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Review Virgo
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New club at The Cool Docks shows
early promise
Let the right Juan in The former drug-addict and rock
guitarist found his stride as one half of disco-house
duo The Juan MacLean with singer Nancy Wang.
Juan MacLean
NIGHT OF THE MONTH
Part two of DJ Razor’s DFA affair –
this time at The Shelter
Look who’s having himself a year.
Not just one DFA Records grandee on
his watch, but two. James Murphy in
September and, now, care of the ever
more sure-footed DJ-promoter Razor,
Juan MacLean, too.
One of the founding signees of
the taste-setting DFA imprint as one
half of vocal-disco duo The Juan
MacLean, his gig will nonetheless
be distinct from Murphy’s. If for no
other reason than it’s at The Shelter,
so far less likely to be shut down by
the cops (although never rule it out
altogether). ‘My sets are definitely a
bit different from James’s,’ he tells
us from New York. ‘I tend to play
a more late-night, deep, dark-vibe
type of set meant for dancing to for
hours on end. I’m definitely of the old-
school house school, taking things
up and down, back and forth, from
deep to up-front, for the course of a
night. And I play a lot of new-school,
melodic, deep, tech-y house, lots of
stuff with vocals,’ he continues. ‘I’ve
never really been a disco DJ so I don’t
get into that world at all.’
MacLean is an early standardbearer of a post-house sound that’s
seen a massive global swell recently.
How does he feel about the cheap
copycatting? ‘For years I was playing
old-school house with lots of diva
vocals and melody, and even when
disco was The Big Thing I’d get a lot of
resistance to it from hipster crowds
in particular – now it’s everywhere,’
he says. ‘But it would be too easy to
be cynical about everyone jumping on
the house bandwagon; for me, it’s a
great time [in dance music],’ he adds.
‘Basically, the sound I have always
loved the most is now dominating the
clubs. Sure, there are lots of people
just lazily getting into it. But that’s
OK. Quality always stands out.’
So he’s content with the state
of dance music right now? ‘In
some ways, it’s what we dreamed
of in the beginning of DFA. Dance
music moved into a more melodic,
song-oriented sound, taking lots of
cues from live music forms again,’
he explains. ‘It’s also permeated
mainstream culture – though, as
usual, the mainstream has ended
up with the dumbest examples of the
genre.’ There’s still lots of innovation
in the underground, he says. ‘And
lots of music I’m excited about on
a regular basis. I still love DJing as
much as I ever did – maybe, right
now, even more than I ever have.’
Alexander Barlow
Juan MacLean plays The Shelter on
Saturday 10. See Listings for details.
See www.timeoutshanghai.com for
the full interview.
Nightlife
❋ Incoming Bar Rouge’s Eighth Birthday
What is it? Birthdays on The Bund
always mean a bit of hullabaloo and
if anyone can be relied upon to go
bonkers, it’s Bar Rouge. This year
it’s a three-night affair, opening
Thursday night with a free-drink
party for girls and closing with a
‘storm of Champagne rain’ on
Saturday (it’s a surprise, they
wouldn’t elaborate).
Who’s playing?
If there’s
any justice,
though, longstanding
French
disco dandy
Dimitri from
Paris will prove
the biggest draw
(playing Friday 23).
An unrelenting
revisionist and
marshal of vintage dance sounds,
he released a surprisingly on-trend
Back in the House compilation
for Defected this year. More
interestingly, though, was
2010 release Get Down
to the Philly Sound, with
which he made the case
that disco in fact arrived
via Philadelphia, not
New York. On it are tracks
such as Howard Melvin &
The Blue Notes’s ‘The
Love I Lost’ (the song
he reckons is the
first ever disco
song) as well
as some more
obscure reveals
of the Philly
disco sound
such as Philly
Devotion’s
‘Hurt So Bad’ and Teddy Pendergrass’s
‘The More I Get the More I Want’ (find it
online, it’s well worth a listen).
And that’s the point of Dimitri from
Paris and what makes him such a
shrewd booking for this party. He
plays music that makes sense to
people who don’t care about music,
as well pushing more storied,
recherché tracks that please the
discoheads. ‘When I’m playing in a
club I have to seduce [the crowd] into
my groove,’ he said in an interview
earlier this year. ‘I don’t want to scare
them away – I don’t want to say, “Well
this is what I play, take it or leave
it”– because the chances are they’ll
leave it,’ he continues. ‘You have to
draw people into your universe.’ AB
Might Virgo be The Cool Docks’s first
decent club? Wait, Kebabs on the
Grille aside, might Virgo be The Cool
Docks’s first decent anything? The
answer for now, of course, is a nice
and safe ‘depends’. But it certainly
shows potential.
