No Club Scene for Old Men

shakahislop

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nothing is as mixed and convivial as what you describe though. but that is what people are like now in general i think. it's mad people coming to bum cigerettes and scarpering as soon as possible. that happened to us about four times last weekend. there's almost too much respect for people's bubble.
 
Murphy

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@william_kent American students in Mancs bowling up at the Hacienda in summer is one of the funniest encounters witnessed in a British club, 90 or 91

Extremely obvious initially, quiet, no eye contact, dressed terribly (not a criticism of all Americans, gang) in preppy gear I have no idea how they got past the door staff in. Recall waiting for one of them to get badly taxed from a local yet at some point a deal had been cut and you could see their group rep handing out pills

90 minutes later distilled bedlam, eyes like spooked ghosts rolling in the backs of their heads completely locked in rhythm. Not advocating for drug use, more it can be hilarious seeing people wooshed off their feet onto the magic carpet ride

@shakahislop my older brother and cousins from Philly make a very quick appearance on here spilling out into the fresh morning snow, decent micro anthropology of spangled banners as time capsule

 
william_kent

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berlin club queues

Kit Kat and BERGHAIN lol

we would have fucked that shit off "back in the day" - "fuck that shit". "I'm not waiting for that shit, you are harshing my vibe, I can do drugs and have sex at home to a banging techno soundtrack, nevermind your elitist door policy,etc"

FUCK YOU!



DPRK CUTIES AND North Korean MILITARY MASS CHOIR - KILLING IN THE NAME OF

"FUCK YOU! "

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I wish these NK vids were real



DPRK CUTIES AND MASS NK MILITARY CHOIR - I WANT TO BREAK FREE!

[ sick acorn diet jokes have been redacted, lol ]
 
IdleRich

IdleRich

IdleRich
shakahislop said:
nothing is as mixed and convivial as what you describe though. but that is what people are like now in general i think. it's mad people coming to bum cigerettes and scarpering as soon as possible. that happened to us about four times last weekend. there's almost too much respect for people's bubble.
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The one time I went dancing in my the second I lit up we were surrounded by people asking for cigs, I remember my gf going "put em away, quick!"
 
shakahislop

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on this subject of clubs and old men - went to see tirzah last night. it's been ages since i saw something on that standard touring artist circuit. was noticeable how much worse it is and how much its almost a ritualistic facsimile of something that's actually good. lorraine james was supporting and started off with a huge barrage of IDM which crescendoed into massive shuddering pummelling bass with strobes and all of that. that was the high point and you sort of think yeah, this makes sense, it's good to have all the production and the lights. after that she played more softly and started singing and all you could hear was the audience of a thousand brooklyn baristas chatting to each other. by the time tirzah came on all you could hear was a kind of ambient farmyard noise of people chatting. she didn't help by standing totally still alone on the stage with one unwavering white light. it was the kind of thing that didn't need to be performed on a stage and didn't benefit at all from being seen within an audience.

there's a lot of standing around waiting as well. i think after you get used to smaller things and clubs all of that seems a bit inhospitable. the sound is hardly ever as good with these touring artists either. hard to know how you could ever get a soft voice like tirzah's to sound good through that level of amplification. they responded to all the chat by turning it up loud through the set as well which made it worse. you do get performances which just don't work out, it's normal, the combination of the place and who shows up that night and the way the artist feels that day means that some things don't achieve liftoff. but in retrospect the combination last night seemed like it never could have worked, just a bad idea all round.
 
wektor

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shakahislop said:
it was the kind of thing that didn't need to be performed on a stage and didn't benefit at all from being seen within an audience.

there's a lot of standing around waiting as well. i think after you get used to smaller things and clubs all of that seems a bit inhospitable. the sound is hardly ever as good with these touring artists either.
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my impression on 5/5 large scale gigs I have been to in the last year, mostly invited by friends. still don't understand the phenomenon of something like sitting (!) between a thousand other people at a swans show lol
 
dilbert1

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"My generation loves that style, you know... The Y2K energy, the 90s energy. And the kids are bringing it back. There's a lot of experimental things going on, with the music, and with the fashion and clothing. It definitely feels like a renaissance. Honestly. Its cool, its happening, its lively."
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- Dilbert on the NYC clubbing scene, 72 hours into living in Ridgewood
 
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dilbert1

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It’s midday, sometime in the early noughties.

I’m sat rewatching a VHS recording of Superman [1978] for the umpteenth time on my 14" CRT television - either Bush or Phillips; the details escape me.

It’s quaint, quiet in the house and since the proliferation of the internet hadn’t fully inhabited every morsel of daily life, as it does now, we were markedly unoccupied.
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Insufferable cliché infantilism that needs to die. I genuinely can’t imagine why you’d go on living if your north star in life is the nostalgia you feel for IP from your childhood
 
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dilbert1 said:
Someone who rollerblades AND does graffiti — exactly this kind of idiot’s idea of something cool, combining the worst society has to offer into one
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I remember a bunch of the stuff marketed at kids around that time being "xtreme". There were all these cartoons and toys trying to capitalise on it.




 
dilbert1

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That Tyco one rings a bell, I definitely wanted that thing or some subsequent version of it. But *sigh* Tyco really changed over the years and its just not what it used to be. Gone are the days of the Tyco we once loved. I’m 41 years old and married with three children btw
 
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