LISTINGS CLUBS
Wednesdays
I Banue 10.30pm-3am. £5 (half price with flyer). House and garage with DJ Gary Menzies.
I Bennet’e 11pm—3am. £1. Gay. 70p vodka and gin! DJ Sara.
I Ceroc at The Venue. 7.30—10.30pm. Modern jive from France. Includes 45- minute beginners’ class at 7.30pm followed by dance sounds from the 40s to the 905.
I Chopper at Club Xchange. lO.30pm—3.30am. £3 (£2). Student- orientated garage, house and 90s disco. More handbag than Debenhams. Double vodka £l.
I Feb at Reds. 11pm—3am. £3 (£2). The Fab Boys play a many and varied funky and bassy soundtrack to jump along to. Miller £1, vodka-mix £1.
I Bo West at Cleopatra‘s. 10.30pm—2.30am. £2 (£1 with ticket). A mainly ‘student-orientated‘ bill of fare. I Horizontal at The Volcano. 10.30pm—3am. £3 (£2). Jazz and rare groove from the eminently funky Nick Peacock.
I love Train at Cafe Cini. 9pm—midnight. Free. Selected beers for £1. Joe Deacon playing the best in classic soul, funk and piano house.
I Wednesday at the October Cate 8pm-midnight. Free. Commercial and mellow house to keep you off the streets of a Wednesday night. Cocktail Happy Hour 8pm—9pm.
I Rampant Sound at Under Ventura. 8pm-midnight. Free. Dub of the highest order.
I Supertly at The Attic (formerly the Cameo Suite). 10.30pm-3am. £1. Marc Capriat with ska and soul. All drinks £1.50.
I Wednesday ttlght Fever at The Cotton Club. lO.30pm—3am. £3 (£2 with matric card). Positively a towering inferno of rekindled kitsch. Busy? You betcha. Drinks promos.
Thursdays
I 1999 at the Cotton Club. llpm—3am. £3 (£2). 805 hits and a mixed bag of funky tunes.
I Banus lO.30pm—3am. £5 (half price with flyer). House and garage with DJ Gary Menzies.
I Bellybutton at the Volcano. lO.30pm—late. £3 (£2). Get your midriff round this Euroish. garageish. funkyish club with Kevin McKay and other assorted top DJs.
I Bloomers at Cleopatra’s. lO.30pm—2.30am. £3 (£2 with ticket). Mainstream pop and dance.
I Club Xchange llpm—3am. £2.50 (£2). Gay. DJ Stella and Happy Hour all night. I D.I.S.C.0. Inferno at Reds. llpm—3am. £2. 70$ disco. pop and glam plus Bud and vodka for £1 all night. A night ofclassic disco peppered with the best of contemporary house and garage.
I Disney Fist at The Cathouse. Studio 3. lOpm—3am. £2. Alternative sounds.
I Harmony at Bennet‘s. llpm—3am. £2 (£1). Mixed night from DJs Sarah (Tunnel) and John (Glad).
I loaded at Blackfriars Underground. 8pm-close. Free. Studenty pre-club with DJs Mikey and Sanj. Cheap drinks. groovy garage and bouncy toons.
I K-Tel Frenzy at The 13th Note. 8pm-midnight. Free. 4 August only. Those feline fanzine types bring us another 80s night featuring an 80s quiz and 'the first playing of The Funky Gibbon for fifteen years‘.
I Loveshaclt at Fury Murry’s. 10.30pm-3am. £2. From the people who bring you Sonic and The Beat Club. included in the price is one free tequila. Dutch beer or white wine.
I October Cate 7pm—midnight. Free. A busy. boomin‘ and bumpin’ October Cafe is aurally contented by DJs Steve and Derek offering up a cool and current selection of dance tunes. Perfect as a pre- Tunnel warm-up and with more promos than you can shake a short review at, earning its ‘happy music for happy people’ tag.
I Shaft at The Cathouse. 10pm—2am. £2. A shameless 70$ disco funfest, with the added attraction of regular drinks promos. I Strathclyde University Union 9pm—2am. Free. A legendary night in the annals of studentdom. Tam Coyle doing his thang on Level 8 (now calling itself the Octopus Club) and Retro Active in Reds bar.
I The Tunnel 10pm—3am. £4 (£2 with matric card). Ain't never been a student night quite as big as this one. 9am summerjob that your Dad got for you? What 9am summerjob? Mainstream dance and club classics.
I Vlrunga in The Attic (formerly the Cameo Suite. Enter through the Garage main door). 10.30pm—3am. £3 (£2). DJ Tchico taking you round his world of hip hop, ragga and reggae.
I Voodoo Room Student Night
l-lpm—3. 15am. £4 (£2.50). ‘The cool sound of the city to thrust you into the weekend.’ Mel Barr and guests.
EDINBURGH Fridays
I Access at The Music Box. lO.30pm—3am. £4. Weekly. ‘A rhythmical blend of soul, funk. acid jazz and hip-hop from as far back as then.‘
I Big Beat at La Belle Angele. 10.30pm—3am. £4 (£3). 29 July. Monthly. DJs Mark and Simon kick out the abstract funk 'n’ jazzjams with panache. Friendly. mellow, boho crowd and film visuals from Napier students enhance the journey to syncopated nirvana.
I Buddha at The Wee Red Bar. llpm—3am. £3. 29 July. Fortnightly. Hectic. heady fusions of psychedelic soul and funky R & B from dynamic DJ duo Chris and Angus.
