l I X-Rated at The Asylum (Caledonian j University Union). 9piii—2am. £2 (£l).
Chart and dance in the main room with DJ Ray plus indie in Room Two.
GLASGOW FRIDAYS
I The Ark at The Tunnel. llpm—3.30am. £7 (£5). Dressed up night in this award winning club. which eight years on still looks the business. The trio of Michael Kilkie. Scott Mackay and Zammo (Rhumba) take no prisoners in the main room for large-scale hard house dancefloor detonators. and then there’s Duncan Reid and Simon Foy in Room Two for a slightly less full-on vibe. All drinks £l before 12.30am.
I Art School Halloween Ball Glasgow School of Art. l0pin—2.30am. £5 (£4). 30 ()ct only. The legendary Art School bash with the best looking costumes in town by far. with more creativity going into the fancy dress than half the degree shows. Your scary DJs for the night are Tania Swift (Elements drum 'n' bass DJ). Michael Peck (Brass Monkeys big beat) and Al from Freeflow.
I Babylon at The Arena. llpm—3am. £4 (£3 before midnight). Party metal night. What is party metal? it's your sing-a-long commercial stuff. so there you go. Drinks promos.
I Bargo at Bargo. ()pni—midnight. Free. Quality house music from Dom and Jay (Sub Club) at this city centre east style bar. Pre-club.
I Bennets ll.30pni—3ani. £4 (£3). Grant Duff with an upbeat dance night. Gay.
I Bom at The Boni. llpm—3am. £5 (£4). Colin Hamilton. George Bowie and The Sly Boys with pretty full on house. Drinks promos.
I Bonafide Love at The Cross Bar. Spin-midnight. Free. Reggae. ragga and soca from DJ [)irtsman. Drinks promos. Pre-club.
I Bankers at Bonkers. l lpm—3am. £4 after midnight. £3 before. Club classics at this after office hang-out with residents David Campbell and Nobble Whitelaw. I Budda at Budda. 8pm—midnight. Free. Solemusic's Stevie Middleton with a pre- club set before aligliting upstairs. . .
I Buddasole at Club Budda. llpin-3ani. £6. Stevie Middleton continuing upstairs with his own particular brand of American deep house and garage in this luscious new club every week from 30 ()ct.
I Buena Vista at Glasgow School Of Art (downstairs). l()pm—2.3()am. £3. A slice of Latin jazz and funk from Mark and Michael of Delaney's Rhythm Section with Nick Peacock (Back To Jazz) playing the last Friday of every month.
I Bump 'n' Hussle at Babaza. 5.3()pm--3am (DJs from llpm). £5 (free before I lpm). £5. Paul Traynor with house. R&B. soul classics. garage and house for a dressy. drinky. jutnp about a bit crowd. Dead. dead busy.
I Cheesy Pop at The Queen Margaret lTnion. l0pm--2aiii. £tbc. Students aitd four guests. lt's cheesy and it's poppy and it's just unbridled fun all the way. brought to you by DJ Toast. Rack 'em up Toasty boy.
I Cleopatra's at Cleopatra's.
l0.30pm -2.3()am. £7. Pop. 70s and 80s party tunes. ()ver 2 l s only.
I Crash at The Shed. l0pm—2am. £4 (£3). The return of Crash after five years. with Dave Ross playing an eclectic mix of kitsch classics. Drinks promos. Brand new club for the southside from the team behind the Garage.
I Crucial Vibes at The Beds-ii. ‘)piii--2am. £2 (free before llpiii). 23 Oct and fortnightly. DJ Gus playing all the latest and classics in reggae. ragga. dub and roots.
I Cul De Sac (‘ul De Sac Bar.
*me midnight. Free. Anton and Doug
w Illl pre-club liead phtink. Check out Kenny ll playing 5' 7pm for the Happy Hour too.
I DAT Promotions Presents at Tin Pan Ally. l()pm--5aiii. Tickets available from 23rd Precinct. Fopp. Virgin and Rubadub.
The boys have got together to present this impressive line-up. Check Dave Angel. Good Friday. Chapanga (live) and DJ ing Skol (Ibiza). Roosta (London). Terry (Pussy Power) and N lK (Needle Damage). Do ou Love 2 Do It?
I Deep Fri at The )3th Note Club. llpm—3am. £3. The Kung Funk Collective with reggae. dub and mellow grooves on the ground floor and hip hop. big beat and funk in the basement.
I Fellatio at Bar Sauza. 8pm—midnight. Free. Deep Philly funk. house and
gara e. Pre-club.
I 4t Dimension at The Baby Grand. 9pm-midnight. Free. Andy Young and Danny playjazz. Brazilian. soul. fusion and funk. Drinks promos. Pre-club.
