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QXT’s, Newark, NJ - CLUBBING EXPERIENCE FROM THE LAND OF THE FREE
Dharkon ist zur Zeit in den USA und hat uns einen Besucherbericht zugeleitet. Es ist eine tolle Idee, wenn man mal im Ausland ist zu gucken, wie denn dort gefeiert wird. Und noch besser ist es, wenn ihr auf DarkMeeting darüber berichtet, dabei besteht natürlich kein Zwang, den Bericht in der Landessprache abzufassen.
dunkelbunt
QXT’s, Newark, NJ - CLUBBING EXPERIENCE FROM THE LAND OF THE FREE
First of all I want to thank the person who is keeping the international goth club listing (http://www.vamp.org/Gothic/clublist.html) which is a wonderful resource if you are completely new to an area.
I decided to go the Electro-Shock party at QXT’s (http://www.qxts-nj.com/) not because it had a terrific reputation but it was the club closest to my home town. The club is somewhere downtown Newark and everybody warned me about Newark, lots of concrete and high crime rate, etc. This did not keep me from going there, though. Maybe I thought, I don’t look like a victim worth robbing or because I thought why me… Fact is, I made it save to the club, parked my car on a guarded parking lot (I didn’t want to force my luck) and made it save back.
The club was easy to find and the directions I got from “Mapquest” got me there without any problems.
On my way from the parking lot to the club I saw several people wearing masks and was already thinking to myself, what a strange style but I like it better than the small neon lights tekkno kids have in various colors. Ok, when I entered the club (entrance fee is $10) I got to know that the masquerade was the theme of this special night and that some people had the small neon lights I despise so much.
The clubs interior is pretty roomy; you have a dance floor with the usual metal plating next to a small stage and a bar. In front of the bar and on the stage couches invited people to get comfortable if they did not mind the shabby look. The brick walls and the dimmed light worked well to give the club a nice gothic feel and the music played made me feel at home at once.
Actually I did not think that they would play so many European acts, but they did and the dance floor was crowded to say the least. Old regulars like ‘call the ships to port’ or ‘non-stop-violence’ were played as well as the German songs ‘panzermensch’ and ‘destillat’…
The dress code is, there is no dress code and so some guys wearing white t-shirts were there looking somewhat out of place. Personally I think a dress code is not the worst as long as you do not make it to strict…but usually you have to force guys into dressing better and they could at least wear some D-rings…
The style is not much different from the European clubs, although the dresses and skirts seem to be somewhat more covering. All in all the patrons are mostly Caucasians but you do not have to seek for a Hispanic or an Asian like for the needle in a haystack as it is the case in most German clubs. And tattoos seem to be at least as popular as they are in Germany.
The doors open at 10 and at 12 o’clock the club opens the basement, which is barred until then by an old iron gate. Downstairs are two smaller dance floors and two additional bars. The first floor is dedicated to hard electro and industrial and I can remember Tactical Sekt, Combichrist, etc. to hammer in this room. The walls are styled like an old timbered house (Fachwerkhaus) and feel totally out of place for this music… Anyway, this is the place I stayed most of the time and enjoyed the exercise…
The last dance floor played something else, I don’t know exactly, maybe something more gothic, but I didn’t like it to much and therefore just dropped in for a second and went back to my favorite kind of music right away (never looking back)…
Within no time it seemed to be 3 a.m. and the lights were turned on without mercy on the still huge crowd and the cleaning people shoved us all out into the cold.
All in all a nice little club with good music and nice people. If you live in NJ and don’t want to travel to NYC it is the only place to hang out anyway. For me it will be the resident club as long as I stay in NJ. Maybe someone was already there and wants to give his/her impressions.
Regards Dharkon.
Veröffentlicht von dunkelbunt am 19.03.2006, 19:03
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