CLUBS LISTINGS
I lovesheck at Fury Murry‘s. 10.30pm-2am. £2 (£1). From the people who bring you Sonic and The Beat Club (nee ZFD), a newish venture with the same kind of music spread.
I The Men's ltoorn at Club Xchange. 11.30pm—2am. £2.50 (£2 with flier). ‘Raunchy‘ night with infamous live act Ca ed Muscle and Rolling Rock for £1. I at The Cathouse. 10pm—2am. £2. A shameless 70s disco funfest. with the added attraction of regular drinks promos. I Shlue at the Cotton Club. 10pm—2am. £2. DJ Scud plays happy house and funk. Schlitz at £1.
I Shoooeh at R. G.‘s. 8pm—midnight. Free. DJ Christian urging you to ‘hear no evil’ and offering up a rather good housey selection instead.
I The Slow Club at The 13th Note (upstairs). 8pm—midnight. Smooth. mellow and a bit off the wall. The Slow Club offers the ultimate in pre-club ‘ambient’ relaxation.
I Strathclyde University Unlon 9pm—2am. Free.
I The Tunnel 10.30pm—2am. £4/£2 with matric card. Well-mixed indie and dance tunes for the assembled student throng.
I Cenetlc at Citrus Club. llpm—4am. £3. Alternative. industrial and gothic sounds. I Katch at Shady Lady‘s. llpm—3am. £2.50 (£2 with flyer). Busy indie club with a playlist consisting mainly of 80s and 90s indie dance.
I Made In lleaven at The Pelican. 10pm—3am. Free. Back to ye olde golden days of late night Pelican pranks. with DJ Simon playing a mix garage. house and a dose of funky stuff.
I Marley’s Reggae Illub at The Cavendish. llpm—4am. £3 (£2.50). The city‘s longest-running night. with a playlist consisting of roots. ragga. lovers. heavyweight dub and dancehall. Busy night guaranteed.
I Minus One at The Carlton Highland Hotel. 10pm—3am. £5 (free for members). A relaxed. very plush venue for the more mature seekers of night life.
I 99 Club at The Music Box. 9pm—3am.
£2.99. Funked up dance. chart and 70s '- from the regular Dls with all pints/selected bottles and spirits at 99p.
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Fridays
I Alternator at the Subway. 8pm—l.30am. £1.50. Three — count ‘em — happy hours. Playing hardcore. industrial and death metal. Ticket gets you 50p off entry to Genetic at the Citrus Club on the same night.
I Anthem downstairs at The Calton. 9.30pm—3am. £3. Regular DJs playing a mix of original underground sounds to a busy. sweaty crowd.
I Banshee upstairs at The Calton. 9.30pm—3am. £3. Fri 8. Excellent club playing a mixture of anything you could possibly describe as ‘altemative‘. Freshers are welcome. but with the ominous rider 'if they dare . . .‘ Oooh. scarey.
I Beatbox at Teviot Row Union. 7pm—2am. £2 (£3 non-students). Students and guests only. Big beat chart disco. with Strengevreys offering more alternative sounds in the basement.
I Bubblegum at Potterrow. 9pm—2am. £1 (£2 non-students). Students and guests only. Indie music.
I Buster Browns 10.30pm—3am. Girls free before midnight (£2 after). guys £2 before midnight (£3 after). Mainstream, chart and oldies. Available Mon—Thurs for private parties.
I Cathouee at The Mission. llpm—3am. £2.50 (£2 with flyer). The busiest rock night in town with an all-encompassing playlist of anything that is rock music — from heavy metal to grunge to thrash.
H py Hour llpm—lam.
I enturyzooo lOpm-4am. £5. Mainstream, chart and oldies.
I Cheek at Moray House. 10pm—3am. Fri 2
15. New club. sounds unknown at time of going to press. Fortnightly with Partyceilidhdisco.
I City 2 Downstairs at City Cafe. 8pm-lam. Free. Mixing it up on a Friday and Saturday night with DJs David Walsh. Gareth Somerville and Colin Cook (23rd Precinct prodigies) playing a selection of underground house and progressive dance sounds in this pre-club club
I The Edge 4pm—2.30am. Mainstream. chart and oldies, Happy Hour 4—10pm. Available for private hire Mon—Wed.
I Evol at Wilkie House. 10.30pm-3am. £3 (£2.50). Indie sounds from the 605. 705 and 805 through to current releases on the indie scene. courtesy of resident DJs Kieren and Amanda. Regularly busy night.
I The Forest Ci Funk at Edinburgh College Of Art Wee Red Bar. 10pm—4am. £3. Fri 8. Two-floor club. featuring local funkateers Skunk Tree on one level. and globally-expansive ambient sounds on t’other.