I Fridays r’ Tweakin' at The Temple.
1 lpm—3am. £5 (£4). From 23 Oct. New night promoted by Clear Station at this new venue that used to be Follies. Huggy from Burger Queen is your resident for the nightjoined by Naeem (Record Playaz) with a refreshing adventure from swing beat and soul to garage. All drinks £l before lam.
I Fused at the Art School. l0pm—2am. £5 (£4). 6 Nov only. Upstairs sees Steve Donaldson and Dominic Gallager with Wreckage (WOS) and Smack from Boogie Mo Dynamo causing havoc downstairs.
I Gold 'n' Delicious at Archaos. llpm—3am. £6 (£4). David Gilmore playing quality house and garage amidst the spectacle of the Friday night acts. Jamie Strang in Bar One plays soul and R&B plus Michael Sweeney iii Betty's with disco. garage and cheesy stuff. Drinks promos.
I Goodfoot at The Sub Club. llpm—3am. £5. 23 Oct and monthly. The Northern Soul revolution continues with the Goodwa crew. now in their eighth year following on from the success of their last night with another floor scorcher.
I Havana Barcelona at Barcelona. 8pm—midnight. Free. Jazz funk. R&B. soul and Latino house from DJ Jazz. Pre- club.
I The Jungle Brothers Plus DJs at Queen Margeret Student‘s Union. 7.30pm—2am. £9.50. 23 Oct only. Original hip hop masters The Jungle Brothers with DJ Peanut Butter Wolf (number one in the hip hop charts). MC Rascal and Phar Out DJs.
I Katch at The Cathouse. l0.30pm—3am. £3 (£2.50; free before
1 1.30pm). Three floors of rock. hip hop. chemical beats. grunge and contemporary indie. Drinks promos.
I Lime at The Lime. l0.30pm—3ain. £4 (£2). DJ Cammy with house. garage and nu soul. Drinks promos.
I Living Room at The Living Room. 9pm—midnight. Free. Brian M and Jim Hutchison with deep house. Pre-club.
I Love Bug at The Garage. l0.30pm—3am. £3 (£4). An eclectic mix of good-time party tunes. Drinks promos. I Paul Cawley at Air Organic (downstairs at Miros). 9pm—inidnight. The Sub Club‘s Thursday night resident and label boss of Fenetik Records down at this retro moderne bar every week for hip hop. drum 'n‘ bass and break. Pre-club.
I Polo Lounge at The Polo Lounge.
1 lpm—3am. £5. Take the choice of the Polo Lounge upstairs. open until 3am. downstairs for DJ Michelle in main club with 90s club and indie or down in the Trophy Room with Tom for a more commercial mix. Gay. 30 Oct. special Halloween party in association with The Odeon giving away free tickets. merchandise etc.
I Planet Peach at Planet Peach. 10.30pm—3am. £6 (£4). Free before midnight. Paul N’Jie with house. garage. R&B and soul iii this new city centre venue. Drinks promos.
I Radio City at The Attic. 10.30pm—3am. £3 (£2). The original retro club. playing Stax. Motown. Stones. The Who. etc.
I Rapt at The Apartment. llpm-3ani. £8. Jim Da Best playing a wildly eclectic mix of big tunes. crossing genres like nobody's business.
I Rico! at Havana. 8pm—inidnight. Free. Club Cubana‘s Duncan Kane and Shannon Shiell joined by Farah for a wide range of hi-NRG Latin and tropical floor-shakers from techno-merengue to the latest Latin rap. via smooth salsa and retro Latin grooves. 30 Oct Havana welcomes eight piece live band El Cornetas. the core members from Edinburgh’s Salsa Celtica. as part of the Big Big World festival of World Music. Pre-club.
I Salsa Sabrosa at The l3th Note Club (basement). 8pm—10.45pm. £4 (£3.50). Karen Pasi takes her massively popular salsa classes from The Lime down to The l3th Note every Friday night. Beginners welcome. Pre-club. Free tickets available for the club that runs afterwards.
I Shag at Fury Murry's. llpm—3. 15am. £4 (£3). The sexiest. cheesiest tunes ever from Mark and James G playing to a largely student crowd iii the smoky. dark. get a snog in the corner Fury‘s.
I Slam Present Pressure at The Arches. l lpm—3am. £l3. 30 Oct only. Slam come back at you with a staggering line-up of The Chemical Brothers (DJ set). Green Velvet (live). Gene Farris and of course. Stuart and Orde. A simply stunning night of deep house and techno which is guaranteed to sell-out by midnight. so get down early y’all. See Hit list.
