Mambo Night .... no longer Jumbo?

Zouk, the club world-renowned for it's year-end Zouk-Out beach party is also hella famous for its weekly mid-week party for 80's Music lovers, Mambo Night .

Yes, crowds dance and gesture senselessly to the most infectious disco-tunes from the era of bad drag queens with an even badder dress sense.

From Madonna , Village People, Bananarama to Kylie and Rick Astley, you prance and bogey to the best camp crowd since Studio 54's.

It's no wonder the club will launch, every once in a while , it's dance complilation of it's most sinful and popular 80's mixes. Just like they had recently. As they term it 'To celebrate the Phenomenon' . Very Believable considering every self-respecting clubber out there would have attended at least a couple of Mambo nights in their clubbing-life time.

The album, hardly high-brow material needless to say, is destined to be on it's way to be a best seller for sure. It, despite containing tracks not far different from every other Retro-compilation album out there. So what if the disclaimer sticker at the front says that it's gonna have a 'live' feel to it being mixed directly from Vinyl by the house DJs?

Screechy-scratchy sounds at the interlude of each track sure is interesting...

See how branding counts here?

It's good of course, if you just want to have a wild time reminicising the great times you've had at the club on Wednesday nights but have grown too old (or fat) to be seen grinding away like a pre-pubescent teenager of the neon-era.

But here begs the question, as we are almost through the first decade of the new Millenium, surely we're growing further and further away from that period where big hair and pants worn up to the armpits was acceptable?

Has the generations moved on? Has the clubbing crowd moved on?

Can Zouk continue to rely on its 'Phenomenon' to keep it hip, relevant and relatable to the 'in' crowd who is getting younger every year?

Can a hyped up CD launch cause more than a blip on the night scene it used to stir?

Surely we are all beginning to think ( and feel from the hips) that current club infused-R&b/hip-hop we 're getting these days is fast becoming this new generation's new pop & grind?

We're almost 2 full decades away from the 80's. Does Zouk's Mambo Night still Jumbo?

Or will it just become another fancy-themed party event in the sea of new mega clubs sprouting up all over the city?

Hmm. A good pal of mine just invited me to Mambo Night tonight. And I'm too tired and too lazy to club but am blogging here.

So, what does it say?