#themenights

[5xworldchampionbodypainter]

I can’t even imagine life without costumes - who doesn’t want to smile, everyday?!!! Fun aboard Bliss Cruise takeover of @celebritycruises Reflection as a hostess for @toplesstravel . #blisscruise #toplesstravel #travelhostess #celebrityreflection #themenight #fetishfashion #artadventures #traveladdict (at Celebrity Reflection) https://www.instagram.com/p/ClY6Re6uqD4/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[coreygman]

Theme Night!! Your volleyball construction experts!! 🏐🏐🏐🏐🏐🏐🏐🏐🏐 #BackhausExcavation #volleyball #themenight (at Netbinders Volleyball) https://www.instagram.com/p/CiL97xAsF9KByTQd9UhbYagxg6YNu1M6swaRxA0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[mywingman]

I was at the club last night and didn’t find any drugs… but I did find a chair. I didn’t move all night. I guess that’s my version of a k-hole. #threedayweekend #nightlife #AllStarGame #khole #vegasnightlife #miaminightlife #nycnightlife #nightlifestyle #londonnightlife #themenights #club #clubbing #privateparty #clublife #nightout #nightclub #partylatenight #citynights #clubscene #crazynight #ladiesfree #citynight #presidentsday #ravers #fashion #ravegirls #ravebabes #edmbabes #edmgirls #dj #bestdj#goodvibes #entourage #sound #bestdjever #eletronicmusic #afterparty #love #psychedelic #acid #lsdart #trippyart #surrealism #undergroundcomix #art #mywingman 2/19/24

[wendyjoseph28]

Hi Lovies,

Join my "Roaring 20's" VIP Theme Night tonight! at 7:30PM Eastern Time. Full of fun and gorgeous FAC bling!

Join VIP Group here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1191647831269465/?ref=share

#themenight #roaringtwenties

#FACstyle #ilovemyFAC #FACVIP

[jiminrings]

what was rich kid jimin’s reaction when he tasted the noodles from that ramen place???

he felt bad at first because he should’ve just ate the ramen the fIRST time and we all know how that went down because he was a rude dummy!!! but then on his first bite??? jimin transcENDED to another realm because it was so so good and before he can even fully finish what he’s chewing, he is immediately gonna fill his cheeks up some more because this is the best thing he’s ever tasted!!! (except for y/n tho teehee :D)

[briankinney-givesashit]

when the outside matches how you feel on the inside. 😍😍😍#themenights #horror https://www.instagram.com/p/B-kv5qbp3so/?igshid=12y2650eqkcu4

[aprilbarton]

Love these guys! #zurichtogether #nightsout #friendship #somuchfun #themenights #stargatetogether #dancing #bubblegumparty (at Mascotte Club Zürich) https://www.instagram.com/p/CaJYhgwtKHl/?utm_medium=tumblr

[saloodivine-blog]

Join us to celebrate our 5th year anniversary celebration at Why Not Kitchen + Bar on the 29th August 2018 from 6pm onwards. We have fabulous entertainment line up arranged and promise a amazing time of celebration with DJ Raymond and DJ Funkie G alongside with MC Rex. Be apart of our fabulous celebration :) #drinks #club #party #nightclub #music #dance #nightlife #bar #cocktails #themenights #clubbing #dj #5thyearanniversary #celebration #whynotchangkat (at Why Not Kitchen+Bar) https://www.instagram.com/p/BnCzoJkFO-r1GG-U9Mq1yLUrBnTwtt_JdzPqnA0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=bnmvwyznpbjv

[jiggadphotography]

We Are 3 Days Away From London’s Biggest And Most Anticipated Pre-Carnival Party.... #SocaFrenzy Rep Your Country Flag Pre-Carnival Fete ON FRIDAY 10th August 2018 At The Scala, London, Kings Cross 11pm to 5am 1000+ Ravers 15+ Djs 3 Rooms/Floors 1 Fantastic Night Purchase Your Standard £11.50 And VIP Ticket Today At: 🌐www.socafrenzy.com ---------------------- @socafrenzy #socafrenzy #repyourcountryflag #precarnivalfete #londonparty #londonnightlife #caribbeanparty #socamusic #carnival #Europe #jiggadmedia jiggadmedia.com #londonscala #scala #goodvibesonly #themenights #whatson #londonnightout #londonraves #uniparties #squadgoals #journeyto10

[jumphq]

Chapter Eight: Go ClearChannel Yourself

We had gotten original member Ward Williams back. We had finally seduced Jonathan Gray away from his role of bass player with Big Stoner Creek (sorry, again, George Fox!). We had driven the downstairs neighbors out from our compound on Coming Street, and we couldn’t throw a rock without hitting a sorority sister. It was a good time.

