Hair & Party

[Deborah]

Love this thread.

 

[Sun_Goddess01]

Keep them comin!

 

[Mindbear]

If you fancy more, okay!

This guy is Jean Paul Gaultiers assistant, and he's lovely.

 

[Mindbear]

 

[Deborah]

I like the pink hair girl. Your club looks fub Mindbear, you should put all TFSers on a guestlist hahaha.

 

[Mindbear]

Haha! My club is fun, well, I think so obviously or I wouldn't do it. It's not really about people looking cool, although they do, it's about the music, which just so happens to be fun as well!

 

[Aqua Tofana]

For some reason I prefer haircuts that doesn't mess up after 3 hours of intense dancing

Cobrasnake

 

[lafindesiecle]

here's a little NYC... lots of undercuts and heavy bangs here

credit: ellerex.net

 

[Mindbear]

Wow, it looks so similar to the UK, or london especially. For some reason I expected a really significant difference.

 

[lafindesiecle]

haha! i noticed the same thing -- these people aren't the majority in nyc though, these are the post-misshapes club kids, you know? i thought the same thing when i moved to prague for a year in 2006 -- everyone from all over europe/north america who was into the same music/fashion etc looked pretty similar. and the friends i made there and dj'd with there now all live either in nyc or london...

more nyc-centric party pix sites if you're into it to see that we're skinny and well dressed with funny hair too are cultureofme.com, nickydigital.com, indierotica.com.... new york is also fairly international, which i think is easy to forget, even for those of us here -- plenty of kids from europe (england and scandinavia especially it seems, or maybe that's just people i know) in our clubs too!

from the time i've been in london i've noticed that there are many more folks that look like the above out and about on the streets though, and that people dress like that during the DAY too -- here you don't really see this around except inside certain bars and clubs late at night. that was the big difference to me -- that at morning hungover brunch or at the sunday up market or whatever, folks looked just as snappy as they did the night before, which is definitely NOT the case here at all.

 

[Mindbear]

Ah ha, well that makes a lot of sense. I dj and run clubs in central london and all our kids look the same day and night. They're all impeccably dressed and they always look like that, but it's hugely cosmopolitan, lots and lots of italians looking fantastic, and americans, swedish, french, all very beautiful (and thinner than me damn them!).

I would love to go clubbing in new york, I imagine it being amazing, with James Murphy djing every night, which I imagine isn't the case at all!

 

[lafindesiecle]

i actually think it's kind of sad here, especially how much it's changed in even the past 3 years now -- not a lot of people are into it, to be honest, it's not very 'cool' to go out to 'clubs' anymore, and so many of those 'classic' new york parties from a few years ago don't exist anymore, and the bars they were at closed, etc, etc.

people like listen to a lot of lofi music and go to shows and smoke a lot of pot...haha. an awful lot of the folks that 'go out dancing' look like the more awful people posted earlier in the thread -- the orange-tanned bleach-blonde types with their brooks brothers clad boyfriends... sigh. either that or they are all 18 year old college kids... and not a lot of places playing good music, so much of this stupid 'disco' trend or just so far behind still playing justice. it's a funny paradox, seeing as things in london close so much earlier, but it just seems like the 'nightlife' is more 'alive' there, at least amongst the cool kids.

anyhoo! but this was supposed to be about hair and clothes! not me complaining about how either i've gotten old and grown out of touch, or just horribly disillusioned with my city

 

[Mindbear]

I have to be honest, I think london is suffering in just the same way. People are all very into clubbing, but there are so many boring faceless electro djs playing endless boring faceless electro, it depresses me. There is a real separation between the Pitchfork reading hipsters who want to see bands and the kids that go out clubbing. People can't seem to cope in my clubs with the idea of Wavves or bands like that being played, the best I can hope for is Animal Collective and they're virtually mainstream now! I have people screaming they love my club, and then don't know ANY OF THE MUSIC. I have to admit to still playing Justice, but I have to, you have to have goodwill records to be able to actually do what you want musically.

