Night Moves: Juicy Tuesday at Kushion

We already know what goes on in Kushion, down in that bustling, brick-walled Bath Street basement. It’s like the club in a late-noughties dance music video: all glamorous groups of girls pouting and teams of hench Lad Bible followers knocking back Jägerbombs. The club bills itself as “the forefront of student clubbing” and in that sense it is right. There are a lot of students here, all of them wrecked, and waiting to get in is a chittering queue reaching halfway to Charing Cross.

It’s easy to look down your nose at a place like Kushion: it puts up a sophisticated front while playing big-room EDM tunes and selling cheap drinks to students. But to sneer is to ignore the club’s vital contribution to Glasgow’s appeal as a capital of student clubbing.

There are unfortunate undergraduates in other towns and cities whose only options are a Yates’ and a club that closes at two o’clock. Take Lincoln, for example, where I spent last weekend. It’s a quaint city in middle England, about the size of Paisley. It has a good university and a lovely cobbled high street with a Nando’s and a modern craft beer bar called The Strait and Narrow, where you can sip Berliner Pilsner and listen to groups of lairy, stereotypically English guys shout about their coupons.

The thing is, it’s just about the only place to go drinking that isn’t a traditional British boozer or a chain pub. And while the pace of life is undoubtedly peaceful compared to Glasgow, I found myself thinking that if I had to spend four years studying there I would have gone insane. There are students there who would do unspeakable things for a Kushion, while we take it for granted that our nightlife is the best in the country. Which, when you think about it, isn’t a bad problem to have.

Q: Who inspires you most?

1. Rosie McLellan, 19, Greenock, Beyoncé

Hope Donnachie, 18, Greenock, Zac Efron

2. Evie Semple, 18, Gourock, Drake

Laura MacFarlane, 19, Greenock, Me

Nial Quigg, 18, Gourock, Ben McFadden

3. Daragh Cuddihy, 18, Gourock, Jack Warren Ballard

Matthew Steele, 18, Greenock, Johnny Steele

4. Gillian Black, 18, Gourock, Kanye West

Lewis Shearer, 18, Gourock, Cristiano Ronaldo

5. Nathan Feeney, 18, Colston, “My Da”

Scott Crawford, 18, Lyndale, Tupac or Biggie because they inspire me every day.

Adam McMahon, 18, Lyndale, Snoop Dogg.

6. Nicola Pew, 19, South Side

Favourite Club? El Barrio

Favourite Bar? O’Neills

Favourite DJ? Tiesto

Favourite Band? Unspoken

First Club? Bamboo

What You Drinking? Vodka & Diet Coke

Describe Your Dancing? Terrible

7. Rachel Dolan, 19, Hampden, Hillary Clinton

Andrew McLeish, 19, South Side, Barack Obama.