LISTINGS CLUBS
featuring regular live acts. I Bar 10 9pm—midnight. Free. Socialise to the mellow sounds of DJ Nick Peacock er (1!. Where else is there to rendezvous. darling? I Bar 91 9pm-midnight. Free. Matlock and Mr Tea get it on again for reggae. Latin. hip hop. other like-minded beats and pinball. I Bar Belgos 9pm—midnight. Free. DJ Martin (Grow Your Own) still gearing up your Saturday night from jazz dance to house and garage. I Banus 10.30—3am. £7. George Bell with his upfront dance and regular guest DJs. I Bennet’s 11pm—3am. £5. Gay. Commercial dance. I Brighton Bites Back at The Arches. 11pm—3am. £6. 15 April only. The soon to return Cafe Loco presents a night featuring acid jazzy funk band Wildflower plus DJs Spider and Nick Peacock. I The Cathouse. 10pm—3am. £4 (£3.50/£3 before llptn). Sweaty rock- orientated club on two floors. Trad rock upstairs and contemporary rock downstairs. I Cleopatra’s llpm—3am. £6. Mainstream commercial vibe. I Club Xchange llpm—3am. £5. Gay club with upfront dance tunes. Happy Hour “pm—12.30am. I Delmonicas 9pm—close. Free. DJ Michael with a garage mix. I Divine at Glasgow School of Art. lOpm—late. £2.50 (includes Knucklehead upstairs). ltjust 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. Rooftops now sports a fab new sound system and is bigger too. I Evolution/Warp night at The Arches. llpm—3am. £6. 15 April only. Sonora and Sweet FM present this special one off featuring live sets by Jac ‘n‘ Stepper. Wish Mountain Plays and Jedi Knights. DJs for the night are Matt and Tom from Global Communications (aka Link. Reload. Jedi Knights. Evolution). See Club preview. I Classic PM at Fury Murry‘s. 10.30pm-3am. £5 (£4). lndie-pop/indie- dance shenanigans from Jim Downie er (11 for all you shoe gazers out there. I Fresh Cream at The Volcano. 10.30pm—2am. £6 (£4 with matric card). Mellow house. garage grooves and street soul with Scott McCay. I The Garage 10.30pm—3am. £3 (£2) lOpm—l 1pm. £4 (£3) llptn—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 Airdrie. honest I Knucklehead at Glasgow School of Art. lOpm—late. £2.50 (includes Divine downstairs). J‘ilkes and Ha‘t'ch filling the barn upstairs every week with their uncompromising mix of new house and deep techno plus classic and contemporary Detroit tracks. I Mo’ Jazz With Attitude at The 13th Note (groundfloor). 8pm—midnight. ‘Dropping science like never before. the eclectic Watt brothers mix wicked jazz and funky soul in an atmosphere not unlike 60s Soho.‘ Still going despite the recent timetabling changes. I Mickey House Club at The 13th Note (basement). 8.30pm—midnight. Free. Paul. Raymond, Hugo and Crust mix up house and hip hop for pre-club lovers. I licos 9pm—midnight. Free. DJ Paul with hip hop. funk and rare groove. I Pussypower at The Arena. 11pm—3.30am. £7 (£5). 8 April. Fortnightly. Terry and Jason of Pussypower every other week plus guests. Drinks Promos. 8 April, Claude Young. freshly returned from Germany. playing
an impressive, furious. chaotic techno set. '
I Reds l 1pm—3am. £6 (£4). A packed night specialising in mainstream dance. funk. rap and house with DJ Skud and Graham. intimate. smart and friendly. I Rhapsody llpm—3am. £7 (£5). 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
I Sub Club 10.30pm-3am. £8. The super club of the weekend. Super hard house. super deep garage and super DJs Harri Oscar and Dominic. Just an all round super kinda club with especially super flyers and stickers.
I Tangent at The Arena. 1 1pm—3am. £6 (£4). 15 April and fortnightly. ‘Eclectic dance music from a different direction'. Drinks promos.
I Triumph at The Tunnel. 10.30pm—3am. £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. Dressed-up door policy. 8 April and monthly. Triumph plays host to Renaissance. 10pm—5am. £12 (£10) With John Digweed. Keoki. Nigel Dawson and Keoki.
I Wild at Cotton Club. 10.30pm—3am. £6 (£4 students). Commercial dance and pop with Craig Davis.
I Wired at Glasgow Caledonian University Student Union. 10pm—late. £3 (£2). DJ John Aldis with indie/mainstream choons.
Sundays
I Banus 10.30pm—3am. £3 entry with leaflet. House and garage for the smartly dressed.
I Bennet’s llpm—3am. £1. Gay. All beers and spirits £1. DJ John Frazer with commercial dance and pop.
I Boogiemania at The Attic. 10.30pm-3am. £2. DJ Graeme with a varied mix ofclub classics. All drinks £1.25.
I Bubblelicious at Reds. llpm—3am. £5 (£3). Club classics. disco anthems and all drinks £1 all night. Amiable smart crowd not putting too much emphasis on hitting the floor.
I Don’t Forget Your Handbag at Club Xchange. 1 lpm-3am. Ms Alston with a night of high camp. men in skirts and more handbag than Watt Bros.
I Fuddrukkers at Cleopatra‘s. 10.30pm—2.30am. £3 (£2 with ticket). Disco. pop and 60s party vibes from DJ Craig Davis.
I Ital Reggae Club at The Venue. 10.30pm—late. £2.
I Liberate Sundays at The Cul De Sac.
8pm-midnight. Free. Nigel Hayes of Bomba and Liberty City with undiluted black house and garage. Bacardi Black and Red Rock £1.20.
