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Sub Club
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Sub Club,
22 Jamaica Street, Glasgow G1 4QD
After twenty plus years of partying in
a dear green place called Glasgow, the Sub Club still resides
deep below number 22 Jamaica Street.
Weekend in, weekend out, you can find the best of the city's
music makers playing to the best people the city can muster
on the best sound system you will hear in Scotland or anywhere
in the world for that matter.
And joining them are artists from all corners of the planet,
enthused by the reputation that the club, hand in hand with
it's hedonists, has built over years. Recently voted 10th
Best Club in the World by ResidentAdvisor.net and voted in
the top 30 in the world by DJ Magazine 2008.
A reputuation that promises no prejudice and no limits when
it comes to enjoying great music.
DJ Mag
Club Review...
Imagine strolling to the door of your
local club. Instead of their usual dissatisfied snort, the
doormen welcome you in with the cheery greeting of a long
lost family friend. Once inside familiar hands are shaken,
as the few alien faces offer instant smiles. Odd. As you settle
on the cosy dancefloor the two residents drop everything from
the latest DFA promo to obscure '70s disco, surge into a '92
hardcore cut, dip into '60s surf-rock before levelling out
with a 12-year old Carl Craig beauty. But wherever their taste
takes them, the crowd follows them every step of the way.
This is Glasgow institution the Sub Club - home of JD &
Twitch's cult Sunday party Optimo.
As each working week looms, the duo dispel with era and genre
concerns in their search for classic tunes that capture the
present moments. Each week, live guests like Cut Copy, Alter
Ego and Padded Cell write the sonic sicknotes for their unpretentious
congregation.
But with equal threading to the Sub Club's rich fabric is
Saturday's weekly Subculture. Run by stalwart residents Harri
and Domenic, the pair might be touching middle-age but they're
still pushing the freshest deep DJ sets in the city, whilst
their faultless programming covers guests like Prins Thomas,
Carl Craig, Andrew Weatherhall and Steve Bug.
Born back in of April 1987, the venue affectionately known
as 'Subby' has grained the entire evolution of Glasgow's tight-knit
house scene. The neighbouring Arches may be Slam's spiritual
home but they enjoyed their first residency - Joy Fridays
- in the Sub Club back in 1989.
Glasgow's tech-funk legend DJ Q ran a Thursday night here
in the '90s, and after popping his clubbing cherry here, Milton
Jackson still regularly pops in for a spot of clubbing.
Ralph Lawson, meanwhile, describes it as "simply the
best house club in the world".
But despite Lawson's cheeky suggestion that Subby's magic
is "in the Irn Bru", the real secret to its success
lies in those behind it.
"Everyone who works there, from the owners to the door
staff to the glass collectors, has been a diehard clubber,"
explains Optimo's JD Twitch, aka Keith McIvor. "They've
experienced just how bad clubs can be but also how good they
can be - how they should be inclusive rather than elitist.
"The actual space and intimacy is very, very special,"
he adds. "As a DJ it's a delight to play, and as a promoter
they're great people to work with. From the start, the owners
were very receptive to the spirit of Optimo. Back in 1997
any other club owners would have told us to take a run and
jump but they had the vision that this could be something
popular. We didn't, we were just doing it for a laugh. No-one
came for the first year and most other clubs would have shown
us the door. But they stuck by it."
Is the Sub Club the best little local club in the world?
There's no probably about it.
N0. 33 RATED CLUB IN THE WORLD BY 
