{"id":14705,"date":"2022-02-13T11:20:49","date_gmt":"2022-02-13T16:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/?p=14705"},"modified":"2022-02-13T11:43:18","modified_gmt":"2022-02-13T16:43:18","slug":"club-report-ode-to-ibar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/?p=14705","title":{"rendered":"Club Report: Ode to IBar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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When Pleasure Island<\/em> closed in late-2008, Barbarella <\/em>(then Independent Bar<\/em>) became our new downtown home. Even when covering shows at other downtown clubs, would always try to visit IBar <\/em>too on Saturday nights!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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And just as it should be on a Saturday night, DJ Indie John (USA) was in the booth last night pumping out the good stuff!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Was told that over 200 people had already come in the door prior to my 10:30PM arrival. Everyone trying to recapture IBar <\/em>memories as its number of weeks remaining can sadly be counted on just one hand.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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How much of this kitsch will be moved to their new (but still mystery) location remains to be seen. John says their famous VIP bench seat<\/a> will not be moving.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The Saturday night format is 80’s New Wave and it’s been drawing crowds for decades. Unfortunately, many of the regulars never returned post-Covid and we haven’t seen crowds like this very often in the last couple years.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Spotted in VIP: Sandra & Carol<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Spotted in the booth: Tracy with Lighting Tech Ernie & DJ Kimball Collins (USA).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Spotted on the dance platform: A couple from last night’s downtown Onsie Bar Crawl.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The music accompanied by DJ Rob Video Edits and Promo Only<\/a> music videos.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Barbarella<\/em>‘s final weekend in this location will be on February 25-26. With our travel schedule, we will miss the final night but we’ll try to catch a couple other nights here before then. They don’t know yet whether there will be a gap between the closing here and the reopening at the new location since so many things need to be moved. We’ll keep you updated.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Whether you knew this place as Beach Club, Barbarella, Independent Bar <\/em>or Barbarella <\/em>again, one constant always occurred here: A good time was had by all.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14707,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1899],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-club-reports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/DSCN2453-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1920&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7OlZE-3Pb","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14705"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14718,"href":"https:\/\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14705\/revisions\/14718"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}