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III The Jungle Book Superlative drum ’n’ bass styling from Midlands man Simon ‘Bassline‘ Smith. KMC and Mark Smith keeping Scotland on the jungle map. New school percussive beauty to break your heart. The Citrus, Sat 5 Nov. HIM—«lam. £8. Club Latino Hotly tipped salsa act rquestra La Clave playing live. acked with Latin aficionados, but on’t be put off if you don’t know the teps.l.a Belle Angele, Fri 11 Nov. 10.30pm—3am, £7 (£5). Taste Hardcore handbag from hameless DJ duo Fisher and Price. uite simply the only place to raise our hands on a Sunday evening. The Vaults, Sundays, 11pm—3um, £5. llorny Monkey Cleveland City and ribal UK offer up their finest pinners in a Best of British house- ype bash. The Vaults. Sat 5 Nov, 10.30pm—~3.30am. £7.
I Red Hot Pepper Club 10pm—3am. £4 (£3). Students free with matric card.Mainstream and chart sounds.
I Roadrunner at Potterrow Student Union. 9pm—2am. Students with matric card £1, guests £2. Weekly. traditional student bash. Music policy is 60s. 70s. 805. 90s and independent. to narrow things down a little.
I nude at The Attic. 10pm—3am. £3 (£2). 11 Nov. Fortnightly. A venue change for the ever popular Rude. Expect the usual tightly honed selection of skankin’ dub and steppin' ska.
I Saliva at The Vaults. 10pm—3am. £6. (£5 students/UB40). £4 (members). 11 Nov. 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. Forthcoming guests include: Mike Dred. Mike Inc and Walker and Jammin Unit (aka Air Liquide).
I Unplugged at Chambers Street House Student Union. Spin—3am (doors close 2.30am). Students free. guests £1. Primarily concerned with showcasing live bands, but noteworthy for the eclectic club sounds in between.
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 Buster Browns 10.30pm—4am. 2am curfew. £4 (£2.50 before ll.30pm). Dance and upfront chart sounds.
I Century 2000 10.30pm—3am. £5. See Fridays.
I Cheek to Cheek at M8. 10pm—late. £5. Kitsch house. garage and 70s disco with DJs Ian Thompson. A.J.. Radio Forth’s Kevin Jones and Craig Burton in the chill- out.
I Club Free at Negociants. 7pm—2am. Free. Pre-club club with DJ ‘JP’.
I Desire at The Wide Awake Club.
1 1pm—3am. £4 (£3). Chart music in the renamed Wilkie House.
I Dogtastic at La Belle Angele. 11pm—3am. £5. 12 Nov. Fortnightly. Canine and canin’ style night from Andy Williams and Scott Ferguson. Joyfully irreverent music policy mashing up tranced-out electronica with 80s pop flotsam.
f I Disco Inferno at The Venue.
ll.30pm—3am. 5 Nov. Fortnightly. Polished exponent of 70s revivalism. Two floors of bump ‘n‘ hustle disco gloss. Extremely busy.
; I Earth Inferno at The Rocking Horse. 10.30pm—3am. £3. Happy Hour until 12.30am. No rave.just out of the grave gothic and industrial sounds.
I The Egg at The Wee Red Bar. 11pm—4am. £3. Solid gold easy-action sounds; more specifically indie. 60s. new wave and soul.
I Eternal at Chambers Street House Student Union. 8pm—3am (Doors close 2.30am). Students free. guests £1. Chart sounds from the 60s to present day.
I FBI at Moray House. 11pm—3am. £3. 5 Nov. Fortnightly with Shaft. Eternally popular. young at heart club playing a plethora of styles falling into the indie bracket. Scuff those DMs one more time to Pavement. Senser and Oasis.
I Giro at The Citrus. llpm—4am. £5. 12 Nov. Fortnightly. Hardcore, gabber and heavy dance with DJ Freak from Leeds alongside regulars Grafik and The Surgeon.
I Horny Monkey at The Vaults. 10.30pm-3.30am. £7 (£5). 5 Nov only. Another top quality night of house and garage. Scott and Si Storer from Cleveland City engage in a vinyl soundclash with Richard Breedon from Tribal UK. Bound to be highly glamorous and aurally uplifting.
I Joy at The Calton. 10pm—3am. £5 (£3 before midnight). Uplifting. packed-out gay night with a far healthier female turnout than many. Maggie and Alan putting some serious finesse into the mix with an inspired selection of bumping house and garage. Scotland’s answer to Heaven (in both respects).
I The Jungle Book at The Citrus.
1 1pm—4am. £8. 5 Nov only. Tearing.
orchestrated, drum ’n’ bass from Simon ‘Bassline’ Smith. KMC. Mark Smith. The General and MC Feelman. The only place to hear the very best in futuristic jungle sounds.
I Katch at The Rocking Horse. 10.30pm—3am. £2.50 (£2). A veritable cornucopia ofindie music from the 80s and 905, in this busy weekly club.
I Mambo Club at Cavendish. lOpm-3am. £4 (£3). Two floors with African. Latin. salsa. reggae. zouk. soca and calypso downstairs, and dub. lovers and dancehall upstairs. Sir Ossie dishing up the global grooves for the hot ’n‘ sweaty assembled pleasure-seekers.
I Minus One at The Carlton Highland Hotel. 10pm—3am. £2.50 (free for members). See Fridays.
I The 99 Club at The Music Box. 12.30pm—3am. £4 (£3). House. garage. soul and funk sounds. Staggeringly cheap drink. the Betty Ford clinic awaits.
