"It's a nice little place - a function room above a pub, a bit like the Betsy. The DJ's got good taste and a wide record collection, and you write down the songs you want him to play on sheets of paper, so if you're there with a few friends you can soon get the dancefloor jumping to the songs you want to hear."
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National Pop League
Last Friday of the month
Woodside Social Club, 329 North Woodside Road, Glasgow Glagsow
£2.50 "We'll play shillyshallying C86-ish stuff like Talulah Gosh and The Shop Assistants, and lots of noisy stuff like The Telescopes and The Fall and Beachbuggy, and lots of deft chord-surfing indiepop like The Field Mice and Ballboy, and Hot Butter by Popcorn, and Linus and Lucy by Vince Guaraldi, and old punk records, and the Aislers Set, and Belles, and Smiths, and Dexy’s, and just about any request we can meet".
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"..."The idea for the club came simply from the dearth of clubs in Glasgow playing old fashioned indie you can dance to. There are some brilliant underground indie clubs on the go in London, Manchester and Sheffield, but the lack of anything decent in Glasgow was something that had almost begun to embarrass us. So we decided to organise one ourselves."
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The Winchester Club
Monthly 9pm-2am (see site for more details)
The Woodside Social Club Glasgow
£3
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Emma's House
Monthly 8.30 til 2.00 (see site for more details)
The Faversham 1-5 Springfield Mount Leeds LS2 9NG Leeds
£0-£3 C86 Sarah Creation Jangle pop
Belle & Sebastian The Smiths
Delgados Kenickie Hefner
Joy Zipper Grandaddy
Saloon Ballboy Kicker
White Stripes Strokes
Franz Ferdinand Bis
Stereolab Broadcast St. Etienne
Camera Obscura Kings of Leon
Echo & The Bunnymen
Super Furry Animals Ash
Pixies Wedding Present
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How Does It Feel To Be Loved?
Once a month on Thursday, 9pm-2am (see site for more details)
Buffalo Bars, Underneath the Famous Cock Tavern, right outside Highbury & Islington tube, london
£3 The Smiths * The Supremes * The Go-Betweens * Dusty Springfield * Belle & Sebastian *
Tammi Terrell * Aztec Camera * The Ronettes * Orange Juice * Beach Boys * The Temptations * Velvet Underground * Felt * The Shangri-Las * Primal Scream * Otis Redding * The Field Mice *
The Stone Roses * Dexys Midnight Runners * The Four Tops * Dolly Parton * The Orchids
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"Tortured soul convention. Unusual but it works" - The Guardian Guide (number four club of the week), 15/6/02
"Emotional and sincere songwriting from across the board gets the treatment it deserves. No, it does. Really" - The Guardian Guide (number ffive club of the week), 17/8/02
"London's premier indie Motown club" - Dotmusic
"Highly recommended club night this - especially if like me, you're hurtling at 100 miles an hour towards 30 years of age and can remember when there were club nights around for sensitive boys and girls who liked their indie music a bit jangly and want to hear it mixed with the best of Motown" - myislington.co.uk
"Digging deep into a 60s to 70s selection with the Temptations, Beach Boys, The Shangri Las and into the 80s with The Smiths, Belle And Sebastian - 'a celebration of an emotion in motion'. Deeeep." - Time Out
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Strange Fruit
Check website for more details about this club
UPSTAIRS AT THE HIGHBURY GARAGE london
£5/£3 from Autechre to Aphex Twin, from Belle And Sebastian to Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, from Pulp to Pavement
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Strange Fruit is a collective who aim to bring off-kilter indie, post-rock and eclectica out of the unknown, who want to make the music that so many people love, but so
few people get to hear, accessible and recognised. Strange Fruit began as a nightclub that took place every Wednesday in Oxford, England. There we played the most wonderfully eclectic range of music you never expected to hear in a nightclub
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Bowlie Nite
1st Thursday of every month 7-11pm
Lounge Bar, 88-89 Chalk Farm Rd - Camden london
FREE Free Design, Mamas and Papas, Beah Boys, Young Marble Giants, Stereolab, Belle & Sebastian, Black Box Recorder, Broadast and a Bowlie shaking selection of 60s/French Pop, Nothern soul, 50s jives and varied records of sweet melodic sounds, old, new and rare
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a little reminder that Bowlie nite doors do open at 7pm, as recently some of you have been arriving fashionably lateish at 9.30ish and as it finishes at 11pm - You're not gettin' full value! Spare a thought to those DJs on early playing to the barmaid! so come early, take advantage of the happy hour(s) 5pm to 8pm ....and if you get there early enough, maybe there'll be some of Hatty's nibbles to eat!
