Kurfew

Kurfew Diary
April 2001 - June 2001
Read up on some of Kurfew's special highlights from the past.

SUNDAY
June 24th
March with Kurfew in
the Gay Pride Parade:
meet us at 54th Street
near 5th Ave.
(Section 10: Kurfew)
at 12:30 PM

Saturday,
June 23rd, 2001

It's the Pride Megaparty, celebrating
"All Things Gay"

• Live performances by Sinnamon and Electra
• Live performance by "The Gay Rapper"
• Guest hostess Daniel Essence
• Tons of giveaways from 2(x)ist Underwear, Queer As Folk and MORE!!!

Gay Pride Weekend on June 23rd was a packed affair, with boys (and girls) traveling from all parts of the country to check out America's Largest Young Gay Dance Party. The annual "Underwear Dance Contest" helped a bit too, with prizes from 2(x)ist. No doubt you'll want to check out the picture page to see this contest!

Saturday,
June 16th, 2001

Your Kurfew Saturdays continues with an ongoing celebration for the Queer@HERE festival.

Saturday,
June 9th, 2001

Kurfew Entertainment,
MCA Records and Fly Life present
SAFRI DUO
LIVE PERFORMANCE!

hear the #1 song...
Played-A-Live (The Bongo Song)

watch the video...

Check out Safri Duo’s "Played-A-Live" video here!

The European sensation currently hitting #1 on dance charts across Europe with "The Bongo Song" and now climbing the US Dance Charts perform LIVE this Saturday on the Tunnel main stage with 22 unique percussion instruments! Then meet Safri Duo in an intimate autograph session within Kurfew's Kenny Scharf room!

Learn more about Safri Duo
on the MCA Records
Website

PLUS...

The Official Launch Party for
QUEER@HERE

"It's Homo-on-the-Range time at HERE, where the queer and the anti-dull play."
-– The Village Voice

Queer@HERE's 5th Annual festival runs from June 11th-22nd. Held during national gay-pride month, Queer@HERE is a two-week festival featuring plays, music, dance, reading, solo works, and performance art by gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered (GLBT) artists. This festival aims to be both an affirmation of community empowerment for GLBT audiences and a forum through which straight audiences experience new perspectives on sexuality and gender.

For more information on
the festival, visit www.here.org

Kurfew's Queer@HERE kickoff party will feature selected performances from among the following participating artists
Arthur Aviles, David Harrison, Rob Newton, Philip Kain, Allen Tibbbetts, Estro Tribe, Jack Shamblin, Caroline Brown and Sally Sockwell, Heather de Michelle, Sam Buggeln, Reggie Cabico and Aileen Cho , James Fergusson

+ birthday celebrations for Brad, Ryan and John.

Safri Duo, the bongo-banging European duo #1 club hit "The Bongo Song," wowed the crowd with a live performance on 22 percussion instruments. with the club hit that's reached #1 across Europe. If you missed the show, you can check out their video to see what you missed! In the Kenny Scharf room, performers from the Queer@HERE festival (running June 12 - 22 at the 145 6th Avenue between Spring & Broome) gave us a sampling of the"in-your-face" queer theatre that the festival has become famous for. Performers included the group Estro Tribe, a performance by Regie Cobico & Aileen Cho, and Tigger. Get more info on the festival at www.here.org or email schedule@here.org. We wrapped up the busy night with a birthday celebration for Kurfew door host Brad, with special songs selected in tribute to his unique role.

Saturday,
June 2nd, 2001

The
ALL ACCESS MADONNA FAN CLUB
helps kick off the
Madonna Drowned World Tour 2001

WITH A CHANCE TO WIN FREE TICKETS TO MADONNA'S SOLD OUT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN CONCERTS!!!

•LIVE PERFORMANCE BY RAPHAEL...THE WORLD'S MOST FAMOUS MADONNA IMPERSONATOR
•CD AND DROWNED WORLD GIVEAWAYS!

Winning Madonna tickets was the name of the game as the All Access Madonna Fan Club helped kick off the Madonna Drowned World Tour 2001 on Saturday June 2nd. Nick and Julio of All Access turned the Chandelier Room into a Madonna shrine with posters, Drowned World T-shirts and merchandise, and all-Madonna music for the first half of the night. Raphael, the world's most famous Madonna impersonator then took to the main stage to tackle the trance mix of "What It Feels Like For a Girl" before heading to the Kenny Scharf Room for the trivia contest giveaways of three tickets to Madonna's final sold-out Madison Square Garden Show. A good number of people passed up the opportunity to win tickets by failing to know some basic Madonna trivia such as her date of birth, or the names of all the songs on her most recent album. At right is a contestant struggling to answer one of the more challenging Madonna questions! He was one of the three winners, who will attend the July 31st show together.