The owner is Denny Goa, a smalltime nightlife baron from Beijing who
also owns cheesy rooftop bar-club
Kokomo in the capital’s Chaoyang
district. Bartender Jackson Bai,
also from Beijing, will run the bar.
They’re got some novel ideas here.
Decent drinks at dive-bar prices in
a proper grown-up club – nice. Spirit
and mixers are 30RMB, a cocktail
is 50RMB (and, until the end of the
November, all drinks are buy one
get one free until midnight and,
yes, they have been tested, and,
no, we didn’t wake up with a wildly
disproportionate hangover to the
amount we sunk).
There’s an in-house, clay pizza
oven too, with a full-time pizzaoli
making passable, skinny-crust pies
from around 70RMB. The decor
isn’t antagonising, which at times
is really the best you can hope for,
but here there’s a warm, gold-amber
hue, with an attractive bar area with
a pole at the end for exotic dances.
Downstairs, there’s a commendable
balance between pleather seating
and dancefloor. Upstairs, there’s a
secret, or not so secret, third floor,
centred with an island bar and a tired,
all-white interior that looks as if its
been bought at a clearance sale on a
Greek party island.
But why doesn’t any of this
matter? Because it’s at The Cool
Docks, of course. And, unless, say,
TICT are doing something at Wharf
1846 (DAFF, for instance), nobody
really goes there. The ‘depends’ bit,
then, hangs on whether Virgo can
attract the right kind of promoters
to lend the place some cache (as
Ibiza has done with STD) and throw
a decent party (they’re talking to City
Moments, I Love Shanghai and Diem
Noctem). Because Virgo is an OK
club; the bricks and mortar are there.
Its launch night was packed. So
everyone knows it’s open. Now they
just need a reason to go back. AB
Virgo See Listings for venue details.
Bar Rouge’s Eighth Birthday is on
Thursday 22, Friday 23 and Saturday
24. See Listings for details.
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This month’s clubbing
Advice for readers Listings are arranged by date
and then alphabetically by venue. Contact details
are given in Venues. All listings are correct at the
time of going to press, however all are subject to
change. Call ahead for peace of mind.
Denotes nearest metro station
Advice for contributors Please submit listings
to nightlife.sh@timeout.cn. Information must
include name of event, address of venue, contact
details, time, date and price. The deadline for
listings is the 14th of each month.
Thursday 1
Far East Movement Muse on The Bund,
10pm, 200RMB; 150RMB (presale), includes
two drinks. The Asian-American hip hop
group behind the hit 'Like a G6', Kev Nish,
Prohgress, J-Spliff and DJ Virman return
to Shanghai with two dates at Muse on The
Bund and M2 (see Tuesday 6).
Friday 2
Agaric (Germany) Lola, 10pm, 30RMB. A
regular fixture in the Berlin underground
dance scene, the techno veteran from
Sweden Patrik Skoog, aka Agaric, has
released records on Josh Wink’s revered
Ovum imprint and plays high-grade techno
tonight with support from residents Alecs
Marta and Frank Costello.
Ding Dong Disco Halloween Party:
Crowdpleaser (Switzerland)
O’Malley’s, 10pm, 100RMB. DJ Razor’s
sophomore super-rave on Taojiang Lu this
year welcomes Swiss disco-house jock
Crowdpleaser to the sonic fray.
Halloween Party: Cirque Du Soir M1NT,
9.30pm, cover tba. Back once again, the
world-travelling alt-circus troupe headline
this year’s M1NT Halloween party with
their leftfield neo-burlesque and oddball
theatrics.
FREE Rankadank Records presents
Electric East: Doshy (Germany) DADA,
10pm. Berlin-based dubstep don Doshy,
whose released records on Planet Mu and
Robox, headlines tonight with a monster
set of forward-thinking lazer-dub as
Rankadank Records continues its growing
monthly showcase. In support is ConRank,
HBD and Deadlock.
Saturday 3
FREE The Minimalist DADA, 10pm. Milan
J’s techno-minimal monthly continues.
Tuesday 6
Far East Movement M2, 10pm, 200RMB;
150RMB (presale), includes two drinks.. See
Thursday 1.