Also, thank GOD someone else realises that this disco thing is D A T E D. The post punk/disco thing stopped five years ago, and people are still pushing it like its something new. Oh wow, you just bought a mutant disco compilation, better play ALL OF IT CONSTANTLY. Everyone is a dj, everyone, and not many are very good.

Still, i'm just getting together a few records for tomorrow night, and i'm pulling out Beyonce - Crazy in love, so what do I know.

I know I want to have fun!

 

[lafindesiecle]

Hate disco. Then again I seem to like all my music kind of crunchy, low, lo-fi, and vaguely depressing, so the sound just drives me up a wall. Ha.

& that's the thing -- a few years back, like, the 'hipster'/rock music that was popular fit in perfectly with a lot of dance music, and a lot of dance music was having that more rock'n'roll aesthetic (see: Justice, and seriously, I do still love them too, I just don't want to hear We Are Your Friends ever again) -- mixing that up with all that classic cheesy 80's stuff and then a few trashy top 40 hits was always awesome. And so much of that STILL would work -- like, really, I COULD dance to Wavves and Crocodiles sounds an awful lot like early Jesus and Mary Chain/New Order, and YYYs and Metric are still dancey -- it's just that as a trend it died or something and everything seems so separate. Like the cool kids don't think getting drunk and dancing is authentic anymore or something and it's just for frat boys. Lame.

ANYHOW. More NYC party pix/hair -- I like this 'nightlife' style sort of thread, don't think there really is one here and I certainly know I dress quite differently for nights out than for anything else And I prefer to keep thinking I live somewhere really fun and lively... haa.

credits as on the photos

 

[Mindbear]

Hate disco. Then again I seem to like all my music kind of crunchy, low, lo-fi, and vaguely depressing, so the sound just drives me up a wall. Ha.

& that's the thing -- a few years back, like, the 'hipster'/rock music that was popular fit in perfectly with a lot of dance music, and a lot of dance music was having that more rock'n'roll aesthetic (see: Justice, and seriously, I do still love them too, I just don't want to hear We Are Your Friends ever again) -- mixing that up with all that classic cheesy 80's stuff and then a few trashy top 40 hits was always awesome. And so much of that STILL would work -- like, really, I COULD dance to Wavves and Crocodiles sounds an awful lot like early Jesus and Mary Chain/New Order, and YYYs and Metric are still dancey -- it's just that as a trend it died or something and everything seems so separate. Like the cool kids don't think getting drunk and dancing is authentic anymore or something and it's just for frat boys. Lame.

ANYHOW. More NYC party pix/hair -- I like this 'nightlife' style sort of thread, don't think there really is one here and I certainly know I dress quite differently for nights out than for anything else And I prefer to keep thinking I live somewhere really fun and lively... haa.

Wow, I think we have very similar tastes, which is something I didn't think I'd find on this forum! I think the music scene has got SO splintered, its difficult to unify a whole room of people by playing something like I wanna kill by the crocodiles, because they just look confused for the most part, whereas if you play unknown electro, at least there's a thumping beat they can go along with. I had an argument with some people a couple of months back because they were slagging off my warm up dj for playing JAMC and saying it was boring, and I said if they hadn't got a clue about JAMC, not to bother coming again as they clearly didn't like music that much! It was a swift wake up call though, because the scene had been VERY separate, the whole electro thing next to the hipster lo fi bands, then it flirted with being compatible, then, as you say, people decided it wasn't cool to dance anymore so now there is 100000000 electro nights and about 10 good ones, and very few guitar based nights that are successful, except in shoreditch, and even then success is measured on the fact that people come into the club, regardless of whether they like it or night.

I'd love to go out and spend all night dancing to Times New Viking, Wavves and Neon Indian. Doesn't look like it'll happen though..boo

Here's a few pics from my recent nights. Credits are my own pictures.