New York City - Help / Advice / Tips

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http://www.electriczoofestival.com/
 
NYC Spotlighters - I'm there from tonight until Friday. Suggestions for nights out gratefully received8)
 
Head for Libation at Sullivan Rooms on Thurs (or anything in that venue for that matter).

Danny Krivit's 718 sessions are also always a winner.

If you catch Francois K at Deep Space tonight (Monday) I may actually have to kill you. :lol: (check listings but this is supposed to be the best night at the mo musically)
 
Robder said:
If you catch Francois K at Deep Space tonight (Monday) I may actually have to kill you. :lol: (check listings but this is supposed to be the best night at the mo musically)
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I am a dead woman then...:D This is an awesome night and anyone in NY on a Monday should be at Cielo for it.
 
Rob - you need to check out "Downtown Calling". A film-doc about NYC late 70s/early 80s - am guessing it will appear online soon?

includes amazing footage of the graffiti, paradise garage photography, the politics, the Disco Sucks nonsense, interviews with Danny Krivit, Arthur Baker and all the other surviving big guns and the rise of hiphop, narrated by Debbie Harry!

I watched it premiered tonight at the Village Underground just off great eastern street, as part of he East End Festival. (David Byrne tomorrow) Large space, high ceilings, vast brickwork, acoustics (I think secret sundaze might have used it before for parties) weatherall played a nice new wave set afterwards. Also broadcast: a quiet village silent movie album set to live laptop visuals (s-exploitation, kitsch 70s pornos etc really, really good and quite funny at times)

In a way it makes me want to get the next flight out to NYC, but the final minutes where they described the city's cultural suffocation by Giuliani were pretty depressing...
 
Olly said:
In a way it makes me want to get the next flight out to NYC, but the final minutes where they described the city's cultural suffocation by Giuliani were pretty depressing...
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Just re-read Frank Owen's 'Clubland' about Michael Alig et al. Those events appear to have been the precursor to the crackdown. Worth a look if a little hyperbolic.
 
"...
How selective are NY's hottest clubs?
Guidos and geeks brave the velvet wall

A cougar, a guido and a nerd walk up to a bar . . .

And none got in.
At least not at the uber-hip Boom Boom Room.

To see which New York nightclub really lives up to its “exclusive” reputation,
The Post hired six models to test the doors at six Meatpacking District clubs —
dressing them as classic cool-killing stereotypes.
A Jersey girl,
a Bill Gates nerd,
a square suburban dad,
a guido,
a Samantha-esque older woman and
a geekette
all tried their luck against the city's toughest gatekeepers.

... The results were surprising ...
..."
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/rope_dopes_bOgfHgMSLmI4xQQGQ7kUnK
 
^^ if you like house music, ibiza and fun, you will not want to go to any of those places (however for the glitzy, celeb- scene, Rose Bar and Standard are pretty good... but the real music is in brooklyn/queens, has been for years.)
 
Are there such things as after parties in NY? I got the impression it wasnt the sort of city you could leave a club at 6am and still have somewhere to go??
 
Olly said:
Rob - you need to check out "Downtown Calling". A film-doc about NYC late 70s/early 80s - am guessing it will appear online soon?

includes amazing footage of the graffiti, paradise garage photography, the politics, the Disco Sucks nonsense, interviews with Danny Krivit, Arthur Baker and all the other surviving big guns and the rise of hiphop, narrated by Debbie Harry!

I watched it premiered tonight at the Village Underground just off great eastern street, as part of he East End Festival. (David Byrne tomorrow) Large space, high ceilings, vast brickwork, acoustics (I think secret sundaze might have used it before for parties) weatherall played a nice new wave set afterwards. Also broadcast: a quiet village silent movie album set to live laptop visuals (s-exploitation, kitsch 70s pornos etc really, really good and quite funny at times)

In a way it makes me want to get the next flight out to NYC, but the final minutes where they described the city's cultural suffocation by Giuliani were pretty depressing...
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Just spotted this - funny you should say that, I was going to go to that very screening but was out of town that weekend.

Glad it was good - gagging for a copy.

Which brings me onto => WHEN IS THAT WEST END RECORDS/GODFATHER OF DISCO BEING RELEASED FFS? :x :eek:
 
MiniMarc said:
Are there such things as after parties in NY? I got the impression it wasnt the sort of city you could leave a club at 6am and still have somewhere to go??
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Tons of after-hours options on the weekends, during the week not so much.

There used to be many 'regular' after-hours bars/small clubs - save the robots/future/living room/loft/etc. but in the mid/late 90s, the major clubs were licenced to remain open as late as they wanted, provided they were not selling alcohol - so now someone like Danny Tenaglia will play at Pacha and the club may stay open until 3-4 in the afternoon (bar closes at 4, reopens at 8 Saturday, 12 Sunday).

The shady, fun illegal after-hour spots are still out there, but they move around, rarely staying open for long - most of the small bars are in Brooklyn, weekends have lots of one-offs in warehouses in Brooklyn (williamsburg/bushwick), or occasionally Queens (LIC)

A few larger clubs in Manhattan like Greenhouse (formerly Shelter)open at 4am on the weekends, remain open all day Sunday...
 
ah man!!!! How did i not know / find these places when i was working over there!!!!?? Gutted! So i totally got the wrong impression thinking everything finished at 5am :oops::oops:
 
the thing is we had constant and very high quality supply of supplies but didnt know the right places you could go when your still up and wana party at 6am!
 
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