Is it June already this weekend?
FRI 02JUN VANGUARD DJ San Holo (NL)
FRI 02JUN IRON COW DJ Miguel Migs (USA)
SAT 03JUN ELIXIR BAR DJ Kyle Walker (USA)
SAT 03JUN VANGUARD DJ Troyboi (USA)
SAT 03JUN ATLANTIC DANCE HALL DJ Michael Wycoff (USA)
SUN 04JUN ELIXIR BAR DJ Jesse Calosso (USA)
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| In the history of the Save Pleasure Island Blog, the club BET Soundstage never got a lot of love. In the late 90's when I lived in Gainesville I visited PI one Saturday night as a first visit ever. Mannequins fascinated me but I didn't know the difference the music they were playing and what BET Soundstage was playing but I really liked Mannequins. But because all the top hits at the time were Hip Hop, more time was spent in Soundstage because the music was familiar. The club was packed from the top level bar down to the dance floor on the lower level. Even the stairs were packed with patrons and there didn't seem to be an prohibition to remaining on the stairs and watching from there. In the later years of Pleasure Island the club Motion had opened and a lot of the same Hip Hop got played over there and the crowd migrated to it. BET Soundstage would often be pretty empty. |
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| In the end, Black Entertainment Television dropped the sponsorship and BET was removed from the building and it was just called Soundstage Club. |
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| Curiously, following the so called "Pleasure Island Putsch" in 2010 where all the remaining club names signs were removed from all the buildings, the Soundstage Club was not removed for unknown reasons and it would remain there until the building was demolished during the conversion from Downtown Disney to the Disney Springs name. |
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| Pictures from Day 2 of Sunset Music Festival in Tampa have now been uploaded to our sister website Orlando Entertainment News. You can find the article here. |
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| Day 1 of Sunset Music Festival in Tampa is a wrap and a good time was had by all. Pictures have been posted to sister website Orlando Entertainment News here. |
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| DJ Ida Engberg (S) was just one of the many great DJ's we saw last night at Elixir Bar and Celine Nightclub. All the Friday night pictures are on Orlando Entertainment News here. |
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| Disney’s Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser.hotel which is closing after less than two years of operation will be converted into a Spirit Halloween Store. We read this on the internet so it must be true. |
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| These are the vehicle tags of the countries visited on last week's cruise. GREECE (GR) |
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| TURKEY (TR) |
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| ISRAEL (IL) |
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| PALESTINE (P) |
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| CYPRUS (CY) |
Memorial Day Weekend is here!
THU 25MAY RED ROOM @ PARLAY DJ Pantoja (USA)
THU 25MAY TACO CAT DJ Derek Fereal (USA) & DJ Duke (USA)
FRI 26MAY ELIXIR BAR DJ Ida Engberg (S)
FRI 26MAY CELINE DJ Rafa Barrios (E) & DJ Technasia (HK/NL)
FRI 26MAY PROPER DJ Rich Medina (USA)
SAT 27MAY VANGUARD DJ Dom Dolla (AUS)
SUN 28MAY PROPER DJ Carlos Mendoza (USA)
SUN 28MAY BARBARELLA Memento Mori: DJ Lavidicus (USA)
SUN 28MAY ELIXIR BAR DJ duo Cocodrills (USA)
Also, Sunset Music Festival is happening in Tampa on Saturday & Sunday!
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| Within the next day or two we will get posted pictures from last week's cruise on Norwegian Jade to Turkey, Greece, Israel and Cyprus. |
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| Set times for this coming weekend's Sunset Music Festival in Tampa have posted! |
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| DJ Maff (WV) is a radio and club DJ back in his home of St. Vincent & The Grenadines. He also led the dance parties in the club aboard Norwegian Jade. Pics from the first couple days aboard have been loaded to sister website Orlando Entertainment News here. |
With me out-of-town again this weekend, gonna miss all these great events!
