Saturday Night - July 28, 2007

It was the Western Canadian premiere of Electroma, Daft Punk's film. The showing was put on by our friends at Salbourg along with Vice Magazine. The venue a little hole in the wall in Chinatown. The crowd was as expected, young, hip, bored and mostly chatted throughout the film. Really who could blame them as the film was a torturous exercise in meaningless angst wrapped up as some powerful existentialist dissertation. It had it's funny moments but by the end it had lost all but the most ferverent Daft Punk fan. It was to be followed by an after-party but the space was hot and they were letting no in and outs, so most of the crowd just left and with a 10 dollar cover charge for newcomers to join the party, not very many did. All and all the kids and Salbourg didn't seem very much into this one, probably due to the fact they were all going to the Daft Punk show in Seattle the following night.





After the showing I headed to The Modern, the opening of Vancouver's new "flash" nightclub in Gastown. The Saturday night is being held down by our promotions company 2guerilla and will be Electro/House with residents Luke McKeehan, Timeline & Jay Tripwire. Touting itself as an exclusive spot for those with a little money to throw around, the owners at least put the effort in to make the room sound and look nice. Not to be loved by all for sure, but it is a big leap forward for Vancouver in terms of having a proper club to go out to, that would rival those from Miami Beach to Tokyo. Just don't expect it to be a cheap night out.





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