The Knowhere Guide

The Local Music Scene in Glasgow, Strathclyde*

Glasgow, Strathclyde Record Shops and Venues

Record Shops

• Huge HMV in Glasgow Fort... best place in area for music.
• mono- kings court, king st nr the river.good place to spot people in bands....!
• Record shops in Glasgow are crap. Even Rub-a-dub. I shop solely online these days at www.juno.co.uk. There's a much bigger selection online.
• if you like classical which i don't up from the entrance to queen st station
• Avalanche - the best. lodsa Psychopathic Records. Record fare 1 and 2
• Avalanche Records is just about the best within the City Centre. You've got HMVs and Virgins, but they are faceless institutions, this has real records and air heavy with crispy Glasweigan Body Odour.
• fopp - byres road - great selection, good prices
• CHECK OUT MIXED UP RECORDS - IN OTAGO LANE, JUST OFF OTAGO STREET IN THE WEST END.
• A'thim , roon by , chick thim oot
• GoGoStudios.com Hey check out this cool recording studio in Glasgows Westend. We had a great recording session & payed a great price. Gotta be the cheapest. GoGoStudios Multimedia info@gogostudios.com For professionals & the creative on a budget! www.gogostudios.com
• hammys and jeata bob no nobs or tommy tangos
• rub a dub deffinetly the coolest sells everything from techno to hip hop plus dj equipment. fopp has a not to bad viynl section too
• HMV isn't bad, it's better than Virgin (which isn't saying much right enough).
• Westend Records HMV Reliable recordings
• Flopp the bestbplace for non-hmv priced cds and for those ubscure records you'd like to have in your collection ie:Wham.
• Fopp is good'n'cheap for the well initiated, There is also Definition, Avalanche, The Beat Museum, 23rd Precinct and Missing. Alas Casa Cassettes is now gone!
• Avalanche Records, right next to queen street station, has a great range of music and is a lot cheaper than the big boys (hmv ,virgin etc.)
• Salvation Sounds, Shawlands Arcade - great staff & great range of quality music DVDs & CDs at excellent prices!
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• Lost in music and music zone (decourcey's arcade and up near the ugc cinema in town) are great and they are really cut price as well plus you can sell old cds in lost in music
• Again you cannie beat the Brigait, or the Barras.......HOT OFF THE PRESS.
• The Virgin on Buchanan street , it's about half as cheap as the other Virgin .
• Quite a few places. 23rd Precint still exists. HMV have their shops in Union Street, Argyle Street and Sauchiehall Street. Virgin, with two branches in Argyle Street and the top of Buchanan Street. Fopp, a relatively new shop usually has some bargains.
• Avalanche records - up beside queens street station. Good selection of specialist music - can't find it in virgin, hmv or Fopp? It will be here
• The best record shops in Glasgow are 1) Mono(Rail) - Kings Court - Almost every record is awesome - hard to find stuff also. 2) Avalanche - Damn Fine small record shop 3) Missing - Lots of good stuff - a real independent. 4) Vinyl Freaks - St Georges Rd. 5) There is a good vinyl store on Otago Lane (Off Otago St) Fopp - you can pick up classics for £5 and less.
• Fopp on Union Street Glasgow sell discounted music, DVDs and cult books.
• The best shop is definitely FOPP on Union Street - much cheapness my friends!
• fuckin... fopp, on byres road opposite the big fuck off safeway that parked it's arse in byres road.
• Theres a great shop in the Shawlands Arcade called Salvation sounds which used to be near the pollokshaws Road BP Safeway, it sells mainly rock, and nu metal but you get some great wee gems in there!
• The Seven Notes, in the Savoy centre (only metal and rock), Missing, next to Strawberry fields, Fopp, The music zoe on sauchiehall street, and Salvation sounds in the shawlands arcade.
• Nt sure but i hear mbc has a new record in.
• fopp (byres road, and another one beside central station), and music zone
• see me doon the side a the barras. Free pie if u buy 2
• DeCourcey's Arcade just off Byres road. Lost & Found; Byres Road - Fopp, echo.
• Fopp! Go to Fopp, prferably in Byres Rd. - cheaper than HMV and Virgin, esp. when it has special offers on. I picked up Pet Sounds for a fiver, along with Lou Reed's Transformer album. Alternatively, try Music Trade Direct, it has a bigger range then Fopp! but with slightly higher prices.
• oooo! You must go to the Lost Chord! its just off Great Western Road on Bank Street... -along from the HogsHead -excellent outside shop decor, and has loads of new/second hand records to rustle through!
• Missing Records and Fopp on Byres road. They kick the shit out of HMV and Virgin.
• FOPP in Union Street is pretty good, they are a fairly recent addition to Glasgow but seem to have made a positive impact so far. They sell a good selection of stuff at reasonable prices
• Missing Records off Argyle Street used to be great when it was on Oswald Street, but is now pish. They dont even take your CDs to trade in, if they are a bit scratched. Which is a pain in the erse, cause I tried to flog them my Queens of The Stone Age 'Rated R', which stuck on track 2 and Outkast 'Stankonia' which I had split lager on. Avalanche near Queen Street station is tha bomb and sells hard to get hardcore punk rock and hip hop. Fopp on Union Street is good, if a bit corporate and hard to find stuff is quite literally hard to find due its bollocks lay out.
