Flex and 120 Minutes of Music Deliver Again
Friday night Flex hosted Back To The 80s – a VJ/DJ Battle. As with Rave Til Dawn, both the production provided by 120 Minutes of Music and the staff at Flex provided a great party.
DJ REV-JYNXX, providing fantastic dance music.
The event was a great success. The music was classic 80s dance, and was good enough that I even danced quite a bit – sober, no less. In addition, the decorations were all out. There was a huge collection of 80s band t-shirts, enough so that I’m still unsure how many could even still be in existence. I’m still not sure if someone scoured thrift stores for several weeks, or if there’s some crazy 80s t-shirt collector at large.
The middle area, usually part of the dance floor, had several tables arranged on it, containing various paraphernalia from the era. This, combined with the presence of a prom style photographer (Spike, from Spikedigital.com), helped give it a really retro dance feel.
VJ130XE, seen here, provided great video work from different TV shows, cartoons, movies, and music videos of the decade which really helped highlight the music and add atmosphere. The party went on until a bit after 3. As always, I greatly appreciate it when a club is willing to let people enjoy themselves a bit longer, even after they can’t sell any more drinks.
There were a lot of people in great costumes. I personally tried to pull of a punk look, with limited success. Fortunately, as soon as I arrived, the New Romantic seen above came up to tell me how awesome my costume was. I think she pulled off the Madonna look quite well.
These Ghostbuster outfits were awesome.
Image credit: John Morris
Bones, from Boneland Productions worked with the event to help host an Atari 2600 Challenge. This guy here was one of the major players in the tournament.
Micah Moore, a local DJ who helped bring us Rave Till Dawn, and a pretty girl.
image credit: John Morris
Some vagrant punk rocker standing next to an upstanding citizen
Myque, behaving suspiciously.
image credit: John Morris
More of the ladies in Ghostbusters outfits
P-Nasty
One of the bartenders. Whiskey and a mohawk; very awesome.
Another picture of Micah and associated girl.
Craziness on the dance floor
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08/04/2009
Thanks for coming out and having a great time! We had an absolute blast as well and can’t wait till our next event later this year ( to be named soon!) :)
I think I finally have had enough sleep!
Oh, and those 80s shirts, those would be of DJ Jynxx’s personal collection, no new shirts were bought for that! Amazing I know!
08/05/2009
*Raises Hand*
Um, I would be the crazed 80’s collector of which you speak ;) Really just a horrible pack-rat, there was a fairly decent selection up in the attic along with all the He-Man toys ‘ya saw, and there’s still more in storage for later…
Thanx for the write up and glad ya had a great time, already plotting some for the next event (If’n they’ll have us back, *Hint, Hint*) I’m glad the 120 Minutes crew invited “The Phantom Frequency” to be a part of it and to be the DJ half of the “Battle” (Most think we only play Alternative/Goth/Industrial/Electro music, but we were raised on some 80’s cheese’tasticness and can throw down with the rest of ’em).
For now it’s back to my program and helping to promote upcoming events like 120 Minutes this Fri. the 7th at Flex, Temptation Boots and Booty Pirate Fetish theme party Sat the 8th at Volume 11 and back to Flex on the 14th for “Music for the Masses” with the return of DJ Steve from the old school Fallout Shelter. Hope to see you there!
Danke!
Rev. Jynxx Midnite
“The Phantom Frequency”
WCOM 103.5 FM-LP Carrboro, NC
08/19/2009
Was great to see another great 80s themed event downtown this summer…Kirby Derby being another. The 80s were great and the music still rocks! Thanks and looking forward to the next one.