Developing: Khyber Breaks Up With Destroy Your Liver; Bloodbath Stages Myspace Freakout
Hyperspace Clusterfucks: They must be in the air today. For the crew that went there every Sunday night for the last 9 months or so, Destroy Your Liver at the Khyber was quickly becoming an urban-tribe tradition. You’d go, plunk down your 10 bucks for the open bar, get absolutely shitfaced, and then soil some poor Penn kid in one way or another. But no more. According to a MySpace post from DYL principal DJ Steven Bloodbath (pictured), the whole crew was summarily dismissed by Khyber proprietor Steven Simons earlier this week. “On Wednesday, without warning I was Shitcanned from the khyber,” says Bloodbath. “Ostensively, [sic] because there weren’t enough people coming out… (thank you to the 300 people who came out last sunday…. good try but you should have brought some friends). This confuses me/bums me out.” And with obvious holes in the not-enough-people- were-coming-out line of thinking, the Khyber then added insult to injury by posting on its own Myspace blog the following: “When one person told us they were tired of listening to Journey on Sunday nights, we ignored her. When 17 people told us they were sick of Journey over and over again on Sunday nights we listened.” Owie. The Khyber blog went on to say, “And no more K. Crew showing up for Journey and peeing on the floor. Let me hear you say hallelujah.” Bloodbath, for his part, opines that “K. Crew” could reference the contingent of Destroy Your Liver regulars hailing from Kensington; if in fact that is true, boo on the Khyber for neighborhood elitism, especially when you consider the venue now sits in the Jersey trash capitol of Center City. But Philebrity suspects that we’re not getting the whole story from either side: For just as we’ve been hearing that DYL had done good business, contrary to what Bloodbath et. al. had been told, we’ve also been hearing reports of violence and general weirdness on the dancefloor and in the DJ booth at DYL. So maybe the Khyber and Destroy Your Liver had simply grown apart. Meanwhile, the Khyber has rechristened its Sunday nights “Khyber Open Bar Sundays” (that’s some imagination, boys) with DJ Eric Tomorrow replacing the DYL’ers, and Bloodbath has promised that he’ll be DJing somewhere this Sunday night. Moral of the story: When you destroy your liver, somebody’s feelings almost always get hurt.
Myspace: Steven Bloodbath
Myspace: The Khyber
