Last night’s Trasher party, which I had been looking forward to so much, turned out to be a bit of an anticlimax on two fronts. The party itself has changed from the gritty, tongue-in-cheek little gay gathering I remembered to a very straight, very mainstream and quite glam night.It was held at Narz, a towering, Vegas-like nightclub on Sukhumvit 23, all sweeping staircases and lasers, playing commercial hip hop downstairs while the Trasher “Rihanna” party was happening upstairs. I actually thought at first we had arrived on the wrong night. Unlike the rough-around-the-edges, full of spunk homemade costumes I remembered from the “old days” (last year), there was a handful of queens in expensive-looking “Rihanna” getup and a whole lot of girls in short, expensive skirts, high heels and fake lashes. Uh, parrrrty….not.
And as if that was not weird enough, the party shut down at 1.45am! There was a police raid, the music was turned off and everyone was told to piss in a cup – a random dugs test was underway (as I later discovered, it was in clubs across the city that night). As luck would have it, I was taking a breather outside with my friends and missed all the drama and commotion anyway – we jsut wondered where the party had gone!
Perturbing.
And doubly disappointing after the amazing video the promoters had made for the party – with all the grit, humour and knowing camp that made the original so fun. But other than on the screen – where was that on the night?
Anyway, here are come pics fo the night:
Oh and look- here is one of me!