Friday 9
Wednesday 21
FREE Brotha From Another Mutha
FREE Boom Assin DADA, 10pm. Techno
DADA, 9pm. A new night debuting at
and dub with Mr Assin and friends.
DADA from Hyphenics Collective, expect
The Juan MacLean (USA) The Shelter,
bass, funk, soul, breaks and hip hop from
10pm, 100RMB. Following DFA labelmate
DJs NDC and Donn from Singapore and
James Murphy’s visit earlier this year to
New Zealand's Arctic Penguin.
O’Malley’s, DJ-producer Juan MacLean
M1NT All White Affair M1NT, 9.30pm, cover
plays a comparatively more intimate venue
tba. The all-white soiree returns with M1NT
far less likely to get shut down by the police.
reimagined as a fancy white castle under
Tonight, it's deep, retro-futurist house
the sea where mermaids float freely. Dress
and upfront techno that references classic
code: white, naturally.
Detroit and Chicago sounds with help from
the ever-busy DJ Razor and friends. See
Preview, page 72.
Thursday 22
FREE Perfecto Playboyz vs Dela Crem
Bar Rouge Eighth Anniversary:
The Geisha, 10pm. Anything from hip
Ladies Hunt Bar Rouge, 9pm, men
hop to Balearic house from the
100RMB, women free. Part one of
resident DJs.
a three-part eighth birthday
Shinedoe (Netherlands)
bash weekend at The Bund’s
Lola, 10pm, 80RMB, includes
busiest club with free entry
one drink. Amsterdam
for all girls and free drinks
founder of Intacto Records,
For our complete guide from 9pm. See Incoming,
Nigeria-born beatstress
who’s released records on the to the weekend ahead page 72.
lauded Get Physical label,
– posted every
Shinedoe traffics in warm,
Thursday.
Friday 23
deep and dubby Detroit
Bar Rouge Eighth
techno and funky house via US
Anniversary: Dimitri from Paris
garage and techno as she arrives in
(France) Bar Rouge, 10pm, 100RMB. Part
light of her latest EP Content!. Frank
two of Bar Rouge’s three-night birthday
Costello warms up.
party headlined by Parisian disco dandy
Skrillex (USA) Club G Plus, 10pm, 680RMB;
and revered cratedigger Dimitri from Paris
480-580RMB (presale). At last, the muchwho is arguably as important to French
maligned, much-blogged-about, floppydance as Daft Punk. See Incoming, page 72.
haired grim reaper of dubstep makes his
FREE Decks EFX DADA, 10pm. DJ Roo and
China debut at Xintiandi. Probably one of
friends do bass-house and dupstep.
the most divisive figures in pop for decades
FREE Discosmic Adventures 390 Bar,
and a major force behind the global EDM
10pm. American Booze DJs, Velvet Robot,
swell, it's the one even your mum's heard of:
Lindberg and Engdahl continue their Italo,
Sonny John Moore, aka Skrillex.
disco, Euro-dance foray and crank up the
camp, HI-NRG-disco quotient with a move
Friday 16
to gay club 390 Bar.
Doctor Dru (Germany) Lola, 10pm, 80RMB.
FREE Panda Injection DADA, 10pm. DJ
From Hamburg, Jeudi Records-founder and
Mia and her girlfriends’ techno and techdeep house up-and-comer Doctor Dru has
house monthly continues.
rattled Beatport and the like with releases
including ‘Ooh Gosh’, ‘Juicy Fruit’ and,
Saturday 17
more recently, his ace current release ‘The
Voice of Dru’. Expect flutters of disco
DJ Hell (Germany) + Christian
inbetween a mostly deep house set. In
Prommer (Germany) Lola, 10pm,
collaboration with TICT, support comes
150RMB, includes one drink. More German
from Mau Mau and Lola's Frank Costello.
DJs make Lola’s sonic roster this month,
High Heels & High Tops The Geisha, 10pm,
one probably the best-known of them all:
100RMB, includes one drink. Choyce Kutz
46-year-old tech-punk icon Helmut Geier,
and B-Kut continue their monthly hip hop
otherwise known as long-standing techno
hoedown. Email info@thegeisha-shanghai.
menace DJ Hell, is one of the forefathers of
com for 50RMB guestlist.
his genre and is widely credited as the first
name in German techno. Still widely revered
and active today in the Berlin scene for his
Saturday 24
work on his own imprint Gigolo, he's joined
Alex Flatner (Germany) Lola, 10pm,
by genre-straddling DJ-producer Christian
30RMB. Celebrating resident Frank
Prommer, who's known for his jazz-house
Costello’s birthday, techno-juke man Alex
Drumlesson releases on !K7 and also for his
Flatner returns with support from the
tie-ups with Truby Trio and Voom:Voom
birthday boy himself and Alecs Marta.
