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£10 on the door. Hard house and trance from the superstar DJ. ■ Lux at Why Not?. Weekly 10pm– 3am. Free before 11pm; £6 before midnight; £8 after. Joe XO, Robbie Tolson and Johnny Frenetic provide dance, house and electro with monthly special guest DJs. ■ Planet Earth at Citrus Club. Weekly 10.30pm–3am. Free before 11pm; £6 after. Music from 1976 through to 1989. In other words, a healthy dose of punk, new wave, new romantic and electro-pop (now with added 90s). FREE Road Trip at Electric Circus. Weekly 10pm–3am. An audio-visual vacation with the best mixtapes to match. ■ Shake Yer Shoulders at Studio 24. 27 Jun, 11pm–3am. Free before 11.30pm; £5 after. Mixed genre night of minimal, electro, techno and drum & bass. FREE The Soundbank at Pivo Caffè. Weekly 10.30pm–3am. An eclectic mix of indie, punk and hip hop.
✽■ StepBack at Wee Red Bar. 4 Jul, 11pm–3am. £5. Heavy bass, house, techno and hip hop from Wolfjazz and Keyte. See preview, left. ■ XY at 511. 27 Jun, 10.30pm–3am. £6 (£4). Adrenaline fuelled house, electro, garage and techno night. ■ Xplicit at the Bongo Club. 20 Jun, 11pm–3am. £5 before midnight; £7 after. Drum & bass, dubstep and other bassy beats.
Saturday Edinburgh
■ Albatronics at Studio 24. 28 Jun, 11pm–3am. £2 before 11.30pm; £5 (£4) after. Bridging the gap between clubbing and folk music as Celtic music meets dance beats. The Monster Ceilidh Band guest. FREE Automatic at CC Blooms. 14 Jun, 11pm–3am. Resident DJ Jon Pleased Wimmin plays bouncy house and electro disco screams. ■ Bass Children at the Mash House. 14 Jun, 9pm–3am. £8 before midnight; £10 after. Night promoting the different vibes which wobble around strict UK genres like grime, garage, jungle, dubstep and wonky. The night includes WUZET, Hedo, Hudyhary, Flash G and many more. ■ Beep Beep, Yeah! at Electric Circus. 14 Jun, 10.30pm–3am. £5 before midnight; £6 after. A staunchly retro soundtrack of 50s rock, 60s grooves and 70s psychedelia. ■ Country Rocks at Counting House. 14 Jun, 7.30pm–12.30am. £5. Rootin’, tootin’, boot stompin’, hip shakin’ hoedown with DJ Randy Rogers.
✽■ Deep Excursions at Mash House. 28 Jun, 9pm–3am. £5-£10. A
new night in Edinburgh which aims to bring top class DJs to an intimate venue. For the first instalment, Berlin’s Sven Weisemann will be playing. FREE The Disco Co at CC Blooms. 28 Jun, 11pm–3am. Dale Lush plus DJ Michelle and guests a mash-up of kitsch and current house and disco. ■ Grown Ups at Summerhall. 21 Jun, 8pm–1am. £6–£10. Vintage vinyl night with tunes from the last six decades provided by DJs Kinghorror and The Spotlight Kid and ranging from rockabilly and soul to garage, new wave and electro. ■ Mumbo Jumbo at the Bongo Club. 21 Jun, 11pm–3am. £3 before midnight; £5–£7 after. Headspin’s Steve Austin and Colin Miller join forces with Tackno’s Trendy Wendy, mixing up funk, soul, electro, house and good time party tunes. ■ Pocket Aces at Cabaret Voltaire. 28 Jun, 11pm–3am. £5–£7. At Pocket Aces dancing is a priority with high energy disco, 80s electro, Afrobeat and house to the fore. iAM Takeover. ■ Republik Presents . . . at the Liquid Room. 14 Jun, 10pm–3am. £10–£15 in advance; more on the door.
