Emergency WHALE! at 4corners! Tonight!

Blue Alert! It’s a WHALE! Emergency TONIGHT!

WHALE! is holding a last-minute emergency party tonight, Friday, January 27, 2012 at the newly opened 4corners肆角餐吧 bar by the Drum and Bell Tower in Gulou.

Previously, WHALE! parties were rocking Beijing with monthly gigs around town, but since winter hit, it’s been a few months without some WHALE! fun.

So what calls WHALE! out of hibernation?  A member of the WHALE! family is leaving Beijing for a few months and this is his unofficial leaving party.

Who is leaving you ask?  Well, they are all masked by alias names, but here’s one hint: It’s the only DJ who changes his alias name every WHALE! party. This time around, his name is DJ No Requests.

Who is WHALE!?  Check out CW’s article on WHALE!’s DJs here.

If WHALE! is a new concept for you, the best way to sum it up quickly: WHALE! is “200 tons of danceable rock and electro in the deep, dark hutong”.  

And the eclectic music mix will be played by the regular WHALE! DJ Line-up featuring DJ Assassin Eyes, Bobby Dropper,  DJ Fun Party, DJ Dirty Pirate and our beloved DJ No Requests.

This has been something in the works the past weeks, but they’ve only just announced it and as this is the unofficial leaving party of DJ No Requests, there will also be an unofficial dress theme: Cardigans.

I was hoping to find some quirky picture of a whale wearing a cardigan, but I guess it figures the reverse is more likely.

So here you have it: Whales knitted onto a cardigan.

Close enough.

…or perhaps you prefer this knit WHALE!?

OK. Enough fun for now.

Time to WHALE! at 4corners! TONIGHT!

Click here to see pictures from previous WHALE! parties:

• WHALE! on a Rainy Night in the Deep, Dark Hutongs
• “W” is for WHALE!
• A WHALE! of a Good Time

Event Details:

• Date: Friday, January 27, 2012
• Time: 10PM-late
• Location: 4corners 肆角餐吧
• Address:  By Drum and Bell Tower on DaShibei Hutong 西城, 大石碑胡同27号 (See map below)
• FREE ENTRY 

WHALE! on a Rainy Night in the Deep, Dark Hutongs

What WHALE! looked like at 4AM

Friday night would not stop raining, Temple Bar is not the easiest place to find on a dark, rainy night, there were technical difficulties, there was a wire that blew and made our eyes sting, by 1AM, the po-po had already forced WHALE!’s music volume down…and  even that didn’t stop the dancing frenzy that took on a life of it’s own.

Maybe it was the good vibes, maybe the music was so good it didn’t matter that it wasn’t loud enough, maybe it was one-too-many “blowhole” cocktails, but boy was it another WHALE! of a good time.

Thanks to a fun WHALE! line-up: Assassin Eyes, Bobby Dropper, DJ Fun Party, DJ Crumbum and DJ Dirty Pirate...but DJ Je Ne Sais Quoi, where were you??!?  After all that hype around this special guest DJ, the fans were slightly heartbroken he never made it. Perhaps some day WHALE! will be graced by the presence of the high and mighty Je Ne Sais Quoi…one can only hope.

LumDimSum Snapshots of WHALE! fun:

Try the “Blowhole” at WHALE!

“Harpooning season is upon us once again”

-DJ Assassin Eyes (one of WHALE!’s DJs)

WHALE! is back this Friday, July 29th and not only do they have their very own signature cocktail drink – the “Blowhole”, they have moved from School bar to the newly opened TEMPLE Bar. Located on Gulou Dong Da Jie, just west of the north entrance of Nanluoguxiang (NLGX), Temple just opened last Friday and is bound to be a nice change from School Bar.

“Roooooooock and roooooolllll! Dance and drink to the best new/old and rare rock, indie, techno, disco, and electro grooves with Beijing’s most casually inept DJs. Swim the briny deep of Beijing’s best underground music night.”

Another new addition to the ever-popular WHALE! party, they will be welcoming special guest DJ Je Ne Sais Quoi (Miami) who will play part in the eclectic music mix by the regular WHALE! DJ Line-up featuring DJ Assassin Eyes, Bobby Dropper,  DJ Fun Party, DJ Crumbum & DJ Dirty Pirate.

Check out CW’s article on WHALE!’s DJs here.

Unfortunately, I lost my camera the night of the last WHALE! party in May (another indication of how much fun I had), but you can still see pictures from the last, last WHALE! party here.

Event Details:

• Date: Friday, July 29, 2011
• Time: 10PM-late
• Location: TEMPLE
• Address:  206 Gulou Dong dajie (100 meters west of North Entrance of Nanluoguxiang).
• FREE ENTRY

‘W’ is for WHALE!

No tequila shots this time and still WHALE! (Round 3) was once again, a whale of a time.

Shout out to WHALE! DJs – Assassin Eyes, Bobby Dropper, DJ Dirty Pirate and Infinite Mana for keeping the dance floor shakin.  A real whale of a job!

LumDimSum Snapshots of WHALE! Round 3 @ School Bar:

‘W’ is for WHALE!

Why I can’t wait for Friday: WHALE! @ School Bar

What is WHALE!?

• Only the best party that ever came to existence in the entire world. But if you want to get into specifics, it’s -

“200 tons of danceable rock and electro in the deep, dark hutong”

Why is it written in all caps with an exclamation at the end?

• Because everything about WHALE! is random in the best possible way. They are random beyond logic or reason. And that’s exactly what makes WHALE! work more than any other regular DJ event in Beijing.

Who are Assassin Eyes, Bobby Dropper, DJ Dirty Pirate, DJ Fun Party, Gore Tex – The Musical and Infinite Mana?

• Your favorite WHALE! DJs, “playing whatever the hell they want” – quote from Bobby Dropper

*For more quotes from Bobby Dropper, read LumDimSum’s exclusive interview with the one and only Bobby D here.
*Check out Pics and LumDimSum’s review of the last WHALE! party in January here.

Event Details:

• Date: Friday, March 25
• Time: 10PM-5AM
• Location: School Bar
• Address: 53 Wudaoying Hutong (A few doors down from Vineyard Cafe, entrance west of Lama Temple), 五道营胡同53号
• FREE ENTRY

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