& Peter Kruder. Prommer attempts to defy
Bar Rouge Eighth Anniversary Bar
categorisation by cross-pollinating rave,
Rouge, 10pm, 100RMB. It’s the full party
techno, jazz, funk, soul and minimal to
tonight with what we’re promising will be
gleefully off-kilter, dancefloor-equipped
‘Champagne rain’ falling from somewhere
ends. Resident Alecs Marta supports. This
come midnight and the bar itself given a
is an absolute must for techno purists.
fancy overhaul with dressed-up
FREE Lovebang DADA,10pm. Heatwolves
performers and party jams
and Co. return with another night of wonky,
from resident DJs. See
all-genres sonic gluttony. This month's
Incoming, page 72.
guest is DJ Laobang from Korea.
Daniel Wang
Sub-Culture Fifth Birthday:
(Germany) 390 Bar,
Kode9 (UK) The Shelter,
10pm, 60RMB. Daniel
10pm, 60RMB. Celebrating
Wang played one
five years as Shanghai’s
of the most talkedforemost bass night, the
about Ding Dong
UK’s forebearer of dubstep
Discos of 2012 in
and Hyperdub founder
April at LUNE
Steve Goodman, aka
and now he’s
Kode9, returns once
back thanks to DJ
again with a new
Razor to play this
house-, garage-,
new pan-sexual
grime-, juke- and
party pen on
hip hop-addled style
Panyu Lu.
of dubstep. In support
is Tzu Sing playing live
alongside Acid Pony
Club, dji with George
Wyndham and Nick Carrying on as if he owns the bass The
Muzyczka, ChaCha, hate figure of dubstep blogs worldwide,
Didje, Ubec and
Skrillex plays Club G Plus this month.
more.
Go online!
Expect the same big, gay, mid-tempo disco
flouncers as before, with what should be
a truly interesting crossover gay-straight
crowd. Razor and Santo Chino support.
FREE Double Happiness Second
Birthday DADA, 10pm. American Booze
DJs, Lindberg and friends celebrate two
years of their anything-goes party night
with another installment of their reliably
rarefied party. With an emphasis on fun,
expect everything from house to funk,
reggae, acid house, disco, death metal and
‘filthy, dirty sex jamz and retarded party
muzik’. ‘Anything with big party hooks,’
they say. ‘And lots of salaciousness, too.’
Friday 30
Alphabet City (UK) Lola, 10pm, 30RMB.
The UK’s Rob Fahey, a well-known light
of Brighton’s underground dance scene,
makes his Shanghai debut off the back
of the success of high-profile releases
including last year’s ‘Feels Like’ for
in-vogue nu-disco imprint Under the Shade.
Expect a high-grade mix of lush boogie,
acid-house, analogue-disco edits and Italo
with help from Alecs Marta.
Brandt Brauer Frick (Germany) 390
Bar, 10pm, 100RMB. A trio of classically
trained experimentalists who have drawn
favourable comparisons to Kraftwerk
export their completely live ‘acoustic
techno’ show to 390 Bar. Promoter-DJ Razor
and friends support. See Feature, page 71.
Heineken Green Room presents Paul
van Dyk (Germany) Club G Plus, 10pm,
280RMB. The world’s mightiest trance
overlord returns once more for another
lazer-heavy crowd-pleaser. This time,
the multi-award-winning trance-techno
A-lister and big-room soundscaper comes
to showcase his latest album Evolution. See
www.timeoutshanghai.com for an interview.
FREE Kodama vs. Gotama: Round 3
DADA, 10pm. Two psy-trance nights unite
once more with another lazer-addled headto-head at DADA.
The Shelter Fifth Anniversary: Triple
Threat DJs (USA) The Shelter, 10pm,
50RMB. To mark this Shanghai institution’s
half-decade anniversary, the Triple Threat
DJs, which includes many-time DMC
champs Shortkut, Apollo and Vinroc, run
turntablist tricks tonight with support from
The Lab Crew.
Sneaky Soundsystem (Australia) The
Geisha, 10pm, 380RMB; 300RMB (presale).
Signed to Modular records, Sydney-based
Aussie dance-pop duo Black Angus and
MC-singer Connie Mitchell (who appears
on Kanye West’s Graduation album) tour in
support of their latest LP.
