ON the weekend when the MTV European Music Awards occupied Glasgow's collective consciousness, it was impossible to go anywhere without being reminded of the glitzy spectacle.

Even down at Bath Street's hip Saint Judes - not the kind of place where you might expect teen pop fans to hang out - the spectre of MTV loomed.

Throughout the weekend it hosted a variety of workshops, Q&A sessions and seminars under the MTV Breaks banner.

These ranged from the valuable (a live session with UK hip-hop star Labrinth, and a discussion about what it's like to work in TV for aspiring presenters, to the ridiculous (Geordie Shore - Behind the Scenes, for example) but all failed to distract the venue and its regular patrons from their usual business, which is vibing out hard to the best in cutting edge house music.

On Friday night the club was a maelstrom of bodies, thick from the moment we descended into it.

I was reminded of the final scene from Terminator 2 as our freezing bodies were engulfed by the fluid mass of people occupying the smoking section and winding into the venue.

Inside, the rising Hot Creations DJ Patrick Topping pumped out funk-laden Balearic house, underpinned by his trademark basslines: deep, rubbery and sporadically disappearing, so that their reintroduction became a cause for celebration.

It's no surprise that the club was chosen to host the MTV Breaks afterparty: every weekend, switched-on dance music fans from within an enormous radius queue up along Bath Street to worship at the basement's celebrated soundsystem.

It is, put simply, one of the hottest clubs in the city and a potential challenger to the Subbie's homegrown house hotbed crown.

The boys down Jamaica Street should watch out.