if New York can die so can London

shakahislop

shakahislop

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stayed out all night, mostly coz it takes so much fucking time to get back to manhattan from fucking ridgewood, and biked to times square at 6am, where i met a tourist from Michigan who told me that he had had one of the most profound days of his life, where he had taken coke for the first time, given thousands of dollars to a stripper, and ate the best sandwich he'd ever had
 
version

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shakahislop said:
I read this earlier and I wondered : is it true. Do people no longer have house prties
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Of course they do, but it's not hard to believe they're having fewer than they did in the past due to the factors mentioned in the article. That wasn't what grabbed me though, what grabbed me was the idea of a commercial simulation of a house party. It's so grating.

There's also a chance the whole thing's just an ad for the club with a bit of commentary draped around it for plausible deniability.
 
dilbert1

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Contemporary London house party footage. I wonder if this was also simulated, or put on strictly to film a music video. Looks fun, my wingman @version and I would kill in there

 
dilbert1

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shakahislop said:
stayed out all night, mostly coz it takes so much fucking time to get back to manhattan from fucking ridgewood
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Pretty cool you’re coming from Manhattan to come hang out in Ridgewood, you’ve got to be one of the only people to be doing that?
 
shakahislop

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dilbert1 said:
Pretty cool you’re coming from Manhattan to come hang out in Ridgewood, you’ve got to be one of the only people to be doing that?
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i mean if you want to go for a dance somewhere good that's pretty much the only option isn't it. there's always a bit of an L train migration in that direction on fridays and saturdays.
 
shakahislop

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i've lived on the east side of downtown for a while now and it's generally great but on weekend evenings you get this mad bridge and tunnel / everyone else from all over the city influx into the east village and the lower east side etc. there are these nightlife migrations happening all over.
 
dilbert1

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People here seem to think staying in Ridgewood or even Brooklyn means you haven’t had a proper night out, all about the Lower and East Village or else you’re a scrub, just figured the reverse wasn’t happening as much. A friend who moved here from LA has very much absorbed this snobbishness of not seeing “the point of ever leaving Manhattan” or else sort of holding your nose when doing so
 
shakahislop

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dilbert1 said:
Like are people coming out from Manhattan to go to Trans Pecos or TV Eye?
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i think probably noone is going to that bit of queens slash brooklyn to go for a few beers. but for music stuff i find the city pretty segmented and you've got to travel. if you're downtown you're sorted for experimental and free jazz stuff. if you like boring indie there's a surprisingly large number of venues which have stuck it out since the 00s. but the bushwick club thing doesn't exist anywhere else in the city and all the metal is out in brooklyn too. including trans-pecos and tv eye actually now that vitus is closed. know a load of people who come out from like the upper west side to trek out to the arse end of greenpoint just for st vitus. but that place is / was special. actually to be fair none of those people can be arsed to go out to trans-pecos and tv eye for the same bands that vitus are putting on there now that i think about it
 
shakahislop

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dilbert1 said:
People here seem to think staying in Ridgewood or even Brooklyn means you haven’t had a proper night out, all about the Lower and East Village or else you’re a scrub, just figured the reverse wasn’t happening as much. A friend who moved here from LA has very much absorbed this snobbishness of not seeing “the point of ever leaving Manhattan” or else sort of holding your nose when doing so
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i used to be the same way about manhattan coz i wrote it off as an unbroken stretch of gentrification coz i'd been reading about the east village being gentrified since i was a teenager.
 
dilbert1

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Sounds like I really missed something with Vitus. Going to try and make it out to one of these jungle nights at Pecos some time if I can and if it seems promising. I’d go out for some actually good techno too, Mills and Regis type beats, but gotta get my finger more on the pulse. Also what places have you been most impressed with the sound for dance music? Went to that place Rash on Myrtle once, cool little space but the system left a lot to be desired, maybe bad acoustics with the ceramic
 
shakahislop

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dilbert1 said:
Sounds like I really missed something with Vitus. Going to try and make it out to one of these jungle nights at Pecos some time if I can and if it seems promising. I’d go out for some actually good techno too, Mills and Regis type beats, but gotta get my finger more on the pulse. Also what places have you been most impressed with the sound for dance music? Went to that place Rash on Myrtle once, cool little space but the system left a lot to be desired, maybe bad acoustics with the ceramic
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really impressed with nowadays and public records. basement is pretty good as well but a bit pummelling and well you've got to like techno coz that's all they're going to play. LSD has a good system with klipshorns but only been there for mattresses-on-the-floor ambient. i kind of hate the knockdown center system enough to not go there even for good things, it's too harsh for me. the system at planetarium is also amazing but its such a specific kind of event that one

tim reaper is on at 9am at nowadays next weekend for pseduo-jungle
 
dilbert1

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9am wtf? Well I know he’s on trend but his bag is deep, last time I saw him he played old Potential Bad Boy and Red Light tunes. And this whopper by Phineus II which made me pogo like crazy

 
Mr. Tea

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Depressing piece here in that veritable hipster's Bible, the FT, about the death of the house party in London and much of the rest of the country due to the unstoppable inflation of house prices and rents:

www.ft.com

The end of the house party

Have the housing and rental markets finally killed this form of wild, bombastic chaos — and reduced it to a nostalgic, commercialised ‘immersive experience’?
www.ft.com www.ft.com

Oh, and Stormzy's new venture, which is a house party-themed club in Soho, where you can relive your fond memories of bygone days with authentic features of a real house party, such as drinks that cost upwards of a tenner and squads of burly goons patrolling the place, looking for someone to throw out for smoking/vaping (never mind doing any actual fun drugs).
 
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