Weeklies
Every day
FREE The Afterwork Bar Rouge, 6-10pm
(except Sat -Sun). Laid-back post-work drinks
deals with house cocktails from 40RMB.
Nightlife
A + D (USA) The Geisha, 10pm, 100RMB,
includes one drink. Billed as ‘the biggest
bootleg mash-up party in the world’, San
Fran DJs Adrian and Mysterious D drop an
edition of their crowd-pleasing bash.
FREE Acid Pony Club DADA, 10pm.
Beloved disco-house duo workout at DADA.
Joachim Garraud (France) Bar Rouge,
10pm, 300RMB; 200RMB (presale). The first
of two big winter shows (indie-dance
duo Justice play next month on Friday
7 December), big-room electro noisnik
Joachim Garraud’s thick, flatulent, wobbly
sound calls to mind a sort of club-ready
derivative of dubstep not too dissimilar to
Skrillex (see Saturday 10). Usually wearing
a Scream-style mask, he attempts to
capture the sort of theatrics for which, say,
Deadmau5 is also known (albeit on a much
lower budget).
Yellow: Back to the Underground The
Shelter, 10pm, 40RMB. Storied Shanghai DJ
Ben Huang’s underground techno party
returns for the first time since it ran at
the old LoGo three years back. Alongside
co-conspirator Zammo, they ply deep
house and techno with special guest friends
including Thoma Cher, MCs Dana Shellmire
and Amine Elfellali, guitar-keyboardist
Vlad and China DMC champ DJ LJ. See
Spotlight, page 71.
Saturday 10
Every Monday
FREE DJ Keint Bar Rouge, 8pm. French discohouse DJ serves the after-work crowd.
FREE Industry Night The Apartment, 8pm.
Weekly get-together for local bar staff with
30RMB drinks.
Every Tuesday
FREE Factory Five Night Ride Meet at
Factory Five, 876 Jiangsu Lu, near Huashan Lu,
8pm. Popular evening group ride with a
different route each week finishing at a bar.
FREE Heaven’s Wine Amber Lounge, 10pm.
Japanese DJ Nakazawa plays deep house
with free wine until midnight for all down
on Huashan Lu.
FREE Sub Cinema DADA, 8pm. Classic
movies with free popcorn. See Film
Listings, page 60 for details.
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Every Wednesday
FREE Baileys Ladies Night Zeal, 9pm . Free
Baileys cocktails from 9pm-1am for girls
and free makeovers from MakeUp Forever.
FREE The Beat DADA, 10pm. Sacco plays
Northern Soul, Motown, funk and rock.
Beer from 20RMB.
FREE Cocktails & Dreams The Apartment,
8pm. Two-for-one house cocktails and
martinis 8pm-midnight.
FREE El’se Bar Rouge, 10pm. Resident DJ
does uplifting house and disco.
FREE The Geisha Ladies Night The
Geisha, 8pm. Two-for-one sushi rolls and
desserts at the downstairs restaurant
6-9pm, plus free pink martinis and
sparkling wine for girls, 9pm-midnight.
FREE International Week Hollywood, 8pm.
Night for Erasmus students showcasing a
different country each week.
FREE Ladies Night Sugar, 9pm-2am. Free
cocktails for the girls from 9-11.30pm.
Models Night M1NT, 10pm, cover tba. The
see-and-be-seen weekly continues with DJ
Spenny at the helm who mines the cheesier
realms of hip hop, R&B, house and disco
while free-drink-swilling models run amok.
FREE Original Sin Eden, 9.30pm. Ladies
night with pole-dancing Eves and ‘hot
Adams’. Girls drink free 9pm-midnight.
FREE Rami Lola, 9pm. DJ Rami hosts this
gay-friendly evening with buy-one-get-one
free on beers, wines and house pours.
FREE Student Night Adam’s Cocktail Lounge,
9pm. Free beer until 10.30pm, then 35RMB
cocktails all night.
FREE Wednesday Night Mixer Sonik Fly,
8-11pm. ShanghaiExpat party with 30RMB
drinks and friendly crowd.
