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This page should make it a bit easier for you to find important sources of clubbing and partying info around the world. Most of the links below club directories, like local online newspapers or specific websites with listings. Over the years, weve gone clubbing in countless cities and have come to realize that clubs open and close constantly. There is also not much money in maintaining a clubbing directory which is why so many local nightlife listing websites fail and shut down. Keeping up with a busy citys clubscene takes a lot of work!People who do maintain local sites often do it out of the love for the scene, and sometimes a bit of ego. Once they grow out of the scene, the site dies. These days, the sites that survive are the ones that can help bring on a sense of community such as those with message boards. That said,it seemed best to just create a list of directories to local clubs rather than linkingto the clubs themselves. When this clubbers guide first started in 1997, Google wasnt even around! These days you can use search engines to find a lot of what you need. Still, this is a great starting place.

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If you want to go clubbing in Canada, youll find an array of great places to party withinexpensive venues. The biggest parties are typically found in Montreal and Toronto. Although cities like Calgary which are growing at an incredible rate are becoming small time party hubs. If youre looking to party like a European, Montreal is the place to be.For one thing, the women are gorgeous and take care of themselves.

In Canada, you can drink legally while still a teen, with the drinking age ranging from 18 to 19 years. In Montreal (Quebec) you can legally drink at a club at 18 years of age while you have to be 19 in Toronto (Ontario).

Montreal nighlife offers a wide range of partying from very classy dance clubs to trashy bars. It is highly recommended that you visit there during the summer months to get the full incredible experience.

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To celebrate their return to Australia, London genre-benders Crystal Fighters have made us an eclectic summery mixtape, featuring some of the acts theyve just toured with for Southbound/Falls. The band are bringing their party jams to Melbournes Corner Hotel tonight and Sydneys The Hi-Fi this Thursday. Their latest release, Cave Rave, features the singles You And I, Wave and LA Calling.

The opening track off their divisive second album Congratulations, that for me is a stunning and bold piece of work that I respect them wholeheartedly for. Its Working is a psychedelic roller coaster full of deep truths about biology, ecstasy and love.

VW are a band who have gone from strength to strength across their albums and having seen them in Portugal when they played just before us at Alive festival I can confirm they are a very fine live act to boot. We picked this older song of theirs because I think it captures some of the energy you will get when you see them live, and sums up the good time Upper West Side Soweto vibe they have had in the bag from the very beginning.

This track is ridiculously loveable. Somehow old and new sounding at the same time, and so rowdy about fellatio! This guy really wants that Becky! A great song for your slightly shy friend Becky to bless the dance floor to.

If you dont mind your music videos raunchy and a little disturbing, then check out the one for Papi Pacify. A brilliant modern track with an Espanglish title to die for, and beats by the incredible Arca we are in awe and appreciation of Twigs.

Surely a massive Ibiza anthem, this 11-minute latin-techno gem from 2013 really lights up the mood, certainly in every room I have tried it in. Peacetime could be achieved with more records like this. Turn it up!

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News: Crystal Fighters: 6 summer tracks we love

TUCSON, AZ (Tucson News Now) -

The end of the year is often a time for personal reflection. It's an opportunity to look back but also to consider hopes and resolutions for the future.

One project is giving communities a chance to dream out loud.

When artist Candy Chang lost someone very close to her, she didn't grieve in a therapist's office. She grieved on a chalk board.

"I painted the side of this abandoned house in my neighborhood in New Orleans with chalkboard paint and then stenciled it with the grid of this sentence "before I die I want to," Chang said. "So anyone who walked by could pick up a piece of chalk and reflect on their lives."

What Chang didn't expect was that these reflections would start a global movement.

Her "Before I Die" project has spread to 400 walls in more than 60 countries.

"These walls are kind of an honest mess." Chang said, "An honest mess of the longing and pain and joy and insecurity and gratitude and fear and wonder that you find in every community."

Communities like Paterson, NJ, where graduate student Nkem Okakpu took up the project.

"This is a non-judgmental zone," Okakpu said. "You can write whatever you want. No one will judge you for wanting to rave in a sunset in Ibiza or wanting to buy your son a home, and wanting to get off drugs."

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Project born in grief spreads chance to dream worldwide

One of the most controversial and infamous clubs in Ibiza is Manumission. It is held weekly at Privilege (formerly Que Club), where Fantazia also performed a massive night in 1998. Manumission's legendary status is founded on its live sex shows and weird performers. The nights are also famed for their lavish decoration and themed performances.

Each night costs over 200k to stage and have a production crew that runs into the hundreds, all leading to a consistent huge crowd every week of up to 10,000. Guiness Book of Records has the venue recorded as the biggest nightclub in the world. Few if any other promoters have ever attracted such a large weekly audience needed to fill Privilege in Ibiza.

