clubs
Glasgow clubs
Regular weekly clubs plus one off events are listed by city, then b day, then al habetically by title. Clu s will be isted provrded up-to-date details reach our offices at least seven days before publication. Lack of information ma result in clubs being omitted. Clu listings compiled by Rory Weller (Glasgow) and Simone Baird (Edinburgh).
GLASGOW THURSDAYS
I 1210 at Babaza. 8pm—3am (but open as a bar from 6pm). £4 (£3). Weekly. Residents Ian Thomson and David Gilmore battling it out between each other playing house, garage and trance. They say it’s a night for serious music heads, and the extra serious ones can take part in their showcase of young DJ talent between 8 and 11pm. Call the club for details of how to have a go.
I Bennet's at Bennet’s. 11pm-3am. £3 (£2). Weekly. Modern, clubby house mix. Gay.
I Blood at The Sub Club. 11pm-3am. £4 (£3). Back now after their summer recess, Blood relaunches with the all-star funk house residents Paul ’Prince of Darkness’ Flynn, Lawrence ’Hound of Satan’ Hughes and Kieran ’The Impaler’ McCann.
I Breakin' Point at The 13th Note Club (Clyde Street — basement). 9pm-3am. £2 (free before 11pm). Breaks with special guests Ground Control.
I Burd Called Ger at Eat Drink Man Woman. 8pm—midnight. Free. Pre-club. Weekly. New night from Burd Called Ger (Yang/Bargo) playing a mix of funk, hip h0p, reggae and a wee dash of disco. Look out soon for live hip hop acts down here.
I Cafe Coco at The Velvet Rooms. 11pm-3am. £4 (£3). Paul Melon in the front with a poppy party mix and Rory Weller playing the big dance tunes out the back in the club room.
I Casino Royale Present Hustler at The Bier Halle Republic (Gordon Street). 9pm-midnight. Free. New pre-club from the kings of groovy kitsch, Frankie Savaloy and Kirk St. Moritz. From 25 Nov the duo will also be taking the night onwards to The Apartment. Details next issue.
I Columbian at The Asylum Back Room (Caledonian University Students Union). 8pm—1am. £1 (free to CUSU members). Weekly. Funk, hip hop, soul and big beat which they describe as ’Low slung eclectic beats’, and who are we to question them?
I Club Class at Alaska. 11pm—3am. £5 (£4). Weekly. New night of high grade house and garage from Stevie Middleton, Chris Harris, Michael Kilkie and Geoff Montford.
I Cop at Archaos. 11pm-3am. £5 (£3). Weekly. Massive student night, with party house anthems in the main room from the residents plus the added attraction of the Archaos flying dancers. Tam Coyle does his kitschy party sing- along in the room downstairs and up in the exclusive Sky Bar they’ve got Sky C0p with Ryan Kerr. 4 Nov sees ‘Fight Club’launch with loads of merchandise and ticket giveaways.
I Dee Jays In Disguise at Variety. 8pm—close. Free. Weekly. Super underground dubby mix of techno and electronica from the Knucklehead guys. I Dazed 8: Confused at The Queen Margaret Student Union. 7.30pm—2am. Price tbc. Students and up to four guests. Weekly. New night with live gigs in some shape or form until 10.30pm when the DJ takes over for retro madness of funk, soul, classic indie, pop and movie soundtracks.
I Edwards at Edwards Bar. 9pm—midnight. Free. Weekly pre-club. Warm-up for the weekend with a clubby mix from Keith Pyper.
I fnuk at The Apartment. llpm-3am. £3 (£2). Weekly. Upfront house from Billy
Milligan and Stephen Foy playing to a good looking slightly older crowd.
I Freedom at The Shed. 10pm-3am. £3 (£2). Weekly. Southside action with Paul N’Jie in the main hall playing funk, garage and chart house.
I Funky Fursdays at Planet Peach. 11pm-3.15am. £3 (£2). Weekly. DJ Stevie G playing funky disco.
I Go Bang at Reds. llpm-3am. £3. Weekly. New night from the Optimo duo of Jilkes and Twitch mixing up electro, 70s punk, Detroit techno and preconceptions.
I Hi Karate at the Glasgow School of An (upstairs). 10pm-2am. £1. Weekly. Neil McMillan and Andrew Divine scissor-kicking a furious funk vibe into Thursday nights with this deep down and dirty storrner of a night. A commanding combination of hip hop, soul, funk, electro, jump-up, ragga and reggae.
