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Na Na's Fat Poppadaddy has gone on a no-cheese diet and re-emerged
as Tuesday's slicker, sexier Pussycat Club. Still a bargain (students
free b4 10pm, £3 after; others £3 b4 10 and £4 after),
and with hard-to-beat drinks offers (tequila shots £1, selected
beers £1.50), Pussycat's charms serve it well, and enough punters
are lured through its doors on a steamy summer's night to allow it
to play even when Oxford's 30,000-strong student population are away.
A marked improvement in the playlist (less confusingly eclectic, more
hip hop, funky indie, 60s & old school) means that almost everyone
is on the dance floor most of the time, which always makes for an
entertaining night (even if part of it does require some fly-swatting
of over-affectionate chaps) - and if you did really need a seat, you
wouldn't have a problem finding one (a rare and valuable feature in
a club these days). The Pussycat crowd is a genuinely friendly and
relaxed one too - no music snobbery here, the atmosphere is definitely
closer to that of your quality college bop, and you might even make
some new and interesting friends. Also like a college bop, the playlist
is suspiciously similar from week to week, but since we knows what
we likes and we wants to dance to it, no-one's complaining.
A winning formula popular with students and townsfolk alike in term-time,
and supplemented by language school students in the summer hols, Pussycat
is probably the most likely kitten on Oxford's limited club circuit
to grow up into one funky cat.
The
Daily Info Nightlife Experts, August 2004
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