I lush at The Voodoo Room. 11pm—3.15am. £5. Mega stars Harri and Oscar with their underground house and garage. A very fine night for full weekend party people. All drinks £1.
I Musilt at Blackfriars Underground. 8pm—midnight. 50p. RAD with their usual varied vibe. ‘no strict music policy. strategy or style.‘
I riicos 9pm—midnight. Free. DJ Graeme with a 70s disco cheesefest.
I Rock City at The Cathouse. 10.30pm—3am. £2 (£1.50). Rock from the 70s to the present.
I Sonora at The 13th Note. Spin—midnight. Donations (£1) on the door. cushions on the floor. Excursions into ambience and the occasional glance at other related activities. Look out for the cream of avant garde bands live.
I Songs of Praise at The Volcano. llpm—2.30am. £4 (£3). Scott McKay and Kevin McPharland take over the highly popular weekend end slot. dishing up ‘pre-roast blessings‘ and ‘fun' music.
I Stress Records Night at The Tunnel. llpm—Sam. £8 (£6). 16 April only. Stress records have consistently put out formidable light/disco house tracks (ie Hustlers Convention. Dance to the Music etc). Stress/DMC buddies Dave Seaman. lain Ossia and Chris and James join up for this Bank Holiday special.
I Sunday Service at Maxaluna. 8.30pm—midnight. Free. A new pre-club with an ecclesiastical bent. Heavenly decor (drapes and candelight) plus funk and rap ‘hymns‘ from Ali C ‘the monk of funk‘. Lordy me! Sinfully cheap drinks. I UK Gold Holiday Special at Sub Club. llpm—4.30am. 16 April only. Martin and Mark. the lords of midweek hard house get together with Junior Boys’ Own finest. Darren Emerson and Darren Price. Two boxes of Daz for the price of one.
Mondays
I The Beat Club at Fury Murry’s. 10.30pm—3am. £2 (£1.50). All drinks £1.50. ‘Sounds from the 60s. funky 70s and lots ofclassic dance and indie tracks.‘ 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 90s.
I Cleopatra’s 10.30pm-3am. £2 (£1 with ticket). Gary Unett and a mix of mainstream pop and dance.
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I The Sweet FM launch date has been put back yet again. The date that this. the original Glasgow ‘youth‘ broadcasting service wanted was turned down by the authorities. but they have been offered a month‘s transmission from 24 April. All Sweet FM events still go ahead as planned including an Evolution night at The Arches (see Clubs preview).
I Friday nights in Glasgow have always been monopolised by Slam and The Tunnel with other nights regularly falling by the wayside (this issue. for example. sees the sad demise of Liberty City at the Voodoo Room). Nevertheless Sub Club are launching a sparkling new
: night entitled The Yard
featuring Yip Yap’s Gareth Sommerville. if he
' can reproduce the success
he's enjoyed in Edinburgh this night is going to be storming.
I Last year we had the incessant club tours. Now though. we‘ve got the club residency explosion. Final Frontier (Club UK. London) are discussing a monthly slot with Cool Lemon. Hard Times will regularly be at The Garage and Renaissance is at the Tunnel. Geoff from Renaissance says that the reason he‘s doing it is because the clubs back home have slipped into a dull rut of uninspiring guest DJs who still pack the punters in. I Goldmine is the new 24-hour restaurant located half way between Sub Club and The Arches. After already hosting two
Slam parties the venue will undoubtedly slip easily into the way of Glasgow club life. For more details see the food pages of The List. this issue.
I The Blueprint posse. as well as starting a new club. Wednesdays at the Volcano. have been putting together a magazine of the same name. Blueprint will be published monthly and contain articles about and influenced by the club‘s soul. funk.jazz. hip hop music policy. interviews in the first issue include MC Mello and Rob B
- from Stereo Mcs. The
club night will also have a ‘Gallery’ space for local artists to add some ‘visual flava'. Anyone interested in showing their work should contact the Volcano. (Rory Weller)
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I Name? Evolution Records.
I Occupation Cult British electronica label run by Tom Middleton and Mark Pritchard of Reload. Global Connnunication and Jedi Knights fame.
I Date of birth I991.
I Place of birth Crewkeme. Somerset.
I Details of conception A chance meeting between Mark (who made the early 90s ‘ardcore tune ‘Roobarb and Custard‘) and Tom (an Aphex Twin collaborator) and mutual discovery of Carl Craig’s Fragile EP (asBFC). One track ‘Evolution’ was to change their lives (and name their label).
I Admirers of the newborn label? Richie Hawtin (Evolution EP 5) and Mixmaster Morris (Evolution 4 8c 6) to name two.
I One for the trainspotters then? Not at all. Evolution 1 and 2 have now been deleted but luckily there‘s a handy compilation The Theory Of Evolution featuring the best tracks on the label.
I Which are? ‘Amenity‘ according to LTJ Bukem, ambient classic ‘Obselon Mi-nos‘ according to Mixmaster Morris and the stoned- electro of ‘Arcadian‘ according to James Lavelle.
I Hardly the purist techno label you might have thought then? No. In fact, Mark and Tom are relaunching Evolution. modelling the structure on DJ Duke‘s Power Music with three separate subdivisions — one each for house. techno and jungle.
I Techno, jungle, ambient, house; any other styles they’d like to cover? Well there‘s the Jedi Knights project making electro (Mark and Tom havejust been asked to remix the next Juan Atkins single as The Jedi Knights) and their label signings.
I What label signings?~Matt Herbert who makes ironic conceptual electronica as Wishmountain Plays. Steven Home aka The Home and Jak ‘n‘ Stepper
I What to say? Darwin was spot on. I What not to say? Got any trance. gabba. ’appy 'ardcore mate. Evolution Records night is or The Arches. Glasgow on Sat 8 Apr:
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