• Lost in music
• Virgin Megastore, the one on Argyle St is crap, and will probably be closed soon. The one to go to is on Buchanan St and is 3 floor of a good range of stuff. If you get on the underground and go to Hill head, when you come out turn right and on your left hand side is a place called Echo, its a must!
• HMV, Fopp, Virgin Megastores.
• hmv at argyl street where the goths and neds hang about.....
• Used to hang about tower records - top selection for rap music b4 it became commerciallised
• Hmm. That record shop on Sauchiehall Street on the left hand side just before the Galleries is good/inexpensive but blink and you'll miss it.
• For records it has to be FOPP in the west end, why go anywhere else?
• Avalanche-ignorant poncy arseholes work there...some people dig that Missing records-everyone who works there loves mogwai. EAT ME.
• avalanche are a freindly bunch with the old canadian guy always keepin lemonheads and dinosaur jr singles back 4 me..cheers bud
• Long Chord- Park Road Lost in Music- De Courceys Arcade
• Alvalanche, its just up fae queen st station, and down from the celtic shop and Ortax Kababs. they have brilliant music, alot of S/h stuff too. good value and alot of rare stuff.
• Virginia Galleries? Are they still aroun'? Great place for second hand music as well as other new age stuf' an' fashion.....
• That cool wee shop beside Haddows and Queen Street Station
• Record Exchange on Jamaica Street - well worth a look!
• Echo on Byres road has to be the best record shop in Glasgow if not Scotland. There is loads of great second hand stuff that you wont find anywhere else and at very reasonable prices.
• Has to be Avalanche, behind Queen St. Station: the folk in there REALLY know their stuff and won't be bewildered when you ask for the new CD by Nobukazu Takemura... much more likely to be able to actually discuss it with you. Cheap and friendly and a good selection of obscure 2nd hand stuff too.
• Downstairs in borders, on Royal Exchange Square. Exellent.
• Pollockshaws Road excellent discount cd shop
• there's a wee shop called 'avalanche' up behind the buchanan galleries, one of the few places that actually seems to stock not just singles that are in the charts, but ones that haven't got in yet, have been and went, or will just never get there. 'lost in music' in de courcy's aracde is great for second hand tapes, records, cd's and especially obscure videos.
• Forr, Byres Rd & Union St, Echo, Byres Rd.
• 23RD Precient on Cathedral St.Specialises in Import Dance, HipHop Etc.. Fopp on Union St.All the latest cd's for a £10 and good place for rare cd's
• Avalanche, we love you!
• Fopp is great for bargains, De Courcys arcade in the West End for more ecclectic tastes.
• record discount shop next to Bargain books on sauchihall St
• 23RD PRECINCT IS A SHOP SOLELY DEDICATED TO SELLING HOUSE MUSIC AND MUSIC EQUIPMENT. ITS RECOGNIZED AROUND SCOTLAND AS A MAJOR PLAYER IN THE MUSIC SCENE AND PUBLISHES ITS OWN WEEKLY SINGLES CHART. IT CAN BE FOUND DOWNSTAIRS IN BATH STREET, THERE ARE DECKS AND SOUND EQUIPMENT LAYED OUT FOR USE BY THE GENERAL PUBLIC AND THE ASSISTANTS ARE HAPPY TO HELP. THE BEST THING IS, IF YOUR ANYTHING LIKE ME AND CAN'T REMEMBER THE NAMES OF BANDS AND SONG TITLES, THEY WON'T LAUGH IF YOU BURST INTO SONG AND ASK THEM FOR THE RECORD YOU'VE JUST MURDERED!!
• up buyers Road there is a wee second hand shop that sells second hand records just beside Glasgow Uni
• Get yourself fired into West End records in Partick, beside the Bingo. If they dont have it, they will get you it. Lost of cut price goodies here too. And don't forget Woollies on Dumbarton Rd either, lots of good stuff there too.
• Fopp and Missing look good, with lots of stoodents, but have a pretty crappy selection to tell the truth. Try HMV and Virgin if you want unheard-of stuff, I'm afraid.
• Check out Lost In Music in De Courceys arcade behind Byres road. New and second hand CDs plus loads of classic vinyl.
• Criminal Records is OK for second hand stuff, there's also an Our Price.
• Avalance, top of Buchanan street. Missing records, excellent for the bands you think are famous but HMV, Virgin or Tower have not heard of them.
• Virgin and HMV are in city centre for large selection, FOPP has best prices plus some new CD Outlet on Sauchiehall Street, RUb a Dub for you dance fiends (great shop)
• 23rd Precint (just off Sauchiehall Street). New Virgin record shop planned - biggest outside London. Lost in Music (West end) Missing (West End)
• Missing Records two shops West end and Anderston. Loads of great new and second hand music
• Temple Records
• There is now a very large Tower records under the central station bridge, ususal stuff, large selection, able to order, but better still open until midnight.