Saturday
May 26th, 2001

The Queer As Folk mega-party launching the RCA-Victor CD was a fabulous hit! The Showtime people announced the 3 brand new upcoming episodes in June (plus a viewer's choice episode) and we quickly went through tons of giveaways as the Kurfew boys and girls danced to some of the hot tunes on the soundtrack including "Dive in the Pool," and hits from Kristine W., Love Inc., Antiloop, Alcazar and more! Then came time for the look-a-like contest. We chose five finalists (see below) and then a final winner, who was a spitting image of Michael (played by Hal Sparks) below shown getting a big hug from Showtime marketing exec. Tom.

The finalists...

Saturday
May 12th, 2001

It was quite the party on May 12th with DJ Steve Sidwalk's wild 21st birthday celebration, and Ask Anthony's graduation party all wrapped in one! There were lots of new faces as well as many familiar faces returning to NYC from their faraway schools.

special Kurfew-featured college event
SKIDMORE COLLEGE
an "all ages" event
"Taste The Rainbow"
Friday, April 27th

Saturday
April 28th, 2001
Kurfew Entertainment, Virgin Records and Fly-Life Music present a release party for "Discovery" from DAFT PUNK.

• Exclusive CD and DAFT PUNK T-Shirt Giveaways
• Hear the latest remixes
• Special dance performances by Elektra and Trinity

+ a special birthday celebration for quintessential Kurfew boys Luis and Travis!!

Report: Wow! As the weather gets warmer, the guys and girls get hotter! Our DAFT PUNK party on April 28th was a big hit, with giveaways of really cool Daft Punk T-shirts and full length CDs.

April 21st, 2000

Kurfew and Island Records
celebrate the release of "Sincere" from

MJ Cole

• Exclusive CD giveaways from Island Records

main floor DJ
Eddie Baez
afterhours with
Anthony Nero
live performance
Mindy K.
"Flying Away"

Report: A large turnout greeted our MJ Cole record release party with Island Records on April 21st as "old-school" Kurfers joined new ones, and more and more out-of-state boys made the trek to check out our magical place. The performance of "New Kids Off The Block," an all-girl drag-king troupe from NYU, might get the real Kids a bit worried...they had the crowd screaming and cheering with their perfectly choreographed routines!

special FRIDAY night event
THIS FRIDAY NIGHT ONLY!
April 20th, 2000

and
present "Together Again"

THIS FRIDAY ONLY!

Gay Kurfers and Funhouse party kids get together for a nighttime adventure among the romper rooms of the three-level DOWNTIME NIGHTCLUB (251 West 30th Street, one block from Penn Station) in the historic Recording & Rehearsal Arts building.

• Fluorescent Room hosted by Madonnasworld.com
• Live performance by UK Boy Band star (World's Apart) Aaron Paul
• Three simultaneous music formats from the city's hottest young talent

Your weekend continues with
KURFEW SATURDAYS at the All New Tunnel...

April 14th, 2000

Kick off the holidays with Kurfew's annual Easter Egg Hunt featuring the Energizer Bunny as Tunnel mascot.

LIVE PERFORMANCE

Kim Sozzi
performing her hit
"Feelin' Me"

Report: "Pussy Ears" were as prevalent as "Bunny Ears" at our April 14th Easter Party thanks to a Universal Pictures promotion of Josie and the Pussycats! Only a few people wanted the Pussy Ears when they were given away outside in the line awaiting entry. But at some magical moment, everybody and his bisexual cousin began demanding Pussy Ears!!! We also gave away Josie t-shirts, wristbands and, of course, a whole array of hopping bunny stuff!

Saturday
April 7th, 2001

special main-floor guest DJs

DJ MIKE RIZZO
(WKTU 103.5FM)
DJ LOUIE DeVITO
(E-Lastik Recordings)
DJ JACKIE CHRISTIE
(Nervous Records)

Kurfew celebrates the
extraordinary success of
Jonny McGovern's
DIRTY STUFF

Jonny McGovern's hit solo show at Fez takes you on a cartoon club crawl into his dirty one-man world where Gay Pimps rule the street, Trailer Trash gets adopted by Drag Queens and Blaxploitation Mamas battle it out for the love of a fake Chanel bag.

• Jonny and his hot "Soccer Team Go-Go Boys" give a live "Kurfew-Kustom" teaser performance
• Win free tickets to the show
• Win "Gay Pimp" T-shirts and more!

Learn more about Jonny McGovern's show at
www.gaypimp.com

Report: Jonny McGovern and his "Soccer Team Go-Go Boys" really got things going on April 7th as he gave a mini-performance of his extended show at Fez called "Dirty Stuff." The full show is quite a blast (info at www.gaypimp.com) with characters ranging from a wealthy gay Arab playboy named Zarzuffa who "hangs with Junior" to a nerdy young closeted man who believes that "Soccer Team" is the sexiest phrase in the English language. Treat yourself to tickets to the real show (info www.gaypimp.com).

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