FRI 19MAY ELIXIR BAR DJ Chloe Caillet (F)
FRI 19MAY VANGUARD DJ John Digweed (GB)
FRI 19MAY IRON COW Italo-Disco Night
SAT 20MAY VANGUARD DJ Space Motion (SRB)
SUN 21MAY ELIXIR BAR DJ Jeremy Olander (S)
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| Amazing views of the Acropolis of Athens are available from several rooftop bars located in the the Monastiraki Square section of Athens. Our sister website website Orlando Entertainment News has an article about them here. |
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| KingBob is off again on one of his trips, this time to Greece. Because of the time differences, Blog articles may appear at odd times compared to normal. Just keep checking back for our next posting. We're getting on a cruise so we should have a Club Report or two from the ship plus some destination Trip Reports we think you'll find interesting. For those that know your IATA airline and airport codes, the following 4 flight segments are currently scheduled: |
MCO-JFK (DL)
JFK-ATH (DL)
ATH-IAD (UA)
IAD-MCO (UA)
Pictured above: Delta Boeing 767 similar to what will be used on the flight to Athens.
Another busy weekend in Orlando coming up!
FRI 12MAY ELIXIR BAR DJ Will Clarke (GB)
FRI 12MAY VANGUARD DJ NGTMRE (USA)
FRI 12MAY BARBARELLA DJ George Kokolakis (GR/USA)
FRI 12MAY CELINE DJ Biscits (GB)
SAT 13MAY VANGUARD DJ Eli Brown (GB)
SAT 13MAY GRUMPYS DJ Amber Jane (USA) & DJ Spark-D (USA)
SUN 14MAY ELIXIR BAR DJ Beau Claire (RI)
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| The Missing Link Sausage Company was located along Hill Street across the sidewalk from the back/upstairs door of Mannequins. While it was a great place for hot dogs and burgers, my visits were generally after 1AM for an order of hot french fries to soak up the alcohol. Disney Burger is pretty much the only burger place currently in Disney Springs (many places sell burgers but in a restaurant format) but it's nothing like the old Missing Link Sausage Company! MLSC closed well before the Pleasure Island clubs closed since the entire building it was in was being refurbished for a future use that had nothing to do with the PI closure. The place reopened as Paradiso 37 and is still there. |
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| Do you remember back in 2010 when PUSH was running for Mayor of Walt Disney World? |
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| He would wander through the theme parks and chat with potential voters. |
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| That guy in the green hat controlled PUSH and quietly did all the talking while no one noticed. We believe PUSH won the election because we still see PUSH cans throughout the property! |
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| Saturday night was spent at The Vanguard in downtown Orlando for the Cosmic Gate (D) concert. The pictures are on Orlando Entertainment News here. |
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| It's a great night when DJ Minx (USA) is playing. Friday night pics including an Ace Cafe update is on sister website Orlando Entertainment News here. |
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| Sources have told sister website Orlando Entertainment News that Ace Cafe has allegedly been sold or is in the process of being sold, with the new owner supposedly planning demolition and the space becoming home to a new high rise apartment building. Read what we know here. |
Another month, another big weekend!
FRI 05MAY VANGUARD DJ Charlotte De Witte (B)
FRI 05MAY ELIXIR BAR DJ Paco Asuna (E)
FRI 05MAY CELINE DJ Claptone (D)
FRI 05MAY IRON COW DJ Minx (USA)
SAT 06MAY VANGUARD DJ duo Cosmic Gate (D)
SAT 06MAY ELIXIR BAR DJ Simon Doty (CDN)
SAT 06MAY HEIST LOUNGE DJ Deekline (GB)
SAT 06MAY GRUMPYS DJ Genesis (USA)
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| On this day 10 years ago..... |
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| Pleasure Island was a huge construction zone! |
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| Beginning at the western tip of the Island with eastward progression to come. |
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| Sadly, "Sundown Sundays" at The Patio had it's final show last night but our sister website Orlando Entertainment News was there to experience it. You can find the pictures here. |
