LISTINGS CLUBS
I Crash West at Cleopatra‘s. 10.30pm—3am. £2 (£1 with ticket). Gary Unett and a mix of mainsteam pop and dance.
I The Horn at The 13th Note (ground floor). 8pm—midnight. Free. ‘Unnerving dreams of the old \Vtmlworth pick ‘n' mix turned voodoo on a suddenly darkened Saturday afternoon.‘ Mr Scott Horn praying that Captain Beelheart. Beat Happening. Ivor Cutler and The Pastels weigh in at under the quarter pound.
I Soap on a Bope 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 Teardrops at The 13th Note. 7pm-midnight. Free. The original sad. sad night. Music to cry into you beer to.
Tuesdays
I Amorphus at Nice ‘n' Sleazy. 8.30pm—midnight. Donations on the door to cover running costs. Ambient and dub through to techno and gabba with resident DJs from TAB and the Sonic Research Institute. Lager and heavy £1.25. vodka and whisky 75p a dash.
I Boudoir at The 13th Note (dmvnstairs). 8pm—midnight. Free. ‘In the context of Boudoir words are useless' Iiasy music with a twist. Your hosts for the evening: EJ. (that‘s ‘Easy Jock‘). Ian and Dr Paul. I Brouhaha at The Arena. Spin—midnight. Free. Sixties garage to 90s indie and underground dance.
I JoJos at Club XChange llpm—3am. £2.50. Gay. DJ Craig 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. 10.30pm—3am.
£1. A mish-mash of poppy and studenty- type sounds. plus drinks promos.
I Shimmy 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 boys' toilets than boys for some
I The Tardis in the Attic (formerly the Cameo Suite). 10.30pm—3am. £1. ‘A journey through space and time that takes you from the 60s to the 90s and back via rock/pop and soul'. All drinks £1.
I Trading Post at Cleopatra's. lO.30pm—2.30am. £2 (£1 with ticket). Chart. mainstream and 60s ‘for the pub/club staffcrowd‘.
Wednesdays
I Banus 10.30pm—3am. £5 (half price with flyer). House and garage with DJ Gary Menzies.
I Bennet’s llptn—3am. £ 1. Gay. 70p vodka and gin! DJ Sara.
I Ceroc at The Venue. 7.3()—l().30pm. Modern jive from France. Includes 45- minute beginners' class at 7.30pm followed by dance sounds from the 40s to the 90s.
I Chopper at Club Xchange. 10.30pm—3.3()am. £3 (£2). Garage. house and 90s disco. More handbags than Debenhams and more screaming divas than Glyndboume. Double vodka £1.10.
I Fab at Reds. llpm—3am. £3 (£2). The Fab Boys play a many and varied funky and bassy soundtrack tojump along to. Miller £1.vodka-mix £1.
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. ()ptn-midnight. Free. Selected beers for £1. Joe Deacon playing the best in classic soul. funk and piano house.
I Parallelogram at Bar Miro. Spin-midnight. Free. Johnny and Hamish of Blue Juice get all pre clubby with some ‘mind music‘.
I Planet Earth at The Cathouse. 10.30pm—3am. £1. An 80s revival night for all you Wham! and Duran Duran fans. I Rampant Sound at Under Ventura. Spin-midnight. Free. Dub ofthe highest order.
I Sticky Fingers at The Attic (formerly the Cameo Suite). l().3()pm-3am. £2 (£1). Gerry with indie and retro sounds. Drinks promos.
I Wednesday Night Fever at The Cotton Club. 10.30pm—3am. £3 (£2 with matric card). Positively a towering inferno of rekindled kitsch. Busy'.’ You betcha. Drinks promos.
Thursdays
I 1999 at The Cotton Club. 1 lpm—3am. £3 (£2). Eighties hits and a mixed bag of funky tunes.
I Banus l().3()pm—3am. £5 (half price with flyer). House and garage with DJ Gary Menzies.
I Bellybutton 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. l().30pm—2.30am. £3 (£2 with ticket). Mainstream pop and dance.