I Partycellldhdlsco at Moray House Student Union. 9pm-3am. £2.50 (£1 for Heriot Watt, Art College. Moray House and Galashiels students; free entry for all until 10pm). All drinks £1.40. Three hours of ceilidh. including live sounds from Bon Accord. and three hours of classic disco. I Pure at The Venue. 10.30pm—3am. £7 (£5 members). Excellent music and good vibes from Dling duo Twitch and
Brainstorm. in one of the best clubs
around. Presently gearing up for their one- off club bonanza extravaganza at Glasgow Barrowland on Sat 6 November. Guest DJs include Denick May. guest acts are Psychick Warriors Ov Gaia. State Of Flux and Ege Bam Yasi.
I Red Hot Pepper Club lOpm-3am. £4.
Mainstream and chart sounds.
I Revolver at Queen Margaret College. 7pm-lam. £1.50 (£1). Students only. Freshers week club playing 60s covers. I Satlva at Edinburgh College Of Art Wee Red Bar. 10pm-4am. £4 (£3.50; members £2). Fri 15. Ragga ragga ragga.
4 dub dub dub. Heavy dance ahoy.
I Squid at La Belle Angele. 9pm—late. £5. Multi-media submarine theme club. with ambient activities early on working up to a funky froth of freaked out dance tunes. Getting busier and bouncier every week. Fri 8 sees the D] s supporting Mzwakhe Mbuli Band. an eight-piece South African township dance band.
I Truth at The Store. 1 lpm-3am. £4. Recommended dance club with Dls Gareth. Colin and Stuart (23rd Precinct) playing a mix of hot garage and underground house.
I Niggy upstairs at The Calton. 10pm—3am. £3 (£2.50). 15 Oct. A selection from the swingin‘ 60s including pop classics and indie.
Saturdays
I ABC Club at La Belle Angele. llpm—3am. £5. Vegas undergoes name change. but the songs remain the same: balaeric barn dance. Nope. don‘t
understand that one meself.
I Club Alpha at The Subway. 8pm—l.30am. £1.50. Busy night pulling in a big crowd and playing a wide scope of alternative sounds including punk. indie. rock, heavy metal. goth. hardcore and just a touch of industrial.
I Blue at The Citrus. llpm—4am. £5. Weekly night with Dis Davy Brown and Alan Dundas playing a mix of underground house and garage grooves. I Burger Queen at La Belle Angele. 10pm-3am (doors close 1.30am). £3.99(£2.99). Sat 9 and fortnightly
thereafter. New club offering ‘ 100 per ' cent happy house‘. featuring ‘flame-
; grilled DJ‘s‘ including Alan Luvdup.
1 I Buster Browns 10.30pm-3am. £2
1 before 11.30pm (£4 after). Club dance. upfront chart sounds.
| I Bubble Bill at Potterrow Union.
9pm—2am. £3 (£2). Fortnightly from Sat 9. Downstairs dub and reggae and ambient; upstairs. more upfront dance.
I Carbollck Frollck at Ex-S. llpm—4am. £5. Weekly mixture of rollicking good dance sounds. with full Carbolick decor and an essential selection of seductively sensual. sassy sounds. supplied by selective DJ Mr Williams and friends.
I Century 20“) 10pm—4am. £5 (£3 before midnight). See Fridays.
I City 2 Downstairs at The City Cafe. 8pm—1am. Free. See Fridays.
I Dance Concept 93 at The Calton. 9pm—1ate. £10. Special surprise PA headlines this cloak and dagger big bash. Expect the unexpected.
lOThe Egg at Edinburgh Art College Wee Red Bar. llpm—4am. £2.50. From Sat 16. Free-ranging (ho-ho) new club playing indie. 60s. new wave. soul. Motown. Acid Jazz and very probably any other musical form under the sun.
I The Edge 4pm—2.30am. See Fridays.
I Eternal at Chambers Street Union. 8pm—3am. £2 (£1). Mixed bag student disco.
I FBI at Moray House Student Union. llpm—4am. £3. Sat 16. FBI retums playing the usual mixture of anything falling into the wide category that is indie music. Fortnightly with Shaft.
I Frottage at The Venue. 10.30pm—3am. £3 (£2 before 12.30am). Sat 16. Fortnightly. Diversity knows no bounds for the Frottage DJs. playing a very wide mix of sounds indeed. including; thrash. techno. dub. disco, rock and much more. I Funky Worm at Wilkie House. 10pm—late. Get up. get down. and get yourself one of their new membership
cards. available in the foyer every
| Saturday. Planety funkety funk satellited
; by the all-important chill-out room.
5 I Joy upstairs at The Calton. lOpm—late.
3 £5. Joyous club sounds in this busy gay
3 night with occasional live bands. Look out
I for Rhythmic State on Sat 23.
I I Ketch at Shady Lady‘s. 10.30pm—3am.
; £2.50 (£2). A veritable cornucopia of
1 indie music from the 80s and 90s. in this
1 busy weekly club.
3 I Mambo Club at Cavendish. llpm—4am.
£3 (£2.50). Two floors with African. Latin. salsa. reggae, zouk. soca. calypso
downstairs. and dub. lovers and dancehall
upstairs. Sir Ossie on the wheels of steel
playing to a busy. hot. sweaty crowd. One
of the busiest and best.
