[bomp] Re: Dirty Water Club

[Sknoof@xxxxxxx]

Someone said -- James, was it?

> Just wonderin', I was trying to go to Dirty Water
> club when I was in London last February but was
> havin' a bitch of a time finding out where it was,
> then, if it was happening that week.  I saw a
> mention of it in a U.S. mag I brought over, and
> tried to dig up the info when I got into town.
> Company got discouraged enough to bail on the
> idea.  Is there some reason why TIME OUT, for
> example, doesn't have a proper listing?  Next time
> I go to London, I hope to go. 

PJ answered:

<< Time Out is normally pretty good. We're always listed
in with rock & pop gigs rather than clubs. At least 90
per cent of the time you'll find our listing near the
beginning of the list for the day, in the recommended
section. Every now and then they miss us out
completely for no apparent reason other than their own
incompetence, perhaps due to drink and/or drugs on the
job, who knows. Before you come over the next time,
take a look at http://www.dirtywaterclub.com where
you'll find details of what's on and a map and other
stuff. >>

Maybe a slight language barrier here?  Maybe not -- but I'll throw this out
anyway, just in case I'm right...

If there was something in Chicago called "The Dirty Water Club," odds are
that it would be a building with a permanently-mounted sign outside which
said,
um, "The Dirty Water Club."  But in the UK, when you hear of something called
"The ******* Club," it most-likely isn't that at all.  In a tradition going
way
back to the Giorgio Gomelsky days and who knows how long before that, "The
***** Club" usually refers to some periodically-scheduled EVENT held in some
venue with a different name altogether.  And that's the case here.  The Dirty
Water Club is in a venue called The Boston.

These lines are getting blurry, of course -- we have the Subway Soul Club in
NYC now, among others -- but most "events" of that sort, in the USA, have
names that don't end in "...Club," which term is still usually reserved for an
actual place-with-a-door-on-it.  Like Nanker's "Popped Gasket" or whatever he
calls it.

As I said, it's entirely possible that both of you already know this and I'm
just spewing useless info (as usual) but I figured, just in case...

Of course, the one time I was in London PJ had nothing scheduled for that
weekend, so we missed out...

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