1
Juan MacLean
Fifth Birthday: Kode9
2Sub-Culture
The Shelter
Hyperdub A-lister returns to tow this long-running monthly party into its
sixth consecutive year of underground, for ward-thinking bass. Sat 17
Wang
3Daniel
390 Bar
Back from one of the most talkedabout disco parties at LUNE earlier
this year, Wang returns for a
triumphant second coming of retrofitted disco wonderment. Sat 24
Brauer Frick
4Brandt
390 Bar
Live acoustic techno from the
innovative German trio. Much, much
better than it sounds, promise. Fri 30
Bar Rouge Eighth Birthday: Dimitri from
5
Paris
Bar Rouge
Dapper Parisian disco dandy headlines this Bundside glamspot’s three-night birthday bash. Fri 23
Back to the Underground
6Yellow:
The Shelter
Nightlife
Every Thursday
Drunken Dragon Pub Crawl Meet
at O’Malley’s, 9.30pm, 150RMB. Popular
Shanghai bar crawl includes one hour of
free-flow and bus travel to three bars or
clubs plus free shots on the bus.
FREE Flashback Thursdays The Geisha,
9pm. Two-for-one martinis between 8-11pm.
FREE Girls Night Out Bar Rouge, 9.30pm.
Free drinks for girls plus complimentary
makeovers from 9-11.30pm. Men without
table reservation 100RMB.
FREE The Good Life Eden, 9.30pm. Resident
DJ B-Kut plays top 40 and R&B.
FREE Gossip The Apartment, 8pm. Free
sparkling wine and Ketel One vodka
cosmos for ladies 9-11pm.
FREE Ladies Night Amber Lounge, 8pm. Free
cocktails for ladies before midnight. Groups
of four girls get a free bottle of wine. Post
midnight, it’s two drinks for 60RMB for
girls and boys. DJ Chewie on the decks.
FREE Ladies Night Club G Plus,10pm. Freeflow Champagne until 12.30pm.
Ladies Night Sonik Fly, 9pm. Free cosmos
for girls all night.
FREE Latin Fever Brix, 8.30pm-midnight.
Free salsa classes for all levels plus 99RMB
drinks specials until midnight.
FREE Lenz Inferno, 10pm. Lenz, formerly of
Androsace, plays sludge and stoner metal
with 10RMB bottles of Tsingtao at this
unsung Yongjia Lu metal bar.
FREE Sex & the City Hollywood, 10pm.
Resident DJ Jobo drops R&B with free
goodies for the girls.
FREE Sugar Apertivo Sugar, 6.30pm.
Drinks normal prices but with free Italian
buffet every Thursday from 6.30-9.30pm.
FREE The Vibe Bar Rouge, 8pm. Resident DJ
Robin Blixt plays house and disco.
Every Friday
FREE After Hours Amber Lounge, 3am.
Rotating mix of DJs take on Shanghai’s latepartying crowd.
FREE Champagne Night Sugar, 9pm2am. Throwback disco and chart hits and
free-flow champers for ladies from 10.3011.30pm who RSVP to champagne.nite@
gmail.com.
Get Stiff Amber Lounge, 10pm-3am, 50RMB,
includes one drink. Gay weekly formerly at
Craft with DJ Mau Mau.
FREE Grand Central The Apartment, 9pm.
Multi-room throwdown with mainstream
hip hop and R&B in one room and house and
disco beats in the other from resident DJs.
Critics’
choice
The Shelter
New York-based DFA sovereign
recalls classic house and Motor City
techno for DJ Razor’s ongoing Ding
Dong Disco. Sat 10
Shanghai’s most lauded homegrown DJ makes a
long-vaunted return to the underground revitalising
his Yellow franchise with Void’s DJ Zammo. Fri 9
FREE DJ Mia The Fennel Lounge, 9.30pm. All
sorts of tunes from the Shanghai scenestress.
FREE DJ Perseau Craft, 9pm. Disco and soul
on rotation all night.
Theme Nights Hollywood, 10pm, free for
women all night, 100RMB for men after 2.30pm.
Fancy-dress party with a different theme
every week and party tunes from DJ Jobo.
Every Saturday
Drunken Dragon Pub Crawl Meet at Rico
Rico, 9.30pm, 150RMB. Bar crawl includes
hour of free-flow and bus travel to three
bars or clubs and free shots. Friendly crowd.
FREE The Lost Society TheApartment,8pm.
DJ Ken does funky house in Apt 301 with DJ
Mick doing old-school classics in Apt 302.
DJ Spenny M1NT,9pm,cover tba.Crowdpleasing party jams from everyone’s fave
do-gooding DJ Spencer Tarring.
Every Sunday
FREE The Geisha 8pm-midnight. A new
Sunday night at with DJ Anaconda playing
Latino beats plus open bar 8pm-midnight
for 100RMB (margaritas and draft beer).
