CLUBS LISTINGS
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I Bennet’s 11pm—3am. £5. Gay. With Roddy Stewart, the busiest shopkeeper/musician/DJ around. I Burnin’ Strathclyde University Student Union. 9pm—2am. ‘A disco inferno’ apparently. I The Cathouse. lOpm—3am. £4 (£3.50/£3 before 11pm). Sweaty, rock- orientated club on two floors. Trad rock upstairs and contemporary rock downstairs. I Cleopatra’s llpm—3am. £6. Mainstream commercial tunes. I Club Cubana at The Cathouse. 10.30pm-3am. £3 (£2). 5 Nov only. Latin American dance sounds with resident DJ Tchico. Tapas, Cuban cocktails and red hot salsa. Proceeds to the Scottish Cuba Defence campaign. I Club Xchange llpm-3am. £5. Gay club with upfront dance tunes. Happy Hour llpm—l2.30am. I Divine at Glasgow School of Art. lOpm—late. £2.50 (includes Knuclehead upstairs). Itjust keeps rolling along as ever in its funky/retro/contemptuous contemporary way. I Dream Sequence at Rooftops (Secrets Lounge). 10.30pm-3am. £2.50. Long- established indie night with a friendly vibe. Watch out you don’t get confused and join the queue for the singles bar upstairs. I Classic PM at Fury Murry’s. 10.30pm—3am. £5 (£4). Indie-pop/indie- dance shenanigans from Jim Downie et al for all you shoe gazers out there. I Cutting Edge at Blackfriars Underground. 8pm—close. Free. Clubby pre-club from men about town, Sanj and Mikey. I The Garage. 10.30pm—3am. £3 (£2) lOpm—l 1pm. £4 (£3) llpm—midnight. Dave Ross getting a wee bit more dancey than usual. Retro/indie in The Attic. upstairs. Insanely busy with queues half way down Sauchiehall Street, up Rose Street, and along the M8 as far as Airdn'e. honest. I Knucklehead at Glasgow School of Art. 10pm-Iate. £2.50 (includes Divine downstairs). Johnny and Hamish pursue the deeper, weightier sounds of dance. I Love Boutique at The Arches. llpm-3am. £7. 5 Nov only. Busiest mixed night in Scotland that plays hard house rather than the usual cheesy tracks ‘of certain other supposedly mixed nights.
Secret Knowledge and Rejuvination playing live, with Sister Bliss DJing alongside resident DJ Roy.
I liberty City at The Arches. llpm-3am. £7 (£5). 12 Nov only. More of the deepest New York house this side of the Atlantic. Resident DJ Nigel with guest DJ James Christian of Strictly Rhythm and Xcite Records.
I Beds 10.30pm—3am. £5 (£4). A packed night specialising in mainstream dance, funk, rap and house with DJ Kev. Stella Dry on promo.
I Rhapsody llpm—3am. £7 (£5 before 11pm). Stuart Hobbs and Robin Burrows with an eclectic clubby mix. Live acts through the back.
I Shoosh! at R.G.’s. 8pm—midnight. Free. DJ Cristian with a house/garage pre-club warmer.
I Solar at Queen Margaret Student Union. 9.30pm—3am. £4. 12 Nov only. Solar with guest DJ Evil Eddie Richards of Dy-na-mix Records.
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I Sub Club 10.30pm—3am. £8. Fabulously fresh night that offers up the sweatiest night of hard house the city has to offer. DJs Harri, Oscar and Dominic.
I Techno Night at The Venue. 10.30pm—3am. £5. With regular live PAs I Triumph at The Tunnel. 10.30pm-3.30am. £7 (£4). Upfront house and garage with Colin Tevendale and Stephen McCreery in Room 1, and DJ Eddie with a more laid-back funky set in Room 2. The Saturday night recreates itself, with Triumph dancers in the main room, special Saturday night decor, a hostess service in Rooms 2 and 3 and a dressed-up door policy. 12 Nov, Pete Tong guesting.
I Upsettin’ at Under Ventura. 9pm—midnight. Free. Nov 13 and fortnightly. Rocksteady, roots and dub from the team responsible for the cracklineg fine Goodfoot.
