcano. 10.30pm—late. £3 (£2). Get your midriff round this Euroish, garageish, funkyish club with Kevin McKay and other assorted top DJs.
I Bloomers at Cleopatra’s. 10.30pm—2.30am. £3 (£2 with ticket). Mainstream po and dance.
I Bluntstone move at the Rock Garden. 8pm-midnight. Free. DJs Chris and Raj going from hip hop to house via three turntables.
I Club Xchange llpm—3am. £2.50 (£2). Gay. DJ Stella and Happy Hour all night. I B.I.S.C.0. inferno at Reds. llpm—3am. £2. 70$ disco. pop and glam plus Bud and vodka for £1 all night. A night ofclassic disco peppered with the best of contemporary house and garage.
I Disney Fist at The Cathouse. Studio 3. lOpm-3am. £2. Alternative sounds.
I Freebase Under Ventura. 8pm—lam. £1. Robbie and Kian with a weekly jazz/funk night featuring live bands.
I Iiannony Bennet’s. llpm—3am. £2 (£1).
New mixed night from DJ 5 Sarah (Tunnel) and John (Glad).
I IIon Cow at the Arches. 10.30pm—3am. £2.50. A light-hearted night of house
music and other vibes designed to challenge the meaning ofthe term student club.
I K-Tel Frenzy at The 13th Note. 9pm. Free. Early 80s hits from the makers of Kitten F renzy fanzine.
I loaded at Blackfriars Underground. 8pm—close. Free. Studenty pre-club with DJs Mikey and Sanj. Cheap drinks. groovy garage and bouncy toons.
I Loveshaclt at Fury Murry‘s. 10.30pm—3am. £2. From the people who bring you Sonic and The Beat Club.
.lncluded in the price is one free tequila.
Dutch beer. or white wine.
I October Cate 7pm—midnight. Free. A busy. boomin‘ and bumpin‘ October cafe 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.
I Shaft at The Cathouse. l0pm—2am. £2., A shameless 70s disco funfest. with the added attraction of regular drinks promos. I Stratirclyde University Student Union 9pm—2am. Free. A legendary night in the annals of studentdom. Tam Coyle doing his thang on Level 8 (now calling itself the Octopus club) and Retro Active in Reds.
I The Tunnel lOpm-3am. £4 (£2 with matric card). Ain‘t never been a student night quite as big as this one. 9am summerjob that your Dad got for you. what 9am summerjob? Mainstream dance and club classics.
I Planet Earth at the Cotton Club. llpm-3am. £3 (£2). 80s hits and a mixed bag of funky tunes.
I Virunga in The Attic (formerly the Cameo Suite. Enter through the Garage main door). 10.30pm—3am. £3 (£2). DJ Tchico taking you round his world of hip hop. ragga and reggae.
I XlB-B at The Hive. lOpm—lam. Free. Students and guests. Top gear dance sounds with DJ Paul Mc and guests. Drinks promos. Tickets available from the Union bars.
EDINBURGH Fridays
I Access at The Music Box. 10.30pm—3am. £4. 24 June. Weekly. ‘Friday’s flexible friend.‘
I Buster Browns lO.30pm—3.30am. £3 (girls free before midnight. £2 after; guys £2 before midnight). Mainstream. chart and oldies. Available Mon—Thurs for private parties. Curfew is 2am.
I Cathouse at The Rocking Horse. llpm-3am. £3 (£2.50 with flyer). Crowded night running the gamut of rock. from heavy metal through grunge to thrash.
I Century 2000 llpm—3am. £5. Commercial dance music under the most expensive lights in Scotland. No ripped jeans or steel toe—caps.
I Cyberienlt at La Belle Angele. llpm—3am. £5 (£4) 17 June. New club promising psychedelic grooves and virtual reality funkadelia from George (Squid) along with fractal graphics. Net surfers welcome.
I Disco Explosion at The Subway. llpm-3am. £2. Disco hits from the 70s and 80s.
I Disco Mountain at The Citrus Club. llpm—4am. £4 (£3). 24 June only. 70s and 80s disco.
I End Of Tenn Party at Heriot Watt Student Union. lOpm-6am. Free. Students and guests. 24 June only. Drinks promos and a 6am bar license. Junction 69 back in September.
