CLUBS LISTINGS
JIM BYERS
Mondays
I Cleopatra’s 10.30pm-3am. £2 (£1 with ticket). Gary Unett and a mix of mainstream pop and dance up at Clatty Pat‘s.
I Club X at Club Xchange. 11.30pm—3am. £2.50 (£1.50). Gay. Hard house and garage. £1.25 all drinks. DJ Fast Eddie.
I Salsa Dance Club at Burlin' Jocks. Spin—midnight. Latin American dance club. Mondays are the advanced nights. Tuesdays are best for beginners and Wednesdays are absolute beginners. Arrive early. Pre-club.
I Speedracer at The Garage. 10.30pm—3am. £3 (£2). Steven mixes up a few indie-dance classics and retro tunes for a busy. up for it crowd in the main
I The Sound Boutique Betty's Mayonnaise. 10.30pm—3am. £2. New night veiled in secrecy. For political reasons the five Scottish DJs who will be playing on four decks. have chosen not to be named. but go under the labels they record for: Umm. l-liLife. Slate. Pulse8 and '/_.YX. The DJs are seeing the night as a chance to ‘play the music they want to hear‘ in a free form fashion.
Tuesdays
I Ceroc at The Plaza. 7.15—10.30pm. £4 (£3.50). Energetic. stylish. modern jive frorn France. Music mix from reggae. charts. Latin. blues. soul and rock ‘n' roll. Licensed bar. There's a 45-minute beginner's class at 7.30pm.
I Club Xchange llpm—3am. £2.50 (£1.50). Gay. Dance and chart sounds. Drinks promos. Pitched as the only gay night in town tonight.
I Salsa Dance Club at Burlin' Jocks. 6pm—midnight. Latin American dance club. Mondays are the advanced nights.
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Tuesdays are best for beginners and Wednesdays are absolute beginners. Arrive early. Pre-club.
I Shooting Stars at The Garage. 11pm—3am. £3 (£2) Insane drunken shenanigans eased along nicely by the charty choons of Gerry and Iain in the main room. Staggering (you will be) drink promos. Vodka tnix £ 1. margaritas 50p. I The Shimmy Club 211 Bennet's. 11.30pm—3am. £3. The legendary Shimmy returns in the newly revamped Bennet‘s. Biggest party night in town.
I The Ska Club at The Halt. Rpm—close. Free. The sound of young Jamaica from DJ Marc (Revival Reggae).
I Sly at The Tunnel. 10.30pm—3am. Price tbc. 29 ()ct only. Massively popular student night featuring thousands of fresh faced studes. top dance choons in two rooms. cheap drinks and plenty ofspecial Sly touches.
I Trading Post at Cleopatra's. 10.30pm—2.30am. £2 (£1 with ticket). Chart. mainstream arid ()0s ‘for the pub/club staff crowd'.
I Wicked at Betty's Mayonnaise. 10.30pm—3am. £2. New night from Tam Coyle playing indie dance and bouncey house tunes. Hooch. vodka mix. lager and Beck‘s £1.25.
Wednesdays
I Bennet’s 11.30pm-3am. £2.50. DJ Sara with upbeat dance. £1 gin and vodka. £1.25 lager.
I Boudoir at The Whisky Bar. Spin—close. Free. Glasgow‘s original easy listening club pick up their Burt Bacharach collection and settle down at this new venue. Free canapes and lots of love. Pre-club.
I Celluloid at Betty's Mayonnaise. 10.30pm—3am. £3 (£2). New mixed night from Ms Alston (Shirley's Temple) playing groovey house set. Drinks promos.
I Chopper at Club Xchange. 10.30pm—3.30am. £3.50 (£2). Garage. house and 90s disco and pop from DJ Rory (Archaos. Thursdays). Double vodka £ 1.25.
I Pink Lint at the Velvet Rooms. 11pm—3am. £4 (£3). Stevie Kerr in Rootn Two with big house tunes and Stevie Smith in Room Two commercial rap. ftmk and soul classics. Miller £1.50. Hooch £1.25. Sambuca £ 1.
I Disco Wonderland at The Cathouse.
1 lpm—3am. £2 (£1.50/ free before
1 1.30pm). Super sounds from the 70s with margaritas 50p. Gold Bier and vodka mix £1.
