LISTINGS CLUBS
matn'c card). Ain‘t never been a student night quite as big as this one. 9am lecture? What 9am lecture? 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
llpm—3. 15am. £4 (£2.50). ‘The cool sound of the city to thrust you into the weekend.’ Mel Barr and guests.
Fridays
I Beatbox at Teviot Row Student Union. 7.30pm—2am. Students free. guests £1. Mainstream chart disco and drinks promos with Juice downstairs offering a funked upjam of ragga. hip hop. soul and Motown. Guaranteed busy student night out. Stoke On Trent‘s finest 90s disco advocates Sub Sub play live. 14 Oct.
I Beta at Moray House. 9pm—4am. £3 (£1 for Moray House students and staff. free before 10pm). 14 Oct. Fortnightly. One hour ofdisco. one hour of live music. then four hours of disco.
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.
1 1pm—3am. £3 (£2.50 with flyer). Crowded night running the gamut of rock. from heavy metal through grunge to thrash.
I Century 2000 1 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. 8pm—lam. Free. Underground garage. acid jazz. hip-hop and swing with deck- guru Yogi Haughton and occasional unannounced guests.
I Club Kopov at The Music Box. 10.30pm—3am. £3. New club playing a
- fine selection ofcurrent dance tunes and
boasting the undeniable allure of flavoured Smirnoff on promo all night.
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I Club latlno at La Belle Angele. llpm-3am. £4 (£3). 14 Oct. Monthly. Hip-grinding Latin rhythms: merengue. cumbia. salsa and jazz from Simon and Chic. Always busy. always hot!
I Evol at The Citrus. 10.30pm—4am. £3. 14 Oct. Weekly thereafter. Launch night for an all new Evol featuring drinks promos and free condoms. New visuals should complement the shiny happy indie sounds with a bit of a raw grungey edge. Resident DJ Kieren jamming together those Evol favourites old and new.
I Funky Mutha at The Attic. 11pm-3am. £3 (£2). 14 Oct. Fortnightly. Street soul. funk and hip hop.
I Junction 69 at Hen'ot Watt Student Union. 10pm—3am. £1. Students and guests only. 7 Oct. Fortnightly. Drinks promos. All vodka 69p. Classic disco tunes from the 70s and 805 plus current chart stormers.
I Katch at The Rocking Horse. llpm—3am. £3 (£2.50 with flyer). Lively club with a playlist consisting mainly of 80s and 90s indie dance.
I Marathon Rock Club at The Underground Club. 11pm-3am. £3 (£2
before 12.30am. £1 before 11pm). All drinks £1.50. Dance. rock and grunge.
I Marley‘s Reggae Klub at 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 Move at Heriot Watt Student Union. 10pm—3am. £1. Students and guests. 14 Oct. Music with a theme. 14 Oct. foam night.
I Partyceilldhdlsco at Moray House. 9pm—3am. £2.50 (£1 for Heriot Watt. Art College. Moray House and Galashields students; free entry for all until 10pm). 7 Oct. Fortnightly. All drinks £1.40. Three hours of ceilidh. including live sounds from Bon Accord and three hours of classic disco.
I Pure at The Venue. 10.30pm—3am. £5 (£3 members). Guest nights £7 (£5). Infamous Scottish techno institution where a dressed-down. devotional mass trip out to Twitch and Brainstorm’s gorgeous. well-orchestrated sweep through Detroit and Chicago. 7 Oct. special launch night for Pi recordings Out There — A Thread Through Time compilation. Psychick Warriors Ov Gaia. Re:Search and Kookie will be playing live.
I Quest at M8. 10.30pm-3am. £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 Roadrunner at Potterow Student Union. 9pm—2am. Students with matric card £1. guests £2. Weekly traditional student bash. Music policy is 60s. 70s, 80s. 90s and independent. to narrow things down a little.
I nude at The Attic. 10pm—3am. £3 (£2). 7 Oct. A venue change for the ever popular Rude. Expect the usual tightly honed selection of skankin' dub and
ste pin’ ska.
I gatlva at The Vaults. 10pm—3am. £6. (£5 students/U B40). £4 (members). 14 Oct. 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. Forthcoming guests include: Mike Dred. Mike inc and Walker and Jammin Unit (aka Air Liquide).
I Shavers Weekly Party at The Vaults. 11pm—3am. Tickets from Black 80’s. 7 Oct only. Bitchin' (and 1 mean literally) night organised by those shameless satirists from Ver Weekly. Bound to be full of the sort of old-school Edinburgh faces that the vitriolic rag loves to hate. Perversely enough. it's even taking place in the paper's most frequently slagged venue.