I Jengaheads Air Organic. 8—1 1 pm. Free. Ali and Martyn Jengahead playing drum & bass, electro, nu school breaks and house. Now moved from Sundays and is more of a pre-club warmer rather than end of week chill out.
I Last Exit at Club Budda. 11pm-3am. £4 (£3). Weekly. Inside Out/T he Ark’s Simon Foy playing a solid mix of house anthems and commercial garage.
I Loveshack at Fury Murry ’s. 11pm-3.15am. £4 (£2). Weekly. Classic indie, house and disco sounds from Jim Downie.
I MFI at Universe (Coatbridge). 11pm—2.30am. £4 (£2). Weekly. Mix of contemporary house and retro classics with a disco edge all brought to you by the inimitable Ewan Macleod and DJ Bob.
I Now Is That What I Call Music at The 13th Note Club (Clyde Street — ground floor). 9pm—3am. £3 (free before 11pm). Eclectic mix from Squarepusher to Talking Heads.
I Phatboys's Kitchen at McChuil’s Way Out West. 8pm—midnight. Free. Pre- club. Weekly. The Boardwise guys present a night of hip hop, old skool and break beat from residents G Man and The Wax Monkey. Breakdancers, guest DJs and live graffiti on selected nights. Cheap booze.
I Rumble at The Garage. 11pm—3am. £4 (£2). Weekly. One of the original good time, mental student nights with charty dance faves, movie tunes and indie classics. Su r busy.
I Salsa Safierosa at Havana. Weekly. 10.30pm-3am. £4 (£3). Quality Latin dance grooves, barrio beats and salsa from New York, Columbia and Puerto Rico.
I Skint at The Cathouse. 11pm—3am. £4 (£2). Weekly. Indie/rock/chemical beats and hip hop at Scotland’s number one rock club.
I Superstar at Trash. 11pm—3am. £4 (£3). Weekly. Studenty mix of indie, pop and party house.
I Tune! at g2. 11pm-3am. £3 (£2) free entry before 11.30pm. Weekly. New night of the latest house, trance and Ibiza classics from Simon Morrison and Andy Horn.
I Tunnel Thursdays at The Tunnel. 11pm-3am. £4 (£3 with matric card). Weekly. The Tunnel’s student night, with Kevin and Scott from weekends at the Tunnel, joined by Lisa Littlewood, mixing an accessible spread of contemporary house anthems and timeless classics.
I Upfront at The Asylum (Caledonian University Students Union main room). 10pm-3am. £1 (free to CUSU members). Weekly. House and trance in the main hall from Scott Mochar and Eddie Tonner, both students at the Uni.
I Victim of Geography at The Arches. 9pm-3am. £3 in advance and before midnight; £5 after. Tickets from Fopp and Virgin. 11 Nov only. A film-meets- cIubbing event with a difference. The premiere of Victim Of Geography, the first full length digital film, starts at 10pm. Looking east, Belgrade ’5 Club Industria will be holding the same event and there will be a live link up featuring some of the sets by the DJs there.
Locally, Silicone Sole will be behind the decks. See Frontlines.
I Virunga at Brel. 9pm-midnight. Free. Weekly. DJ Tchico revives the night he did at the Volcano a few years ago playing upbeat Latin, African, soca, reggae, dub, and R&B.
I any at Yang. 11pm—3am (bar open from 6pm). £3 (£2); free before midnight. Weekly. Elevation Trio, Glasgow-based funk collective play live every week in the bar, while residents Bob Peck & Charlie lnman mix up hip hop & soul to funk breaks and house in room two. 4 Nov Foresight, 11 Nov Goodfoot.
GLASGOW FRIDAYS
I Apartment at The Apartment. 11pm—3am. £8. Weekly. Jim Da Best playing a clubby party mix at this good looking venue, with even better looking clientele.
I The Ark at The Tunnel. 10.30pm—3am. £7 (£5). Weekly. Michael Kilkie, Scott Mackay and Zammo (Rhumba) living it large in the main room throwing out thumping hard house as good as you’ll get anywhere in the country. Then there’s Simon Foy in the back room with more party mix of vocal house and garage.
