LISTINGS CLUBS
Regular weekly clubs plus one-oft events are listed by city, then by day, then alphabetically by title. Clubs will be listed, provided that up-to-date details reach our offices at least seven days before publication. Club Listings compiled by Rory Weller and Jim Byers.
taxm— Fridays
I The Ark at The Tunnel. 10.30pm—3am. £6 (£4). The Tunnel‘s longest running night featuring a dressed-up crowd getting down in this award-winning venue to the superior hard house sounds of DJ Michael Kilkie and Scott Mackay. Duncan Reid and Simon Foy in Room 2. All drinks £1 before 12.30am.
I B.A.C at Hotshots. 10.30pm—2am. £2. Big and groovy night featuring the best from handbag to house in this cross between a club. arcade and bowling alley. On 18 Oct. Sam from neighbours in Hotshots all evening and a PA from the George Morel Project.
I Bar 10 8pm—close. Free. Stevie Donaldson's pub set from mellow to hard house. Pre-club.
I Club Apt at The Apartment. llpm—3am. £7. DJ Graham Wilson on a funk and soul tip for all you beautiful people out there.
I Club X llpm—3am. £5 (£3). Gay. Happy house and nu-NRG from DJ Amar. £1.25 bottles of Becks and Absolut shots. I Deepah at R.G.‘s. 8pm—midnight. Free. Deep house and garage weekend warmer from DJ Mack. Pre-club.
I Dribbler at The Asylum. Caledonian University Union. 9pm—3am. £3. 25 Oct and monthly. Dribbler from Pure hosts a new night of techno once a month at the Caledonian Union. This month's guest is Wilba from Club 69 and Rub A Dub.
I Exotica at The CCA Cafe Bar. 9.30pm—midnight. Free. Andy Divine cases your listening into the weekend. Pre-club.
I Flex at The Bedsit. 10pm—2am. £3.50 (£2.50). 18 Oct and the first and third Friday of the month. Tchico playing funky rhythms and rock steady beats: soul. funk. hip hop. ragga and reggae.
I Hybrid at The Sub Club. llpm—4am. 18 October and monthly. £5. Residents Mark Ryal and Larz fuse drum and bass with techno. This month Blake Baxter guests. I Human llature at Cotton Club. 11pm—3am. £4 (£2.50 with matric card). Stevie Smith (Viper Room) with garage and uplifting house in the new-look Cotton Club. Drinks promos £l.
I Katch at The Cathouse. l 1pm—3am. £3 (£2/ free before 11.30pm). Three floors of rock with margaritas 50p. and Gold Bier and vodka mix £l.
I Love Bug at The Garage. 10.30pm—3am. £3 (£4). DJ Graeme with an eclectic mix of good time party tunes. Vodka mix £l. Grolsch and Gold Bier £1 before 12.30am.
I Manic at Hotshots. 10.30pm—2am. £1 (students free). Indie/Britpop night in this bizarre mix between an amusement
arcade. bowling alley and nightclub. No.
seriously. 28 Oct. B.O.P. Britpop tribute band play the best of Blur. Oasis and Pulp. I Misshapes at Cafe Quodos (QMU). 8.30pm-2am. £2.50 (£2). lndie.jang1ey guitar stuff.
I Moio’s 9pm—midnight. Free. DJ Nick bringing you the renowned Mojo vibe. Pre-club.
I Mundo Latino at Burlin‘ Jocks. 9pm—midnight. Free. Club Havana presents salsa. merengue. lambada and Latin jazz from the award winning DJ Jazz. Pre-club.
I Parklile at The Arena. 10.30pm—3am. £4 (£3). Glasgow‘s first and foremost Britpop night back at the Arena playing classic pop/mod/indie sounds from the 60s to the 90s. Drinks promos all night: Gold Bier £l. vodka mix £1.50.
I Phar Out at Glasgow School Of Art. 10pm—2.30am. £3. Deep dub and drum and bass. Resident DJ Paul Cawley is joined every week by guest DJs.
I PM Scientists at The Asylum. Caledonian University Union. 9pm—3am. £5. 18 Oct and monthly. London drum and bass collective take up their monthly residency featuring Damian Lazarus every month plus guests. This issue. Subject 13 from Good Looking records joins Lazarus on the decks.
I Pure at Bennet’s. l 1.30pm—3am. £4 (£3). Grant Duffwith an upbeat dance night which couldn’t be more removed from the Edinburgh club of the same name. Gay.
I Radio City in The Attic. 10.30pm-3am. £3 (£2). The original retro club. playing Stax. Motown, The Stones. The Who etc. I Radikal Rhythm at The Dark Room (Strathclyde University Union). 10pm-3am. £4 (£3) Students plus up to four guests. Night hosted by different DJs rotating each month.
I Rat Trap 10.30pm—3am. £3. Three floors of rock. Studio One: 9 Inches. NlN kinda stuff. Studio Two: The Batcave. DJ Chn'stine goes Goth. Studio Three: Flex
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Your Head. punk and ska from Ross. Pau and Jane.