I DJ lee at Mojo‘s. ()plll—lliitlllighi. Free. A fine mellow mix of trip hop and jazz funk. Pre-club.
I Fab at Reds. llpm—3am. £4 (£3). Groovy garage and clttb classics. Miller £1.50, 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 Hotshots PC at Hotshots. 10.30pm—2am. £2 (£1). House and Euro sounds following on from watching the footy in this wild venue that's a combination nightclub. bowling alley and amusement arcade.
I Hustlers Connection 1 1pm—3am. £3 (£2). New night from Kevin Dillon and Nordon of drttm and bass/dub night Ground Control plus Kemal frotn Breach of the Peace and the mighty Marc of Rttb A Dttb Records.
I Paradise Island at The Volcano. llpm—2.30am. £3 (£2). Ali and Martyn‘s natural progression frorn hip hop to drum and bass featuring skate ramp and break dancers. Drinks promos.
I Perfecto Tour at The Darkroom. Strathclyde University. 10pm—3am. Price the. 23 Oct only. Mr Perfecto himself. Paul Oakenfold plus a bus load of Perfecto featured bods pull on up to the Darkroom for a night of the sweetest hard house.
I Relax at Bar 10. Spin-close. Free. New downbeat dance night with Juna. Romeo and Martin Collins.
I Salsa Dance Club at Bttrtin‘ Jocks. (rpm—midnight. Latin American dance club. Mondays are the advanced nights. Tuesdays are best for beginners and Wednesdays are absolute beginners. Arrive early. Pre-club.
I Sticky Fingers at The Attic. 10.30pm—3am. £2 (£1). Gerry with indie and retro sounds. Drinks promos.
I Wednesday Night Fever at Cotton Club. 11pm—3am. £3 (£2 with matric card). For those who long to be back in those halcyon disco days of yore when the trousers were tight and the glitter ball polished. Drinks promos £1.
Thursdays
I The Apartment 11pm—3am. £3 (£2). Bobby Bluebell (Shirley's Temple) and
Captain Perfecto Paul Dakenlold guests at The Darkroom Wed 23 Oct
Steven Sleepman with a new dancey night.
I Bar 10 8pm—close. Free. Paul Cawley from Phar Out with a weird underground pre-club experience. Pre-club.
I Big Karn’s Party Night at Bennet's. 11.30pm—3am. £3 (£2). Karn Dunbar with 80s. 90s and loads of camp nonsense. Lager £1.25. vodka £1. Gay.
I Bloomers at Cleopatra’s. 10.30pm—2.30am. £3 (£2 with ticket). Mainstream.
I Boudoir at The CCA Cafe Bar. 9.30pm—midnight. Free. The crimplene kings open another of their oh so easy listening nights featuring the kind of tunes you could take borne to your mother.
I Ceroc at The Venue. 7.15—10.30pm. £4 (£3.50). Energetic. stylish. modemjive from France. Music mix from reggae. charts. Latin. blues. soul and rock ‘n‘ roll. Licensed bar. There‘s a 45-minute beginner's class at 7.30pm.
I Club Cale Con leche at The Cotton Club. 7.15—9.30pm. £3. Karen Past and Martiza Rodriguez. professional dance instructors. expand your repertoir to ‘reach the unimaginable heights ofla rumba. sort cubano and rumba flamenco'. 7.15—8.15pm beginners. 8.30—9.30pm intermediate.
I Club Xchange 11pm—3am. £2.50 (£1.50). Gay. DJ Tasty Tom. £1.25 pints and spirit mix. Exotic dancer each week. I Cop at Archaos. lOpm—3am. £4 (£2.50). Busy student house night from D] Rory (Club X. Wednesdays) and Craig 1. ‘Turn up. get down. cop off.‘ £1 vodka and Beck’s. Tam Coyle 'The Fuzz' does his indie/pop/kitsch stuff in Betty‘s. 17 Oct. first birthday party. 31 Oct. halloween party with prizes for the best costumes.
I Cotton Club. llpm—3am. £3 (£2). lain Fitzpatrick with an indie/disco club. Drinks promos £ 1.
I Dee Jays in Disguise at Variety. 8pm—close. Free. Ha’t’ch and J‘ilkes of the Knucklehead with a dubby mix of new dance and techno. Pre-club.
B4 The List 18-31 Oct 1996