I Club Xchange llpm—3am. £2.50 (£2). Gay. DJ Stella and Happy Hour all night. I 0.I.S.C.0. Inferno at Reds. l lpm—3am. £2. Seventies disco. pop and glam plus Bud and vodka for £1 all night. A night of classic disco peppered with the best of contemporary house and garage.
I Donkey at The Cathouse. 10.30pm-3am. £2 (£1). Studenty mix of grunge rock. indie dance and pop.
I Harmony at Bennet‘s. 1 lpm—3am. £2 (£1). Mixed night from DJs Sarah (Tunnel) and John (Glad).
I Loaded at Blackfriars Underground. 8pm—close. Free. Studenty pre-club with DJs Mikey and Sanj. Cheap drinks. groovy garage and bouncy toons.
I Loveshack at Fury Murry's. 10.30pm—3am. £2. From the people who bring you The Beat Club.
I October Cate 7pm—midnight. Free. A busy. boomin' and bumpin' ()ctober Cafe is aurally contented by DJs Steve and Derek offering up a cool and current selection ofdance tunes. Perfect as a pre- Tunnel warm-up and with more promos than you can shake a short review at.
I Psychick Warriors 0v Gaia at Queen Margaret Union. Spin—late. £5 Students and guests. 6 ()ct only. Techno trance plus the Pussy Power cats Terry and Jason.
I Bumble at The Garage. 10.30pm—3am. The legendary Rumble night that used to be at the now defunct Joe Paps returns on 6 ()ct with DJs Cardow and Ross. Charty dance faves for the student masses.
I Shatt at The Cathouse. 10pm—2am. £2. : A shameless 70s disco funfest. with the added attraction of regular drinks promos. : I Strathclyde 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 l Reds. I The Tunnel 10pm—3atn. £4 (£2 with matric card). Ain‘t never been a student night quite as big as this one. Mainstream dance and club classics.
I Virunga in The Attic. 10.30pm—3am. £3 (£2). DJ Tchico taking you round his world of hip hop. ragga and reggae.
I Voodoo Room Student Night
llptn—3. 15am. £4 (£2.50). ‘The cool
sound of the city to thrust you into the weekend.‘ Mel Barr and guests.
EDINBURGH Fridays
I Access at The Music Box. 10.30pm—3am. £3. ‘A rhythmical blend of soul. funk. acid jazz and hiphop from as far back as then.‘
I Big Beat at La Belle Angele. llpm—3am. £5 (£4). 30 Sept only. Monthly excursion into territories jazzual with Mark. Simon and Angus spinning the syncopated cuts. Laid back. boho crowd and creative visuals from film students contribute to a quality night out.
I Bubblegum at Potterrow Student Union. 9pm—2am. £1 (£2 non students). Students and guests only. Indie music.
I Buster Browns 10.30pm—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). Crowded night running the gamut of rock. from heavy metal through grunge to
thrash.
I Century 2000 l lpm—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. Spin—1am. Free. Underground garage. acid jazz. hiphop and swing with deck- guru Yogi Haughton and occasional unannounced guests.
I Cool Lemon at The Vaults. 10pm—3am. £6. 23 Sept. Fortnightly. Zesty house tunes from Iain Patterson and Trevor Price. with Manchester's finest. Justin Robertson on 23 Sept.
i I Copacabana at The Attic. 1 lpm—3am. j £3 (£2). 23 Sept. Cocktail of Latin anti
Jazz with Dr Kool and Finbar.
I The Engine Room at The Citrus. llpm—4am. £5. 30 Sept. New underground house and garage club. reminiscent of Truth in it‘s excellent pairing of Gareth Somerville and Colin Cook. Steven Livingston joins them to spin the vicious bitchin‘ grooves.
I FBI at Moray House. llpm—4am. £3. 23 and 30 Sept. Two extra Fridays packed with the fun of FBI before the regular student nights kick off again.
I Funky Mutha at The Attic. llpm—3am. £3 (£2). 30 Sept. Fortnightly. Streetsoul. funk and hip hop.
I Katch at The Rocking Horse. llpm—3am. £3 (£2.50 with flyer). Lively club .v'ith a playlist consisting mainly of 80s and 90s indie dance.
