Glasgow CLUBS J-Phunk
The Jazz Bar, 20:00–22:30, £4 (£3)
Jazz Bar Trio The Jazz Bar, 20:00–22:30, £4 (£3)
Classic funky jazz fusion from the bass-led five-piece.
Cool and modern jazz from the piano, double-bass and drums trio.
The Soul Foundation
Rabid Dogs
Voodoo Rooms, 21:00–01:00, Free
Quality soul covers, playing close reference to the originals.
Late ‘n’ Live
The Jazz Bar, 23:30–03:00, £5 (£3)
Live funk and soul players, plus funk DJs taking it into the small hours.
Sat 17 Sep Song, by Toad
Wee Red Bar, 19:00–22:00, £5
Local music blogger Song, by Toad handpicks a selection of local and touring up-and-comers for your delectation.
The Blueswater Collective Electric Circus, 19:00–22:00, Free
Classic blues tunes from the collective of former St Andrews students.
Bowery Street (Crazy Alice, The Kiks, The Charge) The Store, 19:30–22:00, £7 (£5)
Edinburgh rock ‘n’ rollers who play all their live shows electric.
Michael McGoldrick, John Doyle, John McCusker Bongo Club, 19:30–22:00, £14
Bannerman’s, 20:00–23:00, £4
Ear assault of all-out punk noise.
Limbo (North Atlantic Oscillation, Miaoux Miaoux, Discopolis) Voodoo Rooms, 20:00–01:00, £tbc
Live music-cum-club night, with a consistently quality line-up of local favourites.
Mike Kearney KA-TET The Jazz Bar, 23:30–03:00, £3 (£2)
Blues and funk five-piece, with added horns.
Thu 22 Sep Kris Drever Bongo Club, 19:00–22:00, £12
The Orcadian folk guitarist (and one third of Lau) does his lovely solo thing.
Stanley Brinks (Freschard) Wee Red Bar, 19:00–22:00, £5
Ex-Herman Dune troubadour Stanley Brinks plays songs of devotion and mirth from his ever-expanding catalogue.
We Came from Wolves Bannerman’s, 20:00–23:00, £4
A mighty mix of traditional Irish and folk tunes from the talented trio of musicans.
Cross-genre music project, taking in a mix of emo and hardcore.
Limbo (Snide Rhythms, White Heath, Blank Canvas)
The Jazz Bar, 23:00–03:00, £3 (£2)
Voodoo Rooms, 20:00–01:00, £tbc
Live music-cum-club night, with a consistently quality line-up of local favourites.
Late ‘n’ Live: The Dark Jones The Jazz Bar, 23:30–03:00, £5 (£3)
The festival-trotting indie-rock seven-piece take to the stage with their mightly mix of originals and covers, plus DJ Astroboy taking it into the small hours.
Sun 18 Sep Hair of the Dog Sundays (Iona Bain)
Red Dog Music, 15:00–16:00, Free
Loveliness form the Glasgwegian performer, songwriter, electric cellist and pianist (i.e. one talented lady).
Augustalia
Future Heroes Madcap guitarist Aki Remally and his funk four-piece.
Fri 23 Sep Electric Circus Live Lounge Electric Circus, 17:00–22:00, Free
Music and comedy variety show, with different live guests each week.
Ghostpoet
Wee Red Bar, 19:00–22:00, Free
Mini showcase of up-and-coming Scottish hip-hop artists.
The Store, 19:30–22:00, £5
Punk rock from the Swedish noiesemakers.
Late ‘n’ Live
Contagious Behaviour
Live funk and soul players, plus funk DJs taking it into the small hours.
Mon 19 Sep Jazz Bar Big Band
The Jazz Bar, 19:30–22:00, £4 (£3)
Studio 24, 14:00–22:00, £15
All-day mini music festival showcasing over 50 bands over six of Edinburgh’s top music venues.
EH1 Festival The Store, 14:00–22:00, £15
All-day mini music festival showcasing over 50 bands over six of Edinburgh’s top music venues.