Big room, progressive house and electro with special guests from around the place. Presenting Funkagenda with support from Ross Carnie and Ross Hammond. ■ Saturday Night Beaver at the Annexe at the Liquid Room. 21 Jun, 10.30pm–3am. £3 before 11.30pm, £4- £5 after. SNB is back in the safe hands of Trendy Wendy, Mama D, The Funky Diva and Wee Taco Mel, with a kickin’ soundtrack for ladies, their invited male guests and LGBT friendly door policy. ■ Soulsville at the Bongo Club. 5 Jul, 11pm–3am. £5. DJs Francis Dosoo, Fryer & Mr Mason bring you a night of rapturous soul music, playing rugged rhythms and deep blue grooves long into the midnight hours. Featuring visuals downstairs and the return of Motherfunk upstairs. ■ Think Twice at Cabaret Voltaire. 14 Jun, 11pm–3am. £5–£7. Deep soulful house and electronic funk from resident Craig Smith (6th Borough Project) and guests. ■ Torture Garden at the Caves. 14 Jun, 9pm–3am. £18 in advance; £22 on the door. The world’s leading body art, fetish and twisted burlesque club makes another trip up north with a hard house, electro, dubstep, rock’n’roll and mash- up playlist. ■ Ultra Beat v N Trance at City Nightclub. 28 Jun, 10.30pm–3am. . Let the DJ deck battle commence! ■ Unseen at Studio 24. 14 Jun, 10.30pm–3am. £5. Techno night specialising in ‘pitch black techno’ from the minds that gave you Dogma. Featuring Stress (6tm Anon). Sunday Edinburgh
■ Cav Sundays at Cav. Weekly 10pm–3am. £4 before midnight; £5 after (students free before midnight). Studenty charty party. FREE Coalition at Sneaky Pete’s. Weekly 11pm–3am. Drum & bass, breaks, dubstep, techno and electro from the resident team. ■ Rise at Opal Lounge. Weekly 10.30pm–3am. £6 (£4). Johnny Frenetic mashes up a unique and energetic three deck mix of funky house, sexy urban and indie infused electro, club classics and remixes. ■ Taste at the Liquid Room. 6 Jul, 10pm–3am. £10. Fisher & Price (plus Miss Chris, Martin Valentine and Steven Wanless) provide an eclectic mix of the very best in underground dance music and classics. A special 20th anniversary night. Monday Edinburgh
■ Flare at Why Not?. Weekly 10pm–3am. £4–£5. Cheesy music old and new with a little bit of house and electro thrown into the mix. FREE Rockeoke at Opium. Weekly 10pm–3am. A metal/rock take on karaoke. Tuesday Edinburgh
■ Hector’s House at Cabaret Voltaire. Weekly 11pm–3am. £3–£5. Dedicated to house in its many forms, from vocal to progressive via disco, electro and Chicago grooves. FREE Hive Tuesdays at the Hive. Weekly 10pm–3am. Rock, emo, punk and metal dispatches from Edinburgh’s alt.scene. FREE Soul Jam at Sneaky Pete’s. Weekly 11pm–3am. Old school, real deal soul, funk and hip hop. Wednesday Edinburgh
■ Champion Sound at the Bongo Club. Weekly 11pm–3am. £1 before midnight; £3 after. Weekly club night of dub, dubstep and drum & bass. ■ Tribe at the Liquid Room. Weekly 10.30pm–3am. £5 (students £4). Students’ night for partying.
GLASGOW
■ Admiral 72 Waterloo Street, 221 7705.
■ The Arches 253 Argyle Street, 565 1000. ■ Arta 62 Albion St, 552 2101.
■ Bamboo 51 West Regent Street, 332 1067/8. ■ Basura Blanca at the Brunswick Hotel 106–108 Brunswick Street, 552 0001.
■ Blackfriars 36 Bell Street, 552 5924. ■ Box 431 Sauchiehall Street, 332 5431.
■ Braehead Arena Kings Inch Road, 886 8300.
■ The Buff Club 142 Bath Lane, 248 1777. ■ Bunker 193–199 Bath Street, 229 1427.
■ Carnival Arts Centre 34 Albion Street, 946 6193.
■ The Cathouse 15 Union Street, 248 6606.
■ Classic Grand 18 Jamaica Street, 847 0820. ■ Club 30 22 Cambridge Street, 332 3437.