I Evol at Wilkie House. lO.30pm-3am. £3 (£2.50). Shiny. happy indie sounds. with a bit of a raw. grungey edge from resident DJs Kieren and Amanda
I Ciro at The Rocking Horse. 11pm—3am. £3 (£2.50).‘Destroy your senses with
mind-numbing noise aggression. underground industrial. hardcore (of the non-techno variety) and bad mixing!‘
I Katch at The Rocking Horse.
1 lpm—3am. £3 (£2.50 with flyer). Lively club with a playlist consisting mainly of 80s and 90s indie dance.
I Kazoo at The Vaults. lO.30pm—3am. £5. 17 June. Fortnightly. Happy. sexually ambiguous and well dressed affair with a Balearic inclination. 17 June. top notch house from Tom Wainwright (Hacienda) and Colin Cook (Truth). Watch out for Luke Howard (Queer Nation) and Ralph Lawson and Huggy (Back To Basics) in weeks to come.
I Kiss at Teviot Row Student Union. 7.30pm—2am. £2 (£3 non-students). Free before 9.30pm. Students and guests only. Happy Hour 7.30—9.30pm. Featuring Beathox upstairs. playing mainstream chart disco and Juice downstairs. with hip-hop. funk and 70s disco. Last night of temi. 17 June.
I Looney’s Tunes at The Shack. 8pm—2am. Free. Students and guests only. House anthems. hip hop and mainstream. I Marley’s Reggae Klub at The Cavendish. llpm—3am. £3. The city's longest-running reggae night. with a playlist ranging through roots. ragga. lovers. heavyweight dub and dancehall. I Minus One at The Carlton Highland Hotel. 10pm—3am. £2.50 (free for members). A relaxed. very plush venue for the more mature seekers of night life. I Partyceilidhdisco at Moray House. 9pm—3am. £2.50 (£1 for Heriot Watt. Edinburgh College of Art. Moray House and Galashiels students; free entry for all until 10pm). 24 June only. Fortnightly. All drinks £1.40. Three hours of ceilidh. including live sounds from Bon Accord. and three hours ofclassic disco.
I Pure at The Venue. 10.30pm—3am. £5 (£3 members). Guest nights: £7 (£5). Organic techno-meisters Twitch and Brainstorm forge the soundtrack in this club/institution. Dressed-less ambience and future-perfect rhythms its hallmarks. Live set from Glasgow electro-heads State of Flux on 17 June.
I Quest at Ex-S. 10pm-3am. £4. Techno~ lite. trance and happy house.
I Red Hot Pepper Club lOpm—3am. £4 (£3). Mainstream and chart sounds. Students free with matric card.
I Sativa at The Vaults. lOpm—3am. £6 (£5 student/U840). (£4 members). 24 June. Fortnightly. Bonkers soundclash of hardcore techno. underground electronics from Massive Bereavement. dub and ambient from The Process. Featuring four sound systems. some wonderful art installations, live MCs and percussion.
I The Sweat Club at The Pelican. lOpm—3am. Free. Apparently playing any old tune.
I Tardis at The Citrus Club. llpm—4am. £5. 17 June. Hip-hop night.
I Zig lag at Donaghues. 8pm—late. Free. Weekly. Pre-club club with a seriously eclectic playlist from the makers of the Monday Club.
Saturdays
I Banana Bridge at The Citrus Club. llpm—4am. £5. 18 June only. House and garage with Oscar (Sub Club).
I Boon Bap The Attic at Legends (entry by Dyer’s Close beside Legends).
1 1pm—3.30am. £3.50 (£3). Steve C. and guests with an essential hip hop and rap selection. All drinks £1.50.
I Burger uueen at The Vaults. 11pm—3am. £5. 25 June. Fortnightly. Media-friendly concept club with truckloads of attitude (and trannies too). Punk-styled attire de rigueur and watch out for the tight door policy, 'dress up, undress or P‘k off‘. Who says club elitism is dead?
I Buster Browns 10.30pm-4am. 2am curfew. £4 (£2.50 before 11.30pm). Dance and upfront chart sounds.
I Century 2000 10.30pm-3am. £5. See Fridays.
BC The List 17-30 June 1994