• On Byres Road, check out the record store inside John Smiths bookshop... very good range of indie, psychedelia and imports.
• Bomba records had an upfront selection of House. Was most impressed with the Techno at Rub-A-Dub, found copies of Axis9!!
• How can you live in Glasgow and fail to mention the incredible Mr Smith and his Notorious Vinyl shop on 60something Union Street? It's downstairs and is attached to Hoi Polloi clothes shop which sells to all those young raver fashion victims. Marc Smith can be found in his shop selling the best hard techno and dance vinyls so go on down and talk to the god of the Scottish techno scene.
  [But] Notorious Vinyl has closed according to the security at Hoi Polloi. It is no longer on Union Street at any rate.
• Fopp, Echo, 23rd Precinct, Rub-A-Dub in the Virginia Galleries (Small but perfectly formed re. Jungle, Techno, Dub etc)

Clubs (Dance Music) and Music Bars

• Sub Club, Cube nd Cathouse for goths nd rockers... don't go near the Savoy though.
• Electrobix @ Buddha's Backyard, Albion St. Glasgow's newest underground venue. A clothes shop with a kick-ass basement. Nice but very naughty at the same time. Spinning everything from 80's italo-disco, new-wave, synth-pop and electro breaks to modern electro beats and techno. Very friendly clientelle and always right good fun. No under-agers but.
• Being <18 Cathouse - punk/rock/indie... good up until the age of 14 Trash - 'mazing til it burnt down Cube - hip-hop/rab/r'n'b Sub Club - pop/r 'n' b not many good places...
• cathouse, for the goths nd moshers out there, tunnels, outhouse, shed, etc, they all feed off of cathouse though, go to the unders at the cathouse on a saturday night, members cos £3 to get in £5 for non members but its well worth it :cough: There WAS an old club behing Tunnels, but its gone now, long gone, years ago it was, they sold drink to like 15 year olds lmao :cough:
• Friday 25th March Felt @ the Q Club Rock, Indie and Alternative sounds 11pm - 3am, Virginia Place, Glasgow - next to the Corinthian Entry - £5. Drinks promos available
• Rufus T Firefly, great rock pub. Beer garden
• Keep your eyes open for FELT at the Q Club. This night is on once a month and is becoming the best night out in Glasgow. Good mix of Rock, Indie and Alternative sounds. Keep yer eyes open for the flyers and posters to find out times but this club is magic.
• The Garage and Union are the main places for cheap and nasty students like myself go. You've got a handfl of other hip hop/dance clubs opposed to their (sell out) indie style such as Blanket, Archaos etc. With the Cathouse you have a rather scary but cheap night out, mainly goths and so forth. With the Sub Club and the Art School, you're meant to have a more thoughtful and on the edge experience, but the cheap and limited booze in these places mixed with the same people, doesn't make them much different.
• Can anyone suggest a good pub and club to go to in Glasgow for people over 35...... {{Please dont say Club30}} Am fed up noo hard up!!! Cheers
• Maist thim . Wans a goat tae wir Gallie .Dance bettur thin thi tellie . Gaun fur it .
• GoGoStudios.com Hey check out this cool recording studio in Glasgows Westend. We had a great recording session & payed a great price. Gotta be the cheapest. GoGoStudios Multimedia info@gogostudios.com For professionals & the creative on a budget! www.gogostudios.com
• the cat house
• listen to www.radiomagnetic.com a glasgow based internet radio station really catches the vibe of the city. Plays live broadcasts from the best clubs plus reliable listings. Sub club, art school, club 69 in paisley for underground techno, warehouse partys also frequent in summer.
• Courthull fleeto, haw haw haw.
• Well you've got you basic sleazy crappy clubs: The garage (tops the list) The Shack,Blanket,Cube,The Tunnel,Trash(exactly what it says on the tin)and thos e obscure bar/clubs.fanncy somewhere uncontrived and diffrent then I would have said the art school but things change.try Woodside Social in North Woodside Road.If u have neddy tendencies then MAS or Archaos is the place for you.
• Well midgets that go into clubs might like the CatHouse, Shack, Archoas and the Subby (if they still do it?!?). I've heard many a girl on the bus get excited (that's another story!) about going to the Shack. [Oh! My! God! That Him! You Know!?! Him Fae Last Week! Oh He's A Pure Winch! But Am Gonna Have His Pal The Night! - Oh Naw! He's Seen Us! Thats PURE MBARRESIN MAN! Oh NAW Ave goat a beemer! (Cries) Am Away Hame! Naw!! Yous kin go and take a flying laphroaig #laphroaig is entered here as opppose to fuck# to yersels!! (Head goes down, cries somemore, pals tell her she's beautiful, everything then alright! - Simple animal politics reall!)