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Tigermilking
11th October 2003
Betsey Trotwood Public House, Farringdon Road, London, EC1 london
3£/2£ Do You fancy? Belle and Sebastian, The Velvet Underground, The Smiths, Nick Drake, ONQ, Karate, Reynold, Shellac, Led Zeppelin, The Pink Floyd, Cut, The Sex Pistols, Buzzcocks, Slint, Joy Division, The sister of Mercy, Blonde RedHead, Sonic Youth, Pixies, Pavement, Hefner, Sebahod, Dinosaurs Jr., Stooges, The Make Up, At The Drive In, Econoline, Trail of Death, Explosion in the Sky, Le Tigre, Yo La Tengo, Sugarcubes, The Lucksmiths, Teenage Funclub, Jet Johnson, Camera Obscura, The Yeah, yeah, yeahs, Pastels, Kyus, The Who, The Kinks, Thirteen Floor Elevator, Bikini Killers, The Kills, The Strokes, Turbonegro, The White Stripes, Meanwhile Back in Communist Russia, Ladyton, Broadcast, Electerlane & Helen love, New York Dolls, Urusei Yatsura, Aisler Set, Ballboy , Wolf Colonel, The Clinetele, Lo-Hi, Tarentel, Spice Gils, Low, Smog, Stereolab
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Breaking Hearts For Fun
Monthly (check site for details)
Canterbury Arms, on Canterbury Cresent in Brixton, South London. 5 Minutes walk away from Brixton Tube. London
Leonard Cohen
Bill Murray
Roxy Music
Postal Service
Death In Vegas
Sigur Ros
Beta Band
Gorkys Zygotic Mynci
Hidden Cameras
Mojave 3
Shins
Delgados
Libertines
Camera Obscura
James Kirk
Mint Royale
Divine Comedy
Go Betweens
Tindersticks
Billy Bragg
Babyshambles
Half Man Half Biscuit
Comet Gain
Magnetic Fields
Stranglers
Felt
Pavement
Elvis Costello
Field Mice
My Bloody Valentine
Life Without Buildings
Hepburns
Beach Boys
Dobie Gray
Kicker
Chemistry Experiment
Ooberman
Spearmint
The Ecstasy Of Saint Theresa
Clearlake
Gerling
Mos Eisley
Wannadies
Flaming Lips
Grandaddy
Weezer
Pulp
Saint Etienne
My Life Story
Strawberry Switchblade
Teardrop Explodes
Gene
Hefner
Housemartins
New Order
Love
Dolly Parton
Streets
Jilted John
Wedding Present
Kenickie
Jesus And Mary Chain
Ballboy
Stereolab
Sleater Kinney
Morrissey
Camper Van Beethoven
Hidden Cameras
White Stripes
Wire
Jam
Pixies R Wire
Jam
Pixies
Ramones
Dexys Midnight Runners
Franz Ferdinand
Joy Division
Libertines
Undertones
Stone Roses
Belle & Sebastian
Smiths
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Offbeat
see website for further details
RAYNOR LOUNGE, SHEFFIELD UNI SU sheffield
£3.50 Delgados - Belle and Sebastian - Pavement - Stereolab - Smiths - Sonic Youth - Pixies - Wedding Present - Hefner - Strokes - Polyphonic Spree - Manics - Placebo - Ten Benson - Hives - Sleater Kinney - Nirvana - Pastels - Aislers Set - Interpol - Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - Half Man Half Biscuit - White Stripes - Elastica - Super Furry Animals - Bis - Ash - Heavenly - Talulah Gosh - At the Drive-in - Helen Love - Prolapse - Mika Bomb - Idlewild - Dressy Bessy - Yeay Yeah Yeahs - Dead Kennedys - Fall - Blur - Field Mice - Kenickie - REM - Joy Division - Moldy Peaches - Ride - ...Trail of Dead - Jesus and Mary Chain - My Bloody Valentine - Yummy Fur - Gene - Angelica - Beachbuggy - Eels - Sebadoh - Buzzcocks - Rezillos - Dandy Warhols - Shop Assistants - Sultans of Ping FC and many more...
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Want to dance to tracks by loads of cool indie bands past and present who never get played at the 'entertain-the-masses-with-bland-britpop-and-retro-and-drinks-promotions' discos which masquerade as indie nights?
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if you know of somewhere not included in this list that you think we should include email us at friendheroes@friendsoftheheroes.co.uk
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