EH1 Live Electric Circus, 14:00–22:00, £15
All-day mini music festival showcasing over 50 bands over six of Edinburgh’s top music venues.
EH1 Live Bannerman’s, 14:00–23:00, £15
All-day mini music festival showcasing over 50 bands over six of Edinburgh’s top music venues.
Hair of the Dog Sundays (Collar Up) Red Dog Music, 15:00–16:00, Free
Dreamy pop of the sweeping pianos and alternative folkiness variety.
EH1 Live Sneaky Pete’s, 15:00–22:00, £15
All-day mini music festival showcasing over 50 bands over six of Edinburgh’s top music venues. The Liquid Room, 16:00–22:00, £15
Good ol’ folk rock ‘n’ roll from the Reading five-piece, with extra roll.
Studio 24, 19:00–23:00, £tbc
Hardcore punk showcase brought together by House Of Crust.
Tamla motown funk and soul, fronted by singer Fiona Lynch.
EH1 Festival
Urban Scot
House of Crust Showcase
The Jazz Bar, 23:00–03:00, £3 (£2)
Sun 25 Sep
Pete and the Pirates
Strains of Madness
The Sunday Sinners
Dancefloor-filling six-piece led by singalong master Gerry Coogan.
Trio of Aberfeldians playing their hardhitting brand of guitar-driven indie.
Monthly blues showcase, handpicked by singer James Carr.
The Liquid Room, 22:00–03:00, £5 (£4)
The Jazz Bar, 23:30–03:00, £5 (£3)
Umbilical Cord (The Secrets)
Stormy Sunday Blues
Brand new student night, mixing house, electro and D’n’B.
Late ‘n’ Live: Man At The Window
All-day mini music festival showcasing over 50 bands over six of Edinburgh’s top music venues.
Experimental hip-hip from the Mercury-nominated lisped Londoner.
The Scottish indie-punk scamps launch their debut EP.
Bannerman’s, 20:00–23:00, £4
All-our rock ‘n’ roll five-piece led by Kory Clarke.
EH1 Live
Cameo Colours (Cry and The Blocks, Filthy Crows)
The Jazz Bar, 20:00–22:30, £5 (£3)
Bannerman’s, 20:00–23:00, £10
Sneaky Pete’s, 19:00–22:00, £7.50 adv.
Voodoo Rooms, 19:30–01:00, £3 / £4
Edinburgh funk-cum-pop-cum-rock four-piece. Genre-crossing, yes.
Warrior Soul (Cheerleader, Paper Beats Rock)
Bannerman’s, 20:00–23:00, £5
The Jazz Bar, 23:30–03:00, £5 (£3)
Sat 24 Sep Foreigner’s Journey HMV Picture House, 19:00–22:00, £11
Journey and Foreigner tribute act, combined for double the joy.
Make This Relate (Aspen Tide, The Celestians) The Store, 19:00–22:00, £5 adv. (£6 door)
Cabaret Voltaire, 19:00–22:00, £8
The Left Hand, Forkeye, Vakunoht
The Caves, 19:00–23:00, £20
The iconic guitarist does his gently rockin’ thing, touring on the back of last year’s introspective album The Playful Heart.
Tubelord (Hold The Suspect) Sneaky Pete’s, 19:00–22:00, £5
Excitable young pups fusing spastic riffing, put-the-world-to-rights lyrics and a good dose of mathy, melodic hooks.
Usher Hall, 19:00–22:30, £sold out
Alternative rock, metal, punk and ska.
Y’Uptae
Durty Boogie
The Garage, 23:00–03:00, £5 (£3)
Weekly student night with Andy Wilson.
Wed 31 Aug Gaga Wednesdays The Garage, 23:00–03:00, £5 (£3)
Chart and classics with yer man Andy R.
Classic Grand, 23:00–03:00, £3 (£4 after 12)
Alternative pop from the 80s and 90s, with a bit of industrial dance and classic rock thrown in.
