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GLASGOW FRIDAYS
I The Ark at The Tunnel. 10.30pm-3am. £6 (£4). The Tunnel‘s longest running night featuring a dressed-up crowd getting down in this award-winning venue to the superior hard house sounds of DJ Michael Kilkie and Scott Mackay. Duncan Reid and Simon Foy in Room Two. Early drinks promos.
I Bar 10 8pm—close. Free. Stevie Donaldson and guests playing a pretty hard table-topping mix for people who don‘t want to go clubbing quite yet. Pre- club.
I Bios at the Sub Club. llpm—3am. Price tbc. 7 March and monthly. Minimal jack masters Bios with another of their exceptionally fine nights. this time featuring the talents of Emissions artist Alex Handley.
I Club Apt at The Apartment. llpm—3am. £7. DJ Alan Ronald with housey big beats for the beautiful set.
I Club X llpm-3am. £5 (£3). Gay. Happy house and nu-NRG from DJ Amar. Drinks promos.
I Essential at The Volcano. llpm—2.30am. £5 (£3). Jamie Mitchell with classic house and garage. Drinks promos.
I Exotica at the CCA Cafe Bar. 9.30pm—midnight. Free. Andy Divine eases your listening into the weekend. Pre-club.
I Freester at The Asylum downstairs bar (Caledonian University Union). 8pm—lam. £3 (free before 10pm). DJs Kenny and Bone dropping breaks. beats and future funk.
I Human Nature at Lime. l lpm—3am. £4 (£2.50 with matric card). DJ tan with funky dance. Drinks promos.
I Ice at Archaos. lOpm-3.30am. £5 (£4). A night of deep garage and house from Gareth Sommerville (Yip Yap). Stevie Middleton (Sole Music) and Geoff (Archaos). KMC and The Future
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Engineers in Room Two every week for superior drum ‘n' bass action.
I Intuition at Glasgow School ofArt. lOpm—2.30am. £4 (£3). 7 March only. Dave Collie of Foresight. Chog of Normal in York and Steve guest for an eclectic mix of big beats. dub. deep house and techno.
I Katch at The Cathouse. l lpm—3am. £3 (£2/free before I 1.30pm). Three floors of rock with drinks promos.
I Kelly vs. James vs. Kelly at King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut. 8.30pm—midnight. Free. 7 March only. Three DJs fight to the death with funk. pop and hip hop. ‘All in tag wrestling for your ears.‘
I Kung Funk at The 13th Note (ground floor). 8pm—midnight. Free. The former Soundclash and Sonora DJs with phat jazz beat cake. hip hop and extreme leftfteld drutn ‘n' bass.
I Love Bug at The Garage. 10.30pm-3am. £3 (£4). DJ Graeme with an eclectic mix of good time party tunes. Drinks promos.
I Mean Street at The 13th Note (basement). Spin—midnight. Free. Rock 'n‘ roll revolutionaries.
I Misshapes at Cafe Qudos (QMU). 8.30pm-2am. £2.50 (£2). Indie. jangly guitar stuff.
I Moio's 9pm—midnight. Free. DJ Nick bringing you the renowned Mojo vibe. Pre-club.
I Mundo Latino at Burlin‘ Jocks. 9pm—midnight. Free. Club Havana presents salsa. merengue. lambada and Latin jazz from the award-winning DJ Jazz. Pre-club.
I Orange Peel at The Asylum (Caledonian University Union). lOpm—3am. £3. DJs Dan. Chris and Nick with hard dance and techno.
I Parklife at The Arena. 10.30pm—3am. £4 (£3). Glasgow‘s first and foremost Britpop night playing classic dance/poplindie/retro/soul sounds from the 60s to the 90s. Drinks promos all night.
I Phar Out at Glasgow School ofArt. lOpm—2.30am. £3. Deep dub and drum 'n‘ bass. Resident DJ Paul Cawley is
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joined every week by guest DJs.
I Pure at Bennets. 11.30pm—3am. £4 (£3). Grant Duff with an upbeat dance night which couldn't be more removed from the Edinburgh club of the same name. Gay.
I Radio City in The Attic. 10.30pm—3am. £3 (£2). The original retro club. playing Stax. Motown. The Stones. The Who etc.
I Radikal Rhythm at The Dark Room (Strathclyde University Union). lOpm—Bam. £4 (£3). Students plus up to four guests. Hard house/techno night hosted by different DJs rotating each month. 7 March the Wax Lyrical gang guest with Danny Lee and Scott Dempster. l4 March Kevin McKay of Musique Tropique hosts the night with special guest. Andrew Weatherall of Sabresonic.
I Rat Trap 10.30pm—3am. £3. Three floors of rock. Studio One: NIN kinda stuff; Studio Two: The Batcave. DJ Christine goes Goth; Studio Three: Flex Your Head. punk and ska from Ross. Paul and Jane.
I Reds llpm—3am. £5 (£3 for students before midnight). Easy-going mix of disco. funk and contemporary chart dance.
I Reform at R.G.'s. 8pm—midnight. Free. Tosh and guests for laid back jazz. Pre-club.
I Reminiscence at The Hive (Glasgow University Union). lOpm—2am. £2. Students and guests. Anthems. handbag. house and chart. The most popular dance from the last decade and beyond. Drinks promos.
I Shag at Fury Murry‘s. llpm—3am. £4 (£3). Across-the-board mix of party choons with James G.
