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July 13

For the fantasy inclined

Winter is the best time to dress up because you can strip or layer as your heart desires without the sweat and sticky heat. SPANK! Productions have some awesome costume nights in the coming weeks. First, the next installment in the SHAMELESS! Series at Connections, ‘Mental Oriental’ (fb1 | fb2). This Saturday night - $10 before 1am, $20 thereafter.

I don’t know which tag line I like best: A night of sweet and sour eastern naughtiness! or Join the steamy throngs of Asia’s red light districts!. Either way, you’re going to get it on like a gangland geisha. Other dress ideas include lap dancers, ladyboys, ninjas, pole dancers, ping-pong artistes and Seoul sistas. I would LOVE to see some one dress up as a slutty ninja. I don’t exactly know how that would work but I’m sure it’s awesome. Your incentive to take on the slutty ninja challenge is the $250 prize which goes to the best dressed attendee.

If you like your dress up a little heavier, SPANK! are also putting on their next fetish and fantasy party: ‘Doctors and Nurses’ (web) on Saturday 22 August. The night will include a performance by top international fetish model Emily Marilyn, plus a Flesh Rubber ‘Medical Mayhem’ demo, Male Slave Strip, Dungeon, and Hysterical Healthchecks by Nurses Depravity & Deviance. I told you this dress up was a little heavier.

Unlike SHAMELESS!, the regular SPANK! parties have a very strict dress code so if you’re not in costume, no entry. Of course it’s an 18+ event and you’ll need to buy a ticket beforehand. All the details are on the SPANK! website.

Out and about Tags: alternative nights, connections, events, fetish, nightlife, nudity, sex, spank

July 5

Recap: Horse Meat Disco

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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Out and about Tags: alternative nights, connections, entertainment, events, fashion, music, nightlife, reviews

June 18

Slab of ground disco

The flyer is so pretty. Two weeks until Horse Meat Disco (fb1 | fb2). For more info, check out my previous post.

Out and about Tags: connections, events, music

June 8

Horse Meat Disco in Perth

Horse Meat Disco was very briefly mentioned in this month’s Out In Perth, but because I’m not constrained to monthly deadlines I can give you the full details now. Woo! So what’s all this business about? HMD is all for disco music - Italo, dub disco, electrofunk etc, and started as a regular club night in London six years ago. Originally aimed to adapt the trendsetting alternative parties of New York for the London crowd, it has expanded to become involved in the fashion scene, creating it’s own little fashionista melting pot. Now it’s coming to Perth.

Two of the founding members of Horse Meat Disco, James Hillard and Jim Stanton (all four founders are pictured above) will be playing at Connections on Friday 3 July from 10pm. Support acts are local electro artists Brash and Sassy, along with Petrosex (most known for gigs at Shape Bar and SEXY) plus other guests.

Horse Meat Disco describes itself as “the queer party for everyone: homos and heteros, club kids, bears, fashionistas, naturists, guerilla drag queens and ladies who munch”. Perth is their first stop in the Australian arm of the tour, and they’re being supported by Modular, so this event should get a fair amount of attention. Likewise tickets cost more than a regular Connections night: $25 + BF. For the price you’re also promised a “catwalk extravaganza”. Here’s a taste of the music:

Presale Tickets Available from Connections, heatseeker.com.au, Planet Video, 78 Records and Mills Records.

Props to Will and Jack on this post.

Out and about Tags: alternative nights, connections, entertainment, events, music, nightlife

May 24

Promiscuous ATM

Credit to Christopher M for this photo. This is the message the ATM in Connections Nightclub was displaying all weekend. Many people remain unaware that you can contract gonorrhoea and chlamydia in your throat. Looks like a scene boy has been inserting himself inside the cash chute.

Out and about Tags: connections, health, sex, stupid, the scene

May 2

spank me shameless in detention at connections

So, we’ve had women in uniform, and a gay fairy tale prom… it really is time to turn up the slut-o-meter and get kinky with our Perth dress up events. Introducing DETENTION at Connections on the 9th May.

Now stick with me while I explain all of these names: DETENTION is the first night in a new series of events called SHAMELESS run by Spank! Productions. Got that? If you received your Connections Communique this week you will know the DETENTION launch night is going with a kinky schoolyard theme:

We want to see some buffed up jocks, cute teachers pets, dominating headmistresses, nerds with attitude and plenty of sluts on the strutt

Not to blow my own trumpet but I fall into ALL of those categories. Dress up events go down well this time of year as the nights get cooler and you can wear more clothes but still be a slut about it. So come along, and come early - doors open at 8.00pm. And whatever you do, don’t wear that same white shirt and black tie you wore to gay prom… at least put a bondage collar or leather crotchless chaps on. It’s more fun that way - plus there’s a prize for best dressed.

