{"id":22911,"date":"2023-07-09T13:04:14","date_gmt":"2023-07-09T17:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/?p=22911"},"modified":"2023-07-09T13:04:14","modified_gmt":"2023-07-09T17:04:14","slug":"club-reports-monkey-bar-barbarella-orlando-amphitheater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/?p=22911","title":{"rendered":"Club Reports: Monkey Bar, Barbarella, Orlando Amphitheater"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Saturday night in the city and Blog<\/em>-favorite Monkey Bar<\/em> was on our itinerary. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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We arrived to find DJ Dack (USA) in the booth.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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House music brought out a contingent.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Spotted on the dance floor: DJ Dity (USA) and Amelia.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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DJ Dity is the Friday-Saturday night resident DJ at Monkey Bar<\/em> and he would take over next.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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In the vast sea of Hip Hop that is Wall Street Plaza<\/em>, Monkey Bar<\/em> is an island oasis of House & Techno.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The outdoor balcony was also active.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Spotted on Wall Street<\/em>: Samantha (right) with friend.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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We also visited Barbarella <\/em>last night!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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DJ Rob Bates (USA) was in the booth when we arrived.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Along with Lighting Tech Ernie Plowden (USA).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Barbarella <\/em>is generally only open on Saturday nights with a bonus night the 2nd Friday of each month.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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On Saturdays, the music is mostly 80’s New Wave and Alternative. On the bonus Fridays, the music gets darker with Goth, Industrial, Synthpop, Dark Wave and EBM.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Many of the “Girls of Barbarella<\/em>” were spotted on the dance floor last night including Emily. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Angelique<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Cherice<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Susan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Karen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Resident DJ Indie John (USA) is on holiday over in Europe so DJ Rob was providing the tunes. Rob will be back next Saturday night too!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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His selections kept the dance floor busy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Next stop was the Central Florida Fairgrounds<\/em> (as seen in this file photo).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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It was a music festival atmosphere even though just 4 DJ’s were playing from one stage.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Lots of bars and food trucks.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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There was even a Logo Store with merchandise for last night’s headliner…..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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DJ Illenium (USA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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An incessant fog machine made it really difficult to see let alone photograph Illenium. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Taking place at Orlando Amphitheater<\/em> within the fairgrounds, the place was absolutely packed!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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They had some cool effects besides the expected lasers such as fireworks, sparks…..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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…..and fire!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Illenium’s music drifts over to the Heavy Bass\/Dubstep side at times but it’s mostly Future Bass and thus more mainstream. He’s had close to 60 of his songs make it to Billboard Magazine<\/em>‘s Hot Dance\/Electronic Music chart and he played a lot of them last night.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I thought yesterday’s rain might lead to a bunch of no-shows but that definitely didn’t happen. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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We had been out here for the Forbidden Kingdom Music Festival<\/em> last month LINK<\/a> and the atmosphere last night was really similar but just on a smaller scale.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Everywhere we went last night but especially here at the Orlando Amphitheater<\/em>, a good time was had by all.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22938,"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-22911","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\/07\/DSCN0766-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1920&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7OlZE-5Xx","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22911","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=22911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22946,"href":"https:\/\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22911\/revisions\/22946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}