Orlando!! The city that always sleeps!

Posted by Brian 'Docta' Dawe On July - 2 - 2009

So as I surfed the internet looking for my next blog topic, I realized that basically every local, and national blog still had Michael Jackson on the front page. Orlando is the city that sleeps, most of the year, but ESPECIALLY during summertime. I have come to the conclusion that you don’t want to party anymore Orlando, you are LAME. I think DJ AM pretty much got it right with this one:

When he played here at Club Destiny almost 2 years ago there was a whopping 75-100 people there, and it was heavily advertised on the radio. Orlando, you have failed, and have been failing for years. I could go on forever, but I don’t want to talk about what is wrong with this city anymore. The problem lies with the people that live here. Clint House, AKA “Mr. Orlando” posted this note on his Facebook earlier today…

In this business I try to hook everybody up as much as I can. Whether it be free entrance or free drinks or a good deal on bottles, I try to take care of as many people as I can. But what I dont understand is when people bitch and complain about having to pay a cover when the club is giving away free drinks. HOLY SHIT ITS FUCKING $5 to get into the club that is giving you FREE FUCKING DRINKS. I mean Jesus Christ really? You can’t fork out $5 to get free drinks? Yes ideally it would be great to be able to go out downtown and not have to pay for anything and get the ultimate hook up, but come on you arent a superstar, you arent anyone famous, so stop bitching about having to pay the cover charge if you are getting free drinks.

Rule # 1 – YOU CANT GET EVERYTHING FOR FREE!!! Promoting is a business, the club is a business, you can’t expect to get everything for free from a business. If that was the case it would be called a charity for alcoholics…not a business.

Rule # 2 – Guest lists are not always for free entrance. Sometimes they can be for skipping the line, or getting VIP, or for making sure your sister doesn’t have to fuck the door guy to get in. Whatever the case a guest list is just a list of people coming out. So don’t get your panties in a bunch if you don’t get in for free just because you are on the list.

Rule # 3 – Free drinks are well liquors. Yeah the cheap shit. Because the club knows that people who are only coming out for free drinks are cheap people. Only in certain cases and for special events will a club give away free premium drinks and only for a short amount of time. Thats how a club makes money, off its alcohol sales. Clubs make DICK off the door. So don’t bitch to the promoter when you arent getting a free jack and coke or a free gay ass martini. Take your well vodka and cranberry that you didnt pay anything for and shut the fuck up.

Bottom line is that we cant give you everything for free. In a perfect world where money didnt make the decisions then yeah we could, but thats not the case. A $5 cover charge is nothing so why do people bitch when they have to pay cover? I could understand if we were down in Miami and you were having to pay $20 + to get in but come on really….$5? Also I understand that if a promoter tells you its free entrance on the list and then you get there and its not, that you are pissed at the promoter. At the same time most clubs downtown only do free entrance on the list until a certain time. After that its either full price or half off. Either way when the promoter tells you to be there by a certain time to get in for free, dont be pissed off when you show up 30 minutes late and dont get in for free. ITS YOUR OWN DAMN FAULT for being late.

**Service Announcement** If the club gives away free drinks most likely its not free entrance. If drinks are on a special then the promoter can most likely get you free entrance. ITS EITHER OR NOT BOTH!! So dont expect free entrance and free drinks. If you have a problem with that…get over it.

I am so tired of bitching about this city I don’t even want to post blogs like this anymore. Why don’t people in this town like to have fun? Why are they all cheap fucks? Why won’t they embrace events with any sort of culture behind them? Not that project bikini had that ::sorry Clint :: ….but Clint does have valid points about people being CHEAP. Like he said, take a vacation to Miami, EVERWHERE is $20-$50 to get in, and then the drinks are $10 a piece. On the other hand Miami Nightlife is much more evolved than Orlando Nightlife. The production is much more advanced, the DJs are much more talented, and are able to play a cultured playlist to a cultured crowd. The clubs are also WAYYYYY nicer, and they are MAINTAINED, with beautiful VIP areas, unbelievable lighting, and stylish decor. They aren’t rocking the same layout that they were in 2002, they UPDATE and REMODEL on a yearly basis. Orlando will always settle for places like Scoops and TDs, and as long as places like that still are in business, Orlando will be no different than Bumfuck, Kentucky. Who’s ready to make Orange County Concepts – ORANGE COUNTY CONCEPTS?? I give up, WHO’S COMING WITH ME?!?!?!