LONDON GLOBAL DANCE FESTIVAL
LATER “THE GLOBAL EDITION” – SUNDAY 30TH MAY
INTERNATIONAL CLUB PROFILE – CREW CLUB & BAR
In our penultimate focus on the international clubs & outfits that will be gracing the massive London Global Dance Festival (LGDF), we take a look at South Africa’s premier gAylist club brand, “Crew Club/Bar”, who will be representative at the fifth event in the series of eight LGDF parties, Later’s “Global Edition”, which takes place at Fire tomorrow (Sunday 30th May), when resident D.J. Leroy Tayler will headline a U.K. based D.J. line up that includes The Oli, Paul Martin, Jamie head & Terry Bryan.
Having lived in South Africa during our informative teens & twenties and travelling back whenever we can, South Africa and particularly the countries so called “Mother City” is very dear to our heart, so we were very excited when we heard that a new club & bar was being launched within the Cape Town gay scene, being very much the new kid on the block, having made an immediate impact following its launch last May. Crew Bar has gained a reputation for stylish surroundings, drop dead gorgeous & often topless barmen, not to mention some of the best music that a vibrant Cape Town scene offers. Situated right within the compact yet colourful gay quarter , nestled between Green Point & De Waterkaant, Crew Bar stands proud just off the main drag into the city on Napier Street and combines with other venues in this gay hotspot to make an incredible circuit style attraction, ranging from uber cool restaurants through to full on nightclub experiences that see the stylist & flamboyant Capetonian gay society party from dusk till dawn & beyond, more often seven nights a week with no real respite. Crew Bar not only offers the opportunity to relax in comfortable surroundings, but with outside areas both at the front & the back of the venue, the alfresco style socialising & clubbing that is so characteristic of Cape Town can be enjoyed to excess at Crew. And the eyes are always continually pleased with virtual constant nighttime go-go dance displays and something the South African’s tend to do better than most, is serve up some drop dead gorgeous hunks of men and Crew is full of them every night.
But, it doesn’t stop there at the venue offers a superb dancefloor to party deep into the daylight hours as well as a very swanking VIP lounge/bar space where the glitterati of the Cape Town gay scene gather, before launching themselves on the dancefloor, which now also includes an added upstairs space, making Crew probably THE premier gay venue in town. And visitors constantly remark on just how they are impressed with Crew, comments ranging from “...the offer is outstanding...no entrance fee is a brilliant bonus...one of the best gay bars I have been to...” and “...an awesome bar & club...a great night out...”, need we say more?! However there is a lot more, not least in the very engaging owners, who can often be seen milling around the venue chatting with customers & making sure that the hospitality with Crew is virtually unrivalled. As supporters of gay businesses, clubs & events right across Cape Town, they often attract businesses to promote their services, using Crew as an ideal space to do so and were very much involved with the promotion of South Africa’s new gay adult outfit, Liberate Studio’s, hosting the launch party last year. Indeed they have welcomed international brands to host parties at Crew, most notably Salvation, which landed in Cape Town over Christmas and used Crew as a launch pad for their massive parties in the mother City back in December/January, as did Steven Sharp’s Orange, that toured Cape Town at the same time and who held an Orange style party at Crew on 2nd January.
Crew is also connected with Cape Town’s renowned Mother City Queer Projects organisation, which stages its massive annual event, “MCQP” in December each year across at the massive Old Biscuit Mill in Woodstock, evoking the massive outdoor dance events that are a feature of places like Madrid, Barcelona, Miami & Sydney and with Crew once again involved in the event for 2010, is no stranger to large scale festivals. And this month mark’s Crew’s 1st Birthday celebrations and will showcase that best of Cape Town talent that will include Josh Borril, D.J. Blaine, Miles Warren & Anthony Gareth. So, with their festival experience as well as being in birthday mode, inviting Crew to be part of LGDF was a straight forward decision for the organisers and Crew will add that unique South African spice to the eight event strong festival in the capital, bringing with it some of the smoulderingly sexy Capetonian hunks that we know you will adore.