• Best club has to be a certain warehouse above the garage at the end of Kelvinhaugh Street - the clientele have come straight out of Bonkers. 14 Yr olds at the end of the street trying to sell you 'Eccies', the bar where you have to buy tokens, then exchange them for cheap bottles of warm WKD, and the raving Wegie schemies in the Chill-Out area snorting coke off the tables. Best of all though, is the pieces of string tied across the ceiling to simulate lasers! Loved it when my mate, off his face, jumped on the table in the chill-out area, kicked over the candles, and started grabbing the string 'lasers'! The dopy wegie birds were in awe - "Check that guy. How's he doing that? He's bending the lasers!!!". Thick or what? Also, Bonkers - good for getting slashed in, The Tunnel - for posers, Cleopatras (Clatty's) - good for catching an STI in, Victorias - full of tarted up schemies trying to pull a 'footballer'.
• The Tunnel on a friday night is great for 18-20 year olds and the shack, and the cube are pretty good.
• THE SHACK THE SHACK THE SHACK NO MENTIONED THE SHACK ITS BETA THAN GARAGE!!! IF U GO TO GARAGE UR A FREAK SHACK HAS MUCH BETA LOOKIN GUYS THAN GARAGE N THEY ALSO HAV GOOD LOOKIN GIRLS TOO. THE SHACK ON PITT STREET OFF SAUCHIEHALL STREET OPENS AT 10:30 EVERY NITE I LIKE EVERY NITE AS GOING TO THE SHACK IS ALWAYS A FUN NITE FOR ME. TIP THURS FRI N SAT R THE BUSIEST NITES AND ITS USUALLY QUED ROUND THE CORNER BY 11 SO GO EARLY! DRINKS R CHEAP N STUDENTS GET FREE WITH SNAPFAX B4 12!!! PLUS STUDENT DISCOUNT THERE AFTER! HAV FUN....
• CAT HOUSE!!
• If it was 15 years ago , you could have went to the old Calton Club in Green Street in Calton ,,,,,,,,,but the powers that BE decided that the Calton should suffer till eternity...........well get our own back .......don,t worry. N.B
• Parkers , but you need to get the express bus to Kilmarnock for that one .
• There's a goth place at the bottom of Union Street, it's like a vampires night out there. They look pathetic all trying to look 'individual' and 'rebellious' and end up looking the same. Meh!!
• Trash! amazing and no neds, you are turned away with a sovereign on or a collar up. goog music - hip hop, r n b old school rap MASS- SHITE! ned heaven
• The cathouse is one of the best clubs in Glasgow. Unders nights are better than the normal club nights, livlier, but still it vvvvvv.good
• DEATHKILL4000 is a new club night and is by far the best in the city. A Seriously Rocking night playing a physco mix of stuff. From ACDC to AKUFEN. This happens at the Woodside Social once a month and they also do stuff on Fridays at the Barfly from Time to time. There is always one excellent band on from about 11pm. An insane night that is becoming insanely popular. OPTIMO is also top trumps and Club 69 in Paisley can be amazing.
• List of Under 18 night clubs (No alcohol served when under agers are present) Trash: By far the best unders in Glasgow 3 rooms.(197 Pitt Street is next to a club called the Shack.) Dresscode=casual/street eg combats funky tops etc Archaos: Its on Queen Street and has a sky bar for VIPs, Watch out though as it has a large intake of NEDs (thats non educated delinquents to you and me) Dresscode=smart/no sneakers The subclub: Never been myself heard its a good night and does get a bit wild. Dresscode casual/smart PS These clubs usually open at around 7-11pm as they are used for over 18s later on.
• Best RnB club is CUBE
• trash,for the more trendie inclinced off you, and for the "Mad Wee Gothic Goths" its the cat house for you - both are in the town.
• The Cathouse is being taken over by neds, but is still pretty decent for music. Trash is a more hip hop oriented club. Theres The Garage, King Tuts and strawberry fields, which are all ok. Cathouse wins though.
• trash for hip hop, cathouse (but dont go upstairs GOTH CENTRAL!!)
• privillage has started a unders. so sorry Lorraine Kelly go elsewhere
• School of Art and the parties thrown by The Unit
• students: the garage (sauchiehall st) neds: bonkers, archaos. godamn punk kids: the cathouse. (used to be good, now filled with skaters and people who think that slipknot=heavy metal)
• Meat-Markets: The Moon in Sauchiehall Street, The Hive in Glasgow University Union in Gibson Street, as well as anywhere in nearby Paisley. 13th note, a block away from argyle street, and the Cathouse in Union Street are rockier, gothy clubs
• Theres not really any point in putting this down cos every1 knows about it, but since Ive started I may as well... -The Cathouse really is the place to be for the little moshers and goths of Glasgow, it saves them having to wander the streets in their pvc/hoodie gear getting cold! -it costs a fiver to get in, (I once escorted a group of young lovelies) -which I feel is rather expensive but the cathouse still have to make a profit without having drink -alcoholic- for sale... Once u get in,(after having swam through a load of 12 year olds wearing white make up and pvc at teh top of the stairs) theres a crowd of ickle un's attempting to get 'down' in the mosh pit... -it all looks quite amusing from the elders point of view :0) For the over 18 variety of people, teh "unders" -as its come to be known, is a place to be avoided, although, can provide alot of amusemnt if ur bored enough 4 it!
