Turnt Up W/ DJ BUS STATION JOHN! (SF)

You betta get ready for your life source to get TURNT at this one. Bringing all vinyl back to the nightclub, disco legend DJ Bus Station John will hit the decks alongside Turnt Up! resident Sappho. Backing that scene up will be an on-the-dance-floor performance piece by Keyon Gaskin followed by a live set featuring Portland's Du Og Meg (electro/house/punk). Then its all you on the dance floor.. Turnt Up! is a club night featuring queers and queer sentiments, live dance music and mind altering atmosphere to help you get your scene right. All are welcome just come correct, k? **Please no cell phones on the dance floor...Look up, look around, flirt, take your shirt off...keep the dance floor a sanctuary** $6.00 // 10/24 // 10:30pm SPECIAL GUEST: DJ BUS STATION JOHN (Tubesteak Connection/Disco Daddy/SF) RESIDENT: DJ Sappho LIVE SET BY: Du Og Meg (Electro/House/Punk) //11:00pm PERFORMANCE BY: Keyon Gaskin (Dance) // 11:30 MIND ENHANCEMENT: Ali Sa (Live projection art) DOOR QUEEN: Aaron Boeke FLYER: Jon Damon Boucher PHOTOG: P.B. Arson ----------------------------------------------------------- Du Og Meg: http://duogmeg.bandcamp.com/ Sappho: https://soundcloud.com/sappho-presents-chingo ----------------------------------------------------------- Presented By: Megan Andricos & Dillon Martin BUS STATION JOHN: Since he first started creating mixtapes for homosexual house parties back in 1997---subsequently becoming a full-fledged DJ in 2001---San Francisco's pioneer underground disco revivalist Bus Station John has been a man on a mission: to rescue from musical oblivion late 70's/early 80's bathhouse-era dance classics & curiosities, the soundtrack to what he calls the post-Stonewall, pre-AIDS "Golden Age of Gay." An incorrigible vinyl addict with a passion for "lost" dance music, BSJ adores taking older gay men on a trip down memory lane while simultaneously inspiring new generations of queer ears. His sets are a trademark blend of rare gems unearthed from such genres as disco, hi-NRG, funk, soul, R&B, "boogie," electrofunk, euro/italo disco, new & no-wave, and encompass sounds from San Francisco's famed cha-cha palace Trocadero Transfer to Manhattan's legendary Paradise Garage---and well beyond.... BUs Station John currently rules the decks at his popular Tenderloin dance party / Thursday night institution The Tubesteak Connection, which celebrated its tenth anniversary last spring at Aunt Charlie's Lounge, making it SF's longest-running GLBTQQIXYZ weekly. It features b&w xeroxed decor & vintage vids incorporating a mixture of antique gay erotica & old Hollywood camp in homage to such retro-homo icons as Divine, Grace Jones, Candy Darling, Amanda Lear, Peter Berlin, Joan Crawford, & Mae West, as well as a renowned "no cell" policy which liberates the crowd to enjoy the music, and each other. BSJ's latest club creation, DISCO DADDY!, is a festive, inter-generational tea dance where he spins classic disco & hi-NRG ("the music of our people") at the first-ever dance party to be thrown at the venerable SF Eagle (3rd & 5th Sundays, following the beer bust). BSJ steadfastly avoids including played-out "wedding reception disco" (Funkytown, YMCA, McDonna) in his sets, so new recruits are advised to expect the unexpected. "There are literally hundreds if not thousands of amazing songs---both beautiful and bizarre, born from the creative imaginations of some very talented people---most of which never reached the charts. They're just waiting to be brought back to life." "Bus Station John single-handedly launched the current vogue of retro-underground bathhouse disco....nothing can quench the fire in his disco-driven soul."---San Francisco Bay Guardian