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Events are listed by date, then city. Submit listings at least ten days before publication to gayGlist.co.uk. Listings are compiled by Robin Lee.
Thursday 1
Glasgow
I Brother for a Day Brunswick Hotel. Brunswick Street. 332 3838. 9pm--2am. £7 (£5). Fabulous World Aids Day night of DJs. live music. post-queer art weirdos and drag.
Edinburgh
I Nowhere ligo. l4 Picardy Place. 478 7434. l lpm—3am. £3. See Clubs. page 43.
Glasgow
I Burfy The Arches. 30 Midland Street. 0870 240 7528. 10.30pm—3am. £8—£10. The gay and bi men‘s club that's designed to be cruisy.
Edinburgh
I Blaze ligo. l4 Picardy Place. 478 7434. l lpm—3am. £5. DJ James Longwonh ignites the gay weekend with a chart and funky house soundtrack.
Edinburgh
I Luver The Liquid Room. 9c Victoria Street. 225 2564. 10pm—3am. £10 (£8 members). See Clubs. page 44.
I Upstairs Downstairs ligo. l4 Picardy Place. 478 7434. l lpm -3am. £6. Chris Paton and (iraeme [5 graduate from Habana to Ego. and downstairs Alan and Maggie Joy go back to their roots.
I Velvet Mariners. 40 Commercial Street. Leith. 555 5622. 10pm—2am. £6 (£5). Night for gay girlies and their specially invited boy friends.
Edinburgh
I BootyLUSHous Medina. 45-—47 Lothian Street. 225 63l3. 10pm—3am. £2 before midnight: £3 after. See Clubs. page 45.
I Taste The Liquid Room. 9c Victoria Street. 225 2564. l lpm-3am. £5 before 1 1.30pm; £8 after (£6 members). See Clubs. page 45.
Glasgow
I Passionality Cube. 34 Queen Street. 226 8990. l 1.30pm—3am. £2—£3. Pleasing chartistry from 1)] Shawn Roberts.
Edinburgh
I Karma Mood. ()mni. Greenside Place. 550 1640. l lpm-3am. £2 before midnight; £3 after. Cheap booze and cheesy tunes from Chris Bennison.
Tuesday 6
Glasgow
I FUN Cube. 34 Queen Street. 226 8990. l 1.30pm—3am. £2—-£3. DJ Shilllil Halliwell mixes older classics and fun tunes. Requests welcome.
Edinburgh
I Vibe Ego. l4 Picardy Place. 478 7434. l lpm—3am. £3. James Longworth‘s on the decks. plus the Dancing Stud Muffins. the Singing Hairy Bloke and the Miming Nun.
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Wednesday 7
Glasgow
I Allure The Tunnel. 84 Mitchell Street. 204 l()()(). l 1.30pm—3am. £3. Happy. cheesy pop from D] Darren.
I Gossip Miller‘s Bar. Strathclyde
University l'nion. 90 John Street. 552 1895. 8pm. Free—£2. The first gay night in a Scottish students' union.
Edinburgh
I Disko Bloodbath ligo. l4 Picardy Place. 478 7434. l lpm --3am. £3. Edinburgh‘s first queer alternative night; a mix of electro. indie. punk and rock.
Thursday 8
Glasgow
I Penny Pinch Poetry Workshop Cilasgow Women's Library. I09 Trongate. 552 8345. l lam 5pm. Booking advisable. \V’omen-only workshop using the theme of clothes to celebrate the resilience of women.
Edinburgh
I Fur Burger iigo. l4 Picardy Place. 478 7434. llpm -3am. £3. Night for girls who like girls. dirty jokes. innuendo and an eclectic music policy.
Glasgow I Penny Pinch Poetry Workshop 8.
Evening (ilasgow Women‘s Library.
109 Trongatc. 552 8345. l lam -5pm; 7pm. See Thu 8. In the evening the fruits of the poetry workshop are presented.
Saturday 1 O
‘ Edinburgh
I Fever ligo. l4 Picardy Place. 478 7434. l lpm 3am. £10 (£5 before
1 1.15pm; £8 after for members). 'l‘aste’s Fisher 8; Price and Martin Valentine feature. with the Visitor and Kaupuss. I Mingin’ The Venue. l7—~2l Calton Road. 557 3073. l lpm- 3am. £5 before midnight; £6 after. A dark. sexy. dirty house club. From trance to deep house with a touch of techno and hard house.
Edinburgh
I BootyLUSHous Medina. 45 ~47
Lothian Street. 225 63l3. l0pm 3am. £2 before midnight; £3 after. See Sun 4.
