SOUND Phuket nightclub opening in battle of DJ parties
Just three days from now – on July 17 – Phuket will be the battleground for two major events in the world of cool-and-sexy-see-and-be-seen, as two leading names in the world of deejay night clubs, Bangkok’s Bed Supper Club and Ibiza’s Hed Kandi, go, er, Bed-to-Hed.
Tata Young has apparently already checked out the new Sound nightclub in Jungceylon. Photo copyright © Alasdair Forbes.
Bed Supper Club, possibly the capital’s coolest nightclub, is the place to go to gawk at stars. In fact, if you haven’t been been photographed in Bed with someone sexy, then you’re probably not a star or even a starlet. Now Bed is about to officially open the very sexy Sound, at Jungceylon in Patong.
Meanwhile, down at Surin Beach, Stereo Lab – which is not as sexy but is right on the beach – will be the venue for the first appearance in Phuket of Hed Kandi (a subsidiary of Ministry of Sound) which has organised deejay parties all over the world as part of its World Series Tour, whichhas already included Tokyo, Seoul, Dhaka, Macau, Jakarta, KL and Phuket.
Now we don’t know whether there’s been a pledge of cooperation between the two, but consider this: on opening night, Sound will initially be open only to invited guests (ie, stars, starlets and other people with beautiful faces, bodies or wallets), who will mostly be flown down from Bangkok. They will have the place all to themselves from 9pm until midnight, when the doors will be opened to the hoi polloi – you and me – for another couple of hours.
But the Hed Kandi gig will be open to all, starting at 9pm. So it’s going to be a busy night, heading for Surin Beach first for the Hed Kandi gig featuring deejay Dean Rigg and percussionist Dean Oram until sometime before midnight, then hopping in the car – no, better make that a taxi after all those cocktails – for the dash to Jungceylon where the line-up will include now fewer that eight deejays from Bed – Fred Jungo, Octo, Duke O’Phive, Em, Ome, Josh and The Bangkok Invaders.
Sound soft-opened a few weeks ago and report that they’ve already received visits from from Thai glitterati Tata Young, Navinta, Dome (Pakorn Lum), Matthew Dean, Helen Pratumrat and Mark Kingpayom, presumably all down in Phuket for Fashion Week.
Manager Dave says that Sound will have different themes on different nights: Monday is Retroactiv – Old Skool dance hits from the 70′s onwards; Tuesday is Kinky Beats – sexy chilled out house; Wednesday is Jet-set – Hip-hop, R&B (also Ladies’ night); Thursday is Samba Loca – Latin Dance music; Friday is Ultra-sound – hardcore house for serious clubbers; Saturday is ‘this is SOUND’ – with international guest DJs; and Sunday is Bootlegs Inc -Mash-ups and remixes.