I Top Ten Club at The Wee Red Bar.
llpm-late. £3. The original psychedelic beat club returns. Angus. Stuart and Sam spinning all things 60s with imaginative
lights. slides and films to inspire a popmungous thirty year flashback.
I Unplugged at Chambers Street House Student Union. 8pm-3am (Doors close 2.30am). Students free. guests £1. Primarily concerned with showcasing live bands. but noteworthy for the eclectic club sounds in between. '
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 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.
I Cheek to Cheek at MS. lOpm—late. £10 (£8 members). 8 Oct only. PA from garage guru Mr Peach. DJs are Michael Kilkie. Mike Douglas. A.J.. Kevinjones (Forth FM). DJ Harvey and Craig Burton in the chill out. In association with M8 magazine.
I Club Free at Negociants. 7pm—2am. Free. Pre-club club with DJ ‘JP'.
I Dogtastic at La Belle Angele. 11pm-—3am. £5. 15 Oct. Fortnightly. Canine and canin' style night from Andy Williams and Scott Ferguson. Joyfully irreverent music policy mashing up tranced-out electronica with 80s pop flotsam.
I Disco Inferno at The Venue. 11.30pm—3am. 8 Oct. Fortnightly. Polished exponent of 70s revivalism. Two floors of bump ’n' hustle disco gloss.
I Earth lnremo at The Rocking Horse. 10.30pm—3am. £3. Happy Hour until 12.30am. No rave. just out of the grave gothic and industrial sounds.
I The Egg at The Wee Red Bar. 11pm-4am. £3. Solid gold easy-action sounds; more specifically indie. 60s. new wave and soul.
I Eternal at Chambers Street House Student Union. 8pm-3am (Doors close 2.30am). Students free. guests £1. Chart sounds from the sixties to present day.
I FBI at Moray House. llpm—3am. £3. 8 Oct. Fortnightly with Shaft. Eternally popular. young at heart club playing a plethora of styles falling into the indie bracket. Scuff those DMs one more time to Pavement. Senser and Oasis.
I Clro at The Citrus. llpm—4am. £5. 15 Oct. Fortnightly. Hardcore. gabber and heavy dance with DJ Freak from Leeds alongside regulars Grafik and The Surgeon.
I Horny Monkey at The Vaults. 11pm—3am. £10. 8 Oct only. Celebrity DJ corner as Chad Jackson (Full Monty Tour)
lCatch the best Edlnburgh Clubs this
fortnight.
I Psychick Warriors 0v Caia Trippy Megadog electronic outfit head the line up for the Pi compilation launch. Re:Search and Kookie also playing. Feed your head! Pure, Fri 7 Oct. 10.30pm—3am, £7.
I Bezereotlon The other big bash this fortnight. also featuring a formidable selection of techno‘s main players: Derrick May. Miss Djax, Frank De Wulf, Dave Angel. Ralphie Dee. Blu Peter. Trevor Rockliffe. DJ Ten. The Royal Highland Exhibition Centre, Sat 15 Oct. Rpm—8am. £24.50.
III Dub Dept Expansive reverberating dubs and deep spiritual resonance: value for money midweek aural therapy courtesy of Stan and his team. Check it. Negociants. Wednesdays. 11pm—3am. free.
I Ruttneck Drum ’n‘ bass deconstruction from Scottishjungle saviour KMC. It may be midweek and in an unlikely venue but it's wonh visiting to sample the sound of future music. Potterow Student Union. Tuesdays. 9pm—2am. free.
engages in the friendliest of tussles with Miles Holloway (Hard Times). Watch out for Frankie Knuckles. Satoshi Tomie and David Morales in future weeks.
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. Scotland‘s answer to Heaven (in both respects).
I Katch at The Rocking Horse. 10.30pm—3am. £2.50 (£2). A veritable ’ cornucopia of indie music from the 80s and 90s. in this busy weekly club. I Mambo Club at Cavendish. 10pm-3am. £4 (£3). 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.
I Minus One at The Carlton Highland Hotel. 10pm—3am. £2.50 (free for members). See Fridays.
I The 99 Club at The Music Box. 12.30pm—3am. £4 (£3). House. garage. soul and funk sounds. Staggeringly cheap drink. the Betty Ford clinic awaits.
I Red Hot Pepper Club lOpm—3am. £4
(£3). See Fridays.
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