This place is 8TRAX and then some. A mix of ages where everyone knows the words. Hadn't heard a lot of these songs since the club on Pleasure Island closed. But what really made this place great....as you can see....was the lighted dance floor. Now that's Disco! Even 8TRAX didn't have that. But even better, after playing about ten songs or so from the 70's, the DJ would play three or four classic Dance songs from the early 00's. Think radio station 95.3 Party when it played the hot Dance format. Awesome club from which I never left. If I ever open my own dance club it's going to have one of these floors!
My only complaint and I've noticed this at clubs throughout Canada. When they pour drinks, they use some kind of limiter/governor that the drink gets poured through. This limits the bartender to exactly one shot and thus lousy drinks. Another interesting fact: the drinking age in Quebec is 18.
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Among all the out-of-town clubs that you reported on thus far, the Funkytown club in Montreal is most appealing to me. On a side note, the street style dancing scene there(that's what I do) is one of the best in the world. Montreal is often referred to as "Funktreal" by street dancers.
when I was researching club designs, that is one of the things I came across for a 70s and 80s themed club(the floor) it would totally rock!
Ken, there was a huge street festival in town so there were acts taking place all over the place kind of like we're seeing on PI today. So the street acts I saw were all organized versus something more unorganized and spontaneous that you're probably referring to.
Zule, this floor was way too small and people were dancing off the floor on all 4 sides of it. It would take about 6 of these to fill the lower floor space of 8TRAX. Still, GREAT FLOOR!
I personally think it was a cost-saving measure when they converted CAGE to 8TRAX to not put in a "classic" light-up 70's dance floor (ala "Saturday Night Fever")
I was only in Cage once so I have little memory of it but I recall chain link fences everywhere. Pull those out, put in some colorful floors and decorations and you have 8TRAX. Much more popular than Cage ever was.
pull out the chainlink fence and use it to close down pi...and throw away the key
...but ithink that has already occured cause no one is ever there anymore
Great information! Will have to learn some survival french! KingBob, I went to a night club in Charlotte, NC, this past weekend. Any1 that misses 8TRAX needs to get to "Breakfast Club". Had an absolute blast!!
Tightglove, if you have any pics, email them to me for posting! I'll check their website.
I think the other reason for PI not to do the floor in 8TRAX was also they closed the cage and opened 8TRAX the next day and didn't have the time to do the floor and then didn't want to have to rip up the floor and or build up the floor to put lights under the floor and would have had to be closed for a wile when doing this.
I have no pics from the breakfast club, but this place spares no expense. There are many screens, with the actual video, old 80's commercials, fraggle rock, etc. Also had a blow up guitars, devo hats, a billy idol impersonator, and hot chicks. Good times.
I checked out their website. Looks like a lot of fun. Must go there!
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