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Vegas! has topped The List's poll of the best clubs in Scotland more than any other night, revellers embracing its big band stylings, Rat Pack cool and unheard classics. As the club reaches its tenth birthday Henry Northmore talks to the people who started it, the guests who've performed at it, and the punters who frequent it to find out what makes Vegas! such a damn good night out
So, how did Vegas! get started?
Ewan McNaught (aka Frankie Sumatra, DJ/founder) \Ve'd done a few cluhs hcl'orc. like Pure and Disco lnl'erno. I was thinking ahout a new project and it was Ill} w il'e l.ec- Anne who mentioneddoing something axing l.a\ Vegas as the concept for a club.
Lenny Love (aka DJ Dino Martini) We all tnentioncd we liked the Rat Pack st} le of
\w ing. it\ well ;1\ mm ie soundtracks. a hit of Latin. a hit of countr} and l.ce-.-\nne \(tltli ‘You \lltillltl just call it Vegasf‘ and it lllsl \lttppctl the Ct)ll\L'l'\illlU|1. 'lillttl wax lllL' epiphan} and we soon realised exer}thing else that would lit in there with the concept. It llhl grew from there.
Nick Sutherland (aka DJ Bugsy Seagull) We just started a cluh for some pals. _\ou know '.’ We thought 5i) people or so would turn up and we'd haxc a good titne. We just wanted to hear things like (ilen ('atnphell and \w ing pla_xed loudl}. hut it went from strength to strength reall}.
Though there were a few teething problems . . .
EM lt w as quite a chaotic \Ittl‘l at the Shooting (killer) on Broughton Street. We'd regularl) ha\e to endure some weird disaster. Once we ended up with a BYOB night: we onl} had about I: l]t)lll'\ to let people know we didn't ha\e a license and send them in the direction of the off}. It was even more ridiculoux the following month. The license hadn‘t come