| DJ Sets ::Avalon Club Nights
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Avalon
Night Club Details...
Avalon,
15 Lansdowne Street, Boson, Massachusetts, USA, 02215-3412
Avalon - The eight hundred pound gorilla
of Boston nightlife. Avalon is the most popular, most crowded
and most happening club in town. Friday is “Avaland,”
their most excessive evening with the most over-the-top decor
and the most popular DJ's. Saturday is Ladies Night, so look
for lots of ‘doods’ showing up. More dudes show
up the next night on Avalon Sundays where fashionable Boston
gays strut their considerable stuff. There’s a rotating
roster of top-name music acts that headline Avalon every week.
The latest indie rock darlings mix it up with folk and pop
acts, and then they all clear the way for house, techno and
tribal beats later at night. Bring a couple of friends and
even more cash for the experience of Avalon should be on everyone’s
to-do list
DJ Mag
Club Review...
If Avalon were a blockbuster film, it
would be clubland's equivalent of Citizen Kane and Star Wars
rolled into one. Combining all the cultural kudos and epic
history of the Orson Welles' masterpiece with the coruscating
special effects of George Lucas's flight of fantasy, this
club has cast a shadow as long as the letters on the hillside
of its Hollywood home ever since opening as The Palace in
1927.
The setting for TV shows hosted by Dean
Martin and Groucho Marx, as well as concerts by The Rolling
Stones amongst others throughout the 20th century, that Tinsel
Town magic has been kept intact since it reopened as Avalon
in 2003, but now comes mixed with some very 21st century technological
wizardry, sights and sounds.
With a colossal 1200-capacity main room
in the shape of the old theatre, entering Avalon is an awe-inspiring
experience as you crush onto a dancefloor surrounded by acrobatic
angels and dancers, your eyes dazzled by the lasers and your
ears delighted by a soundsystem that has been worked to its
limit by the likes of The Chemical Brothers, Sander Kleinenberg
and Infected Mushroom recently.
Its location would seem to make it something of a honeypot
for tourists seeking some secondhand star aura, and sure,
the odd starlet might be glimpsed in the Spider Lounge, but
who can really be bothered gawping at them when you've got
the big sounds of the main room or DJs such as Matthew Dear
- who has a residency here - spinning more underground and
innovative styles in the upstairs bar?
Indeed, although its opulent environs are regularly used
to accommodate film premieres and wrap parties, Avalon is
almost a celebrity in its own right, although one that refuses
to have any famous pretensions. For whilst you can expect
snotty looks or even outright aggression if you try and enter
most clubs in this city without a Versace jacket on your back
or supermodel on your arm, Avalon is a club where everyone
gets pretty equal billing.
The atmosphere there has also made Audiojack's Jamie Rial
change his opinion about clubbing in LA.
"The first places we played in Hollywood were awful,
full of all the clichéd wannabe actors you'd expect,"
laughs Jamie. "But the response from the clubbers at
Avalon is always amazing and it gets better every time we
play.
"It's a glamorous club and although it doesn't have
much intimacy, it's consistently the best in the United States
for us in terms of everything from the soundsystem to the
DJ set-up to the dancefloor vibe."
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