I Reds 11pm—3am. £5 (£3 for students before midnight). Easy-going mix of disco. funk and contemporary chart dance.
I Reminiscence at The Hive (Glasgow University Union). 10pm—2am. £2. Students and guests. Anthems. handbag. house and chart. The most popular dance from the last decade and beyond.
I Romp at Archaos. llpm—3.30am. £5 (£4). Big tune party night in this massive venue playing an Essential Selection kinda spread from DJs Geoff. Jason and Mabauzza. 18 Oct. Archaos‘s first birthday party featuring Up Yer Ronson’s Steve Lee Marshall plus Mary Pearce.
I Rub A Dub at Blackfriars Underground. 8.30pm—midnight. Free. R.A.D with static pre-club vibes.
I Shag at Fury Murry‘s. 11pm—3am. £4 (£3). Across-the-board mix of party choons with James G. ,
I Slam at The Arches. 10.30pm—3am. £7. World famous DJ and production duo Stuart and ()rde providing the best in deep electronic dance. Considered to be by far the best of its type in Scotland. ifnot Britain. Continues to win awards from all quarters. 18 October. Huggy from Back To Basics guests.
I Stardiscothek at Glasgow School Of Art. 10pm—2.30am £7 (£4). 25 Oct only. Knucklehead residents J‘ilkes and Ha't'ch are joined on the decks by special guest ‘Evil‘ Eddie Richards. resident at E-werk in Berlin.
I Tangent at The Sub Club. 1 lpm—4am. £7 (£5). 25 October and monthly. A-man . and Panic play an eclectic mix of American and European house and techno with all sorts of other hard elements thrown in.
I Test at Glasgow School Of Art. 9.30pm—2.30am. Price tbc. 18 Oct. Launch night of new techno venture combining the forces of Sativa in
Edinburgh and NM in Glasgow. Featured DJs are Neil Landstrumm. Shandy and Dave Tarrida who ‘guarantee to give it the large‘. With that sort of line up they could hardly fail to.
I Velvet Rooms 9pm—3am. £6 (£4) Free before 10.30pm. 1030—] 1.30pm £3 (£2). Alan Ronald in Room Two with an open mix from house anthems and disco to Britpop and soul. Martin Hesketh in Room One playing mellow hip hop. swingbeat and classic soul.
I The Volcano llpm—2.30am. £5 (£3). Jamie Mitchell with classic house and garage.
Saturdays
I Archaos at Archaos. l 1pm—3.30am. £8 (£6). A garage and house mix for a busy. moderately dressy crowd. 19 Oct. Archaos’s first birthday party with extra entertainment and birthday presents.
I Arena 10.30pm—3.30am. £7. Adrian Rennie has now agreed a DJ partnership with Baskar Dondana (Wet Without A Brolly) moving the Arena music policy away from deeper trance to more bouncy jazzy techno and calling themselves the Pulse DJs.
I B.A.C at Hotshots. 10.30pm-2am. £2. Big and groovy night featuring the best from handbag to house in this cross between a club. arcade and bowling alley. 19 Oct. John Reid returns to his native Glasgow for an exclusive performance from the Nightcrawlers.
I Bar 10 9pm—midnight. Free. Busy hard house pre-club with Nick Peacock.
I Boudoir at The Bedsit. 9pm—2am. Free. Fluffy tunes from Glasgow's longest running easy listening combo.
I The Cathouse llpm-3am. £4 (£3.50). Two floors of rock with margaritas 50p. Gold Bier and vodka mix £1 before midnight.
I Classic PM at Fury Murry‘s. 10.30pm—3am. £5 (£4). lndie-pop/indie- dance shenanigans from Jim Downie and the gang. Upstairs in the new room Furies presents Twister: ‘The best of Britpop and tootin' 60s hits‘.
I Cleopatra’s llpm—3am. £6. Mainstream commercial vibe.
I Club 69 Rocksy’s Basement. lOpm—2.30am. £5. Martin and Willy of Rub A Dub playing the best and deepest from the underground. One of Muzik‘s top ten clubs of '95. 19 Oct. Robert Hood (M Plant).
I Club Apt at The Apartment. llpm—3am. £7. DJ Bob Jeffries with funky soul. hip hop and house — even sexier than the Friday night.
I Club Iris at Bennet's. 1 1.30pm—3am. £6 (£4). DJ Sara with a good dancey mix. Dn'nks promos. Gay.
I Club X llpm-3am. £6 (£4). Gay club with upfront dance tunes from DJ Suave Gav. Drinks promos.
I Collective at The Arches. l lpm-Sam. £10 (£8 advance from The Arches). 26 October only. Who needs superclubs when you‘ve got the cream (no pun intended) of UK DJs here? Three dance floors featuring DJ Roy (Love Boutique). Trevor Price and lain Paterson (Cool Lemon). lain ‘Boney‘ Clark and Jon Mancini (Colours). Michael Kilkie and Zammo. plus DJs from Slam. See panel.
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