Party

The upcoming weekend will be the last possibility to go for a party or as the “locals” say clubbing! Indonesia is a muslim country, so the party life is restricted and of cause in between ramadhan there is no change at all to go clubbing. First of all I would like to add that I’m not really a party kid, but whenever I am abroad I’d like to relax while dancing. From western point of view we would celebrate the “last” party for at least one month really excessive and enjoying ourselves with probably a lot of alcoholic beverages, maybe drugs and finally a gang bang late at night. So we might step into ramadhan totally stoned and get depressions afterwards- cause it will be the last decadent party for our lifetime (one month). So what do you might think how people will enjoy their “last” party? I don’t now cause its next weekend!!! I just can tell you how party used to be normally. One thing you have to keep in mind always- that’s Indonesia and not new york, rio, bangkok or berlin. Indonesia has a vibrant band culture (retro style) with a lot of live concerts. These concerts are sometimes pretty funny, but indeed not comparable to western festivals. No alcohol, which is sometimes also nice and people who are sitting in front of the stage could be a little bit boring after a certain amount of time. But there are also some venues for clubbing in yogyakarta. Most of them I visited already, some tend to be nicer than others but all of them playing “progressive” music. I had never heard about such a style of music before but it is common in indonesia. So get used to it or stay at home. The most famous place in jogja is a club called hugo’s café. This is more or less a wide span disco with a stage and a bar in the middle. They do have live gigs, but these bands consist more of “Happy dancing dolls” playing cover songs. At midnight the gitchy cowboy bartenders perform the “hugos’ dance show and in between- yeah you are right: progressive music!
That’s the top end for most Chinese- Indonesian and important to show up with a bottle of whiskey. Nothing to write home about.
More interesting is the party crowd consisting of stylish teenager, prostitutes, callboys and some other funny people. After a few expensive beers you will leave for another location- it used to be called insomnia but is reopened under the name embassy club (from Jakarta). Thanks to dita I am often on the guest list, but therefore you have to show up before midnight. We went there one Thursday- ordered a “promo” bottle of vodka and enjoyed our self. No problem so far, but the “our self” means really just our group and a few others. So music as always boring, but without any party crowd! You could imagine- no fun at all!
Same location- one week later, without a bottle of vodka, crowded before midnight and no progressive music. Instead some good drum&bass with live acts. What else you might need? Maybe gang bang- but I am getting older….

Stay tuned for more “last night” reports!