• UNDERS-Went to Archaos once and it was rubbish. Full of neds and guys trying to get you into a toilet cubicle. Head to Bootylicious at the Tunnel for a great laugh, great music and great talent. Trash is quite good too.as for the OVERS- I wouldn't know!
• How can you have a whole website dedicated to Glasgow and not mention The Garage. Fair enough, the vodka and cokes are no longer 60p and the "cheesy" music has progressed from Tiffany to Aqua, but it's still the most fun place to go and get shitfaced. I think my grandparents even went there back in the 40's.
• Fury Murrays has some very loose women, thats all im saying, Trash and Velvet Rooms are good for RNB. The Garage is full of muppets.
• Destiny , see all the neds.
• Cathouse and Trash are the only ones I have heard of.
• Bonkers iz the ultimate place for neds to go ...it iz an over 18's and they lets lots of people in underage!!!!!! usually 15 year olds!!!!! for the under 18's 'YOUTHS ' go to Archaos where they get a bevvy...'mad dog' buckie' cheep cider and other cheap booze..before going to the 'dancin'
• Clatty's, fur a wee dirty when yer too pished tae be fussy.
• Hardcore tartan techno clubs - aw the raves man!!!
• THE GARAGE! 9 bars, 4 floors, pool table, chill out, get PISSED, open, safe, cheesy music, dance, R'N'B, Karaoke with the lovely Nichola, and best of all cheap and cheerful!
• Cathouse- Brief description, dingy damp shithole filled with leather clad miserable gits who are too cool to dance. They all just stink and pose.FUCk off and DIE.
• if you want a good club get on a train and go 2 liverpool coz glasgow clubs are either full of neds or in the case of the cathouse full of 'look at my leather pants they are far superior to ur feather boha types'
• garage shack trash anything down sauchihall st way
• Well this obviously has to be Archaos, just walk down Queen Street and you compare the queues to Cube and Archaos yourself. It's been "refurbished" and i do admit it looks a bit jakey and young inside, what with those sparkly cushion chairs and ultra-violet fibre glass things, but hey! thats life! oh and they check the WHOLE lining of your duffle coat if u happen to have a hole in the pocket.
• The Arches - what a venue and full of the friendliest happiest, up for it crowd of folk you could meet! Same too goes for the Boulevard, Clydebank on a Sunday Night - Excellent way to wind up the weekend!
• The Art school and the Sub Club offer some of the best club nights in Britain. The Arches is great too but is suffering from a recent increase in ned population. Avoid places such as Destiny, The Garage (used to be good), Bonkers and Archaos.
• The Cathouse on Union Street. Brilliant! :)
• My Machines, Saturday night at the Glasgow School of Art. Jonny and Hamish play the most innovative hardcore dance music in the whole of Scotland (the only Scottish club night listed in Sleaze Nation). That's upstairs: downstairs there is Andrew Devine's Northern Soul night and also the Hip Hop room, both of which - I'm told - are excellent (not for me, though). Friendly, cheap drink, great bouncers (I mean that!!)... you need a student card to get in. Don't go if you're not going to dance.
• ok so BoNkErS fair enough its got fights an stuff but not all the time the office party is shit hot wif all the cheap drinks ( 50p 4 a bottle then goes up graddually till 8 then the prices go back 3 normal) its got 3 floors theres the main bar wif good music an poles 4 the wannabe pole dancers of the future and theres flappers that plays all the cheesy music and chart music then theres the club wif all the house music u can wish 4 (along wifthe occasional fighting) and it has the best chinkys outside mmm good after a night or dancing
• indigo in kilmarnock road in the southside is very very cheap
• the arches has become horribly, ridiculously priced, but if you get in on the guest list then you will find that, despite the crapness of some of the new ned punters flashing their cash, it is not overrated. saturday night at the art school is a place where no weirdo will ever feel out of place (though maybe underdressed). top tip for getting into the shitehole that is the garage (they play some decent indie upatairs) is to go in through the back door, where the bouncers never utter that immortal phrase 'how much have you had to drink, hen?'
• Cathouse, Union Street-Aye, awright it is full wae people in leather and stuff but trust me its the easiest place in the city to pull. If you're an under check out voodoo on a saturday night at 6:30-10:30 (£4 entry). There are some really nice people to talk to and stuff. Just hang about for long enuff and somebodys bound to talk to you! But aw the wee neds man, wi yur hats and yur socks man, the no-necked bouncers will advise no tae go in man, cuz yir likely tae get yir arse kicked man, know whit am sayin? Music: SKA, metal, punk. Drinks (Nae Bevy): £1
• Bonkers, Clatty Pats, Victorias- these are all favoured by the undiscerning patron! And fitba players. The Garage is best for student-inspired hi jinks. But watch out for the pissed- cannae hold their Hooch- first years. Good for a laugh, mind.
