Here’s Jeffrey, the face that launched a
thousand ships. We got our gorgeous boy to pose for some photos and slapped his beautiful eyes on the PR for our
new clubnight.
The artwork and design are an interesting story in themselves (does anyone get the visual reference?).
Matt’s going to write about his Cruise visual concept in another post. But today I want
to write about Cruise itself.
Cruise is our latest clubnight. It runs
every Sunday in KL at Bakita, a bar in Changkat Bukit Bintang, just behind the
more famous Werners Bar.
On the ground floor, Bakita is a comfortable and well
appointed bar restaurant. Upstairs, they got dance floor! If the Cruise artwork
and name haven’t given you a clue, let me spell it out. It’s a new night for
men!
The club starts early and finishes early
every Sunday from 9pm till 1am. These hours may strike you as strange for a
club night but we have put a lot of thought into this.
Monday is a working day and most of us have to work. So people don’t want a late night on Sunday. But around 9pm on Sunday lots of us are not quite done with our weekend!
Cruise is there to provide a low-cost way to end the weekend. It's only RM20 to get in, with one drink included. You can pop in, have a drink, a dance and a cruise and still be home in time for a good night’s sleep. For those who want to party longer, there are plenty of other clubs that only start to get going at 1am. Cruise is the perfect pre-party.
Monday is a working day and most of us have to work. So people don’t want a late night on Sunday. But around 9pm on Sunday lots of us are not quite done with our weekend!
Cruise is there to provide a low-cost way to end the weekend. It's only RM20 to get in, with one drink included. You can pop in, have a drink, a dance and a cruise and still be home in time for a good night’s sleep. For those who want to party longer, there are plenty of other clubs that only start to get going at 1am. Cruise is the perfect pre-party.
As the name suggests Cruise is for
cruising! We want you to meet your friends there and we want you to meet new people there too. To assist you,
we have cute and friendly door
staff, cute and friendly bar staff and the best music you will find in a gay
venue outside of a European capital.
That’s
because three of our four DJs are European,
bringing a decidedly international feel to the music. One’s French,
one’s
Swedish and one’s British (moi). The fourth is Ano ToMY. He’s not from
overseas, he’s just a genre-bending genius, so no complaints there!
The launch party was on March 18th.
We decided to showcase all four DJs, giving them one hour each to spin, from
9pm till 1am. What a great night that was!
Ano ToMY warmed up the crowd with some dangerously sexy Tech House.
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| Ano ToMY |
A launch party is a joyous occasion, so I continued with some upbeat
African influenced Techno, getting wilder and then poppier as I followed the emotions of the crowd.
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| Oran Bilsen |
Swedish
Ice maiden Stella Nutella took it harder and nastier with a fantastic
and kicking electro-set.
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| Stella Nutella |
Finally JP gave us his French ‘Je ne sais quoi’ with a masterful
crowd-pleasing set.
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| JP |
Some links:
If you'd like to see more images or listen to some of the music from the night, you can!
Here's a link to my warm up set, taking the crowd from upbeat African to nasty techno to epic electro.
And here’s a link to JP’s set, a storming hour of club classics that wowed the crowd. JP, I loved it!
What a shame we didn’t record Stella and Ano!
If you like what you hear and see here, please 'like' our Cruise page below:
Cruise is at Bakita, every Sunday from 9pm till 1am.
Entrance is RM10 without drink or RM20 with.
Thanks to everyone who came to the launch and thanks to
everyone who reads the words and listens to the music on this blog - over 10,000 page views in a year!
Plenty more treats and surprises coming in the
next few months! Watch out for Stella Nutella and her boy stripper next Sunday!
The Cruise Launching night was fantastic!! But the more exciting is the idea of Cruise, an early pre-party hangout. Nobody ever have the dare to start a gay night like this in KL, but we really need a place like this to hangout. And Bakita provides the best location -- central, convenient, best place to have a drink after Sunday dinner and have a drink at where we belong. I am glad there's finally one more place to go so that we don't need to stay at home Grindring or FB-ing to kill time.....at least we can do that now in Cruise and to cruise! haha...
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