I The Volcano 10.30pm—2.30am. £5 (£4 with matric card). Mellow house, garage grooves and street soul with Graham Wilson and Scott McCay.
I Voodoo Room 1 lpm—3.15am. £8. ‘Spellbound and sexed-out with Colin’s own sexy selection and Kevin McKay licking the decks into a frenzy.’
I Wild at Cotton Club. 10.30pm—3am. £5 (£4 before 11pm, £3 students). Commercial dance and pop.
I Wired at Glasgow Caledonian University Student Union. lOpm—late. £3 (£2). DJ John Aldis with indie/mainsteam choons.
Sundays
I Banus 10.30pm—3am. £3 entry with leaflet. House and garage for the smartly dressed.
I Bar 10 9pm—Iate. Free. DJs Gavin and Ziggy popping in from time to time.
I Bennet’s llpm—3am. £1. Gay. All beers and spirits £1. DJ John Frazer with commercial dance and p0p.
I Bob’s Full House at The Volcano. 10.30pm-2.30am. £4. It’s Sunday night. It’s Partick town. It’s the only place to be hot and sweaty. Damn fine mix warming up with charty acid jazz, jumping up to house and screaming on to da divas.
I Bomb at The Cathouse, Studio 3. 10pm—3am. £1.50. Hip-hop evening.
I Bubblelicious at Reds. llpm—3am. £6. ‘Bombastic boogie, bubble grooves’ and all drinks £1 until 2am. Good music and cheap drink, isn’t that too much like giving the punters what they want?
I Club Havana at The Brunswick Cellars. 9pm—midnight. Free. Pre-clubbing from DJ Jazz with Latinjazz and salsa.
I Club Mouth at The 13th Note (ground
floor). 8pm-midnight. Free. Indie and alternative tunes ‘founded to let the BBC Radio Scotland indie DJs play their stuff and drink at the same time’. Now featuring live bands most weeks. See Rock listings for details.
I Fuddrulrkers at Cleopatra’s. lO.30pm—2.30am. £3 (£2 with ticket). Disco, pop and 605 party vibes from DJ Craig Davis.
I lush at the Voodoo Room.
llpm-3. 15am. £5. Rising mega stars Harri and Oscar with their underground house and garage. All drinks £1.
I Ital Reggae Club at The Venue. 10.30pm—late. £2.
I JuJu at The Arena. 8pm-midnight. Free. Jazz and rare grooves for that Sunday vibe. All drinks £1.30.
I Rock City at The Cathouse. 10.30pm—3am. £2 (£1.50). Rock from the 70s to the present.
I Sex Machine at Fury Murry’s. 10.30pm—3am. £3.50 (£2.50 non-waged). The poptastic DJ Mr Dave Ross gets even less sleep as he fills his social diary with this ‘hot. busy, funky Sunday’. All spirits (including mix) 99p! ‘Arrive early, leave pished.’ They said it, not me.
I Sonora at The 13th Note. 8pm—midnight. Donations (£1) on the door, cushions on the floor. Excursions into arnbience and the occasional glance at other related activities. Look out for the cream of avant garde bands live.
I Stella LeVell 99p Special at Club Xchange. llpm—3am. 99p. Gay. All pints and spirits 99p.
I Sunday Klub at The Arena. 10pm—3am. £2. Hosted by the inimitable Mr Hugh Reed, a night of musical variety, interspersed with comedy, cabaret and guest DJ s.
Mondays-
I The Beat Club at Fury Murry’s. 10.30pm—3am. £2 (£1.50). All drinks £1.50. ‘Sounds from the 603, funky 705 and lots of classic dance and indie tracks.’ I The Boat at The Tuxedo Princess. 9pm—3am. £2 (£1 with student card — free before 11pm with flyer). Pronounced ‘bow-att’. Student night of mainstream indie, dance and pop of quite indescribable mediocrity. It is, however, monstrously busy and kinda good in a really bad sort of way.
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 405 to the 903.
I Cleopatra’s 10.30pm—3am. £2 (£1 with ticket). Gary Unett and a mix of mainsteam pop and dance.