■ Common 25 Royal Exchange Square, 0845 166 6003. ■ Corinthian Ingram Street, 552 1101.
■ Ivory Blacks 56 Oswald Street, 248 4114.
■ Karbon 4 Buchanan Street, Springfield Court, 221 8099. ■ Karibu 95 Hope Street, 221 7002.
■ Kushion 158–166 Bath Street, 0845 166 6031.
■ La Cheetah 72 Queen Mary Street, 221 4851. ■ Maggie May’s 50 Trongate, Merchant City, 548 1350.
■ Milan 42 Queen Street, 548 8002.
■ Nice’n’Sleazy 421 Sauchiehall Street, 333 0900. ■ O2 ABC 300 Sauchiehall Street, 332 2232.
■ The Courtyard 84–86 West Nile Street, 352 9977. ■ O2 Academy 121 Eglinton Street, 08744 477 2000.
EDINBURGH ■ The Bongo Club 66 Cowgate, 558 7604.
■ Castle Club 3 Queensferry Street Lane, 467 7215.
■ Cav 3 West Toll Cross, 228 3252. ■ The Caves Niddry Street South, 557 8989.
■ CC Blooms 23–24 Greenside Place, 556 9331.
■ The Citrus Club Grindlay Street, 622 7086. ■ City: Edinburgh 1a Market Street, 226 9560.
■ Club Tropicana 23 Lothian Road, 0844 891 0855. ■ Electric Circus 36–39 Market Street, 226 4224.
■ Espionage 4 India Buildings, Victoria Street, 477 7007. ■ GHQ 4 Picardy Place, 0845 166 6024.
■ Henry’s Cellar Bar 8–16a Morrison Street, 629 4101. ■ Hive 15–17 Niddry Street, 556 0444.
■ The Jazz Bar 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298.
■ The Liquid Room 9c Victoria Street, 225 2564. ■ Lulu (under Tiger Lily) 125b George Street, 225 5005.
■ Mood Omni, Greenside Place, 550 1640.
■ Opal Lounge 51 George Street, 226 2275. ■ Opium 71 Cowgate, 225 8382.
■ Distill 1102–1106 Argyle Street, 337 3006. ■ O’Couture 373–377 Sauchiehall Street, 333 3940.
■ The Ferry Anderston Quay, the Broomielaw, 01698 360085. ■ The Old Fruitmarket Candleriggs, 353 8000.
■ Firewater 341 Sauchiehall Street, 354 0350. ■ Òran Mór 731–735 Great Western Road, 357 6200.
■ The Flying Duck 142 Renfield Street, 564 1450. ■ Polo Lounge 84 Wilson Street, 0845 659 5905.
■ The Garage 490 Sauchiehall Street, 332 1120. ■ Queen Margaret Union University Gardens, 339 9784.
■ The Shed 26 Langside Avenue, 649 5020.
■ Stereo 20–28 Renfield Lane, 222 2254.
■ Strathclyde Students’ Union University of Strathclyde, Students Association, 90 John Street, 567 5023. ■ Sub Club Jamaica Street, 248 4600.
■ SWG3 Studio Warehouse, 100 Eastvale Place, 357 7246. ■ The Tunnel 84 Mitchell Street, 204 1000.
■ Universal 157 Sauchiehall Lane, 332 8899.
■ Viper 500 Great Western Road, Kelvinbridge, 334 0560. ■ The Winchester Club 49 Bell Street, 552 3586.
■ Potterrow Teviot, Bristo Square, 650 9195. ■ Shanghai Le Monde, 16 George Street, 270 3900.
■ Silk King Stables Road, 229 7986. ■ Sin Wilkie House, Cowgate, 07788 756258.
■ Sneaky Pete’s 73 Cowgate, 225 1757. ■ Studio 24 Calton Road, 558 3758.
■ Third Door 45–47 Lothian Street, 225 6313.
■ The Voodoo Rooms 19a West Register Street, 556 7060.
■ The Wee Red Bar Edinburgh College of Art, Lauriston Place, 229 14 42. ■ Why Not? 14 George Street, 624 8311.