Strange News From Another Star
There are too many things to do tonight. It's too bad we'd have to freeze our asses outside to do 'em all !
Every year, the same story occurs. Nothing's happening during the whole damn month of February, and all of a sudden you wouldn'd have enough to see everything that happens on the 25th even if you had 10 clones and the face of Michael Keaton in MULTIPLICITY.
Is there such a thing happening over the summer, where we'd actually be glad to spend the night out & benefit from the museum's A/C ? Nope. I would gladly have taken a walk to the CCA, the Beaux-Arts Museum & the MAC, tonight, if the weather wasn't arctic.
So... parties are happenin'. There's the Nuit Électronik, which was my first choice thanks to our German friends the Wighnomy Brothers, pictured here in all their glory :
However, the price seems a little spicy when compared to everything else going in town. Jeux Divers, at S.A.T., is 20$ for Kardec & Mini; and Loco Dice at Aria is 15$ for dudes, and free for the ladies. Nuit Électronik is... 35$ at the door. Even at 25$ in advance, it doesn't seem broke-friendly. The room chosen at the last minute for the event is Station C, a.k.a. Kloc. If you've heard about the last 10 events that took place there, you know that they stayed open after 3 AM maybe once, but nobody I know can confirm that. I wouldn't want my party to be abruptly stopped by some cops at 3 AM, in this weather. So those of you taking the chance, please let me know, tomorrow, if it worked out. I wish you the best !
Because Nuit Électronik really is nice. The first year I went, in 2004, the music was amazing, and we danced like crazies. Around 6 AM, the sound system gave up, and they transfered the party in the "café" at the front. Soundshaper finished the night and I was the only one, it seemed, interested in getting something to eat from the croissant buffet.
Last year, it happened at Fonderie Darling, and I really wanted to hear Riccardo Villalobos, but something happened and he couldn't be there. It would have been nice to know, because Matthew Herbert's set really disappointed me. I didn't stay really long, but the place was nice and the crowd seemed frenzied. The idea behind the night is great, and a minimal night is what we need, but as long as the planning proves to be unsure, I'll regretfully have to pass on this kind of risk.
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I have seen an ad for a "new" nightclub in the Sky's complex. Called "Le Sommet", I guess it will be located on the top floor. We don't know what kind of music will play there, otherwise than it will be heart shaped. It seems that the marketing team behind this new thing do not consider that their potential clients care about the kind of music they'll hear, or who the resident DJ's will be.
The place will be mixed - which probably means that there will be gay guys & fag hags. Or office girls on a wild night out, trying to lie to themselves about wanting to "dance without being hit on by jerks".
There has been numerous attempts, in the past, to make something out of this useless room. All of them failed. A controversy even erupted during its past incarnation : there were some nights that were mixed, and some that were not. So, of course, when it was mixed, gay guys complained that they couldn't enjoy themselves... among themselves. They felt that they had the right to have a night for guys only, and that if girls wanted to hang out they had all the other clubs in town to do just that. Girls complained, on "guy's night", that they couldn't get in and that it was discrimination.
Remember Arena ? The club that some brilliant social theorician set up when Unity closed, a couple of years ago ? It was intended for a "hetero" crowd, which often means jocks & "pitounes". That's what happened alright. Jocks were lining up to get in, and were staying in front in mobs when the place closed. They occupied the sidewalks with their drunken behavior and more often than not would let out some loud "Fags !" at guys passing by. Now this is happening at Jet Club, on the frontier of the Village, so I guess it could be worse. But do we really want this to happen next to Sky, the Club Sandwich, Kilo, the Stud ?!
We can't predict ahead, and a true critique would seem fair only once we've set foot in there, so I'll keep you updated.
In the meantime, go and see your surgeon so he can slide you in enough pieces for you to attend all the worthwile events taking place tonight !
