Re: [bomp] Re: Dirty Water Club

[<blairb@xxxxxxx>]

> If there was something in Chicago called "The Dirty Water Club," odds are
> that it would be a building with a permanently-mounted sign outside which
> said,
> um, "The Dirty Water Club."  But in the UK, when you hear of something 
> called
> "The ******* Club," it most-likely isn't that at all.  In a tradition 
> going
> way
> back to the Giorgio Gomelsky days and who knows how long before that, "The
> ***** Club" usually refers to some periodically-scheduled EVENT held in 
> some
> venue with a different name altogether.  And that's the case here.  The 
> Dirty
> Water Club is in a venue called The Boston.
>
> These lines are getting blurry, of course -- we have the Subway Soul Club 
> in
> NYC now, among others -- but most "events" of that sort, in the USA, have
> names that don't end in "...Club," which term is still usually reserved 
> for an
> actual place-with-a-door-on-it.  Like Nanker's "Popped Gasket" or whatever 
> he
> calls it.
    'Tis true... But, like the Sknoofster stated, this is one of those 
exception proving the rule kinda things... The various Soul DJ events that 
have taken place in the NYC metro area over the past 20 years have all gone 
by the name, The **** Club.  The Empire State Soul Club was one of these. 
So was the Solid Hit Soul Club, the Garden State Soul Club, and now the 
Subway Soul Club.  And in Baltimore there's a Charm City Soul Club.  And 
various others.
    And I do remember a Crypt Club back about 20 years ago.  Garage fun.
    But I think Mike's pointing out that most event kinda things here are 
things like Nanker's Pop Gear, like Josh Styles' Smashed! Blocked!, and 
various others, such as Wowsville A-Go-Go... Or even the old GreenDoorNYC 
parties.  (Which, interestingly enough, started up at Giorgio Gomelsky's 
place on West 24th.)

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