I Kiss at Teviot Row Student Union. 7.30pm—2am. £2 (£3 for non-students). Free before 9.30pm. Students and guests only. Happy hour 7.30pm—9.30pm. Featuring Beatbox upstairs. playing mainstream chart disco and Juice downstairs with hiphop. funk and 70s disco.
I The Jungle Book at The Citrus.
llpm—4am. £8. 23 Sept. Monthly.
§ Exciting new jungle night. bringing a little drum ‘n' bass beauty to Scotland's
techno-fixated turf. This first session.
aptly entitled ‘Education‘. features the
astounding talents of LTJ Bukem. plus
Scotland‘s finest: Marc Smith and KMC.
If you‘ve wondered what jungle is all
, about. get yourself down to The Citrus for _ ; one of the most exhilarating introductions to this vital style that you could wish to
experience. See preview. I Marathon Rock Club at The
Underground Club. llpm—3am. £3 (£2
before 12.30am. £1 before llpm). All drinks £1.50. Dance. rock and grunge. 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. I()pm—3am. £2.50 (free for
Catch the best Edinburgh Clubs this fortnight. I The Jungle Book Deep. soulful and downright beautiful jungle from hardcore’s finest. LTJ Bukem. ably supported by like minded Scottish jocks KMC and Marc Smith. Check this before you write offjungle. The Citrus. Fri 23 Sept. Ilpm—4am, £8. III Freedom or Movement Tour Drum Club man Charlie Hall. Sativa, Twitch and Brainstorm. KMC. The Waxman, George T., Chris Lowe and The Blue Room bods stand up against fascism. Dance floor politics you can enjoy. The Vaults. Thurs 6 Oct. lOpm—3am. Price the. I The Engine Room New night for Truth duo Gareth Sommerville and Colin Cook with the additional talents of Steven Livingston. Blissful garage. old-school house: hands in the air — yes please! The Citrus. Fri 30 Sept. llpm—Jam. £5. I Air Forty-tive-minute PA of future perfect rhythms from Vapourspace. plus Andy Weatherall, Darren Price and the Sativa DJs caning it techno style. The Vaults. Sat l Oct. Ilpm—4r1m. £5. I The Blue Room After a fortnight as packed with quality clubbing as this you’ll need to lie back and soak up some aesthetic drift. The Venue. Sundays, llpm-4um. £2.
members). A relaxed. very plush venue for the more mature seekers of night life. I Pure at The Venue. l().3()pm—3am. £5 (£3 members). Guest nights £7 (£5). Infamous Scottish techno institution where a dressed-down. devotional massive trip out to Twitch and Brainstorm‘s gorgeous. well-orchestrated sweep through Detroit and Chicago.
I uuest at M8. 10.30pm—3am. £5. ‘A night of unrivalled energy from DJ Waxman and guests.‘
I Red Hot Pepper Club 10pm—3am. £4 (£3). Mainstream and chart sounds. Students free with matric card.
I Sativa at The Vaults. 10pm—3am. £6
(£5 students/UB40). £4 (members). 30 Sept. 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 .‘vICs and percussion. Forthcoming guests include: Mike Dred. Mike Inc and Walker and Jammin Unit
j (aka Air [.iquide).
I Tardis at The Citrus. llpm—4am. £5. 30 Sept. Fortnightly Reggae. soul. hip-hop and funk.
Saturdays
I Air at The Vaults. 9pm—3am. £5. 1 ()ct. Fortnightly. Air uproots from its regular fixture at The Citrus fora rather special one-off. Vapourspace. Andy Weatherall. Darren Price and the Sativa DJs get together to fill The Vaults with drifting. textured and canin' technoscapCs.
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 Caligula at The Vaults. I()pm—3am. £5. ()Id-school house man Dominic Moir joins Craig Smith to concoct a sensorial orgy of soulful house and garage.
I Cheek to Cheek at MS. 10.30ptn‘3am. £5. Kitsch house. garage and 70s disco with DJs Ian 'l‘liompson. A. .1.. Radio Forth's Kevin Jones and t‘raig Burton in i the chill-out room. 1
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