{"id":19986,"date":"2023-01-22T11:01:36","date_gmt":"2023-01-22T16:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/?p=19986"},"modified":"2023-01-22T13:36:34","modified_gmt":"2023-01-22T18:36:34","slug":"club-reports-neon-beach-monkey-bar-the-patio-barbarella","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/?p=19986","title":{"rendered":"Club Reports: Neon Beach, Monkey Bar, The Patio, Barbarella"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This is the south portico of First Baptist Church<\/em> in downtown Orlando and it’s where we began our search for last night’s “That’s So 90’s<\/em>” Pub Crawl. We had parked nearby and saw people pouring out of the building and down those stairs so I asked one well-dressed couple, “Is this the 90’s Pub Crawl?” “No,” I was told, they had been at a wedding. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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My attention was diverted in the direction of the nearby Dr. Phillips Center For The Performing Arts<\/em>, where another stream of patrons had begun pouring out. I got the attention of another couple and also asked, “Is this the 90’s Pub Crawl?” “No”, they laughed, they had been to a show. So our search continued.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I knew Neon Beach<\/em> was on the list of locations the Pub Crawl was visiting so we went there next.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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DJ Justin Taylor (USA) was in the booth playing 90’s so we knew we were getting closer.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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But the club was generally empty and were told we had just missed the crawl.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The bar still had a few patrons.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Photo of what it had looked like just minutes earlier. PHOTO CREDIT: Shaun Kerr<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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So on with the search. I heard the Pub Crawl<\/em> may be headed over to Wall Street Plaza<\/em> so we went over there and specifically to Monkey Bar<\/em>. In the vast Top 40 wasteland that is WSP<\/em>, Monkey Bar<\/em> is a hidden island oasis of House and Techno.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Here we found DJ Elias R (USA) in the corner booth playing House music. He had played at EDC-Orlando<\/em> in 2021. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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But the Pub Crawl<\/em> had not arrived here yet and there was just a few people coming and going.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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We were advised to go over to The Patio<\/em>, where there’s “Always A Party”.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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And finally success! We had found the 90’s Pub Crawl<\/em>!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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With DJ Parry (USA) playing mostly 90’s Hip Hop hits, music from back when Hip Hop was good.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Plenty of crop tops, double denim and grunge to fit the 90’s theme and which I think is also currently back in style again anyway. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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We heard songs like “Scrubs”, “Party Up (Up In Here)”, and “It Wasn’t Me” but also some Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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There’s a St. Patrick’s Day Pub Crawl <\/em>coming up on Friday, March 17th so check out the details here<\/a>. For one nominal price you get to crawl around multiple bars with hundreds of new friends and drinks are included. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Way overdue for a visit to Barbarella 2.0, so that was our final stop. The metal warehouse building says “Clearone Badminton<\/em>” on the outside but on Saturday nights there’s a dance club inside!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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We walked into this! The dance floor was packed and the fog was thick!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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We went to the booth to take a picture of resident DJ Indie John (USA) but instead found DJ Icey (USA) leading the charge!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The music at Barbarella <\/em>is 80’s New Wave and Alternative.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The clientele always a mixture of everyone<\/span>!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Icey was doing an impromptu hour set because Indie John was unfortunately feeling under the weather.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Taking over around 12:30AM, DJ Rob Bates (USA) continued the theme.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Dance floor stayed busy because everybody loves the 80’s!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Spotted by the bar: DJ Slay (USA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Spotted in VIP: DJ Slay, Blog<\/em>-favorite CJ and Emily.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Spotted on the dance floor: Farah and Christa<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The music selections are always a fun adventure when DJ Rob is playing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A good time was had by all.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20007,"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-19986","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\/2023\/01\/DSCN9483-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1920&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7OlZE-5cm","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19986","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=19986"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20020,"href":"https:\/\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19986\/revisions\/20020"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}