Idea for a club night
 

Would you let me know if this is too much for a themed club night.Basically i thought of all the people who go to bars and clubs and they slag off the music and i thought:''Why could you not have a club night where people would come in with their walkmans,mp3 players,ipods etc etc,and they could dance and have fun while listening to music on their headphones?''.Sounds too bad?I kind of got the idea from a guy i saw at a party once.While the music was playing he just popped in with his own ghetto blaster and he put it on the floor,Michael Jackson's ''Thriller'' was on,he bodypopped and then walked away.Class!

London being what it is, it would probably be the place for the in crowd to be for at least two weeks, until Time Out found somewhere else hip for them to go.

The only trouble is, the place would still be full of people having shouted conversations with their friends so that they can be heard over the music :eek:

seems like a stupid idea, pay to be somewhere so you can listen to your personal audio player? especially if you are going with someone else, would you imagine that?

person 1: this song is awesome!!!!
person 2: i know!!! the vines are so great!!!
person 1: the vines?! i was talking about panic! at the disco!!!
person 2: you are all wrong!!!
person 3: (poking at conversation) this place has terrible music

if i wanted to listen to music on my walkman, drink and talk with people who at least will be a politely fuck about the music i like, then i'd go to a mate's house, liquor up and fire up the boombox.

it sounds a bit like the concept of silent disco, except for the "bring your own music" part of your idea.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/09/01/s...sco/index.html

i've been to a thing similar to that about 6-7 years ago (despite the article mentioning it originated in 2002).. people were given a small fm radio + headphones at the entrance and you had to tune that to a certain frequency to hear the music. the funniest part was when you took out your headphones and watched people dance in silence... i don't know if it would work if everybody was dancing to a different tune though... maybe too many people might feel embarassed.

It seems like that wouldn't work mostly because a lot of the 'vibe' at a club comes from a feeling of community (however crap the music). It's that collective recognition and approval of a song that comes on, and the resulting group mentality. It creates atmosphere, and if everyone's on a different frequency, so to speak, much of that would be lost.

If you've ever been a 'raver,' you'll be familiar with that moment when a good song comes on in the mix, and the whole place literally goes MAD (used to happen a lot with Mario Piu tunes, oddly enough). Granted, drugs played a large role in that, but there was still that element of music unifying the masses.

I like the idea of a barrier preventing one from talking to other people though.

I thought that's what your personality served as.

Clubs never play the tunes you want them to. Because the kind of thing you listen to in your bedroom is different from the kind of thing that you listen to to dance to. I used to spend a lot of time at D'n'B and techno nights, but I own very few records of that type. Different musics, different purposes - you sacrifice the listening part of your mind for the dancing part.

Ooh, burrrrn.

Quite true. I shook my ghetto bootay to a whole lot of shit back in the day.

Again, the drugs helped.

I had an evening of nostalgia at a proper stinking cess-pit squat party playing ragga/ dancehall/ hardcore/ fuckstep/ dnb the other week. It was lovely. I'm glad I don't do it every week though.

I refuse to discuss any of my past forays into that scene. They're in the official vault.

These have already been done. I saw it on Lonley Planet, I think it was in England. Glastonbury or something. A silent rave, everyone wore headphones and danced. So when you took the headphones off it was dead quiet. Sort defeats the whole purpose of going if you ask me.

I like when club sound systems move the clothing on your body.
Then again, I also do not dance.
I consider this a public service.

I find dancing liberating.Truncated i pretty much agree with you about the whole atmosphere thing but i was thinking of this club night as a kind of experiment.I just like the idea of non verbal comunication between individuals who enjoy themselves.Body language,so to speak..........

I've seen a rather hilarious thing on the dancefloor yesterday at my local gay bar(GAY BAR!GAY BAR!).This guy was so mashed that his friends were asking him to take his clothes off while he was dancing on the dancefloor.He started stripping and the doorman just grabbed him and dragged him away while he protested his innocence.Poor sod!

I know what you mean, but I wonder if that would be disjointed because of the different aural environments each individual is experiencing.

While I personally dance like a spastic lemur, I can see the intimacy and intricacy of a dance between a pair, or even a group of people. You're communicating on the common frequency of a rhythm, and each person's bodily movements are an individual interpretation of that frequency. This phenomenon is what produces the "highs" at clubs, the general upbeat atmosphere.

There are few things more lovely than watching two people who truly 'feel' the music dancing with one another. They move in an unspoken sync that's almost unified; they become singular. It's one of the most erotic and intimate forms of interaction there is; locomotive poetry.

too right!!Did i not call you retarded a while ago?I was soooo wrong..........

You did, didn't you?

I forgive you. We omniscients understand that mortal humans err.

Retarded people can have savant-like moments of insight though, so porkmarras is probably still correct.