Wednesdays @ Flat 0/1 Flat 0/1, 23:00–03:00, Free
Buff Club, 23:00–03:00, £6
O2 ABC, 23:00–03:00, £4
Student-orientated indie night.
ReFrame: Launch Party The Admiral, 23:00–03:00, £5
Haunted Code and Martin Lindinger select some of the finest quality house and techno for ReFrame’s grand launch party.
Riot Radio
Maggie May’s, 23:00–03:00, Free (£5 (£3) after 12)
Indie rock ‘n’ roll, past and present.
Thu 01 Sep
Flying Duck, 23:00–03:00, £4 (£5 after 12)
Maggie May’s, 22:00–03:00, Free
Indie, rock and pop with resident DJ Jopez.
Born to Rumble The Garage, 23:00–03:00, £5 (£3)
Themed student night, complete with weekly twists and a bouncy-bloodycastle. Amen.
Counterfeit
XTRMNTR (Slaughter Joe Foster, Brian McNeill) A fine selection of pop, glam, boogaloo and soundtracks for all your dancing needs.
David Barbarossa’s Thing Nice ‘n’ Sleazy, 23:30–03:00, £3
Two floors of post-punk, reggae and classic disco, with Glasgow’s greatest small-but-hairy DJ, David Barbarossa.
The Rock Shop Rock, indie and golden surf classics.
The Substanz Kelburn Party (Clive Henry, Subb An, Chris Duckenfield, Silicone Soul) The Arches, 23:00–03:00, £12
An array of DJ talent take to the decks. Re-located to the Arches from Kelburn Castle.
Pandemic Nice ‘n’ Sleazy, 23:30–03:00, £3
Cross-genre danceathon with residents Noj and Mark. They will play The Fall.
The Garage, 23:00–03:00, £5 (£3)
Ska, pop-punk, emo, and rock hits with DJ Haze. In the Attic.
Subversion Classic Grand, 23:00–03:00, £3 (£4 after 12)
Alternative pop from the 80s and 90s, with a bit of industrial dance and classic rock thrown in.
Wednesdays @ Flat 0/1 Flat 0/1, 23:00–03:00, Free
Maggie May’s, 22:00–03:00, Free
Born to Rumble The Garage, 23:00–03:00, £5 (£3)
Themed student night, complete with weekly twists and a bouncy-bloodycastle. Amen.
Renegade
Cosmic and sweaty mix of 80s sleaze, house and disco.
Flat 0/1, 23:00–03:00, Free
Greatest Hits Buff Club, 23:00–03:00, £3
Euan Neilson plays the best of Buff.
Ready Ready
Shed Sundays
Voodoo
The Shed’s regular weekendextender.
The best in new hip-hop and R’n’B with DJ Cool Master.
Feel My Bicep
Rock, metal and indie night for the under 18s. Includes a new DJ workshop for kids to learn how to spin the decks. Wickity wack, etc.
The Sunday Roaster
Rubbermensch
Flat 0/1, 23:00–03:00, Free
Buff Club, 23:00–03:00, £3
Cathouse, 16:00–21:00, £6 (£3 members)
Back II Jack
Common Room, 20:30–00:00, Free
Pre-club selection of funk, disco and all things house.
Shed, 23:00–03:00, £2
The Garage, 23:00–03:00, £5 (£3)
Classic Grand, 23:00–03:00, Free
O2 ABC, 23:00–03:00, £5 (£3 earlybird)
DJ Wee Cheesey plays chart, remixes and mash-ups.
Chart, disco and indie.
Music Is The Music Language: After-Party (DJ Benetti, David Barbarossa)
Sub Club, 23:00–03:00, £3 (£2)
Nice ‘n’ Sleazy, 23:30–03:00, Free
Sub Thursdays Weekly party with eye-popping visuals and rotating DJs.
Taking Back Thursdays
Saturday @ Bookclub
After-party for the Cry Parrot and Tracer Trails DIY muisc weekender.
