Night Moves @ The Flying Duck

The only way to express how excited I am for the next couple of weekends at the Flying Duck is by combining two dull clichés into one enormous super-cliché. Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night begins with the eternal quote “If music be the food of love, play on” - we all know that. And we all know that variety is the spice of life. Which must mean that this “cheeky wee bar and club” is the city’s foremost destination for an aromatic, mouth-watering array of the spiciest love-fuelling small plates imaginable. Confused? Me too, but let’s roll with it.

Tomorrow night, for example, the club hosts “Give Trance a Chance.” It’s the eleventh outing of Nitric, a night that celebrates acid techno, jungle and gabber, and the Ayrshire duo Chigs and Techip are playing a live analogue set. “Judgement is fascism. Open your mind,” the literature reads, as if trance were a burning political issue. I like it when people are passionate about things, don’t you?

Then on Saturday, Gimme Shelter rocks up, DJs Holly Calder and Craig Reece carrying stacks of garage, psych and freakbeat 45s, and the whole vibe shifts completely. They play the best in old school and present-day rock and roll, and I can’t remember hearing a bad song at any of their nights. They’re outstanding. In a week, the new night Pangaeic Pulsations spins world music including Afrobeat, Cumbia, Bollywood disco and south-east Asian psych rock, which should be no less than interesting. And the night after, Fans Only is a dance party dedicated to the sounds of Glaswegian indie rockers Belle and Sebastian – with all proceeds going to Sarcoma UK. Twee and genteel? I wouldn’t bet on it.

So, there’s your next two weekends mapped out: four intriguing nights, a mouthwatering buffet of music, and it’s all in one venue. They'll have to drag me out.

1. Christina Scott, 19, Hamilton, “Limmy”

Amy McKenzie, 19, East End, “Stephen Fry”

2. Andrew Walker, 19, Hamilton, “Karl Pilkington”

3. Matty Leonard, 21, Newcastle

Favourite Club? The Polo Lounge

Favourite Bar? Delmonica’s

Favourite DJ? RuPaul

Favourite Band? The Architects

First Club? The Cathouse

What You Drinking? A treble vodka and Red Bull

Describe Your Dancing? Vegan and crappy – but sexy.

4. Dan Blackhall, 33, Newcastle, “Tom Sigur”

Claire Lavelle, 21, Newcastle, “Billy Connolly”

5. Nichola Prosser, 24, Livingston, “Noel Fielding”

6. Amy Robertson, 29, Shawlands, Kirsten Wiig

Andrew Sestak, 35, Shawlands, “Paul Chowdhry”

7. Lewis Duguid, 26, Aberdeen, “Bill Hicks”

Roshanna Bay, 26, Nairn, “Michael Scott”