CLUBS LISTINGS
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~ ’pecial night featuring Blackalicious fend Hustlers HC playing live, Shorty Blitz and Charlie from Attica Blues Phar Out resident DJ Paul ‘Cawley plus New York graphotist Stash. See club preview. Glasgow School of Art. 5 May only.
I lanreut carnier Slam welcome France’s Mr Sex. Laurent Gamier, giving over a whole four-and-a-half- hours of the night to his disco/funk/hard techno/house and garage grooveathon. See Phactfile. J'he Arches. 5 May.
I love Boutique Jon Pleased Wimmin. icon of our age, returns again to this, the biggest night of glamour amour in Scotland. BPM Will be filming at Boutique later in the year, not this one as advertised, but DJ magazine will be taking piccies. The Arches. 6 May and monthly.
I Renaissance Their monthly residency continues with John Digweed, lan Ossia, Marc Auerbach, Mark Tabemer and Nigel Dawson. £12 (£10). The Tunnel, [3 May and monthly.
Wednesdays
I Art School at Glasgow School of Art. 8pm—late. Free. Eclectic pre-clubber with Stu and Phil. From soul to pop.
I Aunt Mud Guard at Nico‘s. 9pm—midnight. Free. Pre-club featuring the ChOpper DJs. Pints of Stella £1.20. I Bane: 10.30pm—3am. £5 (half price with flyer). House and garage with DJ Gary Menzies. Smart dress only.
I Bennet’s llpm—3am. £1. Gay. 70p vodka and gin! DJ Sara.
I Blue Print at The Volcano. llpm-2.30am. £3 (£2). A new jazz and funk night from Sace and Easi plus regular guest appearances by D1 A1 (Mo Wax) using four turntables.
I Chopper at Club Xchange. 10.30pm-3.30am. £3.50 (£2). Garage, house, 905 disco and pop. Fresh Clubland credible music and dire quality cheap drink. Double vodka £1.25.
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Hut. 8pm-close. The club based at the Bohemia club (London) comes up to Glasgow to try out their board game- related mirth every week from here on in. I Fab at Reds. l 1pm—3am. £3 (£2). Club classics, funk. soul and disco. Miller £l. vodka-mix £1.
I Go West at Cleopatra‘s. lO.30pm—2.30am. £2 (£1 with ticket). A mainly ‘student-orientated' bill of fare. I Jumpin’ and lint Club at The Call lnn. 8pm—midnight. Club classics and Northern floorshakers plus prize soul quiz.
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 Planet Earth at The C athouse. 10.30pm—3am. £1. An 80s revival night for all you Wham and Duran Duran fans. Doing unbelievably well.
I Sticky Fingers at The Attic. 10.30pm—3am. £2 (£1). Gerry with indie and retro sounds. Drinks promos.
I Sold at The Voodoo Room. 1 lpm—3am. £3 (£2). it’s the one with the posters oozing testosterone. Claude and James on an electronic dub funk tip.
;I Wednesday Night Fever at Cotton Club. l 10.30pm—3am. £3 (£2 with matric card). §Positively a towering inferno of rekindled |kitsch. Busy? You betcha. Drinks promos.
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i I Banus 10.30pm-3am. £5 (half price ,with flyer). House and garage with DJ Gary Menzies.
. I Bloomers at Cleopatra's.
i lO.30pm—2.30am. £3 (£2 with ticket).
3 Mainstream pop and dance.
F I Club Xchange llpm—3am. £1. Gay. DJ 1‘ Stella and £1 lager. 50p vodka.
I The Corner 9pm—close. Free. Reggae beats pre-club with Stevie Donaldson.
I nee Jays in Disguise at Van'ety. 8pm—close. Free. J‘ilkes and Ha‘t‘ch with a dubby mix of new dance and techno. Absolutely rammed.
I Disco Iniemo at Reds. llpm—3am. £2. Seventies disco. pop and glam with DJ
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 Funky Monkey at The Volcano. lO.30pm—2.30am. £3 (£2). Night of
with DJ Alan Ronald. Pitched as a fun student night.
I Horizontal at The Voodoo Room.
1 1pm—3am. £3 (£2.50). Nick Peacock with jazz and rare groove plus live jams. I Kit Kat Club at the Blackfriars Underground. 9.30pm for 10.30pm—lam.
£5 (£2.50). Comedy/theatre/jazz funk club
every Thursday. Friday and Saturday during Mayfest. See Comedy.
I loveshaclt at Fury Murry's. llpm—3am. £2. ‘Seventies disco-dance, indie, 60s and student classics. Lager or vodka mix an unbelievable 50p.‘
I October Cate 7pm—midnight. Free. A smart crowd of pre-Tunnellers make themselves heard over the fine house and
garage masterly put together by DJ Stevie M
I Rage at Strathclyde University Student Union. 9pm-2am. Free. The Level 8 barn once more fills up with the bright young things letting their cardigans slip off their shoulders as they gaze at the floor.
I Rise at The Arena. 11.30pm—3am. £3. American house and garage from Dribbler, Pat and Mr Bill. All drinks £1.50.
I humble at The Garage. 10.30pm—3am.
I Double Six Club at King Tut’s Wah Wah
Michelle plus Bud and vodka for £1.30 all
mainstream dance, rap, funk pop and indie
£3 (£2). Cardow and Ross with a very busy night of charty dance faves. cheap drinks and drunk students. Snogtastic! Stephen M. upstairs with ‘Popscene‘. classic and contemporary indie tunes.