I Buster Browns lO.30pm-3.30am. 2am curfew. £3 (girls free before midnight, £2 after; guys £2 before midnight). Mainstream, chart and oldies. Available Mon—Thurs for private parties.
I Cathouse at The Rocking Horse. llpm-3am. £3 (£2.50 with flyer). Crowded night running the gamut of rock, from heavy metal through grunge to thrash.
I Century 2000 llpm—3am. £5. Commercial dance music under the most expensive lights in Scotland. No ripped jeans or steel toe-caps.
I City 2 downstairs at the City Cafe. 8pm-lam. Free. Underground garage, acid jazz. hip-hop and swing with deck- guru Yogi Haughton and occasional unannounced quality guests.
I Evol at Wilkie House. 10.30pm—3am. £3 (£2.50). Shiny, happy indie sounds. with a bit of a raw, grungey edge from resident DJs Kieren and Amanda.
I FBI at Moray House. See Saturdays.
I Ciro at The Rocking Horse. llpm—3am.
£3 (£2.50). ‘Destroy your senses with hardcore nosebleed techno. underground industrial and bad mixing!‘
I Katch at The Rocking Horse. llpm—3am. £3 (£2.50 with flyer). Lively club with a playlist consisting mainly of 803 and 905 indie dance.
I Marathon Rock Club at The Underground Club. llpm-3am. £3 (£2 before 12.30am. £1 before 11pm.) All drinks £1.50. Dance. rock and grunge.
I Marley’s Reggae Klub at the Cavendish. llpm—3am. £3. The city's longest-running reggae night, with a playlist ranging through roots, ragga, lovers. heavyweight dub and dancehall. I Minus One at The Carlton Highland Hotel. 10pm—3am. £2.50 (free for members). A relaxed. very plush venue for the more mature seekers of night life. I Pure at The Venue. 10.30pm—3am. £5 (£3 members). Guest nights £7 (£5). Organic techno-meisters Twitch and Brainstorm forge the soundtrack in this club/institution. Dressed-less ambience and future-perfect rhythms are its hallmarks.
I Quest at Ex-S. lOpm—3am. £4. Techno- lite, trance and happy house.
I Reaction at The Subway. Midnight—3am. £2. Geordie spins the 70s, 80s and 905 discs.
I Red Hot Pepper Club lOpm—3am. £4 (£3). Mainstream and chart sounds. Students free with matric card.
I Rude at Moray House. llpm—4am. £4 (£3). All drinks £1.50. 29 July only. Skankin' night of dub. now installed in Moray House. Rude will run on Thursdays during the Festival.
I S.A.M. Night at The Citrus. llpm—3am. £5. 29 July only. Maggie and Alan from Joy kicking up a storm on the dancefloor for Scottish Aids Monitor.
I Satlva at The Vaults. 10pm—3am. £6, (£5 students/U840), £4 (members). 5 Aug. Fortnightly. Bonkers soundclash of hardcore techno. underground electronics from Massive Bereavement, dub and ambient from The Process. Featuring four sound systems, some wonderful art installations, live MCs and percussion.
I Squid at La Belle Angele. llpm—3am. £5 (£4). 5 Aug only. Weekly during festival. Multi-media aquatic theme club on a Whirl-Y—Gig tip. Marine installations complement the sub-aqua-swell of fresh ‘n' funky grooves.
I The Sweet Club at The Pelican. 10pm-3am. Free. Apparently playing any old tune.
Catch the best Edlnburgh Club: this tortnlght.
ill Pure VapourSpace, Teste and Revolutionary Dub Warriors (see Music section) live, plus David Holmes, Evil Eddie Richards and T & B on the decks. Underground danoefloor action. Buses available from Edinburgh. Glasgow Barmwlands. Sat 30 July. lie Tribal Funktlon New York house royalty Danny Tenaglia is the guest star jock, PM from Joi Cardwell and Kiwi Dreams and the usual stomping wicked atmosphere. The Venue. Sat 6 Aug. . I Plexus Dave Angel, Mr. C and Richard Grey spin the divinely ordained techno, with a PA from Murder By Sound. The Vaults, Sun 31 July.
I Tardls at The Citrus. 1 lpm-3am. £4 (£3). 5 Aug only. Hip-hop and funk.
I Zig Zag at Donaghucs. 8pm-late. Free. Pre-club club with a seriously eclectic playlist from the makers of the Monday Club.
Saturdays
I Boom Bap The Attic at Legends (entry by Dyer's Close beside Legends). llpm—3.30am. £3.50 (£3). Steve C. and guests with an essential hip hop and rap selection. All drinks £1.50.
I Burger Queen at The Vaults. llpm—3am. £5. Media-friendly concept club with truckloads of attitude (and punters by all accounts). Craig Drysdale and Huggy segue together the 90s Balearic soundtrack. spiking house and trance with New Romantic and ZZ Top.
New at
CLUB CUBANA
Tapas, Onban cocktails and red hot Salsa
Latin American dance sounds with DJ Tchico
THE CATHOUSE
(9 Brown Street, Broomlelaw)
First Friday of each month
(Au: 5. Sept 1. Nov '7 etc) 109m - 3 am
£3 waged / £1 unwaged
All proceeds to Scottish Cuba Defence Campaign
J The List 29 July—ll August 1994 B3