CLUBS .FEST'VAL
FRIDAYS
I Access at The Music Box. 12.30am—4am. £3. ‘A rhythmical blend of soul. funk. acidjazz and hip hop from as far back as then.’
I Big Beat at The Assembly Rooms. Midnight—3am. £4 (£3). DJs Mark and Simon kick out the abstract funk 'n' jazz jams with panache. Friendly. mellow.
boho crowd with film visuals from Napier
Students enhancing the journey to syncopated nirvana.
I Buster Browns lO.30pm—3.30am. 2am curfew. £3 (girls free before midnight. £2 after; guys £2 before midnight). Mainstream. chart and oldies. Available Mon—Thurs for private parties.
I Cathouse at The Rocking Horse. llpm—3am. £3 (£2.50 with flyer).
from heavy metal through grunge to thrash.
I Century 2000 l 1pm—3am. £5. Commercial dance music under the most expensive lights in Scotland. No ripped jeans or steel toe-caps.
I City 2 downstairs at The City Cafe. 8pm—lam. Free. Underground garage. acid jazz. hip hop and swing with deck- guru Yogi Haughton and occasional unannounced quality guests.
I Evol at Wilkie House. 10.30pm—3am. £3 (£2.50). Shiny. happy indie sounds. with a bit of a raw. grungey edge from resident DJ Kieren.
I FBI at Moray House. llpm—4am. £3.
Premier quality indie and 60s dance night.
Also on Saturdays.
I Funky Mutha at The Attic. 1 lpm—4am. £3. Street soul. funk and hip hop.
I Ciro at The Rocking Horse. llpm—3am. £3 (£2.50). ‘Destroy your senses with hardcore nosebleed techno. underground industrial and bad mixing!‘
I .Iune Frost at The Subway. Midnight—3am. £2.50 (£2). See Wednesdays.
I latch at The Rocking Horse. 11pm—3am. £3 (£2.50 with flyer). Lively club with a playlist consisting mainly of 80s and 905 indie dance.
I Mambo Club at The Cavendish. 10pm—4am. £3 (£2.50). Latin. salsa. soca. calypso. zouk. reggae and African music every single night of the Festival.
I Mambo Inn at The Fringe Club. 9pm—2.30am. £5. Latin lurve. African amour and juicy jazz for those of you who appreciate a little alliteration with your hip-swivelling rhythms.
I Marathon Rock Club at The Underground Club. 11pm-3am. £3 (£2 before 12.30am. £1 before llprn.) All drinks £1.50. Dance. rock and grunge.
I Marley’s Reggae Klub a: The Cavendish. 11pm—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 Pure at The Venue. 9pm-4am. £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 are its hallmarks.
I Quest at M8. 10pm—4am. £5. ‘A night of unrivalled energy from DJ Waxman and guests.’
I Red Hot Pepper Club lOpm—3am. £4 (£3). Mainstream and chart sounds. Students free with matric card.
I Sativa at The Vaults. 10pm—3am. £6
5 (£5 students/U840). £4 (members).
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. 19 Aug. Brighton's finest :
techno auteur Dave Clarke on the decks.
. . See Preview. Crowded night running the gamut of rock. ~
I Shaft at Adam House. 1 lpm—4am. £4.
5 Disco sparkle and 80s dance anthems ‘ every Friday. Saturday and Sunday at The
Festival Club.
I Squid at La Belle Angele. 10pm—4am. £6 (£4). Multi-media aquatic theme club
: on a Whirl-Y-Gig tip. Marine installations
complement the sub-aqua-swell of fresh
"(tin hip-hop outfit Freshly Squeezed 19 Aug. abstract scientificjazz man
. Lavelle guests.
‘ I ‘n‘x‘ ‘weat Club at The Pelican.
, 10pm -_: n. Free. Apparently playing any old tune.
Z I Tardis at The Citrus. llpm—4am. £5. 19
Aug. Fortnightly. Reggae. soul. hip-hop and funk.
‘ SATURDAYS ?
I Boom Bap The Attic at Legends (entry by Dyer‘s Close beside Legends). llpm—3.30am. £3.50 (£3). Steve C. and
' guests with an essential hip hop and rap selection. All drinks £1.50.
I Burger Queen at The Vaults.
9 llpm—3am. £5. Media-friendly concept l club with truckloads of attitude (and
l punters by all accounts). Craig Drysdale l and Huggy segue together the 90s
l Balearic soundtrack. spiking house and
i trance with New Romantic and 22 Top.
3 I Buster Browns 10.30pm—4am. 2am
'i curfew. £4 (£2.50 before 11.30pm). Dance 1 and upfront chart sounds.
l I Century 2000 10.30pm—3am. £5. See
‘ Fridays.
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I Cheek to Cheek at M8. lOpm—4am. £6
(£5). Kitsch house. garage and 70s disco with DJs lan Thompson. A. J.. Radio Forth's Kevin Jones and Craig Burton in the chill-out room.
“i LA 3:0
I Club Latino at The Assembly Rooms. Midnight—3am. £4 (£3). Latin dance
salsa. merengue. cumbia and other hip
; grinding South American dance styles. 20 . Aug. Latin dance rnaestros Manuel
i Montenegro and Daneyse Castro
i demonstrate their expert footwork and pass on their skills to those less supple of s leg. hip. arm etc.
I bogtastlc at La Belle Angele. 10pm—4am. £5. 20 Aug. Fortnightly. Canine and canin‘ style night from Andy
: Williams and Scott Ferguson. Joyfully j irreverent music policy mashing up . tranced-out electronica with 80s pop
flotsam.
