LuvnGrace Presents Luvafair - How Soon is Now?
Friday, September 7, 2018 - 8:00pm
Forum:
Relive The Most Authentic, Flamboyant, Exciting, Retro-Futuristic & Legendary 70s/80s/90s NightLife Experience In Vancouver Club History in it's most exclusive venue yet-- 100 people maximum
MUSIC: NEW WAVE/ SYNTHPOP / DISCO/ FUNK/ POSTPUNK/ GOTH
Dress Up: New Wave- Avant-Garde- Stylish- Disco & Glam
DJ CHRIS ( LUVAFAIR REUNION PARTIES/TWILIGHT ZONE)
other DJ (TBA)
** LUVAFAIR FOOTAGE & PICS LOOPED"
**JIMMY CUMMINS AKA I,BRAINEATER SUPRISE**
**NEW WAVE/NEW ROMANTIC FASHIONSHOW **
**RICK FORDE- ( LUVAFAIR COCKTAIL WAITER 1981-1984)
and many other former employees from Luvafair will be attending!)
FRIDAY SEPT 7-2018
LANALOU'S -- 362 Powell St, Vancouver
(Well thought out quirky rock n roll decor offering church pews or private booths-dancefloor and art)
Tickets $20 available now via e-transfer at luvngraceaffair@gmail.com or Paypal at luvngraceentertainment@gmail.com
ABOUT LUVAFAIR:
When the Luv-a-Fair closed its doors for the last time last ON feb 1-2003, it was the last gasp for generations of the cool people who craved something edgy alongside their cheap gin and tonics.
For the not yet jaded or weary, it was the Vancouver night scene's most thrilling spectacle for most of three decades. For a good many Vancouverites from disco age and younger, the heyday of the Luv-a-Fair at Seymour and Drake was the heyday of Vancouver's club scene.
The DJs played alternative music & disco and they ruled, although there was the occasional live act, too, including Nina Hagen, Killing Joke, the Subhumans, Sonic Youth, the Violent Femmes, singer Divine, Wall of Voodoo, Nine Inch Nails (the not yet legendary band got paid $5,000 US and played to about 100 people in 1989).
Curious celebrities showed up. The Cure and U2 regularly crashed the party whenever they would play in town. As did Supergrass, Skinny Puppy, Smashing Pumpkins, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Moe Berg, Marilyn Manson, Blur, the Pixies, Hole, Village People, Ministry and Talking Heads. And the movie people, too: Mark Wahlberg, Tom Cruise, Farrah Fawcett, Johnny Depp and Ray Liotta.
In the late '70s, early '80s, it transformed from a strictly disco-playing gay bar to punk rock and new wave sanctuary -- while every other club in town played Top 40. Through the dry ice billowing across the dance floor, you might see a mile-long drag queen lounging across one of the speakers. The speakers perfectly symbolized the place's tongue-in-cheek, see-and-be-seen philosophy. They were the display pedestal for the best-dressed, best-looking, or simply the vainest or highest.
When the Luv-a-Fair was at its peak, you felt like anything could happen, or anybody could walk through the doors.
MUSIC:
ENGLISH BEAT- KING CRIMSON- ANNE CLARK- ABC- DEPECHE MODE- THE CURE-VILLAGE PEOPLE-MICHAEL JACKSON-DAVID BOWIE-BLONDIE-CULT-PET SHOP BOYS- FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD,PUBLIC ENEMY-THE SMITHS-BLUR-BRONSKI BEAT-PRINCE-GRANDMASTER FLASH-RAMONES-NEW ORDER-NIN- CHIC-HAPPY MONDAYS- GRACE JONES--DONNA SUMMER-PIXIES-RICK JAMES- IMAGES IN VOGUE-DURAN DURAN-MARRS- DIVINE-CLASH-RUN DMC-OMD- RUNAWAYS-GIORGIO MORODER- SINEAD O-CONNOR- SIGUE SIGUE SPUTNIK- THE SPECIALS- BARRY WHITE - BJORK- THE PRODIGY-TALKING HEADS- JOAN JETT- SYLVESTER-HUMAN LEAGUE-STONE ROSES- VISAGE- CULTURE CLUB- ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN - NIRVANA - PEARL JAM-THE POLICE - TRANS X- YAZOO- ROXY MUSIC- NINA HAGEN - MADONNA - BEASTIE BOYS-YELLO- BAUHAUS- ROSE ROYCE- RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS