CLUBS listings CLUB LISTINGS continued
I Trash at Trash. 11pm-3am. £5 (£3). Weekly. Two rooms of party action with a mix of vocal house, funky classics and current R&B favourites from Grahame Ferguson and Stevie Smith.
I Tron at The Tron Theatre Bar. 9.30pm—midnight. Free. New night (also on Sats) with mellow grooves from ‘Glasgow’s Smoothest Operator’ DJ Billy Mulraney.
I Turbulence at The Glasgow School of Art. Closed until 10 Sep.
I Yang at Yang. 11pm—3am (bar open from 6pm). £5 (free before 11pm). Weekly. Premier hip hop and scratch mixing from residents Dema & Nice (Freek Menoovers) and Bunty in the newly renovated Room Two plus Stevie Donaldson and Domenic Gallacher (Fused) slamming underground house in Room Three.
GLASGOW SATURDAYS
I 99 at Alaska. Next date 11 Sep.
I Archaos at Archaos. 11pm—4am. £8. Weekly. Kris Keegan and AJ. mix up garage and house in the massive dome room dance floor, which has one of the beefiest sound systems and most impressive light shows in Scotland, plus full aerial display. lain Thompson playing chunky disco in Betty’s while Paul Traynor plays R&B, swing and hip hop in the members’ Sky Bar.
I Asendance at The Temple. 11pm—3am. £7 (£5). Weekly. Residents rotate between Steve Lee (The Gallery-London) Zammo (Ice Factory) Michael Kilkie and Billy Macatee with hard house and new trance.
I Bennet's 11.30pm—3am. £6 (£5). Weekly. DJ Sara with a good dancey mix downstairs that’s a bit heavier than her Wednesdays, plus DJ Grant Duff on the upper floor playing more handbaggy house. Gay.
I Bonkers at Bunkers. 11pm-3am. £5 after midnight; £4 before. Weekly. Club
classics at this after-office hang-out with residents David Campbell and Nobble Whitelaw.
I Budda at Bar Budda. 8pm-midnight. Free. Weekly. Pre-club. Solemusic’s Stevie for garage, deep house and dancing on the tables.
I Business As Usual at The Apartment. 11pm-3am. £8. Weekly. Funky house and disco. Check out the new era at the Apartment with new more relaxed door policy, credible music spread and generally less stiffness. Gutties are now encouraged which shows just how much they’ve loosened up their attitude.
I The Cathouse 10.30pm-3am. £4 (£3.50) £2.50 before 11.30pm. Weekly. Three floors of rock, grunge, contemporary indie and indie dance, in one of the best rock venues in the country.
I Classic FM at Fury Murry’s. 11pm—3am. £6 (£4). Weekly. Club classics and party tunes in the main room with DJs Jim Downie and Sean Webster plus a more indie slant upstairs.
I Club 69 at Rocksy’s Basement. 10pm-2.30am. £5. Weekly. Martin, Wilba and Barrie of dance record shop Rub-A-Dub playing the best and deepest from the underground. Even though it’s in the function room of an Indian restaurant, it consistently finds its way into the best clubs in the country polls. Check with the guys at the shop (400 6967) for the latest low down, including whether they’re doing a bus out to Paisley tonight.
I Colours at The Arches. Next date 11
Sep.
I Cross Wired at The Cross bar. 8pm-midnight. Free. Weekly. Funked-up house and techno from those knights on the round tables.
I Cul De Sac at Cul De Sac Bar. 9pm-midnight. Free. Weekly. Pre-club. Soma’s Jim Hutchison (well he works in the office anyway) with deep house and funk techno.
I Divine at Glasgow School Of Art (downstairs). lOpm-late. £3.50 (£2.50
GSA students). Weekly. Andrew Divine and Hush Puppy with real deal Northern soul, Hammond grooves, bubblegum pop, wah-wah funk, Moog power and chemical breakbeats now celebrating their ninth birthday this week.
I Firebird at Firebird. 8.30pm—midnight. Free. Weekly. Pre- club. DJs Marco and Norse Ned from Nimbus/Polar Polar Productions playing for beer and pizza.