Tuesday
NEW FREE Tuesgay Hunt Sugar,8.30pm.
New gay weekly with changing drinks
deals and all-you-can-eat free nibbles from
8.30-10.30pm.
Wednesday
FREE Colors Lola, 9pm.Gay weekly with DJ
Hunt throwing down pan-sexual disco jams.
Thursday
FREE Acid Pony Thursdays DADA,
9pm.Every Thursday in November the
ubiquitous pair play house at DADA with
special guests from mainstream clubs
such as M1NT and Bar Rouge who play the
music they really love, proving they’re ‘not
in it for the money’. Right.
NEW FREE Holly Sh*t Lola,9pm. Disco and
deep house from Charp and Thoma Cher.
NEW Salsa Night Adam’sBar,8-11pm.Free
salsa classes and Latin cocktails.
Sunday
NEW FREE Open Stage Sundays with
Theo Croker 390 Bar, 9.30pm. Shanghai
jazz-hand Theo Croker hosts a new night
on Panyu Lu at Sacco's new gay bar-club.
Co-host is Anthony Ware, who invites
musicians to jam live on stage, playing
anything from instrumental hip hop,
electro to rock, turbo-folk and everything in
betweeen. Bring your own instruments.
NEW FREE Sunday Latino Night The
Geisha, 8pm-midnight. DJ Anaconda spins
Latin beats plus 100RMB open bar with
margaritas and draft beer.
Venues
390 Bar 390 Panyu Lu, near Fahuazhen Lu,
Changning district (www.390Shanghai.com).
Open 5pm-late daily. Jiaotong University.
长宁区番禺路309号, 近法华镇路
Adam’s Cocktail Lounge Lane 5-2, 448
Xinhua Lu, near Dingxi Lu, Jingan district
(5230 2003). Open 6pm-late daily.
Jiaotong University. 静安区新华路448弄5
号2座,近定西路
Amber Lounge 449 Huashan Lu, near
Wulumuqi Bei Lu, Xuhui district (no tel). Open
times tba. Jingan Temple. 徐汇区华山路
446号, 近乌鲁木齐北路
The Apartment Third Floor, 47 Yongfu
Lu, near Fuxing Xi Lu, Xuhui district (6437
9478). Open 11am-late daily. Shanghai
Library. 徐汇区永福路47号, 近复兴西路
Bar Rouge Seventh Floor, 18 Zhongshan
Dong Yi Lu, near Nanjing Dong Lu, Huangpu
district (6339 1199). Open 6pm-2am SunThur, 6pm-late Fri-Sat. Nanjing Dong Lu.
黄浦区中山东一路18号7楼, 近南京东路
Club G Plus Fifth Floor, Lane 123, Xingye
Lu, near Madang Lu, Huangpu district
(5386 8088, www.clubgplus.com). Open
9pm-late daily. Xintiandi. 黄浦区兴业路
123弄新天地南里广场5楼, 近马当路
Craft Donghu Hotel South Wing, 7 Donghu
Lu, near Huaihai Zhong Lu, Huangpu
district (139 1798 5763). Open 5pm-1am
Wed-Thur, 5pm-late Fri-Sat. Shaanxi
Nan Lu. 黄浦区东湖路7号, 近淮海中路
Cuvve Sixth Floor, 18 Zhongshan Dong
Yi Lu, near Nanjing Dong Lu, Huangpu
district (no tel). Open 6pm-late daily.
Nanjing Dong Lu. 黄浦区中山东一路18
号6楼, 近南京东路
DADA 115 Xingfu Lu, near Fahuazhen Lu,
Changning district (150 0018 2212). Open
8pm-late daily. Jiaotong University. 长宁
区幸福路115号,近法华镇路
Eden Fourth Floor, 760 Nanjing Xi Lu, near
Shimen Er Lu, Jingan district (6255 6000).
Open 9.30pm-4am Wed-Sat. Nanjing Xi Lu.
静安区南京西路760号4楼,近石门二路
The Fennel Lounge 217 Zhenning Lu, near
Dongzhuanbang Lu, Jingan district (3353
1773). Open 6pm-2am daily. Jiangsu Lu.
