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Eyes Wide Open Club

Eyes Wide Open pushes garage, psych and rock'n'roll on the first Friday of the month

About Me


   
Eyes Wide Open loves great music. Be it garage, psych, freakbeat or rock'n'roll.
We have have bands and guest DJs every month.
Eyes Wide Open Club is on the first Friday of the month, at The Twisted Wheel (formerly RG's), 72 Queen Street.Some of our favourite bands to have played for us over the past three years are; the Soledad Brothers, Mr David Viner, Neils Children, The Urges, The Five Aces (formerly known as The Booglaoo Investigators) , Figure 5 , The Thanes, 10,000 Things, Nic Armstrong & The Thieves, Black Wire, The Come Ons, The Beep Seals and The Little Flames.The next EWO Club is on Friday 6th June, in the basement at The Twisted Wheel with Les Bof! playing live, plus the EWO DJs and special guests from London Uptight Tonight. 10pm - 3am, £5/4 NUS/with flyer.
Coming up in 2008 we've also got these trips to DJ further afield planned...

My Interests

rock'n'roll, drinking, gigs, going out, laughing

I'd like to meet:


People who love great music, who want to dance and have a great time.
Drop us a line if you want to be added to our e-mail list, or if you want to get in touch about playing future EWO gigs/club nights.

Music:

We salute:



Bands that have played... 10,000 Things, Nic Armstrong, The Beep Seals, Black Wire, The Boogaloo Investigators (now known as The Five Aces), The Come Ons, Deadfly Buchowski, The Doledrums, Dresden, The Echo Session, The Fast Camels, Figure 5, Frightened Rabbit, The Gilded Angels, Good Shoes, The Hentchmen, The High Plane Drifters, Kain, The Little Flames, The Mystery Jets, The Needles, Neils Children, The New Birdmen, The Owsley Sunshine, The Pandas, The People, Popup, The Revellions, The Silhouettes, Soledad Brothers, The Thanes, The Things, Tramp Attack, The Urges, Mr David Viner and Dooley Wilson
And some of the bands we play...
Billy Childish, Blanche, Brendan Benson, The Come Ons, The Cyril Lords, Dan Sartain, The Detroit Cobras, The Dirtbombs, The Draytones, The Duke Spirit, The Elevations, The Go, Thee Headcoatees, The Hentchmen, The Hexxers, The Horrors, The Kills, Ko & The Knockouts, Los Peyotes, Mr David Viner, Nic Armstrong, The Phantom Keys, Pearlene, The Riots, The Sights, The Singles, Soledad Brothers, The Staggers, The Sugars, The Urges, Vincent Vincent & The Villains, The Von Bondies, The White Stripes,
? & The Mysterians, The Amboy Dukes, The Bards, Blues Magoos, The Castaways, The Cherry Slush, Chocolate Watchband, Count Five, The Cryan' Shames, Cuby & The Blizzards, The Elastik Band, Electric Prunes, Five By Five, The Golliwogs, The Hombres, Human Beinz, The Kingsmen, The Knickerbockers, Love, The Monks, The Music Machine, New Colony Six, The Remains, Rocky & The Riddlers, The Seeds, The Shadows Of The Knight, The Sonics, The Standells, The Strangeloves, Terry Knight & The Pack, The Thirteenth Floor Elevators, We The People
The Action, The Animals, Syd Barrett, The Beat Merchants, The Birds, The Creation, John's Children, July, The Kinks, Les Fleur De Lys, Los Buenos, Mickey Finn, The Open Mind, Pink Floyd, The Poets, The Pretty Things, Terry Reid, Shocking Blue, The Small Faces, The Smoke, The Spencer Davis Group, Wimple Winch, The Yardbirds, The Zombies,
Gene Vincent, The Shangri-las, Ernie K Doe, Geno Washington, The Marvelettes, The Move, The Ronettes, The Beatles, The Left Banke, Lovin' Spoonful, The Rolling Stones

Movies:

24 Hour Party People, A Hard Days Night, Almost Famous, Control, Detroit Rock Movie, High Fidelity, Quadrophenia, Rock'n'Roll High School, Rude Boy, That Thing You Do

Heroes:




My Blog

New Venue from March - The Twisted Wheel

We're really pleased to announce that as of March 7th Eyes Wide Open Club will no longer be held in Barfly, from then onwards it'll be in the basement of The Twisted Wheel (formerly RGs) which has jus...
Posted by Eyes Wide Open Club on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 02:32:00 PST

February EWO/Le Beat Bespoke 4

We're really looking forward to February's EWO Club, with special guest DJ up from London, Rob Bailey. When's he's not jetting off around the world DJing at 60s events Rob is kept busy with the New U...
Posted by Eyes Wide Open Club on Thu, 17 Jan 2008 07:48:00 PST

EWO is Three... Guardian Preview

Thanks to everyone for letting us know this was in The Guardian Guide... we had no idea it was coming, a lovely surprise! Preview Saturday December 1, 2007The GuardianEyes Wide OpenGlasgow"The 1960s i...
Posted by Eyes Wide Open Club on Mon, 03 Dec 2007 04:46:00 PST

EWO Clubs Third Birthday Party - Full Details

We're very excited about the line up we have for EWO's Third Birthday Party, which is taking place upstairs at Glasgow Barfly on 7 Dec, from 9pm til 3am - thats 2 extra hours, and 3 extra bands all f...
Posted by Eyes Wide Open Club on Thu, 22 Nov 2007 05:47:00 PST

EWOs Third Birthday Extravaganza

We're very excited to announce the line up for EWO's Third Birthday Extravaganza... it's on Friday December 7th and its gonna be amazing!MR DAVID VINERTHE GILDED ANGELSTHE DOLEDRUMS& THE NEW BIRDMENTh...
Posted by Eyes Wide Open Club on Wed, 07 Nov 2007 08:42:00 PST

Help.... Weve been robbed!

Can anyone help us? We need to find the whereabouts of our shiney new banner. On Sept 7th it was hung at the DJ booth in the afternoon at Barfly, but when we arrived at the club at 10pm, it was gone...
Posted by Eyes Wide Open Club on Wed, 19 Sep 2007 05:57:00 PST

September EWO Club... a presentation of the All Saints Festival (Italy)

We're really excited about the September EWO Club... a presentation of the All Saints Festival.As any of you who know either of us will know we've been over to Italy at the end of October for the past...
Posted by Eyes Wide Open Club on Sat, 28 Jul 2007 10:16:00 PST

Awww thats nice...

We happily stumbled across an online-zine which featured an article about the Vintage Revival, which was very complimentary about Eyes Wide Open...Club nights and venues such as Eyes Wide Open and The...
Posted by Eyes Wide Open Club on Tue, 22 May 2007 07:28:00 PST

EWO Club ft Neils Children & Horrors DJ Set.... the photos

Another wonderful night, if we do say so ourselves. Neils Children played an amazing set at Eyes Wide Open Club, featuring lots of old songs that we're not lucky enough to hear very often anymore, fo...
Posted by Eyes Wide Open Club on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 02:26:00 PST

April 6th... The Horrors DJ Set & Neils Children live

The Horrors are going to be DJing at Eyes Wide Open Club after their show at the ABC on April 6th. Neils Children will also be doing a live performance at the club.So make sure you come down for all ...
Posted by Eyes Wide Open Club on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 07:58:00 PST