Recap: Horse Meat Disco

July 5

On Friday night a slice of iconic London nightlife penetrated the walls of Connections and gave Perth a small taste of Horse Meat Disco. Jim Stanton and James Hillard from the original HMD club night are currently touring Australia, and to support their local appearance were a handful of Perth’s finest electronic acts along with a homage catwalk show involving our prominent drag performers.

The headlining set was just amazing, not just for the sheer funk of it all, but for bringing some much needed new music into Connections. It was also for this reason the night didn’t attract a typical Connections crowd. I spied ‘resident’ attendees of Shape and Republic, plus a crop of random others who I’m assuming discovered HMD from the posters plastered all over Northbridge.

Admittedly the crowd was somewhat sparse, but those who stuck around until the early hours were really getting into their nu-disco. I guess nobody appreciates your favourite type of music as much as you do, and I really love nu-disco, so it was shame the venue wasn’t packed out as it should have been. I point my spiteful index finger at you all and curse that you really missed out on some awesome tunes.

The catwalk show was a big gloating segment to show off some fun costumes, but seemed like a throwaway item. Actually, it agitated me that this 10 minute performance piece became the focal point for the entire evening. So much so that most of the models and ticketholders left when it finished, and before the Horse Meat Disco DJs had even played. A red flag also needs to be raised for that 1 metre x 1 metre ‘media only’ area at the end of the catwalk. How pretentious. Although, it did give my friendly arch nemesis Feminem Hygiene a good vantage point for demanding the photographers test their cameras on her… for 20 minutes. As a side note, Fem and I are back on speaking terms.

So, the conclusory comment for this event is ‘you really missed out’. The sound Horse Meat Disco brought won’t be replicated in Perth for a while yet. Connections have a number of disco nights coming soon, but I’m sceptical. From previous experience ‘disco’ to Perth gay venues means bastardised house music. It’s not the same thing. Lo and behold when I got in my car at the end of the night Triple J’s ‘The Club’ program were talking about how nu-disco is the latest fad in dance music. If it’s the latest overseas right now, it will be the latest in Perth in 12 months time.

I didn’t lug my SLR to Connections, and I didn’t try my luck with the media only area, but I did grab some nice photos of the catwalk show. See them all behind the cut:

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2 Comments on this post

• Posted by PCM on July 9, 2009

  And what exactly was wrong with the media only section? Isn’t this like totally the centre of the universe? what if those poor self important blowhards had to fight the thronging crowd off to get photos of drag queens that people so desperately want to see? What a spoilsport u r.

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• Posted by Ash Baroque on July 22, 2009

  i thought the music was super and what a brilliant night overall! i apologise if you thought the media pit was pretentious.It is just a bi-product of any kinda catwalk event. The photos taken by Miss Black are sublime!HMD loved it too. Jim and James both expressed to me “it is like we never left London”Shame some peeps left after the show but the show was never a focus. If the people had of stayed i am sure the show would have become exactly what was intended. A colourful installation in the background of the night. How we do we keep them out so we dont come across as media hungry pigs? A throwaway item? i guess you have to stay controversial for peeps to keep reading! nice pics btw x

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