Cathouse, 23:00–03:00, £3 (£2)
Monthly mish-mash of electro, dance and dirty pop.
Funk, soul and hip-hop with everyone’s favourite floral-shirted vinylist, Andy Taylor.
Mon 05 Sep
Emo, pop-punk and rock, plus extreme death metal and thrash in the back bar.
Ready Ready
Tranced
Burn
Walk ‘n’ Skank
Hillhead Bookclub, 21:00–00:00, Free
Buff Club, 23:00–03:00, £5 (£3)
Cathouse, 23:00–03:00, £3 (£2)
Club 520, 23:00–03:00, £4 (£3)
The best in trance and progressive, with a distinct dance edge.
Anniversary concert which sees the choir joined by the RSNO for the grand finale to their year of celebrations.
Rubbermensch
Cathouse Saturdays
Inked
Henrik Freischlader Band (Gerry Jablonski’s Electric Band)
Sub Thursdays
Punk, rock and metallic beats with DJs Billy and Muppet.
DJ Muppet unleashes an audio assault of the best of rock, metal, punk and industrial. In the Attic.
Freaky Freaky (SType, Eclair fifi)
Usher Hall, 19:30–22:30, £20 (£16)
Voodoo Rooms, 19:30–01:00, £9 adv.
Self-taught German singer/guitarist with a love for all things blues.
Roots Showcase The Jazz Bar, 20:00–22:30, £4 (£3)
Toby (of the Black Diamond Express) presents a prime selection of acoustic blues, folk and roots artists. Henry’s Cellar, 20:00–23:45, £5
The Liquid Room, 22:00–03:00, £5 (£4)
Brand new student night, mixing house, electro and D’n’B.
The Sunday Sinners The Jazz Bar, 23:00–03:00, £3 (£2)
Classic Grand, 23:00–03:00, Free
O2 ABC, 23:00–03:00, £5 (£3 earlybird)
Chart, disco and indie.
Sub Club, 23:00–03:00, £3 (£2)
I Heart The Garage More Than Yer Maw!
Taking Back Thursdays
Classic Garage student fun night over all rooms.
Weekly party with eye-popping visuals and rotating DJs. Cathouse, 23:00–03:00, £3 (£2)
Emo, pop-punk and rock, plus extreme death metal and thrash in the back bar.
Walk ‘n’ Skank Club 520, 23:00–03:00, £4 (£3)
The Mungo’s Hi Fi crew in their official Glasgow residency, bringing you the very best in bass, natch.
Shed, 22:30–03:00, £7
Classic and underground disco, plus dusted-down old soul with Solar Disco’s Kev Stevens.
Cathouse Fridays
Mon 26 Sep
Crash
Cathouse, 22:30–03:00, £6 (£5)
Shed, 22:30–03:00, £6
Wed 21 Sep
Four trumpets, four trombones, five saxes and four rhythm. That do you?
Andy Robertson plays a mix of loveable pop, dance and hip-hop.
Peter Doherty
Big Shindig 2011
Glamour & The Baybes
Audio Theft
The Ex-Libertines frontman, apparently seeking a peaceful life as a solo artist.
Annual fundraising celildh, with music from the Auld Reekie Ceilidh Band, plus a live raffle.
The Garage, 23:00–03:00, £5 (£3)
Mix of chart, indie and hip-hop, plus karaoke and a cocktail bar. That do ye?
Bloc+, 23:00–03:00, Free
Highlife’s Witchdoctor Dance (Raoul K) La Cheetah, 23:00–03:00, £6
Highlife delve into the heart of Africa, with Raoul K providing the African instrumentation and tribal rhythms fused with a techno dancefloor sensibility.
Love Music
O2 ABC, 23:00–03:00, Free (£5 after 11.30)
Saturday night disco with Gerry Lyons.
Nu Skool
Buff Club, 23:00–03:00, £6
Nick Peacock spins a fine selection of vintage disco, soul and funk.