I The Secret Garden at The Arches. l0.30pm—3am. £5. 11 May only. Europe's top carnival performers transform The Arches into ‘an exotic plant paradise'. Funky floral beats form the Tribal Funktion DJs. ‘Dress to tease'. Linked in with the performance of Linnaeus at the Botanic Garden.
I Shindig at Cotton Club. l().30pm~3am. £3 (£2). lain Fitzpatrick with an indie/disco club. All drinks 99p.
I Spangles at Strathclyde University Student Union. 9pm—2am. Free. Gordon Tennant of Helter Skelter with soul. dance and pop.
I Soundclash Republic at Glasgow School of Art. 9pm—Iate. Free.
I Thumpin Thursdays at R.G.s. Spin—close. Free. 11 May. hip hop from Kevin Dillon. 18 May. acid trance from Kevin Welsh.
I The Tunnel 10pm—3am. £4 (£2 with tnatric card). If you've ever been to this student night in the last five years. then it's still exactly the same as you remember it. Cheesy music. mobbed dancefloor and regrets in the morning.
I Unity Reggae Club at The Venue. 10.30pm—late. £2. Every Sunday and Thursday. Reggae. ragga and dub. ‘Strictly dancehall’.
I UK Gold at Sub Club. llpm-3am. £3 (£2). Martin and Mark have created a haven of credibility in the sea of Thursday night mediocrity. ‘Simply the best Thursday night out in years' is how they modestly describe it. and they're quite possibly right.
Fridays I Beatbox at Teviot Row Student Union. 9pm—2am. Students free. guests £1. Happy Hour 9pm—lOpm and midnight-1pm, selected shorts 69p. 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.
.I Cathouse at The Rocking Horse. llpm—3am. £3 (£2 with flyer). Price includes entry to Katch. 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 Club Latino at La Belle Angele. llpm—3am. £4 (£3). 12 May. Monthly. Popular night of ‘searing salsas. manic merengues and captivating cumbias‘ say the Thelonious team’s Latin wing. One of Edinburgh's premier Latin events. Arrive earl !
I Club Sappho at Buster Browns. 9pm—4am. £3. A welcome addition to the city's rather male-orientated gay scene —
Club Sappho is a new women-only night. Resident DJ Christine spins disco, chart. oldies and progressive dance with the occasional assistance of top guest names. Free glass of wine for those arriving before 10pm.
I Coup at The Vaults. 10.30pm—3am. £7 (£6). 5 May. Monthly. Techno. trance and stomping electronics from Steve Holistic (Holistic Records), Davey Millar (Finitribe), Scott Ferguson (Dogtastic) and Glasgow's underground Rub A Dub posse.
I Evol at The Music Box. 10.30pm—3am. £3. Happy Hour from 10.30pm. All new visuals and shiny happy indie sounds with a bit of a raw, grungey edge. Resident DJ Kieren jamming together those Evol favourites old and new. Look out for occasional live guests creamed from the cutting edge of the indie scene.
I Fetish at La Belle Angele. llpm—3am. £5 (£4). 5 May. Fortnightly. Fruity. fecund and flirtatious fusion of house. hip-hop and dub from Nicci and guests.
I Fever at The Wide Awake Club. llpm-3am. £4 (£3 with matric card. £2 before midnight). Happy Hour
I lpm-midnight. Hedonistic disco. soul. funk and Motown.
I The Groove at Negociants. 9pm-3am. Free. Detroit techno and Chicago house sounds. guest DJs and live music from Phase 6 and Kasbah.
I Junction 69 at Riccarton Student Union. lOpm—3am. £l. Students and guests only. Drinks promos. All vodka (i9p. Classic disco tunes from the 70s and 80s plus current chart stormers.
I Katch at The Rocking Horse. llpm—3am. £3 (£2 with ilyer). Price includes entry to Cathouse. Lively clttb with a playlist consisting mainly of 80s and 90s indie dance.
I Marley’s Reggae Klub at The Cavendish. l()pm—4am. £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. lOpm—3am. £2.50 (free for members). A relaxed. very plush venue for the more mature seekers of night life. I Paradise at MS. l().3()pm—3.3()am. £5. Colin Cook. James Carrington, Phil Kay, Stuart Duncan and DJ Cumfi play house and garage in the main room. The Funky Mutha crew drop funk and jazz sounds in the chill out.
I Partyceilidhdisco at Moray House. l()pm—3am. £2 (£1 before 11pm. free to Moray House students). 12 May. Fortnightly. All drinks £1. one free drink for Moray house students who arrive before midnight. Three hours of ceilidh. including live sounds frotn Bon Accord and two hours ofclassic disco.
I Planet Earth at The Citrus. llpm-3am. £3. Curfew 2am. The 80s retro club: playing everything from new wave to synth pop to acid house and Madchester. Watch out for drinks promos.
I Pure at The Venue. 10.30pm—3am. £5 (£3 tnembers). Guest nights £7 (£5). Twitch and Brainstorm orchestrate a gorgeous sweep through Detroit and Chicago at this. one of Scotland’s top techno institutions. Excellent guests from the electronic cutting edge. gifted residents and a sweaty. devoted crowd make this club still kick. 5 May. Chez Damier, gifted producer. house techno fusionist and highly competent DJ guests. Expect funky and wartu 5am grooves to soothe your soul.
I Reaction at The Subway. I lpm—3am. £2 (Free for students with matric card). Weekly mix of chart. dance and classic disco.
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 independant, to narrow things down a little.
I Sativa at The New Calton. l0pm—3am. £6 (£5 students/U840) £4 (members). 5 May. Fortnightly. Scotland's most furious and innovative hardbeat night continues to
0‘ The List 5-18 May 1995