Swavy getting a new lease of life
Evening TimesSavoy’s stayin’ alive!16 Nov 2010
A £250,000 makeover has breathed new life into a 1970s’ disco favourite.
Tamla Motown was on the turntables, entrance cost just 85p and the clientele was firmly in the over-20 age bracket.
Musical tastes may have moved on since then, and admission prices might have ballooned, but not everything has changed after more than three-and-a-half decades of Glasgow’s longest-enduring nightspot.
The Savoy disco, which opened in April 1975, claims to be the second-oldest nightclub in the UK to have had the same name since opening.
And it has entered its 36th year of existence with a £250,000 makeover – its first major refurbishment.
Leopard skin-covered furniture was just groovy back in 1975 when the Savoy first opened