• Mas is the latest to open in the old Apartment at Royal Exchange Square.Planet Peach for Under-agers is good, but if u wanna meet easy girls and hundreds of ned's theres only one place to go.BONKERS!!! Thats what it is.I warn u go only if u are desperate please try to avoid!!
• Havana is pish and so is Destiny so GET A LIFE! Best clubs in Glasgow - the Garage (and it always will be!) and the Soundhaus but please don't go if you're a ned. Thank you.
• Something for everyone - Archaos, Arches are the biggest. Most are open until at least 3am. Many are open near enough 6 days a week-The Garage on Sauchiehall St is open 7 days a week 52 weeks a year. Cheap booze, good music and plenty of up-for-it clubbers.
• Club-30!! If you are over 25 the place to go. The women have tatoos on their tatoos and are 5ft by 5ft by 5ft!! The music is brilliant. Good fur a lumer! Women 'nip' the men! The Savoy on a Wed night - 70s night with the daddy cool disco!! - or next door on a Wed. Bennets on a Tues night - straight night or any other night if you are no so straight! Havanna (next to central station) for Latin and Latin classes - hi Sandra! Clattie Patties on a Mon - as it is one of the few places open. If you are an aspiring young ned, why not visit Rooftops? Music is the best in Glasgow - as is the dancing - and the fighting! Carlton club if you want a shag!
• Sub club is closed at the moment, temporary at Planet Peach, Queen Street with the uterly brilliant Optimo on Sundays - a trully unmissable night.!!!!!!
• Planet Peach is good but archoas is better if you want a bottle over your head or smacked in the face with a shoe
• EVERYONE WILL SAY THE SAME CLUBS TO VISITORS TO TRY OUT, DON'T GET ME WRONG THEY ARE VERY IMPRESSIVE, THERE'S THE TUNNEL, ARCHAOS, THE ARCHES (ONLY AT THE END OF THE MONTH WITH COLOURS) etc. I'D SAY TO PEOPLE WHO HAVE TRYED ALL THESE TO GO TO DESTINY ON A SATURDAY NIGHT, IT'S DOESN'T HAVE THE SAME CLICHE AS THE BIGGER CLUBS AND WILL NEVER HAVE ANY OF THE BIGGER DJ'S BUT IT REALLY DOES HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BE THE BEST CLUB FOR AN UN-GLASGOW NIGHT OUT??. IT REALLY FEELS LIKE A MASSIVE HOLIDAY SPOT - O.K THE MUSIC ISN'T YMCA AND COME ON EILEEN, WHICH IS A GOOD THING, BUT THE HOLIDAY ATMOSPHERE'S THERE!
• Archaos is up the toon and most famous i like it there is wan fur the under 16and all the neds go to that it is a tenner to git in and there is wan fur the adults tae
• The Savoy an old yin but great for the slappers, best nights are fridays
• The Cathouse: if you like leather, bouncers who have no necks and some worrying looking women, go there. It rocks!! If you're a student, go to the Garage - the music is crap, except for upstairs but, the drink is cheap and you are guaranteed a good night. Optimo is a night that was previously on at the fire- damaged sub club. Now on Sundays at Planet Peach. Go there for excellent electro-weirdy music, and to see the bloke from Arab Strap looking like a dodgy fat tramp...
• Best club for students is Fury Murrays behind the St Enoch centre
• The Tunnel is the best club to go to - class music, class people. The Temple is for neds and if you like getting bottled on a Saturday night.
• sub club is closed 'till february because of a fire .
• The SLAM weekly finished years ago - BUT DJs Stuart and Orde have residencies all over the place: Freelance Science at Alaska; Pressure at The Arches; Never Get Out The Boat at the Renfrew Ferry. AND there's now a Slam radio show Fridays at 10pm on Beat 106
• REDS is now back in busines and revamped with new owner the big piss head AKA Brian Mullen ex genral manager of Mojo Velvet Rooms and other clubs and puds in the city after walking out on Greg Mclean(The Cunt) owner of these sites and going intp direct competion with him he now has all the ex d,js from the Velvets and most of the staff so True Velvet punters if u want the same night u had when Brian was there REDS IS FOR U
• The Cathouse, the only club that you can go to in Glasgow where you don't feel as if everyone is trying to outdo everyone else. Downstairs= punks and office parties. Upstairs= lots of black, piercings and leather.
• Trash has good nights for hip hop and R n B, Arches & Subbie best for techno/house, Garage best for cheap pulls Don't go to Victoria's, Renfrew Ferry, Rooftops, or Bonkers
• Volcano is now gone, and leaves only a great bunch of memories. Many confused clubbers of yesteryear can still be found standing at the sit, deep in thought. Archaos has just expanded, and looks like enveloping Queen Street whole. Red's unjustly closed done for having nearly double the legal limit of people. Garage was caught but not closed and continues to sqeeze as many students in as it can (with the help of some really horrific door staff) 13th note on Clyde Street is now taking off for those who don't like queueing for hours to pay too much to be squashed into a room full of neds.
• The legendary Sub Club. What can be said. Saturday night, a basement, 400 friendly and up for it punters, getting down to some wonderful house tunes provided by Harri and Domenic.
