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You Don't Have To Settle is a Captain Planet-style DJ collective. Saving the world (aka Brooklyn), one dance party at a time.

YDH2S Newsletter – 5/14

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Another weekend fast approaches and we’re back again with tons of dance parties for you to check out. This weekend is a little light on the newsletter front, although we’ve posted a lot more parties on the website if you want to go out Friday, or none of this strikes your fancy, because as always these are just the cream of the crop. Memorial Day weekend is shaping up nicely with the first few daytime parties of the year like Tiki Disco & Mr. Sunday, so for you planners out there start grabbing your tickets, warm weather fast approaches…

-Brian Blackout

(This newsletter will be published as a fancy email as well as on our website. The site is be updated as things progress, so it’s always the most current. You can subscribe to the newsletter, follow us on Twitter, or read this newsletter on the website, eschewing the mere idea of subscriptions. Faugh!).

UPCOMING PARTIES

May

Thurs 5/14 – PRE-93 Alternative Dance Party
Cameo, Williamsburg
FREE • synthpop • alternative • industrial • madchester • DJs Danny White / Brian Blackout

Sat 5/16 – Soul Night
Friends & Lovers, Crown Heights
FREE • soul • Motown • DJs Cat Fancy / Mr. Fine Wine / One Mint Julep
RSVP on Facebook

Sat 5/16 – Feeling Gloomy Goes Madchester
the Grand Victory, Williamsburg
$6 • madchester • britpop • post-punk • indie • DJs Gordon & Nathaniel Gloom
RSVP on Facebook

Thurs 5/21 – No Tears
Friends & Lovers, Crown Heights
free • cold wave • EBM • goth • industrial • italo • minimal synth • DJs Brett Burton / Ed Barron
RSVP on Facebook

Thurs 5/21 – Input | Bicep / Kink / Justin Miller
Output, Williamsburg
$15-20 • house • nu disco • DJs Bicep (UK) / KiNK (UK) / Justin Miller
Buy tickets

Fri 5/22 – Indie Slash NYC w/ Rance
Tandem, Bushwick
Free • nu disco • italo • electro • house • industiral • DJs Rance (SF) / Danny White / Rok One
RSVP on Facebook

Sat 5/23 – Ben Browning, Pat Mahoney & Justin Strauss
Cameo Gallery, Williamsburg
$15 • indie • house • nu disco • DJs Ben Browning (Cut Copy) / Pat Mahoney (LCD Soundsystem) / Justin Strauss
Buy tix

Sun 5/24 – Tiki Disco Season 6 Opener
the Well, East Williamsburg
$10/15 • disco • house • DJs Andy Pry • Eli Escobar • Lloydski
Buy tix

Sun 5/24 – Rub-a-Grub ft. I Love Vinyl
Do or Dine, Bed-Stuy
$15 ($30 VIP includes food & drinks for 2) • outdoor • soul • funk • disco • hip hop • I Love Vinyl DJs
Facebook

June

Fri 6/5 – One Night with DJ Harvey
le Bain, Meatpacking District
Free • disco • nu disco • house • DJ Harvey (legendary disco DJ) all night
RSVP on Facebook

Sat 6/6 – Party Line w/Mike Simonetti & Analog Soul
secret location, Brooklyn
$10/$15/$20 • house • techno • disco • Mike Simonetti (Italians Do It Better) • Analog Soul
Buy tix • FB event

These are our picks, but you can see tons more listings on YDH2S.com

Feeling Gloomy

Feeling Gloomy Goes Madchester

By popular demand, we’re finally paying homage to the birthplace of some of our favorite bands, genres, and record labels: Manchester. They gave us Joy Division, James, the Smiths, the Fall, the Stone Roses, and apparently the Bee Gees? They gave us the Hacienda, the Twisted Wheel, madchester, baggy, the list could go on and on.

So come out to Grand Victory on 5/16, where we will fill the air with Mancunian songs aplenty. We’ll have a contest to see who can name the most bands from Manchester (it could last a long time) and be sure to wear some Manchester gear to get in half off. As always we’ll dance to our favorite bands and forget our cares and our L train woes.

+ Enter our contest to name the most bands from Manchester, win prizes and the adulation of fellow trainspotters

+ Anyone wearing a Manchester United top or shirt emblazoned with the words Manchester somewhere large will get in half off. (i.e. if you wear a Mancunian band shirt you’ll look well cool but you’ll still pay a regular cover)

+ Your hosts DJs Gordon and Nathaniel Gloom playing every Mancunian band under the sun (that we like) along with the usual lot of synthpop, britpop, and depressingly danceable anglophilic classics

Feeling Gloomy
The Party That Brings a Tear to Your Eye
Sat 16th May at Grand Victory
+ 3rd Saturdays every month
@ Grand Victory, 245 Grand St
betw. Driggs & Roebling
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
L to Bedford / G to Lorimer
11pm – 4am
Dress to depress

Tickets: $6 door – $4 advance coming soon

Join the Feeling Gloomy FB group for invites + missives of despair
https://www.facebook.com/groups/117821724966444/

RSVP here

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