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Well, there are two main promoters. Spundae & Release...
Of COURSE you know who Spundae is...it is probably the biggest club promoter in the US with weeklys in SF, LA, Chicago, Houston, Las Vegas, and Cleveland, and have numerous events in places such as Seattle and Miami.
Spundae is based out of San Francisco and has one of the coolest promoter owners around, Guiv....so of course we get a good share of stuff through them. Spundae has "Sonic Spundae" on Friday nights at the big club in town here, 1015 Folsom.
Release isn't as big, but is surely well-known and world renound for bringing in talent. Release has Saturdays with "Release" @ 1015 Folsom and they also have Friday nights with "Square" @ the other big club in town, Ruby Skye (nominated for best club venue in the Dance Star awards, but I hate the crowd here so much that I try to avoid it...probably one of the nicest clubs you'lle ver see, though).
Release used to book every big DJ they brought in at 1015 Folsom, but it's changed over recent months. Now they book most of their big stuff at Ruby Skye on Fridays nights, competing directly with Spundae.
This is because of two reasons mainly..
1) With the reopening of Giant @ Avalon last year in LA, LA now has two HUGE clubs/promoters operating on Saturdays nights in LA -- that being Spundae & Giant.
2) The crowd at 1015 in the main room is more of a "there for the music" crowd than "there to be seen crowd" ... so there is no guaranteed large crowd on any night at 1015. The nice thing about this crowd is that when it's packed, it's a real good crowd who appreciates the music. The bad thing, the place can be dead empty sometimes.
Ruby Skye is completely different -- it is full of a bunch of fakes who go there to drink, grab asses, and dance no matter what the music is and is always pretty full. I've seen numerous huge DJs play there and will be asked by tons of people "who is that DJ playing" ... like WHAT THE FUCK, YO!?!!??! Anyhow, as I said, very nice club but annoying as hell/fake crowd which just irritates me and irritates everyone who goes to the clubs for the music. BUUUTTT, it's a guaranteed crowd and a guaranteed money maker so Release is booking more there on Friday nights.
I must thank them for bringing PvD back to 1015 in May....he played at Ruby in November and it was bleh....PvD didn't even like it that much. He LOOVVEESSS 1015 (he has said so himself).
Ruby Skye also books decent DJs on its own on Saturdays night, but it's in spurts.
The other big clubs which isn't used nearly enough is The Mezzanine....Spundae has held special events there in the past and it's where Tiesto tends to play. INSANE sound system (one of the best on the west coast). I've heard Sasha, Tiesto (twice), Chemical Brothers, and others there....all Spundae events. I've been there for other nights, too. I love the place -- kick ass sound and feels so underground.
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Dave Toole - [email protected]
Spundae Productions (San Francisco, Los Angeles, Orange County, Las Vegas)
Last edited by DaveT on Feb-20-2004 at 22:54
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