To illustrate the song, the bass player lies on his side and starts spinning round. "The '80s are back and so help me," he announces as a segue into the vocal "You spin me right round baby right round like a record baby. A screen behind the band shows it on video. "You don't drink, don't smoke, what do you do?" sings the leader, sporting a Billy Idol coif. Grooveline, the Friday night '70s house band, has transformed itself into emaciated Brit-pop punks the M 80s. Sure enough, the DNA, which opened in the mid-'80s, is at its peak again. Cyndi Lauper is on the radio singing "Girls Just Want to Have Fun," and as if on cue, a woman pokes her bleached Madonna head out the sunroof of an Audi and yells, "Hey, you guys, hit the DNA Lounge.
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"Not necessarily the look of it, but just how people are out in full force."ĭriving around the SoMa nightclub district, itself a 1980s creation, on a Saturday night is all the proof you need. "Right now it feels like it's the '80s," says Nabiel. The DJ there is Michael Nader, who has been sequestered since the great roving '80s party Level Up. There are velvet ropes and doormen choosing whom to admit, an '80s form of natural selection that endures. Tonight they're opening Bliss at Coconut Grove. To catch it, Martel and Nabiel, who run a string of roaming nightclubs, have added an '80s room at their Release club on Saturday nights. The college kids are sucking it dry, and once that's dead the '80s will be the next thing." "It's still going to be a couple of years until the '80s break really, really big." says Bean, who is planning to open a weekly '80s club by summer's end. At the first one in March, 1,500 revelers jammed the Trocadero. It died in 1992, but this year has risen again with Colossus reunions.
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She didn't, and Colossus didn't survive the insult. He began embracing '80s nostalgia on the last night of that decade, when he opened Colossus.Ī packed and sweaty warehouse with a picky doorman who could be bribed, Colossus was so '80s that Madonna was supposed to show up one night with her entourage. Eighties," promoter Paul Cruikshank, 32, responds, "I would like to be that," as if unworthy. It will take a while to recharge the battery of Club Nine, but the '80s party at the Stud has been around three years, long enough to require a name change from eightysomething to 3D. "But no one was interested in the popcorn," recalls one old "Studette." "We were mostly interested in chewing on our lips and grinding our teeth."