I Soaterama at Nice 'n' Sleazy (ground floor bar). 8pm—midnight. Free. Regular Friday evening do. with the best in all sorts of fields from Americana Punk to dub. drum 'n' bass and even The Smiths. I Soul Agenda at McChuills (High Street). 8pm—midnight. Free. 23 Oct and monthly. The former Get Carter crew with a cool soul mix at this east end bar. Pre—club.
I Soul Shine at Bar Lautrec‘s (upstairs). 8pm-lam. £2 after l0pm. free before. DJs Valois and Cortez deliver soul. funk. break beats and whatever feels good to booze-filled soul hooligans up the stairs at Lautrec's. Drinks promos. Pre-club.
I Spectrum at G2. llpm-3am. £8 (£6). The crew behind the mega. mega Streetrave and Colours move their night from Archaos to this new venue tip behind the Garage. Residents at the weekly night will be Jon Mancini. lain ‘Boney' Clark and DJ Crosby playing hard. iio-prisoners house. Mr Party in his box. DJ Sneak. undoubtedly one of the top guests 30 ()ct. All this and drinks promos too.
I Strathclyde University Student Union l0pm—3ain. Free. Cheesy dance and indie in Level 8 and club anthems in The Dark Room. plus 'Planet Boogie‘ in The Barony Bar with Porn Star Lionel Vinyl and his 70s disco-fest. Wear fancy 70s dress to Planet Boogie and win a prize (which is quite likely to be some sort of drink to help you forget you‘re wearing an afro wig and l2in flares.)
I Tangent at The Sub Club. llpm—3am. £7 (£5). 30 Oct and fortnightly. A-man and Panic with their ever evolving night which takes the Subbie from deep funky house through beat and bass and coming out at sublime techno. A quality night and no mistake.
I Tchico at Russell's Bar/Cafe. S—l lpm. Free. DJ Tchico with R&B. hip hop and swing.
I Three Room Fusion at Yang.
1 lpm-3am (bar open from 6pm). £5 (free before I lpm). Nu-funk and rare groove in the top bar from Mucltaill. Dema and Nice in Bar Two playing hip hop. supported by the B‘Men breakers plus Rob G and Kemal (ex-Elements). in the main club room. Modernist and minimalist club aiming for the underground market. Drinks promos.
I Trash at Trash. l lpin—3aiii. £6 (£4). Busy. easy-going night with funky house in Room ()ne from Stevie Smith and street soul. swing and classic grooves in Room Two from DJ Grahame. Drinks promos. I Traxx at The Market Bar. 8plll-Illl(llllglil. Free. Traxx's Derrick and Simon playing blissed-out deep underground house of the highest quality. Check out their monthly night at Fury Murry's too (next night 6 Nov).
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Pure Another scorching line-up from the Pure guys, with original residents Twitch, Brainstorm, Dribbler and The Bill joined by Claude Young, Speedy J (live) and The Orb's Alex Paterson. The Arches, Sat 24 Oct
Slam Present Pressure Slam come back at you With a staggering line—up of The Chemical Brothers (DJ set), Green Velvet (live), Gene Farris and of course, Stuart and Orde. A simply stunning night of deep house and techno which is guaranteed to sell-out by midnight, so get down early, y’all. The Arches, Fri 30 Oct.
Spectrum After his surprise set at the last night of Slam, New York’s DJ Sneak returns to Glasgow, this time for the Colours’ boys new night. As far as cut and paste disco merchants are concerned, he’s by far the best, influencing a few Glasgow producers along the way G2, Fri 30 Oct. Psy-phi After a last minute cancellation in July, Vienna's Kruder and Dorfmeister promise they're coming this time. Ja22y, funky electronica, dope beats and drum ’n' bass from two of the best. The Sub say if they don’t show up they’ll give us all their home addresses. The Sub Club, Thu 5 Nov.
The Jungle Brothers After their storming set at T in the Park, The Jungle Brothers are back with support from Peanut Butter Wolf (Number One hip hop chart), The Phar Out DJs and MC Rascal. Queen A«1.'irgaret Union, Fri 23 Oct.
I Un-cut at The Arches. llpm—3ani. £5. 23 ()ct and monthly. Funky. disco house turntablist and producer DJ Q. joined by Craig and Graeme of Soma's Silicone Soul and Laurence Hughes (Boniba).
I Velvet Rooms l0pm—3am. £6. Alan Ronald in Room Two with an open this from house anthems and disco to soul. Martin Hesketh in Room One playing mellow hip hop. swingbeat and classic soul.
GLASGOW SATURDAYS
I La Academia De La Salsa at Havana. 3.30—5pni. £4 (£3). Fed up with shopping on a Saturday afternoon'.’ Try this instead: salsa and itiei'engtie dance classes for absolute beginners every week. Hot and ' saucy.
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