It was one of the top clubbing spots in the UK, with leading DJs from across the music world playing in its underground arches, a unique venue in the heart of Scotland's biggest city.

But today, as administrators are expected to make many of the 124 staff of The Arches redundant, more details have emerged on how Police Scotland wanted the venue to radically change its artistic direction.

Police wanted the venue, on its famous club nights, to stop the music every hour, and bring up its house lights.

The force also asked the club to pay for extra police officers to attend the club, which would have cost the venue around £50,000 a year.

Officers would have been paid £42.50 an hour to be present at the venue's roughly 100 club nights a year.

Both requests were turned down by the management of the venue, which is now to close after losing its late licence - essentially ending its clubbing operations which underwrote its many artistic ventures - after a review by Glasgow Licensing Board prompted by Police Scotland.

In the Police Scotland proposed action plan, music was to be stopped for five minutes, for a "cool down period".

The club was bemused by the request, which would have created a dance music venue unlike any in the UK.

Those involved in the club saw it as an example of a disconnection between the force and its knowledge of the "club culture" they wanted to police.

The police also requested that DJs have it stipulated in their contracts that the music be stopped every hour and the house lights brought up.

The request came soon after the death of Regane MacColl, 17, who died after attending the club and taking drugs in early 2014.

Police Scotland sent The Arches a 21 point series of points in an 'Agreed Intervention Action Plan'.

These included installing an 'over 25s' only policy, which insiders say would have deeply damaged the venues finances.

The action plans final two points regarded how the police believed music should be played in the club settings.

No 20 said: "At Dance events there must be a five minute cool-down period every sixty minutes where no music is played, productions must cease during this time and house lights to be lit."

It followed up this instruction with No 21, which said that all DJs paid to perform at the venue should have it written into their contracts that they have this five minute "cool down" every hour.

It read: "DJ's must be briefed of the requirement at point 20 in advance of the event, with such information forming part of the contract for services."

Last night Orde Meikle, who with Stuart McMillan form leading dance music DJs Slam, said: "The police recommendation that every hour the music should be stopped and the lights put up could be straight from Family Guy's Buzz Killington [a cartoon character who brings parties to a halt].

"It shows a lack of understanding of the nature of our particular form of cultural expression."

He said that Slam work closely with lighting and visual effects operators for implementing musical and visual light and shade and added: "For these two artistic performances - audio and visual - to be subject to a rule such as that suggested would be unacceptable and ineffective.

"The best way to ensure safety on the dance floor is for people to look out for one another and for staff members to be vigilant."

Ultimately the police recommendations adopted by the Arches last March agreed to "a few moments of calm time" as a natural part of record mixes used by dance DJs.

The Arches "politely declined" to pay for the extra police, after meetings with officers.

The venue had already spend money on extra stewarding, a welfare unit Crew 2000, new technology including Scannet ID technology and an LED warning system.

A spokeswoman for the national force said that in cases where there are large scale events for profit, such as gigs in Bellahouston Park or football matches, charges such as those suggested to The Arches normally apply.