We just wanted to take a pause for a moment, and smell the flowers, as it were. In the next month or two, a triad of the city’s Sparksiest weekly DJ nights are about to go under. You may not care, but trust us, we’ve got a point here. As of this writing, Paradise At Key West — the early house/ Italo disco night headed up by Mike Trombley — has about 6 weeks left; Hands & Knees, which is to skinny people what donuts are to fat kids, has about 3 weeks left; and Driz Horse, Julie G (pictured) and Andrew Jeffrey Wright‘s mid-week sweatahon, has 3 or something like that. These figures are off the top of our heads, so they may not be right, as they are just gleaned from the long MySpace funeral they’re all having. (Hands & Knees gets the top honors for funeral class, though: They’re having a Smiths cover band tonight.)
Anyway, this coincidence has done a couple of things: One, it has definitely made a perforation in the microgenerational lines of a certain nightlife crowd — a new generation, let us call them “Generation Broadzilla,” is already on the way in. Two, it has at least in some regard told this audience that they’re not bankable, or at least, not bankable enough to support all of these nights. And three, it’s made it just a little bit harder to hang out on weeknights. Add these three things to the fact that Johnny Brenda’s cancelled its Monday night DJ series, Standard Tap killed the popular Wednesday night sessions, and insert your other favorite low key DJ/music series here, and we’re about to have a hangout emergency of level orange. (Also known as 1992-1998.)
Our point is this: Who is killing the great hipster hangs of Philadelphia, and what do they plan on replacing them with? Because they have to be replaced with something — a DJ night that is one person’s slice of functional alchoholism is another person’s community-builder. And that replacement needs to come fast: There’s a fair enough chance that someone like Knox could get into office, fully Bloomberg the shit out of Philadelphia, and fuck up Our Thing in ways Street couldn’t have even dreamed of. Partytrainsoldiers, spring has sprung. Please make Wednesdays safe for the freaks again.
Correction: We are happy to inform you that Driz Horse is in fact continuing on Wednesdays at the Khyber, minus Julie G., who will be relocating in a few weeks. Philebrity regrets the error.

This entry was posted on Friday, April 20th, 2007 at 1:52 pm.