A party has finally come to lift my spirits up from all these horrible nights out in bars full of cheap hookers and DJs playing Nirvana. A proper party, a cool party, the kind of party I’d expect back home in my beloved Montreal.
Adam Ficek from Babyshambles was DJing. Franz Ferdinand, Blondie, Blue Monday, Blur: the music was so good I stopped trying to look cool and danced my ass off in the screaming mass. That’s the way a good party should be: so good your forget yourself.
The theme was “Made in the Kingdom of Siam”. You were supposed to dress up, but beats me if I know how to dress up like a Thai woman in the 1800s. Instead I dressed like a Montreal scenester from the year 2008. Some people had rocking costumes, with gold fingernails and sarongs and safari hats and neru collared silk shirts. There were a lot of expensive accents, (from the Thai kids educated abroad, the dek inter) and not too much irony. Thai scenesters aren’t slobby and pudgy like our scenesters, they’re cute and neat like a pin. It works.
The best part was a one hour retrospective of Thai music from the 1800s on. This bored me to death, frankly, since I had no childhood associations with any of the stuff. However, all the Thais went crazy as the DJ cued up toothpaste commercial songs from when they were 5 years old, and songs their mother used to sing to them as babies. It was fantastic to see Thais take some pride in their own culture for a change instead of reaching for the nearest 50 cent album and a pair of Nikes. I tried to learn some Issan dance moves but everyone laughed at me.
You can tell Dudesweet is a party that people wait for all month: there is palpable and contagious excitement in crowd, and a sense of release, of finally, party time is here.
Hands down, Dudesweet is the best party in town. Don’t miss it.