• The Garage in Suchihall Street. A very very nice club indeed. Several floors of different kinds of music and famous. Frequented by many start including Chris Evans! :) Archaos. Fairly new club in Queen Street. Aimed at "younger" clubber. Wimen in cages and stuff. Bizzarre, but nice too.
• Slam at the Arches (fortnightly?) on Fridays with the veteran DJs Stuart McMillan and Orde Meikle is the one of which non-Glasweigans will have heard. Recommended.
• Best clubs include Volcano, Bennets (gay and sraight nights) and the new Archaos, also in Queen Street for mime artists, jugglers, transvestites/drag queens and other assorted ne'er-do-wells.
• Sub Club on Wednesdays, "Pure"-regularly held at the Barrowlands. Arts School, Volcano. Rhapsody "trendy place with good music". Thursday night at Archaos.

Live Music Venues

• 13th Note Good for gigs, great food too. Brilliant staff.
• King Tut's is always good... then the SECC, Barrowlands and Armadillo.
• Liquid lounge has great accoustics for a small venue,
• Yep, Sunday is our live sessions in Osmosis. Kicking off @ 5pm with some local talent on the Open Stage. A great mix of styles and characters. We supply the PA so bring your guitar, jump on stage and show us what you've got. You better be good though, the regular muso's in the crowd will let you know if you're not! Bar open 2pm - Midnight. Free Entry and most bottles £1.50
• The garage and the barrowlands are the best gig venues in glasgow!!
• Cathouse has live bands on saturday nd sunday nights, they might have them all the nights aswell, not sure though....
• Carling Academy. Biffys debut
• The Vale pub at queen street station has gigs upstairs.
• Cathouse, 13th Note, King Tut's, Barrowlands, SECC, Carling Academy, The Garage, Stereo. They all tend to play rock bands, but the SECC and Academy play bigger, more radio friendly acts. For local and/or underground music, the rest act as the stage.
• Thi Gitanos fae Cadiz,Andalucia,sing in thi strEEtz.Fick thi Fasces . Fascist.Faeceas.Sing yinz in thi steet .Glesca michtz weel be thi centur ae a .A like chinwaggin , rhyme , rhythme , n tinkerin wi thi soundz fae hins .
• Bunker, on Bath Street
• barralands, king tuts, nice n sleazy, stereo, 13th note all for rock indie music
• Nice and Sleazys.Fury Mury's,King TuTs, etc etc
• Kings tut's fir yer good bands (shame about the management), Sleazy's fir yer great bands, The garage for allround giants of crackiness and the SECC/Royal concert Hall for Brittany/Westlife/Blue etc.
• King Tuts is the best venue in the UK, no doubt about it. Managed to host The Verve, Oasis and Radiohead in 93, all within a 2 week period. The place is small and most of the time there is no barrier between the crowd and the band which makes the atmosphere in this place THE BEST!! Barrowlands and QMU are also really good and Barfly is great for local bands, just try and avoid the SECC and Braehead Arena which are usually never filled to capacity and charge rediculous prices. Glasgow Green usually has a great summer festival too with the likes of the chilis, foo fighters and travis. The best place in Scotland (if not the UK) for gigs.
• CAT HOUSE king tuts
• The Barraland Ballroon in the Gallagate/ Calton ,,,,,,,,,,,,the worlds best venue.......
• Barrowlands, S.E.C.C., KIng Tuts, QMU, Royal Exchange
• So many great ones, Barrowlands, King Tut's, Royal Concert Hall, Armadillo, Carling Academy to name but four.
• Stereo, Note Cafe, Sleazys, Woodside Social, Barfly, Academy, Cathouse, Gargage, QMU, GUU Debating Chamber, mono, Strawberry Fields, Barrowland, Braehead Arena, SECC.
• The Garage on Sauchiehall street in Glasgow for the more intimate gig. The Barrowlands and the Carling Academy (a fairly new venue) for larger crowds Hamden Park on the south side at Mount Florida and The SECC or Scottish Exhibition Center (thats 5 mins by underground from Glasgow Central Train Station) These places play to larger crowds e.g Eminem, manson,play there etc.
• SECC next to the Clyde and the Barrowlands over on the south side.
• Srawberry fields, cathouse, barrowlands, secc.
• 13th Note Cafe is supposed to be quite good, though I don't like it. Strathclyde, Queen Margret and Glasgow University Unions are all good.
• BARFLY!!!!! Clyde Street (by the river -teh old 13th note club) ...nuff sed.
• King Tuts is brilliant , The Garage is good for gigs and The Barrowlands is tha shiznit.
• Cathouse
• The Barrowlands is absolutely the finest venue in the UK next to Brixton Academy in London!
• King Tut's Wah Wah Hut Good bar service and ladies toilets immaculate
• Has to be THE GARAGE again! Ocean Colour Scene, Terrovision, Therapy, Best of all the PROCLAIMERS!
• the barrowlands is a shithole. better acoustics in my bathroom.
• tuts is crap (say that in a west end pub and u can be hung for treason) but it is, full of idiots with un prescribed glasses and purposly bad fringe haircuts that cost a fortune cheap jackets and expensive trainers are IN.the barras is probably the best venue with the SECC being the worst which sucks coz all the good bands play there..pearl jam,pumpkins,ac/dc etc and they print shitty white tickets
• Garage Arches
• King tuts stathy union garage nice and sleazys
• The Cottier will be host to a new music festival this October 22nd-28th. The festival line-up includes Looper, To Rococo Rot, Schneider TM, Dat Politics, Sirconical, Sputniks Down, Minotaur Shock... and many more... For information go to www.deepburnt.com
• The Barowlands is simply the best venue in Britain. It has an atmosphere like no other and a bouncing floor! King tuts is the best venue in Britain for up and coming bands. Wednesday nights at the Ben Nevis pub in the west end offer some of the best traditional music to be found in Scotland.
• The Barrowlands - the best venue in the world.....ever! It's just amazing, and some great bands play there too. The SECC can't compare at all - it has no atmosphere and is too big. Best avoided - even great bands have trouble making it seem half decent.
• 13th Note, cafe or pub. Excellent, friendly venue for all sorts of music from traditional to cutting edge.
• the barrowlands is an brilliant venue: just the right size; a gloriously accidentally kitsch bar which is always really dark; fucked up glamour (courtesy of its painted ceiling, glitterball and stories of blood on the dancefloor), nice big toilets and entertaining mental people hanging about.
• The Barrowlands. best in Britain.
• The Barrowlands on the Gallowgate is probably the top music venue is Britain u name them,they have played there.
• THE GLASGOW SONGWRITERS meet EVERY TUESDAY NIGHT at DRUMMONDS BAR, 4A West Regent St. Some of the best ORIGINAL MUSIC in Glasgow and surrounding areas. There is also an OPEN STAGE guest spot for anyone wishing to perform their own original material. Guest will be made very welcome and if you just want to listen your welcome too. Visit our web page at: WWW.GLASGOWSONGWRITERS.CO.UK and our MP3 site at : WWW.MP3.COM\GLASGOWSONGWRITERS
• Arches, Barrowlands, Fruitmarket, SECC and of course the legendary King Tuts (where Oasis were famously discovered).
• THE SECC IS STILL THE BIGGEST RECOGNISED MUSICAL VENUE IN GLASGOW, THE NEW ADDITION OF THE ARMIDILLO OUTSIDE REALLY IS STUNNING. FOR THOSE WHO HAVE NEVER SEEN THE BUILDING, ITS SHAPE PUTS ME IN MIND OF THE SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE. IT REALLY IS IN A STUNNING LOCATION ON THE BANKS OF THE RIVER CLYDE, IT'S LIGHTS SHINE DEEP INTO THE CLYDE AND UP BRIGHTLY INTO THE GLASGOW SKY. A WIDE MIXTURE OF ARTISTS PLAY AT THESE VENUES, INCLUDING YOUNGSTERS FAVOURITES LIKE FIVE, STEPS, BOYZONE. BIGGER ARTISTS, LIKE TINA TURNER, SIMPLY RED, WILL USUALLY PLAY FOOTBALL VENUES WHICH HAVE A CAPACITY OF 50,000+. THERE ARE LOADS OF OTHER VENUES IN THE CITY WHICH WILL PLAY HOST TO OTHER, MORE SPECIALISED BANDS. 'KING TUTS WAH WAH HUT' SHOULD REALLY BE MENTIONED HERE AS THIS WAS THE VENUE THAT THE MANCUNIAN GROUP OASIS WERE FIRST WITNESSED BY ALAN MCGHEE OF CREATION RECORDS. THAT GIG LED CREATION RECORDS TO SIGN ONE OF THE BIGGEST BRITISH BANDS SINCE THE BEATLES!
• up near the toon there is a big exibition centre called the s.e.c.c. awe the big bands go there and there is an other place right beside it called the armadillo
• King Tut's on St Vincent Street. Who hasn't played here?? 13th Note, Barrowlands, Cathouse. And sometimes, the Garage.
• The Barrowlands is the only place to see bands
• The Hooden Horse in Pembury Road has sporadic live music, none of yer actual dedicated live music venues though.
• 13th Note (Clyde Street) Nice n' Sleezy (Sauchiehall Street) Barrowlands SECC Old Fruitmarket King Tut's Wah Wah Hut
• The Halt Bar. Woodlands Rd Home to bands such as Del Amitri, Belle & Sebastian, Kevin McDermott Orchestra, Gary Grochla, Astrid and many more.
• The Cathouse
• Nice'n'sleazy is good for live band type things
• SE&CC (0141 248 9999)
• King Tut's Wah-Wah House
• The Garage
• A very popular gigging spot for indie bands is the 13th Note on Glassford Street. It'd probably be harder trying to think of Glasgow indie bands who haven't played there, than those that have! OK pub as well, and serves nice vegetarian and vegan food.
• The Barrowland Ballroom is the best music venue in Scotland. It gets the best bands and has a fantastic atmosphere.

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