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INSIDE OUT The Arches, Glasgow, Mon 27 & Fri 31 Dec
Say what you like about Inside Out, it’s still the busiest night at the Arches, the biggest club venue in Glasgow. 2004 will go down in history as the year when the critical clamour over the death of dance music almost drowned out the music, but try telling that to the 2000-plus punters that fill this club every month. The club are putting on two very special celebrations, at Christmas and New Year, to mark the end of another frighteningly successful year.
Much-loved resident Simon Foy is in no confusion over what Inside Out does: ‘We have a music policy, which is big room techno and big, hard trance. We stick to our guns, and it works. Our crowd loves it, so it doesn‘t matter if people knock it. This is for them.’ The guest DJ roster can seem repetitive, but, explains Foy, that should be changing. ‘We‘re going to be moving in something of a new direction. It’s time to get a few more new guys in, like Above and Beyond, Christopher Lawrence, Marco Bailey. It has definitely reached the point where we have to try new things.’
For the two festive parties, however, it’s a recognisably high-profile line- up. Christmas soiree is dominated by the twin towers of trance, Mauro Picotto and Marco V, while the Hogmanay party is what Foy describes as ‘A basic night of Glasgow madness’, with Guy Ornadel, Katana, Adam Sheridan and Richard Tulip (great name!) playing alongside the residents.
Foy, aware as any Inside Out resident must be of the occasionally disparaging comments made about the club, offers a valid defence: ‘I always notice that, on other club websites, everyone is quite nasty, slagging each other off. On ours, there’s a really friendly atmosphere. A genuine sense of camaraderie.’ (Johnny Regan)
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Ill/5; issue: Bob's {moor/um
Bob's Emporium is a club with direction. Unsatisfied with the stagnation that is choking noughties clubbing, they are on a mission to put the scene’s slowing response to cultural evolution into sharp relief. But If they’re so bothered about the malaise, we ask part-founder Stef Macbeth, what are they going to do about it?
‘lhe current generation of DJs. ;,)rornoters and clubbers find it hard to stick two angers up to what went before. We're paralysed by the legacy of the Hacrenda. the Paradise Garage. the Warehouse. the old Sub Club and images like Kate Moss en the coxei o‘ lhe Face. It's as it we feel apologetic about not being there Where are the cocky young pretenders who don't give a tuck”? welcome to Bob's Ernoonurn. a club with three rooms of truly orginal music'
Wait a minute, they aren't going to throw the baby out with the bathwater are they?
‘We'xe always thought that the Glasgoi-r club scene is the best in the UK. but {‘0th of going out. Glasgow needs something fresh. ot ;tist tres't music but a bit of attitude and a little less reverence to what came before. \‘Jhat "nan; DJs are TlOtl‘g has been done to death.’
Fair enough, but isn’t the Big Joint a dodgy venue in the middle of nowhere? Most clubs have too much history. As far as possible. wanted to remove ah the reference wints. and make it somewhere Quite unfamiliar. The Big Joint s a t3eau:":.: rarnshacixle house straight out of a E-rnox're with some of the weirdest (JC-CO.’ .Johnn', Regani
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The Bongo Club. Edinburgh, Fri 17 Dec.
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Anyone who's seen the ‘.'.’lllllll\, obscure llyer for STET might be tantalised and confused in egual riieasure. Consciously going against the grain which sees rnost clubs parrot a list mt genres or even bands on their pronto material. Sl El sat. siinpli, iin a ‘.’£lll(.‘l, of languages) ‘We l one Music.
'We like people to dance hard,‘ explains shadou-ry rnaster'iiiiid Maggie Jones bluntly. "We like a club to look and feel good. and we have no ltttu’t‘) that a club should be ,'ll(,l‘: than Just a club. As long as the ritufsirff; good. the atmospheres good. the lighting's good. then people will hage a good time. Beyond the pseiido»inteller,tual porriposity that goes along .‘.'llll an, scene we llllgl‘i be lurnped into. .‘xe Just want to let the music explain itself. We play ~.-.rhat we .'.'ant to hear. and fine it you don‘t like it. hopefull. ,ou'll like the next track'
\‘Jhat STET likes; is a disparate tiission of electro. new '.'./a‘.e. dub. eskr Ett‘tt leftfield pop which ‘.‘.’lll rrre*.'itablg. appeal to the party faithful as much as the obsCurist. To prcade a sarr‘r,l;rig at their ~.-./ares this night onl, ml! be tree. ‘.‘./llll0 Glasgow's jazz—electrorriea outfit This Driver will be appearzng the 'Not that the resmnsrorlrt, ct championing new rr‘usir; .ri Edinburgnf warns Jones, ‘lt's a case Of it like If. .29}; [of l'. Qr‘f
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