I lied Hot Pepper Club 10pm-—3am. £4 (£3). See Fridays.
I Rock Drgasm at The Rocking Horse. 10.30pm-3am. £3. Climactic night of heavy guitar sounds.
I Shaft at Moray House. 1 1pm-3am. £4. 12 Nov. Fortnightly. Sparkling. p0ptastic night of retro featuring disco stunners _ from the 70s. 80s and 90s. Still packed out with wild and shameless disco lovers.
I Taxi at The Subway. 11pm—3am. £2. Dave Stewart DJs with a mix ofclassic disco, chart and dance.
I Tribal Funktion at The Venue. 11pm—3am. £5. 12 Nov. Fortnightly. George and Christian rock da house with minimal Chicago and Tribal New York rhythms upstairs. Simon and Harry drop the blunted trip hop downstairs. Wicked! I Vegas at The Vaults. 11pm—3am. £5. 12 Nov. Fortnightly. Burger Queen’s bastard offspring promising a continuation of the hard-edged glamour and hedonistic house ethic of its parent.
I Yip Yap at La Belle Angele. llpm—3am. £5. 5 Nov. Fortnightly. Delicious. tuneful highs and superlative mixing from Gareth and David. Bitchin‘ garage, raw—edged house and a dressed- up, down-with-it crowd. The spirit of 1986 house incarnate. Jack your body.
Sundays
I The Blue Room at The Cooler. 10pm—4am. £2. Deep and lovely ambience to embalm. soothe and stimulate. Lie back and soak up the decelerated drift. Fluffytastic!
I Bump ’n’ Grind at M8. l().3()pm—3am. £3 (free before midnight). Ian Thompson. A. J. and Kevin Jones play the uplifting selection of house and garage.
I Buster Browns 10.30pm—3am. £2 before ll.30pm (£3 after). Buster’s Sunday soul night.
I Heart at The Subway. 11pm—3am. £2. The best new indie releases and remixes.
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I Jazz A La Carte at Negociants. 10pm—3am. The Funky Mutha team. Dr
K001 and Finbar drop those jazz. funk and soul fusions.
I The Surf Club at The Music Box.
I lpm—3am. £4 (£3). lbiza style foam party (the only one north of the border. no
' less) to bring a ray of sunshine into the
bleak. Scottish winter. A ‘foam filled. fun- packed evening’ by all accounts. Change ofclothes advisable.
I Taste at The Vaults. 10pm—3am. £5. DJs Fisher and Price mixing up the sensuous garage and trance. Rapidly becoming the only place to swing your handbag of a Sunday night.
I Thelonious at Carwash. 9pm—lam. Free. Weekly. Eclectic. choicejazz cuts from the Thelonious team.
I Timewarp at The Rocking Horse.
1 1pm—3am. £2 (free before 12.30am). A very w—i—d—e playlist indeed: 60s. 70s, 80s. 90s and onwards.
Mondays
I love at The Music Box. 10pm—late. £2. 14 Nov. Fortnightly. Sean and Catherine playing fab ’n’ groovy 60s pop. beat. psychedelia. R & B and northern soul.
I Monday Club at The Citrus. 10pm—3am. £2. A wide blend of sounds (70s to present): punk to funk. rock to rap. indie to goth. fusion and dance. Drinks promos most weeks.
I Planet Alice at The Music Box. llpm—3am. £2. 7 Nov. Fortnightly. Drinks promos. A wide—ranging musical wonderland. playing hip hop. grebo, indie, industrial and goth.
Tuesdays
I Crossover at The Citrus. 1 lpm—3am. £2. Alternative. hardcore. industrial, techno andjungle from DJs Mark. Scott and Gregor.
I Bullneck at Potterrow Student Union. 8pm—2am. Free to students and non- students. Reach drum ’n‘ bass nirvana as KMC segues the top tunes hardcore stylee. Ambient downstairs. Well worth checking.
Wednesdays
I Century 2000 llpm—3am. £3 (£1 students with matriculation card). lfyou want your dance on the commercial side with disco lights. then this is the best night to get it.
I Delirium at The Music Box. llpm—3am. £3 (£2). Happy Hour until midnight. Trawling the realms of tribal. folk. reggae and classic rock and redefining the word eclectic. Requests welcomed.
I Dub Department at Negociants. 11pm—3am. Free. New weekly night of ganja—styled reverb from the Rude crew. I Bubble at The Rocking Horse. 10pm—3am. £2 (free before 12.30am). Red Stripe promos. A broad mix of student sounds in the Katch/Shag vein. I Teasage at The Citrus. llpm—3am. £2. Very busy midweek club. playing indie- orientated dance sounds alongside punk. disco and funk. Drinks promos most weeks.
Thursdays
I Apocalypse at The Rocking Horse.
1 1pm—3am. £2.50. Happy Hour llpm—3am. Excellent ‘alternative’ club with a diverse playlist including industrial. techno. indie. grunge and thrash.
I Bitches Bru at The Attic. 10pm—3am. £3 (£2). 10 Nov. Promising new night of reggae.jungle. soul. funk. swing and hip hop. Divas Babi C.. Roisin and Lady T. segueing the mix and on the mic.
I The Caribbean Club at The Venue.
l lpm—3am. Free before mid £3 after. 10 Nov. Fortnightly. New night playing reggae. ragga and dancehall styles upstairs: jungle. lovers‘ rock. and dub downstairs.
00 The List 4—17 November 1994