I Club X at Club Xchange. 10.30pm—3am. £1.25. Gay. Craig with a dance-orientated night. Cheap drink.
I The Horn at The 13th Note (ground floor). 8pm—midnight. Free. ‘Unnerving dreams of the old Woolworth pick ’n’ mix turned voodoo on a suddenly darkened Saturday afternoon.’ Mr Scott Horn praying that Captain Beefheart, Beat Happening, Ivor Cutler and The Pastels weigh in at under the quarter pound.
I Speedracer at The Attic (formerly the Cameo Suite). 10.30—3am. £1. Steven Moody persues his ‘NME-orientated music’ as well as a few indie-dance classics, with a heavy slab of hip hop.
Tuesdays
I Amorphus at Nice ’n’ Sleazy. 8.30prrr—midnight. Donations on the door to cover running costs. Ambient and dub through to techno and gabba with resident DJs from TAB and the Sonic Research Institute. Lager and heavy £1.25, vodka and whisky 75p a dash.
I Boudoir at The 13th Note (downstairs). The Boudoir boys bring along their fave
board games and let everyone have a shot-
on the Atari (Galaxion, of course). The music sounds as if they’ve raided every charity shop and rummaged about in the
depths of their parents’ record collections. I’m sure if you could mix 8-Track then they would be there doing it.
I Brouhaha at The Arena. 8pm—midnight.
Free. Sixties garage to 90s indie and underground dance.
I Havana at Belgos at Bar Belgos. 9pm—midnight. Free. Latin jazz from DJ Jazz.
I JoJos at Club XChange llpm-3am. £2.50. Gay. DJ Craig with his choice of dance and chart sounds. £1.25 spirits and pints. Pitched as the only gay night in town tonight.
I Moist at The Cathouse. 10.30pm—3am. £1. A mish-mash of poppy and studenty- type sounds, plus drinks promos.
I Shimmy Club at Bennet‘s. 10.30pm-3am. £2. Legendary, drunken, ‘mixed’, longest—running club night in town with Craig Davis. Mainstream dance and chart. £1.10 promo beers. More girls in the boys’ toilets than boys for some reason.
I Sly at The Tunnel. 10.30pm—3am. £2.50 (£2). New student-orientated club which seems to be taking some of the more fresh-faced ones away from Bennet’s. Fine mix of music ranging from chart hip hop to fairly respectable house. I The Tardis in the Attic (formerly the Cameo Suite). 10.30pm—3am. £1. ‘A journey through space and time that takes you from the 605 to the 90s and back via rock/pop and soul’. All drinks £1.
I Trading Post at Cleopatra’s. 10.30pm-2.30am. £2 (£1 with ticket). Chart, mainstream and 60s ‘for the pub/club staff crowd’.
Wednesdays
I Banus 10.30pm—3am. £5 (half price with flyer). House and garage with DJ Gary Menzies.
I Bennet’s llpm-3am. £1. Gay. 70p vodka and gin! DJ Sara.
I Ceroc at The Venue. 7.30—10.30pm. Modemjive from France. Includes 45- minute beginners’ class at 7.30pm followed by dance sounds from the 405 to the 905.
I Chopper at Club Xchange. 10.30pm—3.30am. £3.50 (£2). Garage, house, 903 disco and pop. More handbags than Debenham’s and more screaming divas than Glyndbourne. Double vodka £1.10.
I Fab at Reds. llpm—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 Fiesta Fatale at The Nile. 9pm—midnight. Free. DJ Jazz with more
of a Spanish flamenco-orientated night than he usually does.
I Go 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 Parallelogram at Bar Miro. 8pm—midnight. Free. Johnny and Hamish of Blue Juice get all pre-clubby with some ‘mind music’.
I Planet Earth at The Cathouse. 10.30pm—3am. £1. An 80$ revival night for all you Wham! and Duran Duran fans. I Sticky Fingers at The Attic (formerly the Cameo Suite). 10.30pm—3am. £2 (£1). Gerry with indie and retro sounds. Drinks
'78 The List 4—17 November 1994