So to get your slice of some South African splendour in London, make sure you head down to Later’s “Global Edition” party, which takes place tomorrow at Fire in Vauxhall, we know we will be in search of some nostalgia & desire for what we call as home. (DISCO MATT)
LATER “THE GLOBAL EDITION” – SUNDAY 30TH MAY
INTERNATIONAL CLUB PROFILE – CREW CLUB & BAR
In our penultimate focus on the international clubs & outfits that will be gracing the massive London Global Dance Festival (LGDF), we take a look at South Africa’s premier gAylist club brand, “Crew Club/Bar”, who will be representative at the fifth event in the series of eight LGDF parties, Later’s “Global Edition”, which takes place at Fire tomorrow (Sunday 30th May), when resident D.J. Leroy Tayler will headline a U.K. based D.J. line up that includes The Oli, Paul Martin, Jamie head & Terry Bryan.
Having lived in South Africa during our informative teens & twenties and travelling back whenever we can, South Africa and particularly the countries so called “Mother City” is very dear to our heart, so we were very excited when we heard that a new club & bar was being launched within the Cape Town gay scene, being very much the new kid on the block, having made an immediate impact following its launch last May. Crew Bar has gained a reputation for stylish surroundings, drop dead gorgeous & often topless barmen, not to mention some of the best music that a vibrant Cape Town scene offers. Situated right within the compact yet colourful gay quarter , nestled between Green Point & De Waterkaant, Crew Bar stands proud just off the main drag into the city on Napier Street and combines with other venues in this gay hotspot to make an incredible circuit style attraction, ranging from uber cool restaurants through to full on nightclub experiences that see the stylist & flamboyant Capetonian gay society party from dusk till dawn & beyond, more often seven nights a week with no real respite. Crew Bar not only offers the opportunity to relax in comfortable surroundings, but with outside areas both at the front & the back of the venue, the alfresco style socialising & clubbing that is so characteristic of Cape Town can be enjoyed to excess at Crew. And the eyes are always continually pleased with virtual constant nighttime go-go dance displays and something the South African’s tend to do better than most, is serve up some drop dead gorgeous hunks of men and Crew is full of them every night.
But, it doesn’t stop there at the venue offers a superb dancefloor to party deep into the daylight hours as well as a very swanking VIP lounge/bar space where the glitterati of the Cape Town gay scene gather, before launching themselves on the dancefloor, which now also includes an added upstairs space, making Crew probably THE premier gay venue in town. And visitors constantly remark on just how they are impressed with Crew, comments ranging from “...the offer is outstanding...no entrance fee is a brilliant bonus...one of the best gay bars I have been to...” and “...an awesome bar & club...a great night out...”, need we say more?! However there is a lot more, not least in the very engaging owners, who can often be seen milling around the venue chatting with customers & making sure that the hospitality with Crew is virtually unrivalled. As supporters of gay businesses, clubs & events right across Cape Town, they often attract businesses to promote their services, using Crew as an ideal space to do so and were very much involved with the promotion of South Africa’s new gay adult outfit, Liberate Studio’s, hosting the launch party last year. Indeed they have welcomed international brands to host parties at Crew, most notably Salvation, which landed in Cape Town over Christmas and used Crew as a launch pad for their massive parties in the mother City back in December/January, as did Steven Sharp’s Orange, that toured Cape Town at the same time and who held an Orange style party at Crew on 2nd January.
Crew is also connected with Cape Town’s renowned Mother City Queer Projects organisation, which stages its massive annual event, “MCQP” in December each year across at the massive Old Biscuit Mill in Woodstock, evoking the massive outdoor dance events that are a feature of places like Madrid, Barcelona, Miami & Sydney and with Crew once again involved in the event for 2010, is no stranger to large scale festivals. And this month mark’s Crew’s 1st Birthday celebrations and will showcase that best of Cape Town talent that will include Josh Borril, D.J. Blaine, Miles Warren & Anthony Gareth. So, with their festival experience as well as being in birthday mode, inviting Crew to be part of LGDF was a straight forward decision for the organisers and Crew will add that unique South African spice to the eight event strong festival in the capital, bringing with it some of the smoulderingly sexy Capetonian hunks that we know you will adore.
So to get your slice of some South African splendour in London, make sure you head down to Later’s “Global Edition” party, which takes place tomorrow at Fire in Vauxhall, we know we will be in search of some nostalgia & desire for what we call as home. (DISCO MATT)
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