I Taste The Liquid Room. 9c Victoria Street. 225 2564. l lpm 3am. £5 before 1 1.30pm; £8 after (£6 members). See
I Gutted The Cathouse. 15 Union
Street. 248. 6606. l lpm-~3am. £4 (£3).
See Clubs. page 43.
I Passionality Cube. 34 Queen Street. 226 8990. ll.3()piii--3am. £2--£3. See Mon 5.
Edinburgh
I Karma Mood. ()mni. (ireensidc
Place. 550 1640. I lpm—3am. £2 before midnight; £3 after. See Mon 5.
Glasgow
l I FUN Cube. 34 Queen Street. 226
8990. I l.30pm—3am. £2—£3. Sec Tue 6.
Edinburgh I Vibe iigo. l4 Picardy Place. 478
7434. l lpm-3am. £3. See Tue 6.
Wednesday 14
Glasgow
I Allure The Tunnel. 84 Mitchell Street. 204 1000. l |.30pm 3am. £3. See Wed 7. I Gossip Miller's Bar. Strathclyde University Union. 90 John Street. 552 1895. 8pm. Free—£2. See Wed 7.
GAY INTEREST DVD ROUND-UP
With overt gay themes increasineg acceptable in mainstream cinema - witness the success of gay/straight murder mystery Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, and the positive press in anticipation of Ang Lee’s homo cowboy movie Brokeback Mountain - the market for movies featuring more than one sexuality has broadened. So how does this affect the “gay int’ genre, the class of films aimed specifically at the queer market?
The latest glossy feature is 200 American (Millivres Multimedia, 84min oo ), a light- hearted romantic drama in which an advertising executive decides to give a photoshoot job to a hustler he’d recently hired, in return for free sex. But there’s a lot to dislike: the production values are terrible, the narrative flimsy, the dialogue clichéd and the acting barely rises above wooden.
Sean Matic (not a brand of washing powder) plays the Australian hooking his way round New York to raise enough money to buy himself a green card, and Matt Walton the ad man. The leads are good-looking, making viewing bearable, but Matic’s Aussie accent is laughable.
With civil partnerships soon available for the UK’s same-sex couples, Andrew & Jeremy Get Married (Tartan Video, 75min oo ) follows Jeremy Trafford and Andrew Thomas, who signed London’s partnerships register in May 2004. Trafford,
educated writer and former English teacher, and Thomas, 19 years his junior, a retired bus driver and ex-heroin addict from south London. They met in a nightclub, and have been together since.
Despite some tender moments, it’s not clear why the relationship endures, as the film dwells too long on their contrasting backgrounds and provides little insight into the pair’s sometimes tetchy companionship. Their telling of their sexual histories is interesting, but when they kiss for the first time as husband and husband and the credits roll, the film lacks warmth.
Featuring the warmth of freshly- spilled blood is lesbian horror flick Make a Wish (Millivres Multimedia, 100min o ). lt’s Susan’s birthday, and she invites her old girlfriends - the four that cheated on her and the one she cheated on - to come camping with her. But there’s evil afoot as the girls are killed one by one, to leave just two. Sadly they mine predictable stereotypes: hippy chick, redhead siren, raven lust object, mopey blonde, and the clueless one, now with a boyfriend. He comes looking for her and dies in a bizarre blowtorch incident, leaving a slimy redneck chap and a blokey private investigator skulking in the woods around camp.
Whodunnit? Who cares! Every aspect of Make a Wish scrapes the barrel, from the Swiss cheese plot, through the leaden direction, to the wet paper bag- constrained acting.
Regular Guys 0' LA
Releasing, 102min oo ) is a 1996 feature now available on DVD. Everyone needs a hero at the end of the night, right? Christoph, our comically chauvinistic policeman, certainly does when his fiancee leaves him and he’s left literally shovelling shit. And who better to perform such heroics than his chance acquaintance of the evening, Edgar, a grotesquely-muscled mechanic.
Replete with steamy shower scenes and the soundtrack of Edgar’s neighbours’ shagging antics, the film has all the trappings of a bad porno. But it has weightier aspirations: it wants to be a goofball German comedy. Most of the laughs are accidental, however. Somewhere you know there must be a plotline, but filming a game of soggy biscuit would have got more laughs.
Regular Guys might be forgiven on the grounds that it was made before the technical advances of recent years. With the advent of DVD and digital video cameras it’s now cheaper than ever to produce a movie. But no amount of money can excuse corny plots, crummy dialogue and shapeless acting. (Robin Lee, lsla- Leaver-Yap 8: Nick Mac’An’t-Saoir)
I 200 American is out on 7 Jan.