I need everyones input! a new Waikiki tiki bar needs help! - General Tiki

T theandrewssister Member London, England Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 75	T theandrewssister Posted posted on Wed, Jul 31, 2002 9:45 AM at the risk of boring everyone into an early grave, all I can do is reiterate: Lounge/exotica/whatever permutation of the two NEED NOT BE BORING AND IS EMINENTLY DANCEABLE - AND (stop me if you've heard this before) Club Montepulciano in London proves it. The crowd that goes there is a mix of (sorry - let me not offend the Tiki Trader) "hipsters", rugger bug*ers (les Anglais will know what I mean -- US friends read Frat Pack) and ordinary partygoers up for a hoot. The huge ballrooms that they go for are RAMMED every time (crowds stretching round the block at 2am when they know it kicks out at 2:30am). They play pure lounge/exotica -- but really, really danceable stuff. To my taste, it leans too much in the direction of "now sound" as opposed to pure Fifties brilliance, but that's a personal debate. Some of this crowd are pathetic obsessives like me but the majority aren't -- they're ordinary Joes who would be perfectly happy going to your standard Afro-wig-wearing, Starsky-and-Hutch-worshipping, Abba-EarthWind&Fire-Michael-Jackson standard issue Seventies night (of which we have about three on any given night in London)-- but they love this just as much if not more. They CHOOSE this stuff. Sorry. I'll stop ranting now. [ Edited by: theandrewssister on 2002-07-31 09:46 ]

at the risk of boring everyone into an early grave, all I can do is reiterate: Lounge/exotica/whatever permutation of the two NEED NOT BE BORING AND IS EMINENTLY DANCEABLE - AND (stop me if you've heard this before) Club Montepulciano in London proves it. The crowd that goes there is a mix of (sorry - let me not offend the Tiki Trader) "hipsters", rugger bug*ers (les Anglais will know what I mean -- US friends read Frat Pack) and ordinary partygoers up for a hoot. The huge ballrooms that they go for are RAMMED every time (crowds stretching round the block at 2am when they know it kicks out at 2:30am). They play pure lounge/exotica -- but really, really danceable stuff. To my taste, it leans too much in the direction of "now sound" as opposed to pure Fifties brilliance, but that's a personal debate. Some of this crowd are pathetic obsessives like me but the majority aren't -- they're ordinary Joes who would be perfectly happy going to your standard Afro-wig-wearing, Starsky-and-Hutch-worshipping, Abba-EarthWind&Fire-Michael-Jackson standard issue Seventies night (of which we have about three on any given night in London)-- but they love this just as much if not more. They CHOOSE this stuff.

Sorry. I'll stop ranting now.

[ Edited by: theandrewssister on 2002-07-31 09:46 ]

Post #4765 by theandrewssister on Wed, Jul 31, 2002 9:45 AM