I Free Form at The 13th Note Club (both floors). 9pm-3am. £3 (free before 10.30pm). Weekly. Steven and Paul Watt with two floors of soul, Latin, jazz, funk and contemporary beats.
I Fresh at The Ferry at The Renfrew Feny. Next date 28 Aug with Colin Dale. I Fruitfly at The Arches. 11pm-43m. £8. 21 Aug. Monthly. They’re just so damn good that tonight is a resident’s night with DJs Fisher and Price of Taste fame with uplifting to hard house in the main room plus Martin Valentine and Stuart Barrie playing garage and US house in the back room. Check out www.webfiyers.co.uk/fruitfiy for more information.
I The Garage at The Garage. 10pm-3am. £6 (£4); £1 off before 11pm. Weekly. Big, brash and unashamedly happy to put the good time party groove into your Saturday night with a wide spread of commercial anthems in the main room and indie inspiration upstairs. I Graduate Club at g2. 11pm—3am. £4 (£3). Weekly. New night aimed at the kind of people who used to enjoy a night out at The Cotton Club in ‘89 or Fury’s 93, figure they’re a tad too old for the Garage, but don’t fancy staying in with the Horlicks and slippers. DJ Steve Davis mixing up all the classics.
I Home Cookin' at Babaza. 6pm-3am (DJs from 11pm). £5 (free before 11pm). Weekly. Pumping mix from Jamie Strang; funk, rare groove and hip hop and generally music of black origin.
I Inside Out at The Arches. Next date 28 Aug with Lisa Loud and Darren Stokes.
I Knucklehead Presents My Machines at Glasgow School Of Art (upstairs). lOpm—late. £4 (£2.50 GSA students). Weekly. A night of the pure and true underground funk technology from Jilkes and Hatch, their musical creativity ripping the roof off the Art School for four years now.
I Lime at The Lime. 10.30pm-3am. £6 (£4). Weekly. DJ Cameron Craig with progressive house and garage.
I Living Room at The Living Room. 8pm—midnight. Free. Weekly. Pre-club. New York Alliance’s Colin Walker playing a deep house set.
I Love Boutique at Alaska. Next date 4
Sep.
I October Cafe at October Cafe. 9pm—midnight. Free. Weekly. Pre-club. Lisa Littlewood (Tunnel) with a funky house pre-club set.
I Polo Lounge at The Polo Lounge. 10.30pm-3am. £5. Weekly. Gay. The bar upstairs is open until 3am, while downstairs DJ lna plays a camp mix of housey faves and anthems and the Trophy Room with Andy for 805 pop, punk and new wave. The Polo Lounge operates as a bar before all club nights with free entry before club starts.
I Planet Peach at Planet Peach. 11pm—3.15am. £5 (£4). Weekly. Alan Ronald mixing the best house/club and disco anthems.
I Pussypower at Scaramouche (Elderslie Street). 9pm—midnight. Free. Weekly. One of Glasgow’s more influential underground techno outfits back a ain. Pre-club.
I Re 5 at Reds. 11pm—3am. £7 (£5). Weekly. DJ Skud plays soulful garage and disco house.
I The Shed at The Shed. 10pm—3am. £5 (£4). Weekly. Graeme Ferguson in the main with commercial dance favourites at this Southside club from the team behind the Garage.
I Salsa Sabrosa at McChuils Way Out West. 8.30pm—midnight. Free. Weekly. DJs Keith and Alexis with Salsa, from classic Colombian to modern Cuban,
The Garage
490 Sauchiehall Street
- ‘You've got to like cheesey music, you've got to like to dance.‘ — 'Quite a lot of students go, you can't escape them.’
- 'Or they used to be students but haven’t grown out of it yet!’ - 'There's two lesbians here tonight, they're with my friend. Two people who live in her flat became lesbians with each other, they've written love poems to each other and left them lying round the kitchen. But they don’t know that we know.’ - 'But one of them has brought her boyfriend.’
- ’Yeah, but we think that they're going to come out tonight!‘
LISA FLEMING
103 rurusr 19—26 Aug 1999