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I met a club god last night
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| pyro264jb |
I'll get to that in a minute. I began my night celabrating a friends birthday in downtown. After cake and a few drinks we decided to venture out and look for a party. I knew that Seb fontaine was at Centro fly but really didnt enjoy his last performance their. Since the people I was with new Thoran and some of the promoters there we got comped. Now its about 3:30 and im thinking to myslef I have to be at a job interview at 8:30. I decide to leave but after meeting a few girls and having some more drinks I changed my mind and chilled in the backroom bar. As of now i am having a decent night but nothing special I am looking around the room and see this older man come in with a beutifull girl who is about 25. I start to chat with her and ask her if that guys her husband..... she tells me that he's her Dad>>>>>>> Peter Gatian I ing flipped. To my knowledge he was deported a year ago for tax fraud. Well I begged her to intorduce me and she did. He was really friendly actually and totally aproachable. I told them that Ny nightllife died with tunnel/ limelight, and he told me that something big was coming soon. That he would be opening a club in the near furture that would be bigger then exit and located around where tunnel used to be off the west side Highway. After hearing all those bad things about this guy and meeting him I got a total differnt impression.
And on a side note Seb Fontaine ROCKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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| Redeye |
| quote: | Originally posted by pyro264jb
I'll get to that in a minute. I began my night celabrating a friends birthday in downtown. After cake and a few drinks we decided to venture out and look for a party. I knew that Seb fontaine was at Centro fly but really didnt enjoy his last performance their. Since the people I was with new Thoran and some of the promoters there we got comped. Now its about 3:30 and im thinking to myslef I have to be at a job interview at 8:30. I decide to leave but after meeting a few girls and having some more drinks I changed my mind and chilled in the backroom bar. As of now i am having a decent night but nothing special I am looking around the room and see this older man come in with a beutifull girl who is about 25. I start to chat with her and ask her if that guys her husband..... she tells me that he's her Dad>>>>>>> Peter Gatian I ing flipped. To my knowledge he was deported a year ago for tax fraud. Well I begged her to intorduce me and she did. He was really friendly actually and totally aproachable. I told them that Ny nightllife died with tunnel/ limelight, and he told me that something big was coming soon. That he would be opening a club in the near furture that would be bigger then exit and located around where tunnel used to be off the west side Highway. After hearing all those bad things about this guy and meeting him I got a total differnt impression.
And on a side note Seb Fontaine ROCKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
lol, his daughter used to date Mark Ronson (resident at Centro) thats why she was there. Peter Gatien was never deported, they are trying to deport him now. read up on it...
While he may have been able to control the velvet rope at venues like Limelight and Tunnel, former club king Peter Gatien may find the US/Canada border to be one door that turns him away.
Despite living in the US for 25 years, and being married to an American, Gatien has never bothered to apply for US citizenship. Now the Immigration and Naturalization Service is considering a bid to deport him to his native Canada. On what basis? According to the INS, Gatien is no longer a high-profile club owner and NYC institution, now he’s merely a non-citizen who was convicted of an aggravated felony.
The charge relates to his 1999 guilty plea to tax evasion charges. Gatien subsequently spent 60 days in jail and repaid almost 2 million dollars in back taxes and fines.
Despite being acquitted by a jury on various drug-related charges based on the infamous Tunnel and Limelight days, the relatively minor tax conviction may be enough to send Gatien permanently packing.
Benjamin Brafman, a lawyer representing Gatien, argues that the tax charge doesn’t count as an aggravated felony, and moreover, his wife and four children, all US citizens, are here in New York.
In similar situation, rapper Slick Rick was the target of INS wrath, stemming from his British citizenship (he has lived in the US since he was 11) and a six-year prison stint for shooting his cousin. Unlike Gatien, Rick was held by the INS, without bail, pending deportation hearings. The hip-hop pioneer has far less chance of staying in this country, as U.S. Federal law states that any non-citizen who serves more than five years in prison must be deported.
Authorities seem especially eager to enforce the letter of the law when it comes to the former nightlife entrepreneur. Neighbors of his clubs had campaigned for years, trying to have his venues shut down, arguing that drunken patrons caused havoc and disturbances. Several incidents of violence at the clubs also did little to endear him to police.
Despite his protestations that he did everything he could to keep his venues drug-free, authorities always suspected him of covertly supporting the at-times thriving drug trade in Limelight and Tunnel.
Eventually the mounting legal bills and a slump in the nightlife economy did what the police and State Liquor Authority couldn’t. Tunnel closed and Limelight was auctioned off in bankruptcy court to a group of investors.
Renamed Estate, the new venue is currently open only on Sunday nights.
