Budget is THE NEW BLACK

Why would a promoter who is supposed to sell excess even mention a word that is about as conducive with bottle service as Target is with Cartier?  Because excess isn’t excess if everyone’s doing it – meaning in the last 3 or so years – everyone was a mortgage broker, real estate investor, or stock market millionaire…or so they thought. NEWS FLASH: now we are in reality, not then. Every swanky club out there, and some not so swanky, sold every table in the house; if they ran out, they would be happy to sell you a fold-out card table hosted by a car model who treated you like you were at the DMV.

Well those days are, THANK FUCKING GOD, over. Most of the bottle service girls now ARE the holy trinity – hot, smart and nice. Door and VIP hosts alike are happy to have your business and are actually willing, sometimes, to negotiate. Indeed, all that glitters isn’t gold and necessity really is the mother of invention. Clubs, like the real world, do need to offer good service, DJ’s do need to spin fun, energetic sets from the heart…and promoters really do need to offer not only an amazing crowd, but all the nuance that makes one venue magically better than the one next door.

The pendulum has swung back, for now at least, to what’s really beautiful, interesting and unique.  So as Hummers and Ed Hardy fade away and the line between Metro and Douchebag narrows…the silver lining is the blossoming of something so rare in the “scene”…creativity and art.

Actually having a budget is now not only cool, but ironically will remake the whole “industry”…for the better.