If you’ve already discovered your hedonistic side and enjoy some good quirky fun, Spank! Productions also put on regular fetish and fantasy parties. These are gay-friendly nights where individual imagination and diversity is encouraged, and it’s not just about leather and BDSM. Check out the Spank! website or Facebook group for more.

Out and about Tags: alternative nights, connections, events, nightlife, northbridge, nudity, sex, the scene

April 13

Connections backroom spread open and exposed

On Thursday night the mystery of the Connections mens only backroom was revealed! I popped along to the event (for research purposes only) and snapped this photo of what was going on inside:

Just kidding. I don’t actually have any photos because there really wasn’t all that much happening in there. For the most part it was a revolving door of gays entering, exclaiming “ewwwww”, sometimes staying for a few nervous giggles then leaving. The light was so low all I could see were the edges of shoulders and jeans thrusting in unknown directions. Very few people. I didn’t see any condoms being handed out… hrm.

Now that we’re over the back room anticlimax some other points of the night. Great music but pills were being popped in every direction and it got a tad annoying having to scrape across gurners. There was a strip show (above) but you know, the stipper looked pretty damn bored, if not uncomfortable. I wonder if he gets so many female hands molesting him when he walks through a crowd at a hens night.

For the rest of the weekend I have been in an ethanol induced stupor, here’s me drunk off my ass doing a whirlwind media tour and showing the website to a lecture hall of thousands of ethnographic research academics. Not one of them was opposed to entering a back room, I swear.

Upcoming things you should be interested in:

• The April WAX Magazine is out. Apparently there is a really good article about some blogging media whore being punched in the head for being gay.
• The Glamfest movie festival starts this Wednesday night!
• Pride WA wants more members, you get a 50% discount off backroom Connections admission if you join.
• The Uni of Queensland is doing a study on the relationships of same sexers which you should participate in. It’s kind of more important than a “what type of greeting card are you” quiz on facebook. I’m a sympathy card.

Out and about Tags: connections, events, gay cinema, gay community, nightlife, nudity, sex, the scene, wax magazine

April 7

Easter festivities

Easter seems to be one of those rare times the two gay venues in Perth actually show a little competition over each other. The big one for the guys is the mens only night on Thursday at Connections.

Yes, to celebrate the eve of the day our beloved Jesus Christ died, there’s gonna be an all out debaucherous man-on-man romp. But the biggest draw for this is not the music, drinks or even the guys: It’s these curious “backrooms” that keep being mentioned.

When this event was first advertised Connections said “nothing less than boys, backrooms and bad behaviour”, which immediately grabbed everyone’s attention… how exactly were there going to be backrooms in Connections? Are they going to be private booths? Do you get an allocated time slot (or timed slut)? Perhaps they’re just going to put some clear shower curtains over the front of the toilet cubicles.

BUT THEN!… the next week the email flyer changed to not just backrooms, but also “muscle boy strippers, a down and dirty bunker out on our terrace and of course a boys business backroom”. woOowooOO.

Well that clears up the mystery of the backrooms - they are strictly for drug business deals only, but what the hell is a ‘down and dirty bunker’? Where are they going to fit all of this stuff in the nightclub? On the Jesus weekend all will be revealed!

This is the part where I bag the Court… hardly surprising coming from me but their offerings for the Easter weekend are pretty weak. They’ve decided to combat backrooms and dirty bunkers with an ‘after work easter egg hunt’. Hrm. I’m not really buying it. I don’t know if I want to be touching every sticky and seedy surface in that place trying to find an egg full of sugar and saturated fat.

Saturday and Sunday at the Court is just the usual fair, with some chocolate cocktails (which I’m 99% sure they do anyway) and some ‘easter egg games’ thrown in. Rock on.

For the womyn Connections is doing a Pussy Punked girls night on Sunday which includes a bunch of female vocalists and live graffiti artists, which sounds pretty cool. Stupid superficial gay men wanting anonymous sex instead of street art… maybe I can attempt to get in wearing drag.

Out and about Tags: bars, connections, events, gay community, sex, the court, the scene

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