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 Leading lights from London’s alternative gay scene are launching a weekly fetish and drag orientated night at Turnmills from October 30, which aims to provide a space for flamboyant outsiders via a door policy that excludes ‘dodgy unfriendly straights’.
Jackie is being hosted by Synthetic Pleasures’ starlet Miss Cunty, who told Skrufff that they decided to launch the club after becoming totally alienated from virtually the rest of London’s gay scene.
“After five years of complaining and having no where to go we decided that Jackie will embrace the people like us who make clubs special by being special and putting thought into what we look like when we go out,” she said.
“We feel that the gay scene has become a corporate capitalist monopoly, where all the clubs and people are ghettoized in Vauxhall (South London) and many of the gay venues are no longer safe. There has been a lot of homophobic attacks in gay clubs these days by straight clubbers; for me that is unacceptable and that’s where Jackie comes in,” Cunty continued.
“Jackie is about creating a club where people feel at home, a family of underground subversive people who say fuck off to the mainstream and try to be themselves, irrespective of what gay or any other society expects of them.”
While Jackie will be open to a ‘cool underground straight crowd who don’t give a shit and respect our diverse policy’, ‘judgemental straights’ will be actively excluded, Cunty stressed, though added that the club’s door policy will be based on attitude not fashion.
“We don’t have a dress code and this is important because I don’t want to alienate anyone, it s a club for everyone,” she emphasized.
“We can tell who is a good person form how they behave in the queue, anyone acting up, bitching or pushing can fuck off, I want people to feel special not annoyed before they even come inside. I will only turn people away I think they wont be conducive to an eclectic mix of folks.”
“We will also be discouraging people obviously on GHB and we don’t want a club full of crystal tweakers either (crystal meth users- drug Ed). Cruising is great but when it’s done in a sexy way and not sleazy, we hope to achieve an electric atmosphere with music but not a sex club,” she said.
Jackie’s music policy will be strictly avoiding ‘awful commercial poppy funky house’, as Cunty puts it, in favour of mixed up electro-techno and tech-house via DJs including Mr Cormac, Dr Mu and Hao-Is.
“The music should start light and get harder, which is something which doesn’t happen in gay parties anymore. We’re also really into mixing genres and being experimental. We don’t tell the DJs what to play its up them; we know their style otherwise they wouldn’t be working with us,” said Cunty.
Jackie launches at Turnmills on Sunday October 30. Admission is £10 before midnight, £12 after, plus half price admission and no queue for anyone in fetishwear or drag. Reduced admission rates are also available via their website.
http://www.clubjackie.co.uk
Article by Jonty Skrufff (Skrufff.com)
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