Buff Club, 23:00–03:00, £6
Nice ‘n’ Sleazy, 23:30–03:00, £3
Propaganda O2 ABC, 23:00–03:00, £4
Riot Radio Maggie May’s, 23:00–03:00, Free (£5 (£3) after 12)
Indie rock ‘n’ roll, past and present.
Kino Fist Nice ‘n’ Sleazy, 23:30–03:00, £3
Genre-spanning mix of 60s psych, leftfield pop and Krautrock with resident Charlotte (of Muscles of Joy).
Sat 10 Sep Wax Works Vs Equalised: All Day Techno Party The Old Hairdressers, 12:00–00:00, Free
Deep tripping house and techno, in a 12-hour beast of a party.
Electric Frog September Weekender (Jeff Mills, Derrick May, Joe Claussell, Frankie Knuckles, Slam) SWG3, 14:00–22:00, £27.50 (£50 weekend)
Autumn edition of the favourited micro-festival, with a pretty bloody stellar line up as per.
Voodoo Cathouse, 16:00–21:00, £6 (£3 members)
Rock, metal and indie night for the under 18s. Includes a new DJ workshop for kids to learn how to spin the decks. Wickity wack, etc.
Saturday @ Bookclub Hillhead Bookclub, 21:00–00:00, Free
Funk, soul and hip-hop with everyone’s favourite floral-shirted vinylist, Andy Taylor.
Cathouse Saturdays Cathouse, 22:30–03:00, £6 (£5)
Andy R plays hits and requests, past and present.
Fri 09 Sep
Tue 06 Sep
Africa Hitech (Rudi Zygadlo, Anxst, Point To C)
Classic Garage student fun night over all rooms.
Space Invader The Garage, 23:00–03:00, £5 (£3)
Residents Beta & Kappa joined by a rota of rotating guests.
Metal, industrial and pop-punk over two floors.
La Cheetah, 23:00–03:00, £5
Punk, rock and metallic beats with DJs Billy and Muppet.
Absolution
Classic Grand, 23:00–03:00, £5 (students free)
Jelly Roll Soul
New fortnightly fun with Vitamin’s Sam Murray, sifting through some fresh R’n’B and electronic from Scotland and beyond.
I Am
Industrial rock noise party, with a live set from furious Glasgow newcomers, Winters.
Hillhead Bookclub, 21:00–00:00, Free
The Garage, 23:00–03:00, £5 (£3)
Pop classics and a good dose of cheese.
Friday @ Bookclub
Jazz Bar Big Band
The Jazz Bar, 22:30–03:00, £3 (£2)
Shed Saturdays
Fri 02 Sep
Rock, metal, dance and indie over two levels, with the inimitable residents manning the decks.
Jazz rock powered by screaming frontman Angus Munro and drummer Jordie Gilmour.
The Garage, 22:30–03:00, £7 (£5)
Deathkill4000 (Winters)
Matt Norris and the Moon (James Mackenzie and the Aquascene, This Silent Forest)
The Jazz Bar, 19:30–22:00, £4 (£3)
Cathouse, 22:30–03:00, £6 (£5)
Flat 0/1, 23:00–03:00, Free
Duncan Harvey provides a soundtrack of funk, motown and northern soul.
Student-orientated indie night.
Sat 03 Sep
Cathouse, 23:00–03:00, £3 (£2)
Fridays @ Flat 0/1
Thu 08 Sep
Feel My Bicep
Cathouse, 23:00–03:00, £2 (£1)
Alternative rock, metal, punk and ska.
Connoisseur’s mix of vintage jazz, funk and soul.
Buff Club, 23:00–03:00, £1
Anything goes punter requests with DJs Mythic and Muppet, plus an allnew hip-hop bar on the side.
Classic Grand, 23:00–03:00, £5 (students free)
An unabashed mix of 80s pop, electro and nu-disco. They will play Phil Collins.
Indie, rock and pop with resident DJ Jopez.
Electro, funk and disco soundtrack, plus a chance to win the door fees.
Damnation
Old Skool
Nice ‘n’ Sleazy, 23:30–03:00, £2
Instruments Of Rapture
Quids In
Slouch, 23:00–03:00, Free
Handpicked selection of indie, rock and electro with DJ Heather McCartney.
Take It Sleazy!
Shake It Up
Choice picks from the Instruments Of Rapture label, as part of Sub Club’s series of one-off Sunday specials for September.
The Garage, 23:00–03:00, £5 (£3)
Funky beats past and present, with the Jelly Roll Soul residents.
Sun 04 Sep Sub Club, 23:00–03:00, £tbc
Audio Theft
80s synth and funk with your hosts Dom and Darrell.
A full-on mix of nu-metal and hard rockin’ tunes, with yer man DJ Muppet.
Tamla motown funk and soul, fronted by singer Fiona Lynch.
The Thomas Morton Hall, 19:30–00:00, £15
Old Skool
80s synth and funk with your hosts Dom and Darrell.
Shake It Up
Stoked
Sub Club, 23:00–03:00, Free (£10 after 12)
Maggie May’s, 23:00–03:00, Free (£5 (£3) after 12)
Propaganda
Subversion
Subculture
Duncan Harvey provides a soundtrack of funk, motown and northern soul.
Flat 0/1, 23:00–03:00, Free
The Arches, 23:00–03:00, £7 (£5)
Student fun night, with a bouncy castle and hot tub.
Fridays @ Flat 0/1
The Arches, 23:00–03:00, £7 (£5)
Student fun night, with a bouncy castle and hot tub. The stuff dreams are made of, obvs.
Slouch, 23:00–03:00, Free
Pumped-up selection of indie, rock, soul and funk with DJ Jopez.
Long-running house night with Harri & Domenic (and some likely special guests).
Octopussy
Edinburgh-based folksters influenced by traditional Scottish sounds, mixed with some upbeat modern harmonies.
HMV Picture House, 19:00–22:00, £18
Dirty rock ‘n’ roll with guitars, blues rhythms and lots of dancing.
Connoisseur’s mix of vintage jazz, funk and soul.
The soulful London singer/songwriter plays a sold-out Edinburgh show.
Voodoo Rooms, 19:00–01:00, £6 (£5)
Bloc+, 23:00–03:00, Free
The Garage, 23:00–03:00, £5 (£3)
The best in new hip-hop and R’n’B with DJ Cool Master.
Contagious Behaviour
Spanish band mixing rock and pop influences.
Electronic music of all ages, for all ages.
Garage Wednesdays
Flat 0/1, 23:00–03:00, Free
The Mungo’s Hi Fi crew in their official Glasgow residency, bringing you the very best in bass, natch.
Wee Red Bar, 19:00–22:00, £6
Adele
Badseed
Classic Grand, 23:00–03:00, £5 (students free)
Power Tools
Long-running trade night, with Normski, Zeus and Mash spinning disco beats.
Star Wheel Press (French Wives, The Douglas Firs, Lost Telegrams)
Wee Red Bar, 19:00–22:00, £5
Octopussy
Buff Club, 23:00–03:00, £4 (£3)
Slouch, 23:00–03:00, Free
Soundhaus, 22:00–03:00, £7 (£5)
National Youth Choir: 15th Anniversary Gala
Hard rockin’ blues from the inimitable locals, as they launch their new EP.
The Dirt Tracks
Rip This Joint
Killer Kitsch
Misbehavin’ (Dolly Daydream, Drucifer)
Mystery Juice
Tue 20 Sep
Damnation
Residents Beta & Kappa joined by a rota of rotating guests.
Robin Trower
Hit-filled singalong rock from the tongue-in-cheek covers band.
Aberfeldians who build their rather lovely sound around Ryan Hannigan’s languid storytelling and Craig Milton’s sparsely-played banjo and guitar.
