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HITLIST THE BEST CLUB EVENTS
Events are listed by city, day, type then alphabetically by name. Submit listings at least 14 days before publication to clubs@list.co.uk. Edinburgh listings are compiled by Henry Northmore. ✽✽ Indicates Hitlist entry Edinburgh Thursday
Clubs FREE Animal Hospital at Sneaky Pete’s. 11 Aug, 11pm–3am. Techno and minimal night with decor and live visuals. ■ Bump at the Liquid Room. Weekly 10.30pm–3am. Free before midnight; £2 after. Fresh cuts, remixes and requests at this night of house, indie, hip hop, funk, 80s, 90s, electro and disco night. FREE Dapper Dan’s at Sneaky Pete’s. 4 Aug, 11pm–3am. Default and Picassio promise ‘a wonky cocktail of beats’ on decks and FX. FREE Funky Doodle Do at the Bongo Club. Weekly midnight–5am. DJRed6 (of Give it Some! fame) returns with a night of ‘big drums, fat bass, soaring horns and chunky grooves’, in other words classic hip hop, funk, soul, disco, R&B and reggae. FREE Glock’n’Shpiel at the Store. 11 Aug, 11pm–3am. Hip hop and future funk. FREE I’m Gladys Thursday Night at Cabaret Voltaire. Weekly 11pm–5am. We Were Promised Jetpacks and friends take over the Speakeasy as they spin a multi-genre mix. ■ Late, Live & Loud at Electric Circus. 11 Aug 11pm–5am. £7 (£6). A cross section from across the Fringe with music, comedians, DJs, theatre and cabaret. ■ Madame Belle’s at Lulu. Weekly 10pm–3am. £5. Hip hop, R&B, electro, house and dancefloor anthems with a burlesque twist. FREE Movement at Electric Circus. Weekly 7pm–1am. The best new indie and classic dancefloor killers. ■ Octopussy at the HMV Picture House. Weekly 11pm–3am. £4. Student night of chart, R&B, electro and indie classics. FREE Packed at GHQ. Weekly 10pm–3am. JT spins the records every week. FREE Sick Note at Cabaret Voltaire. Weekly 11pm–5am. Indie/electro night from the Cab, with residents from Clash and Spies in the Wires. FREE Speaker Bite Me at Espionage. Weekly 11pm–3am. The Evol DJs take charge at this alternative disco night of indie, hip hop and a dash of electro, which features everything from Dizzee Rascal to The Cribs. ■ Supa Bass at the Green Room. Weekly 10pm–3am. £5. Sexy R&B, hip hop, dancehall and UK funky with DJs P-Stylz, P45, Fabuloz and So Fly. ■ Vanity at Opal Lounge. Weekly 10pm–3am. £5. Cutting edge soul, R&B, electro and funky house.
✽✽ White Mink at the Voodoo Rooms. Weekly 11.59pm–3am. £10. A 21st
century remix of 20s and 30s style cabaret, live music, DJs and movies. The Correspondents play live plus The Twilight Players, Ed Muir vaudevillian, DJ Nick Hollywood (Curator of the White Mink: Black Cotton CD series), black & white movie mash-ups and more on 4 Aug followed by French swing-beat quartet Le KKC Orchestra and DJ Chris Tofu (11 Aug). See preview, page 85.
Musika There aren’t many DJs who know more about house than Sasha, a man who helped to shape the British dance scene. The Liquid Room, 225 2564, Sat 6 Aug, 11pm-5am, £16.50 in advance (more on the door).
Confusion is Sex Weird and wonderful punk rock, glam techno, rockabilly burlesque at this Fringe Opening Party. The Bongo Club, 558 7604, Fri 5 Aug, 11pm–5am, £5 in advance; £8 (£7) on the door. Telefunken House heads are spoilt this weekend as another master hits Edinburgh, with Latin and Chicago beats from DJ Sneak. The Store, 220 2987, Fri 5 Aug, 10.30pm–5am, £12 in advance (more on the door).
White Mink The ‘Electro Swing Speakeasy’ makes its Edinburgh debut. Nick Hollywood and The Correspondents play the opening weekend with many more across the fest. Voodoo Rooms, 226 0000, 4-27 Aug (Thu–Sat only), 11.59pm–3am, £10. Substance Definitely keeping it underground Boddika (one half of Instra:Mental) puts in a live set of analogue techno and electro that mixes Detroit and hip hop influences. The Store, 220 2987, Sat 6 Aug, 10.30pm- 5am, £8 (£7).
