“When everything came to an end, it wasn't because the party was done,” Steve McClure told Creative Loafing Tampa Bay.
The Tampa DJ, co-founder of the Hallucination Before Christmas, and alum of Rabbit in the Moon, is talking about a night in 2016 when he and a group of longtime friends closed the door on the infamous Filthy Richard weekly, which called Ybor City home for eight years.
The party was infamous for its cheap drinks (dollar drinks, PBR kill-the-keg, and hundreds of free shot tickets), and served as a conduit for pre-streaming partygoers to get their ears around the very best of indie music (Passion Pit, Gorillaz, before they were cool). Filthy Richard was also a feast for the eyes thanks to McClure—better known as Best of the Bay-winning DJ/VJ Monk—and a team that custom built infrastructure which complimented an array of lasers.
Now the Filthy Richard Party is coming back, this time to a bustling room on Central Avenue in St. Petersburg.
“We've been talking about it and shooting the idea around since the beginning of the year,” Monk said about the party’s debut at Floridian Social next Friday.
There’ll be a minimum of five video screens, video mapping, and at least eight big lasers. Artist Bryan Nichols is working behind the scenes on creative elements, and VJs Moniker and Berkeley from the Filthy’s Ybor City days are among those on board, too. A pricetag fit for the proletariat will also return; cover is $10, but there’s free guest list for the first 100 people who come before 10:30 p.m. Broke ass booze specials are naturally part of the offering.
There’ll be a request sheet, but Monk said he’s been itching for a place to play the new indie dance music he’s been digging lately (Bbno$, Hamdi, Nation of Language, Zhu, and Boys Noize are highlights on a playlist Monk shared with CL recently).
“I think there's magic in being social and dancing with like minded people. Filthy is a release and sharing of that energy,” Monk added. He’s calling on outcasts and the people who love a bit of the strange to come help usher in a new shift in the dance music scene. In a world where AI helps people discover new music, Monk wants partygoers to make new friends for life.
“Sitting at home is boring,” he added.
Filthy Richard kicks off Friday, Aug. 30 at Floridian Social in St. Petersburg and happens weekly after that. Cover is $10, but there’s free guest list for the first 100 people who show up before 10:30 p.m.
More information is at filthyrichardparty.com and via @filthyparty on Instagram.
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The Tampa DJ, co-founder of the Hallucination Before Christmas, and alum of Rabbit in the Moon, is talking about a night in 2016 when he and a group of longtime friends closed the door on the infamous Filthy Richard weekly, which called Ybor City home for eight years.
The party was infamous for its cheap drinks (dollar drinks, PBR kill-the-keg, and hundreds of free shot tickets), and served as a conduit for pre-streaming partygoers to get their ears around the very best of indie music (Passion Pit, Gorillaz, before they were cool). Filthy Richard was also a feast for the eyes thanks to McClure—better known as Best of the Bay-winning DJ/VJ Monk—and a team that custom built infrastructure which complimented an array of lasers.
Now the Filthy Richard Party is coming back, this time to a bustling room on Central Avenue in St. Petersburg.
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There’ll be a minimum of five video screens, video mapping, and at least eight big lasers. Artist Bryan Nichols is working behind the scenes on creative elements, and VJs Moniker and Berkeley from the Filthy’s Ybor City days are among those on board, too. A pricetag fit for the proletariat will also return; cover is $10, but there’s free guest list for the first 100 people who come before 10:30 p.m. Broke ass booze specials are naturally part of the offering.
There’ll be a request sheet, but Monk said he’s been itching for a place to play the new indie dance music he’s been digging lately (Bbno$, Hamdi, Nation of Language, Zhu, and Boys Noize are highlights on a playlist Monk shared with CL recently).
“I think there's magic in being social and dancing with like minded people. Filthy is a release and sharing of that energy,” Monk added. He’s calling on outcasts and the people who love a bit of the strange to come help usher in a new shift in the dance music scene. In a world where AI helps people discover new music, Monk wants partygoers to make new friends for life.
“Sitting at home is boring,” he added.
Filthy Richard kicks off Friday, Aug. 30 at Floridian Social in St. Petersburg and happens weekly after that. Cover is $10, but there’s free guest list for the first 100 people who show up before 10:30 p.m.
More information is at filthyrichardparty.com and via @filthyparty on Instagram.
Readers are invited to submit their own events to Creative Loafing Tampa Bay’s things to do calendar.
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