But the news is not all grim for the 50-year-old Gatien. After many years of trying to get various projects off the ground, he is working with Spike Lee to develop a television series with a nightclub theme, as well as trying to turn his life experiences into a movie script. |
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| butterfly |
wow glad you had a good night babe. :)
you think he was talking about crobar?
and how was the interview? |
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| pyro264jb |
| For those of you who didn't go out in 95' 96' 97' 98' Peter Gatian was the owner of the Tunnel and limelight. These club brang an atmosphere that really is non existent today. :( |
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| kid nyce |
| im sure it is crobar that he is hinting at...and lets try to refer to the area as being close to twilo...rather than the dirty tunnel LOLS |
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| pyro264jb |
| quote: | Originally posted by kid nyce
im sure it is crobar that he is hinting at...and lets try to refer to the area as being close to twilo...rather than the dirty tunnel LOLS |
Nope! Thats why I liked it, because it was dirty and raunchy. Even though the people there weren't always smiling and happy >>>> they where real and never fronted. The gays did what they wanted to do, the k heads and pill poppers did thier thing, along with the break dancers, ravers, and B&t'rs. We didnt bother each other and respected what others wanted to do. Twilo was to clean for me sorry to say :) |
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| EnigmaT |
Tunnel was the first club I was ever at, and probably my all time favorite. I don't care what everyone else says, TUNNEL ING ROCKED!!! The venue was huge, the lightshow wasn't bad, and the soundsystem made all the skin on your body vibrate as soon as you walk on the dancefloor. That space being used for anything other than a club makes me upset. The only bad times I had was when I walked in expecting hard house and that Fat Flexmaster s was in the booth. Twlio might have been a Prog/Trance fans dreamland, but Tunnel was a hardhouse/hardstyle listeners heaven. The crowd usually never bothers me in club because I am always with friends. I judge a place not by it's people, but by it's atmosphere.
There is no NYC club where you can't hear the person next to you talking. In Tunnel you could not hear the person next to you, even if he or she screamed. |
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| pyro264jb |
| quote: | Originally posted by EnigmaT
Tunnel was the first club I was ever at, and probably my all time favorite. I don't care what everyone else says, TUNNEL ING ROCKED!!! The venue was huge, the lightshow wasn't bad, and the soundsystem made all the skin on your body vibrate as soon as you walk on the dancefloor. That space being used for anything other than a club makes me upset. The only bad times I had was when I walked in expecting hard house and that Fat Flexmaster s was in the booth. Twlio might have been a Prog/Trance fans dreamland, but Tunnel was a hardhouse/hardstyle listeners heaven. The crowd usually never bothers me in club because I am always with friends. I judge a place not by it's people, but by it's atmosphere.
There is no NYC club where you can't hear the person next to you talking. In Tunnel you could not hear the person next to you, even if he or she screamed. |
Makes me want to cry :( |
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| Freeza |
| Makes me glad that I've been to the Tunnel! Only been there once and it was ing great - loved the place. Anyone else go to One Nation there back in July of 2001? Much fun :D |
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| EnigmaT |
I think One Nation was Tunnel's last good party. It was the last time I was there. If I'm right, they ran that rave right after they ended the Johnny Vicious Sat night party. Vicious played some real great back then, and over the past 2 years he's just gone downhill.
A while ago a heard something about someone buying the venue and planning to turn the place into a dinosaur museum. :stongue: |
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| Sunshine79 |
| quote: | Originally posted by pyro264jb
And on a side note Seb Fontaine ROCKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
I'm so glad you feel this way! I ws VERY upset I did not go. My brother bitched out and I didn't want to go by myself...I didn't even know set times. This is the second time I missed Seb at Centro.
Glad yo had a great time, John. You are really going all out this weekend, huh?
SeB - if you haven't seen him, you just don't know. |
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| tiesto14 |
| quote: | Originally posted by pyro264jb
For those of you who didn't go out in 95' 96' 97' 98' Peter Gatian was the owner of the Tunnel and limelight. These club brang an atmosphere that really is non existent today. :( |
cool u met him...he def made NY nightlife back in the day..
DIDNT he also own The Palladium on 14th?..i thought he did...
and MAYBE he will have MICHAEL ALIG do some parties...isnt he due for PAROL soon??????????????????????...i THINK so...and you KNOW he still has the club itch in his blood...
bring back those wild ass parties like Disco 2000....weird but wild...
that is if Michael and Peter G still talk.....but Peter G can't deny that Michael drew the crowds at the club.....
aaaaaahhh Club Kid days.....what fun...bring back 1993-1997...NYC SUCKS NOW.... |
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