The Live sex shows that made the club a legend, are now no more, but the sexy theme continues to draw the crowds. G-strings, stockings, peep hole bras are the costumes of choice for the Manumission entertainers as they perform and dance their stuff throughout the night. You can find the dominatrix in the music box, naked dancers on stage and erotic dancers on podiums. The Manumission audience also dress up and the club night pulls many fetish fans, so keep your eye on the crowd as much as on the performers. Just keep an open mind.........

In 2003, Manumission, took a large step forward and introduced a murder mystery theme into each night. Stories lines like "The Phantasmagorical Manumission Mystery" unfolded on each weekly show. Acrobats, clowns and dancers complementing the film footage that is shown on huge screens of characters performing the plot in the style of a 30's silent movie.

Guest stars on various nights were the likes of Har Mar Superstar (Harold Martin), a bigger name in the US than in the UK where he started his career in the porn movies before breaking into Hip Hop.

This has to mean we've been gagging for it. The Mish's mixture of unashamed mass market entertainment, bleeding edge sexuality and genre jumping music policy has a little something for most everybody and nothing for some. This reviewer's opinion is the show was better but the night in general less cohesive.

The new stage is amazing. It tops even last year's film noir-ish black and white effort and reassures punters in the same way that smash-bang special effects do in block buster movies paying customers want to see where their money has gone.

About three stories' worth of interior decorating must have accounted for a decent percentage of the entrance fee, as one end of the massive Privilege has been turned into the haunted house of the hunchback with a hard on. Hmmm. Parading all over it are girls naked to various degrees, many in s&m poses, as is naturally unnatural for Manumission.

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Manumission, Ibiza, Privilege - Rave, House Music, Dance

The Problem of Rave Parties

This guide addresses problems associated with rave parties. Rave partiesor, more simply, ravesare dance parties that feature fast-paced, repetitive electronic music and accompanying light shows. Raves are the focus of rave culture, a youth-oriented subculture that blends music, art and social ideals (e.g., peace, love, unity, respect, tolerance, happiness). Rave culture also entails the use of a range of licit and illicit drugs. Drug use is intended to enhance ravers' sensations and boost their energy so they can dance for long periods.

Rave party problems will be familiar to many police officers working in communities where raves have been held; they will be unfamiliar to many other officers who have never experienced raves or, perhaps, even heard of them. In many jurisdictions, the first time a young person dies while or after attending a rave and using rave-related drugs sparks media, public and political pressure on police to take action.1

In some respects, rave party problems are unique; they combine a particular blend of attitudes, drugs and behavior not found in other forms of youth culture. In other respects, rave party problems are but the latest variation in an ongoing history of problems associated with youth entertainment, experimentation, rebellion, and self-discovery.2

Dealing appropriately with raves is difficult for police. On the one hand, police often face substantial pressure from mainstream society to put an end to raves, usually through aggressive law enforcement. On the other hand, raves are enormously popular among a significant minority of teenagers and young adults, most of whom are generally law abiding and responsible. Strict enforcement efforts can alienate a key segment of this population from government in general, and the police in particular. To be sure, raves can pose genuine risks, but those risks are frequently exaggerated in the public's mind. It is important that police recognize that most rave-related harms happen to the ravers themselves, and while ravers are not wholly responsible for those harms, they willingly assume much of the risk for them. Accordingly, rave party problems are at least as much public health problems as they are crime and disorder problems. It is critical that you establish a solid base of facts about rave-related harms in your community, facts from which you can intelligently develop local policies and responses.

The principal rave-related concerns for police are:

Rave party problems are only one set of problems relating to youth, large crowds and illegal drugs, problems police are partially responsible for addressing. Other problems not directly addressed in this guide include:

Understanding the factors that contribute to your problem will help you frame your own local analysis questions, determine good effectiveness measures, recognize key intervention points, and select appropriate responses.

Although only a little more than a decade old, rave culture and the rave scene have evolved into different forms, with variations in music styles, settings, drugs used, and ravers' ages. The rave scene is variously referred to in the literature as the "club scene" or "dance scene" (and the drugs variously referred to as "rave drugs," "club drugs" or "dance drugs"). Here we provide only a brief and general history and description of rave culture and the rave scene; the culture and scene may vary somewhat from community to community.

Raves emerged in U.K. youth culture in the late 1980s, having started amidst the party atmosphere of Ibiza, a Mediterranean island frequented by British youth on vacation.3 Rave music originated in the United States, mainly in Detroit, Chicago and New York. 4, The rave scene soon spread to other European and North American countries, to Australia, to New Zealand, and elsewhere around the world. Raves, especially those held in large clubs, have been prominent in such North American cities as Toronto, Dallas, New Orleans, Atlanta, and Tampa and Orlando, Fla.; and in British cities such as Manchester, Liverpool and London.5

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