I Meltdown at The Calton. 9pm—late.
£10. Sat 9. Latest of The Calton‘s monthly
epics. featuring live PAs from The
Massive Dream Frequency. lnner
Seduction and Ege Bam Yasi plus special
guest DJs Mikey B and Bass Generator.
and a host of Meltdown Dls.
I Minus One at The Carlton Highland
Hotel. £5 (free for members). See Fridays.
I Misery at The Cooler. 10pm—4am. £5
(£3). Sat 16. Fortnightly. Miserable club
for all you seekers of crap music and
' heavy drinking. Keep an eye out for some
exceptionally appalling theme nights —
this week‘s seamy offering being
‘Underwear Night‘.
I Bed Hot Pepper Club 10pm-3am. £4.
See Fridays.
I Book Orgasm at The Mission.
10.30pm—3am. £2. Popular weekly rock
night. with an all-encompassing playlist of
all that is best in the world of rock music.
Happy Hour llpm—lam.
I Bude at The Cooler. 10pm-3am. £2.50.
Sat 9. Fortnightly. Packed out. sweaty
night. playing an excellent mixture of ska.
dub. reggae. ragga. dancehall and On-U
sounds. Go and help celebrate Rude‘s first
birthday.
I Shaft at Moray House Student Union.
llpm—4am. £4. Back in it‘s old home
after a hectic festival run. playing a
mixture of funkety funk. divine disco and
roof-raising rare groove sounds. With new
decor and a funkier feel to the whole
evening making for a busy funfest of
' tacky sounds.
I Skidoo at The Store. llpm—3am. £2 with flyer. DJs Chris. Ollie. Colin and guests playing a heady mix of underground house. with some heavy, funky. acidic grooviness added for good measure.
I Sold Cu Paradise at The Pelican. 10pm—3am. Free. A beacon of sunshine in the Cowgate. DJ Simon spinning a mix of lovely music. including garage, soul. boogie and hip-hop.
I Static Age at Edinburgh Art College Wee Red Bar. 10pm—4am. £1 before midnight. £2 after. Sat 9. Back from some tenebrous nook comes a rigorous. vigorous blast of alternative sounds. Bad Religion. Fugazi. Culture Shock, The Damned — them‘s the names to listen out for.
I Ylpyap at La Belle Angele. llpm—3am. £5. New club playing ‘happy house for well-balanced individuals.‘
Sundays
I Buster Browns 10.30pm-3am. £2 before 11.30pm (£3 after). Buster‘s Sunday soul night.
I Century 2000 lOpm—4am. £3 (£2 before midnight). See Fridays.
I Douche Ma Touche at The Citrus. llpm—4am. £4 (£3 with flyer). Busy gay night which had some exceedingly superb flyer packages circulating throughout the festival. playing a mixture of danceable sounds. -I The Edge 4pm—2.30am. With a live band every week.
I lesson at The Pelican Bistro. 9pm—2am. Free. Get your stetson and cowboy boots on for Sunday’s silliest (and only) country & western night.
I Nipple Kinky at The Store. llpm-3am. £3. A mix of dance and house sounds. with occasional guest DJs giving back-up to regulars Micky and Theo.
I lied Hot Pepper Club 10pm—3am. £4. See Fridays.
I The Sunday Club at Ex-S. llpm—4am. £3 with ticket. Wonderful. wonderful gay night featuring male go-go dancers and some of the worst PAs you‘ve ever seen. I Thnevrarp at The Mission. 1 1pm-3am. Free before 12.30pm. (£2 after). Timewarp starts up again with a very w-i- d-e playlist indeed: 60s. 70s. 80s. 905 and onwards.
Mondays
I Cala Circus at The Store. llpm—4am. £2. A new night playing some indie noise and American guitar sounds. courtesy of the peo le at Potato-head Productions.
I The Conley Club at The Citrus. 9.30pm-3am. £2. Note new venue. A night of excellent alternative sounds. with a playlist covering the whole spectrum of alternative music. the busiest and best of its kind.
Tuesdays
I Flirt at The Edge. 9pm-2.30am. £2. Weekly gay club playing a mix of dance sounds. hosted by the inimitable Placenta DuBois. Cheap drinks till midnight and good dance sounds. making for a fab night out.
Wednesdays
I Bliss at The Store. llpm—3am. £2. Gay night featuring a broad mixture of pop and dance club sounds. 50p drinks promos. I Deleriuru at The Music Box. 10.30pm—3am. £2.50 (£2). Back again after it‘s festival holiday and no doubt pulling in big crowds with a wide mixture of excellent music. including the likes of The Dead Kennedy‘s, Bob Marley. RDF. Jethro Tull and a heck of a lot more. One of the best midweek nights around. I Julce at Teviot Row Union. 8pm—lam. £2 (£1 with flyer). 705. 805. ragga. house and soul. I love Shack at Century 2000. 10pm—3am. 50p with matriculation card. Century 2000‘s busy student night with drinks promos.
BC The List 8-21 October 1993