I Slam at The Arches. 10.30pm—3am. £7. World famous DJ and production duo Stuart and Orde providing the best in deep electronic dance for an up-for-it capacity crowd every week. On fortn in a big way. 14 March. Luke Slater guests. See Hitlist.
I Tangent at the Sub Club. llpm—3am. £6. l4 March and fortnightly. Techno pitch shifters Tangent and their merry band of followers take the Subbie over again for a night of diverse attractions. I Test at Glasgow School of Art. lOpm—2.30am. £4 (£3) l4 March only. I PA at Tin Pan Alley. llpm—3am. £5. Martin Collins and Lawrence Hughes on an under round techno vibe.
I Uptigfit at The Bedsit. 9pm—2am. £4 (£3). 14 March only. The Goodfoot mob playing northern soul. hammond jazz. and funk in the main hall. while Graham Parsons ofWhere‘s Jude (London) guests in the bar.
I Velvet Rooms lOpm—3am. £5. Alan Ronald in Room Two with an open mix from house anthems and disco to Britpop and soul. Martin Hesketh in Room ()ne playing mellow hip hop. swingbeat and classic soul.
I What's Your Function at Tin Pan Alley. llpm—3am. £5. 14 March and fortnightly. J‘ilkes and Ha‘t‘ch of Knucklehead fame continue to expand their empire with this new night of techno bass. Chicago house and minimal Detroit techno and electro. Tonight Steve Bicknell of Lost guests.
GLASGOW SATURDAYS
I 4th Dimension at Cottiers. 9pm—midnight. Free. Andy Young plays jazz. Brazilian. soul. fusion and funk. Drinks promos. Pre-club.
I Archaos at Archaos. l lpm—3am. £8 (£6). Sam Wallace and Chris Harris mix up garage and house for a busy. moderately dressy crowd with Scott and Geoff playing club classics in Betty‘s Mayonnaise (part ofArchaos).
I Bar 10 9pm—midnight. Free. Busy hard house pre-club with Nick Peacock. I Blackout at Tin Pan Alley. llpm-3am. £6. Soma recording artists Lam and Stevie Donaldson host the night with appearances by Tony Scott of Limbo Records' Havana fame and Percy X. 8 March the Tenchi collective join them (see separate listing). 15 March DJ Rush
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Sub Culture Harri and Domenic are finally joined by the Basement Jaxx boys only five months after they were first
booked. Felix Buxton and Simon Ratcliffe
(Basement Jaxx) are champions of the new movement in deep house and continue to push house expectations even further. Sub Club, Sat 15 Mar.
Slam Taking time out from recording his
new album and a heavy schedule of DJ dates round Europe, Luke Slater of the Planetary Assault System guests at the Arches. Slater's connection with Slam is
strong after carrying out remix duties on
Stuart and Orde's ’Positive Education'. The Arches, Fri 14 Mar.
What’s Your Function J'ilkes and Ha’t'ch
of Knucklehead's new night, with Steve Bicknell guesting. Bicknell is a DJ and record producer who plays pitched-up minimal techno at his Lost night in London. Tin Pan Alley, Fri 14 Mar and fortnightly.
Red Cell Mark Ryal, Twitch (Pure) and Dominic celebrate their first year of pushing the boundaries of midweek expectations, with a guest appearance by Cajmere of Chicago's Cajual Recordings and Relief records. Sub Club, Thurs 13 Mar. See Phactfi/e.
from Detroit joins the residents.
I The Cathouse I lpm—3am. £4 (£3.50). Two floors of rock with drinks promos. I Classic FM at Fury Murry's. l().30pm—3am. £5 (£4). lndie-pop/indie- dance shenanigans from Jim Downie and the gang. Upstairs in the new room Furies present Twister: 'The best of
Brit op and tootin' 60s hits‘.
I C eopatra’s llpm—3am. £6. Mainstream commercial vibe.
I Club 69 Rocksy's Basement. l0pm—2.30am. £5. Martin and Willy of Rub-A-Dub playing the best arid deepest from the underground.
I Club Apt at The Apartment. llpm—3am. £7. DJ Bob Jeffries with funky soul. hip hop and house even sexier than the Friday.
I Club Cubana at The Bedsit. 9pm—2am. £4 (£3). 15 March and fortnightly. DJ Tchico presents art extravaganza of the finest Latin sounds at this popular night. Arrive early. ees very busy.
I Club Iris at Bennets. l 1.30pm—3am. £6 (£4). DJ Sara with a good dancey mix. Drinks promos. Gay.
I Club X llpm—3am. £6 (£4). Gay clttb with upfront dance tunes from [)J Suave Gav. Drinks promos.
I Colours at The Arches. l().3()pm—3am. Price tbc. 8 March and monthly. Regular Colours guests CJ Macintosh of the Ministry Of Sound guests with DJ Heaven for a night of glittering hard dance.
I Cool Lemon at The Arches. llpm—3am. £10. l5 March and monthly. Cool Lemon residents Paterson and Price are joined by Belfast‘s David Holmes and Jaye Brown from the Hacienda for full on hard dance/techno beats.
I Cul De Sac Cul De Sac Bar. 9—1 lptn. Free. Jim Hutchison from Wax Lyrical and Teknotis with hard house and techno. Drinks promos.
I Different Class at The Asylum (Caledonian University Union). lOpm—3am. £3. DJ Jason with all your favourite Britpop and alternative tunes.