Every year, the same story occurs. Nothing's happening during the whole damn month of February, and all of a sudden you wouldn'd have enough to see everything that happens on the 25th even if you had 10 clones and the face of Michael Keaton in MULTIPLICITY.
Is there such a thing happening over the summer, where we'd actually be glad to spend the night out & benefit from the museum's A/C ? Nope. I would gladly have taken a walk to the CCA, the Beaux-Arts Museum & the MAC, tonight, if the weather wasn't arctic.
So... parties are happenin'. There's the Nuit Électronik, which was my first choice thanks to our German friends the Wighnomy Brothers, pictured here in all their glory :
However, the price seems a little spicy when compared to everything else going in town. Jeux Divers, at S.A.T., is 20$ for Kardec & Mini; and Loco Dice at Aria is 15$ for dudes, and free for the ladies. Nuit Électronik is... 35$ at the door. Even at 25$ in advance, it doesn't seem broke-friendly. The room chosen at the last minute for the event is Station C, a.k.a. Kloc. If you've heard about the last 10 events that took place there, you know that they stayed open after 3 AM maybe once, but nobody I know can confirm that. I wouldn't want my party to be abruptly stopped by some cops at 3 AM, in this weather. So those of you taking the chance, please let me know, tomorrow, if it worked out. I wish you the best !
Because Nuit Électronik really is nice. The first year I went, in 2004, the music was amazing, and we danced like crazies. Around 6 AM, the sound system gave up, and they transfered the party in the "café" at the front. Soundshaper finished the night and I was the only one, it seemed, interested in getting something to eat from the croissant buffet.
Last year, it happened at Fonderie Darling, and I really wanted to hear Riccardo Villalobos, but something happened and he couldn't be there. It would have been nice to know, because Matthew Herbert's set really disappointed me. I didn't stay really long, but the place was nice and the crowd seemed frenzied. The idea behind the night is great, and a minimal night is what we need, but as long as the planning proves to be unsure, I'll regretfully have to pass on this kind of risk.
*
I have seen an ad for a "new" nightclub in the Sky's complex. Called "Le Sommet", I guess it will be located on the top floor. We don't know what kind of music will play there, otherwise than it will be heart shaped. It seems that the marketing team behind this new thing do not consider that their potential clients care about the kind of music they'll hear, or who the resident DJ's will be.
The place will be mixed - which probably means that there will be gay guys & fag hags. Or office girls on a wild night out, trying to lie to themselves about wanting to "dance without being hit on by jerks".
There has been numerous attempts, in the past, to make something out of this useless room. All of them failed. A controversy even erupted during its past incarnation : there were some nights that were mixed, and some that were not. So, of course, when it was mixed, gay guys complained that they couldn't enjoy themselves... among themselves. They felt that they had the right to have a night for guys only, and that if girls wanted to hang out they had all the other clubs in town to do just that. Girls complained, on "guy's night", that they couldn't get in and that it was discrimination.
Remember Arena ? The club that some brilliant social theorician set up when Unity closed, a couple of years ago ? It was intended for a "hetero" crowd, which often means jocks & "pitounes". That's what happened alright. Jocks were lining up to get in, and were staying in front in mobs when the place closed. They occupied the sidewalks with their drunken behavior and more often than not would let out some loud "Fags !" at guys passing by. Now this is happening at Jet Club, on the frontier of the Village, so I guess it could be worse. But do we really want this to happen next to Sky, the Club Sandwich, Kilo, the Stud ?!
We can't predict ahead, and a true critique would seem fair only once we've set foot in there, so I'll keep you updated.
In the meantime, go and see your surgeon so he can slide you in enough pieces for you to attend all the worthwile events taking place tonight !
posted by Clifford Brown at
Saturday, February 25, 2006
1 Comments:
Apparently the Robag Whrume's Wighnomy Brothers played Salon Daomé a few days later... Too bad I didn't hear about it 'til the next day. Oh well... (I never got to know you well, you Robag!)
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