Devil Disco Club Classic disco, electro, soul and acid house beats from the DDC collective plus deep electronic discotronic sounds from mysterious live guest Lord of the Isles. The Bongo Club, 558 7604, Sat 6 Aug, 11pm–5am, £5 before midnight; £7 (£6) after.
Ultragroove Gareth Somerville’s mighty fine disco house night hosts ‘House City Coalition’ as he invites some of this favourite DJs to man the decks. Cabaret Voltaire, 220 6176, Sat 6 Aug, 11pm–5am, free before midnight; £8 (£5 students) after.
Born to be Wide A celebration of the Edinburgh music scene with live sets from Chasing Owls, Austen George, Capitals, Bwani Junction, Withered Hand, Rachel Sermanni and Lady North. Electric Circus, 226 4224, Sun 7 Aug, 9pm–3am, £3.
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Chart & Party FREE Cheese & Crackers at Sin. Weekly 10pm–3am. ‘Cheesy’ classics and ‘cracking’ anthems. FREE Frisky at the Hive. Weekly 10pm–3am. Chart and dancefloor anthems in the main room with indie and 90s hits out back.
Edinburgh Friday
Club. 5 Aug, 11pm–5am. £5 in Clubs ■ Buddha Fridays at Opal Lounge. Weekly 10pm–3am. £tbc. A night of Eastern mysticism and hot house/electro. ■ Cab Vol Stars at Cabaret Voltaire. 5 Aug, 11pm–5am. Free before midnight; £5 after. The Cab Vol staff step to the fore and wrestle control of the decks, but then, seeing as their staff DJ at nights such as Xplicit, Coalition, This is Music, JungleDub and more, you’re still in safe hands. ✽✽ Confusion is Sex at the Bongo advance; £8 (£7 on the door. Twisted and freaky mix of burlesque, glam techno, electro, indie punk and rock’n’roll. Hosting a suitably weird ‘Fringe Freaky Opening Party’. ■ Evol at the Liquid Room. Weekly 10.30pm–3am. Free before 11.30pm; £6 after. Edinburgh’s longest running indie night. With the usual mix of the best current and classic alternative and crossover tunes, Evol’s an institution. ■ Funk Me It’s Friday at Sin. Weekly 10pm–3am. Free before midnight; £4 after. Classic funk, disco and remixes. ■ Girls & Boys at the HMV Picture House. Weekly 11pm–3am. £5 (£3). Launch of Edinburgh’s biggest indie night with a rock attitude. ■ Late, Live & Loud at Electric Circus. Weekly 11pm–5am. £7 (£6). See Thu. ■ Late’n’Live at the Jazz Bar. Sat 2–5am. £5 (£3). Late night jazz and funk acts and DJs featuring The Number Nine (live). ■ Lulu at Lulu. Weekly 9pm–2am. £tbc. Electro, club hits, sexy disco and chart favourites. ■ Mad Caravan at Studio 24. 5 Aug, 11pm–3am. £6. World music night of ska, Latin, Balkan and gypsy beats. Festival special of transglobal sounds, dancers and visuals with DJ Astroboy (Departure Lounge). ■ Midnight Club at the Green Room. Weekly 10pm–3am. £tbc. Featuring a double bill of We Own regulars as One Dollar Dave spins electro, house and commercial dance and Jordan Cochrane mixes disco, deep house and tech-house. ■ Misfits at the Hive. Weekly 9pm–3am. Free before 11pm; £4 after. DIY indie, electro, punk, rock and retro with bargain drinks. ■ Planet Earth at Citrus Club. Weekly 10.30pm–3am. Free before 11pm; £6 after. Music from 1976 through to 1989. In other words, a healthy dose of punk, new wave, new romantic and electro-pop (now with added 90s). ■ Static Underground at City Nightclub. Weekly 10pm–3am. £5. House, electro and progressive house. ■ Sugarhill at Cabaret Voltaire. 5 Aug, 11pm–5am. £5. Hip hop, soul, R&B, dancehall and reggae club night in the Speakeasy. ✽✽ Telefunken at the Store. 5 Aug, 10.30pm–5am. £12 in advance; more on the door. Deep expansive house night. Featuring a masterful set of house from Chicago don DJ Sneak at this Edinburgh Festival opening party. See preview, page 85