Mix of chart, indie and hip-hop, plus karaoke and a cocktail bar. That do ye?
Euan Neilson plays the best of Buff.
Classic rock trio hailing from Croyden. The Jazz Bar, 22:30–03:00, £3 (£2)
Chart and classics with yer man Andy R, plus a bar tab up for grabs for the punter with the best music choice.
Greatest Hits
Schtick of Rock
Jazz rock powered by screaming frontman Angus Munro and drummer Jordie Gilmour.
Korben Dallas and Nushta Drognova play a zesty mix of Italo, disco and house.
Alternative showcase, including Edinburgh rockers Forkeye and Glaswegian fuzz-rockers Vakunoht.
Bad Sign
Glamour & The Baybes
Handpicked selection of indie, rock and electro with DJ Heather McCartney.
Sub Club, 23:00–03:00, Free before 12
Wee Red Bar, 19:00–22:00, £tbc
The Glasgow quintet mix just the right amounts of powerpop and rock. Electric Circus, 19:00–22:00, £5
Badseed
Cosmic and sweaty mix of 80s sleaze, house and disco.
Four trumpets, four trombones, five saxes and four rhythm. That do you? Bannerman’s, 20:00–23:00, £4
Tue 30 Aug I Am
Sub Club, 23:00–03:00, £4
Killer Kitsch Buff Club, 23:00–03:00, £4 (£3)
The Arches, 20:00–23:00, £7
New additions to the Warp clan, Mark Pritchard and Steve White bond over their shared passion for the disparate spheres of Detroit techno and fiery Jamaican digital dancehall.
Electronic music of all ages, for all ages.
Friday @ Bookclub
Y’Uptae
Classic and underground disco, plus dusted-down old soul with Solar Disco’s Kev Stevens.
The Garage, 23:00–03:00, £5 (£3)
Weekly student night with Andy Wilson.
Wild Combination (Ben Butler & Mousepad, Auntie Flo) Nice ‘n’ Sleazy, 23:30–03:00, £3
Kilmarnock’s hairy disco legend, David Barbarossa, digs out some vinyl gems for the launch of his new weekly, joined by electro-dance behemoth Ben Butler & Mousepad.
Wed 07 Sep Milk (Capitals, Lady North, Little Victories DJs) Flat 0/1, 21:00–03:00, £4 (£3)
Rather ace music-cum-club night, with handpicked live bands, DJs, milk, biscuits and 75p cider.
Hillhead Bookclub, 21:00–00:00, Free
No Sleep (Giles Smith, Brawther, George Fitzgerald)
I Heart The Garage More Than Yer Maw! The Garage, 22:30–03:00, £7 (£5)
Shed Saturdays Shed, 22:30–03:00, £7
Pop classics and a good dose of cheese.
Absolution Classic Grand, 23:00–03:00, £5 (students free)
Metal, industrial and pop-punk over two floors.
Baktrack (Tom Budden) La Cheetah, 23:00–03:00, £8
Up-tempo house for, y’know, jumping about to.
Layo and Bushwacka! Chambre 69, 23:00–03:00, £10
Chambre 69, 21:00–04:00, £10
The No Sleep crew welcome members of London’s notorious party Secretsundaze, including a two-hour set from co-founded Giles Smith.
Dance legends Layo and Bushwacka! (exclamation mark obligatory) present a four-hour set of techno, jazz, pop, and anything else they damn well fancy.
Cathouse Fridays
Love Music
Cathouse, 22:30–03:00, £6 (£5)
Rock, metal, dance and indie over two levels, with the inimitable residents manning the decks.
Crash
O2 ABC, 23:00–03:00, Free (£5 after 11.30)
Saturday night disco with Gerry Lyons.
Nu Skool
Shed, 22:30–03:00, £6
Andy Robertson plays a mix of loveable pop, dance and hip-hop.
Buff Club, 23:00–03:00, £6
Nick Peacock spins a fine selection of vintage disco, soul and funk.
September 2011
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