静安区镇宁路217号, 近东诸安浜路
The Geisha 390 Shaanxi Nan Lu, near
Fuxing Zhong Lu, Xuhui district. (6403
0244; www.thegeisha-shanghai.com). Open
5pm-late daily. Shaanxi Nan Lu. 徐汇区
陕西南路390号,近复兴中路
Hollywood 46 Yueyang Lu, near
Dongping Lu, Xuhui district (131 6255
7559, www.hollywoodshanghai.com). Open
8pm-late daily. Hengshan Lu. 徐汇区岳阳
路46号, 近东平路
Horizen Floor 23, Zhongshan Dong Er Lu, near
Jingling Lu (5307 6869; www.horizen.cn). Open
5pm-4am daily. Yu Garden. 中山东二路23
楼, 近金陵路
Ibiza 428 Jiangning Lu, near Wuding Lu,
Jingan district (6113 5668; www.ibiza-shanghai.
com).Open 8pm-late daily. Jingan Temple.
静安区江宁路428号, 进武定路
Inferno 480 Yongjia Lu, near Yueyang Lu,
Xuhui district ( 5466 6068). Open 4pm-late
Mon-Fri, 12pm-late Sat-Sun. Hengshan
Lu. 徐汇区永嘉路480号, 近岳阳路
Lola Unit 413 Surpass Court, Bldg 4,
570 Yongjia Lu, near Yueyang Lu, Xuhui
district (138 1692 7970). Open 6pm-late
daily. Hengshan Lu. 徐汇区永嘉路570号
4号楼413室, 近岳阳路
LUNE Fourth Floor, 218 Xinle Lu, near
Donghu Lu, Xuhui district (no. tel). Open
6pm-late daily. Shaanxi Nan Lu. 徐汇区新
乐路218号, 近东湖路
O’Malley’s 42 Taojiang Lu, near Wulumuqi
Zhong Lu, Xuhui district (6474 4533).Open
11am-late daily. Shanghai Library. 徐汇区
桃江路42号, 近乌鲁木齐中路
M1NT 24th Floor, 318 Fuzhou Lu, near
Shandong Lu, Huangpu district (6391 2811).
Open 6pm-late daily. Nanjing Dong Lu.黄浦
区福州路318号24楼, 近山东路
M2 Hong Kong Plaza, 4/F, 283 Huai Hai
Zhong Lu, near Huangpi Nan Lu, Huangpu
district (6288 6222). Open 8pm-4am daily.
Huangpi Lu. 香港广场, 淮海中路283号,
近黄陂南路
NEW Mook Fifth-Sixth Floors, 758 Nanjing
Xi Lu, near Fenyang Lu, Jingan district (6326
9999). Open 9pm-5am daily. Nanjing Dong
Lu. 南京西路758号5-6楼, 近凤阳路
NEW Mural 10 Hengshan Lu, near Gaoan Lu,
Xuhui district (no tel). Open 7pm-late daily.
Hengshan Lu. 徐汇区衡山路10号,高安路
Muse on The Bund Rockbund, Fifth Floor, 99
Beijing Dong Lu, near Yuan Ming Yuan Lu (no
tel). Open 10pm-late daily. Nanjing Dong Lu.
黄浦区北京东路99号5楼, 近圆明园路
Rico Rico Cool Docks, Wharf 1846, Bldg
3, 601 Waima Lu, near Zhuhangmatou Jie,
Huangpu district (3330 0977; www.ricorico.sh).
Open 5.30pm-late daily. Xiaonanmen. 黄浦区
外马路601号3号楼114室, 近竹行码头街
The Shelter 5 Yongfu Lu, near Fuxing Xi
Lu, Xuhui district (6437 0400). Open 9pmlate Wed-Sun. Shanghai Library. 徐汇区
永福 路5号,近复兴西路
Shiva Lounge 47 Yongfu Lu, near Fuxing
Xi Lu, Xuhui district (139 1829 3288). Open
8pm-5am Tue-Sat. Shanghai Library. 徐汇
区永福西路47号, 近复兴西路
Sugar Hong Fang Zi, Sixth Floor, 35 Shaanxi
Nan Lu, near Changle Lu (6215 8777). Open
11.30am-2am. Shaanxi Nan Lu. 陕西南路
35号6楼, 近长乐路
NEW Virgo Bldg 11, 505 Zhongshan Nan Lu,
near Fuxing Dong Lu, Huangpu district (6152
6543). Open 6pm-2am daily.
Xiaonanmen.中山南路505号11栋,近复兴东路
Zeal Sixth Floor, South Bund 22, Zhongshan
Dong Er Lu, near Jinling Lu, Huangpu
district (6328 8668). Open 6pm-late daily.
Yu Garden. 黄浦区中山东二路22号6楼,
近金陵路
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