I Earth Inferno at The Rocking Horse. 10.30pm—3am. £3. Happy Hour until 12.30am. No rave.just out of the grave
1 gothic and industrial sounds.
I 'n’ funky grooves. With hotly tipped local 1
I The Egg at The Wee Red Bar. llpm—4am. £3. Solid gold easy-action sounds; more specifically indie. 60s. new
wave and soul.
I FBI at Moray House. llpm—4am. £3. See Fridays. I Funky Worm at Wilkie House.
orbit with 70s disco. house. funk and hip hop.
I Joy at The Calton. 10pm—3am. £5 (£3 before midnight). Uplifting. packed-out gay night with a far healthier female turnout than many. Maggie and Alan putting some serious finesse into the mix with an inspired selection of bumping house and garage. So busy it‘s now on two floors.
I latch at The Rocking Horse. 10.30pm-3am. £2.50 (£2). A veritable cornucopia ofindie music from the 80s and 90s, in this busy weekly club.
I Mambo Club at Cavendish. 10pm-4am. £3 (£2.50). Two floors with African. Latin. salsa. reggae. zouk. soca. calypso downstairs. and dub. lovers and dancehall upstairs. Sir Ossie dishing up the global grooves for the hot ‘n’ sweaty assembled pleasure-seekers. Every night through the Fringe.
I Manbo Inn at The Fringe Club. 9pm—2.30am. £5. Latin. Africa ‘n‘ Jazz live and direct relocated from Brixton.
I Mayhem at The Citrus. 11pm—4am. £5. 19 Aug. Fortnightly. Boomerang DJs craft the delicious dubs and renegade snares. Top night ofjungle. Big up!!
VOX
classes midnight—12.45am. Wild night of
I Minus One at The Carlton Highland Hotel. lOpm—3am. £2.50 (free for members). See Fridays.
I The 99 Club at The Music Box. 12.30pm—4am. £4 (£3). Staggerineg
cheap drink. the Betty Ford clinic awaits.
I Red Hot Pepper Club 10pm—3am. £4
(£3). See Fridays.
I Shaft at Adam House. llpm—4am. £4.
See Fridays. Disco sparkle and 80s dance anthems at The Festival Club.
I The Sweat Club at The Pelican. lOpm—3am. Free. See Fridays.
I Taxi at The Subway. 11pm—3am. £2. Fortnightly. Dave Stewart DJs with a mix of classic disco and dance.
3 I Tribal Funktion at The Venue.
llpm—4am. £5. 20 Aug. Fortnightly. Rockin' da house with New York rhythms
’ upstairs and blunted hip hop cuts
downstairs. Discerning crowd and aesthetically pleasing decor make fora
superior night out. Dance wicked!
: I The Blue Room at The Cooler.
lOpm—4am. £4 (£2). Deep and lovely ambience to cmbalm. soothe and stimulate. Lie back and soak up the decelerated drift. Fluffytastic!
I Bump ’n’ Grind at MS. l().3()pm--4am. £3. Ian Thompson. A. J. and Kevin Jones
play the uplifting selection of house and garage.
I Buster Browns l().3()pm—3am. £2 before 11.30pm (£3 after). Buster‘s
. Sunday soul night.
I Copacabana at The Attic.
1 1.30pm—3am. £2. Summer cocktail of Latin and jazz. with Dr Kool. Dave Coupar and Finbar.
l I Divine Inspiration at La Belle Angele. ‘ llpm—4am. £4. 21 Aug. Twitch and
Brainstorm (Pure) in da house with their inimitable technological orchestrations.
Dress to sweat. I Mambo Club at The Cavendish. l()pm—4am. £3 (£2.50). Latin. reggae.
world. See Saturdays. j I Metro at The Subway. Midnight—3am. lO.3me—3am. £4. Planet funkety-funk in
£2. Best of 70s. 80s. 90s and beyond with DJ Geordie.
I 99 Club at The Pelican. ()prn—Zam. Free. Full on hedonisrn in the Cowgate of
' a Sunday night.
I The Sunday Club at The Red Hot
Pepper Club. 10pm—3am. £4 (£3). Fierce ; gay night with occasional PAs. Busy.
sassy and highly hedonistic: if you thought the weekend ended on a Sunday. you thought wrong.
I The Surf Club Too at The Music Box.
Midnight—4am. £4 (£3). lbiza style foam
party for those of you who enjoy being
i groped by total strangers.
f I Taste at The Vaults. |()pm—4am. £5.
DJs Fisher and Price mixing up the
' sensuous garage and trance ‘for extroverts ' and perverts'. Friendly. all-night party
L vibe and not a pre-school toy in sight.
7 I Thelonious at Carwash. ()prn—lam.
Free. Weekly. Eclectic. choicejazz cuts
from the Thelonious team.
I Timewarp at The Rocking Horse.
11pm—3am. £2 (free before 12.30am). A very w—i—d—e playlist indeed: 60s. 70s.
80s. 90s and onwards.
; MONDAYS
I Monday Club at The Citrus. l()pm—3am.
£2. New wave alternative dance sounds from Dougie Death. Dropping a host of crazy fusions from Leftfield and Lydon through to the rap meets rock of Judgement Night.
I Mambo Club at The Cavendish. lOpm—4am. £3 (£2.50). See Saturday.
I Off The Hill at The Venue. l lpm-4am. £5 (£2.50 with ticket stub from The
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