I Bario 212 at Alaska. 11pm—3am. £6 (£5). Weekly. Newly named night with some of the elements from Fridays in Alaska before but now with added Traxx DJs Simon and Derek joining Nick Peacock and Muchail for gorgeously deep house, funk, jazz, soul, plus live percussion from RSAMD graduates Drew Horne and Iain Sandilands.19 Nov Russ Dewbury guests.
I Bennet's 11.30pm—3am. £4 (£3). Weekly. Grant Duff downstairs with an upbeat dance night, then DJ Shawn for handbaggy house upstairs. Gay.
I Big Daddy The 13th Note Club (upstairs). 11pm-3am. £4 (free before 11pm) (includes access to Yum Yum downstairs too). Weekly. Big Daddy with funk and northern soul, now promoted from the midweek slot to this weekend gi .
I Blowfly Disco at The Glasgow School Of Art. 10pm—2.30am. £4.50 (£3.50). 5 Nov and fortnightly. Guys from Bughouse with an electro and hard house mix. Price includes entry to Turbulence too.
I Budda at Bar Budda. 8pm-midnight. Free. Weekly. Pre-club. Chris Harris with a chunk house pre-club warmer.
I Bud asole at Club Budda. 11pm—3am. £5. Weekly. Stevie Middleton, internationally renowned DJ and owner of Sole Music Records, continuing upstairs with his own particular brand of American deep house and garage for the people who’ve been dancing on the tables down in Bar Budda earlier.
I Bughouse at Balsa. 9pm—midnight. Free. Weekly. Pre-club. Despite getting turfed out of g2 Dan and Chris continue with their choice cuts and meaty house at this city centre bar.
I Bump 'n' Hustle at Babaza. 6pm-3am (DJs from 11pm). £5 (free before 11pm). Weekly. A celebration of black music from Paul Traynor after Jamie Strang warms things up with funky R & B.
I Carwash at g2. 11pm-3am. £3 (£2). New party night of disco, funk and soul from Jerry Lyons (Garage).
I The Cathouse at The Cathouse. 10.30pm—3am. £4 (£3); £1 before 11.30pm. Weekly. Three floors of rock, hip hop, chemical beats, grunge and contemporary indie.
I Cheesy Pop at The Queen Margaret Union. lOpm-2am. £3 (£2). Weekly. Students and four guests. It’s cheesy and it’s poppy and it’s just unbridled fun all the way, brought to you by DJ Toast. Seven years doing the fromage fandango and still going strong.
I Crash at The Shed. 10pm-3am. £4 (£3). Weekly. Dave Ross playing an eclectic mix of kitsch classics at this Southside club from the team behind The Garage.
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Colours Officially launching their Masters Of The Millennium, Colours let loose an absolute corker of a night with Masters At Work ('Lil' Louis Vega and Kenny ’Dope’ Gonzales), Boy George, Andre Tanneberger (AT8), Dave Pearce and Stateside new name DJ Dan. The Arches, Sat 73 Nov.
Ouch New night fusing DJs and live performance along a funky electro/ drum & bass/breaks and beats line. The Jengaheads spin with Manga’s G Mac and Kevin Dillon Playing live are Liza (think Maryl Blige meets Lauryn Hill), MC Nordin and Cain (ex Mish Mash band) with percussion, scratching, samples, opera and ragga. Glasgow School Of Art (both floors), Fri 72 Nov.
Slam and Bugged Out! Present Second of these collaborations which went so well last month that as many people were locked out as in. Tonight we see Slam in their Pressure Funk guise playing live with decks and electronic manipulatory devices, Junior Cartier (that’s Jon Carter gone all housey), FreQ Nasty, James Ruskin, Adam Freeland, James Holroyd and Paul Cawley. The Queen Margaret Student Union, Sat 73 Nov.
Turbulence Tania Swift and Stevie Turbulence welcome icon Fabio back to Glasgow’s only regular drum & bass night. Glasgow School Of Art, Fri 5 Nov.
Scratch Perverts The country’s finest hip hop scratch team here again, featuring: Tony Vegas, Prime Cuts, First Rate and Mr Thing. There's also a very good chance Scotland’s newly appointed Pervert Plus One will be there too. 92, Sun 74 Nov only.
Sub Club 13th Birthday Thirteen? That’s an awful lot of Subbing. Celebrate with Blood on the Thursday, Test on Friday, Sub Culture (with Johnny Fiasco on Sat) and Optimo on Sunday. Sub Club, Thu 4-5un 7 Nov.
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