We spent a third of our evenings getting ripped off but still loving to play The Horse and Cart, a third trying to learn about rock and roll at the King Street Station, and a third on the street, busking. During the day we wrote songs, kept Ward from turning on the air conditioning, and played video games. Typical 20-something behavior.

It’s interesting, looking back, at how long we were able to play on the street, in a town that wasn’t really known for buskers. Not like Boston or New Orleans, anyway. And we were surviving. Barely, but we were paying bills. I don’t remember being in massive debt or the lights going out or anything. It was a feral existence, but we made it work.

One night we were busking and a passersby handed us a card. She said that she worked at the local radio station 96Wave. Hooray! We were going to be famous, right?

Understand that if you’re in a band that plays on the street where legions of people walk by, a lot of weird stuff happens to you. Frat boys constantly yell at you to “get a real job”. Strangers that have no musical talent walk over with a ukulele and start “jamming” with you. Pretty girls (and boys) flirt. Intoxicated tourists (women included) hike down their pants in the middle of the street and urinate. Drugs are thrown into your guitar case. And everyone knows someone that will make you famous, or is connected in some way to something that will make you famous. You soon realize that most people that come up to talk to you about a connection in the music industry are really not that connected at all. It’s fine. It’s best to be nice, give them your telephone number, and forget about it.

Which we did with the nice lady that worked at the radio station. But a week later we got a phone call from 96Wave. They were doing an interview feature on Charleston’s local bands: a little chat, and a live acoustic version of any song we wanted to play. It wasn’t the first time we had been on the radio, but it was the first time we had been on a rock and roll radio station.

This was 1995ish. It was to be one of the most positive experiences with radio that we would ever have in our careers, because very soon after our first trip to 96Wave, radio as we knew it started to die. Now, I know that radio still exists, and it might be better than what it became in the late 90s/early 2000s, but it’s all very different from pre-1996 radio. Radio changed very drastically right as we were starting our career.

Things went down like this: in the 90s, radio stations were struggling. Not all of them, but the golden days of coke-and-cash fueled payola in the 80s were winding down. Mostly because they got rid of payola. Before 1996, one person or company could only own about 40 radio stations, due to the rules against monopolies. But in 1996 the FCC got rid of that 40-station limit, and within a couple of years almost every “mom and pop” independent radio station that was having a hard time keeping things going had to sell to giant corporations that bought up almost all of them. The name “ClearChannel” became a swear word to us.

This undoing of the monopoly rules completely changed radio. Now one company owned thousands of stations, and if that one company liked, say, Hootie and the Blowfish but did not like Davíd Garza or David Mead, the Davids would not get played on the radio. And not just one to forty radio stations…they might not get played on thousands of radio stations.

I’m really oversimplifying this, but it hurt. We felt it immediately. We’d roll up on a cool station that had been playing us, meet everyone there, and find out that they were being bought out, and only signed bands would get played, and that did not include Jump, Little Children, no matter how much the DJs at the station liked us. For the most part, the days of local and regional bands getting played on radio were done.

Side note for those that think that our government’s undoing of nationwide net neutrality laws isn’t that big of a deal: I ask you to think again. To me, allowing ginormous corporations to decide what kind of internet you get is exactly like ClearChannel owning most radio stations and deciding what kind of music you get. If we don’t take a stand and take care, you won’t even be aware of what you’ll be missing, folks. Trust me, that’s a very sad thing. So go out and fight for these amazing people in your local governments that are trying to create net neutrality in your state. You won’t regret it.

The silver lining to losing radio was how it inspired people to build new ways to find new music, on the internet. Eventually the true movers and shakers in music would turn to using sites and apps like Pandora and Spotify and YouTube to introduce interesting indie bands to the world. So, yeah. Let’s lobby to make our own nets neutral, please?

Anyway! Back to The Wave. 96Wave, bless their hearts, wanted to hold out against The Man for as long as they could. At the helm was a guy named Dave Rossi, and he was not going to cave. At least until he had us in the studio and recorded us playing a song. The song was called “Quiet”, and Dave liked it enough to try putting the song into a semi-regular rotation on the station, first during a “local hour” and then alongside other national acts.

There is what happens when you hear yourself on the radio for the first time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EdOdfCM1hM It’s really like that. We heard Quiet on the radio and lost our minds. Jumping around, running into streets, lots of screaming. It’s an exciting thing.

Things changed for us very quickly - that’s how much power radio had, back then. We had just started playing a “Free Music Tuesday” at the Music Farm in Charleston - no cover at the door. The first time or two we had played the Farm, the largest and coolest venue in town, there were couple dozen people or so. After Wave started playing us on the radio, the place was packed. We would play entire months of Tuesdays, even putting together “Theme Nights” to keep us (and the fans that were there every Tuesday) in the fun. “50s Night”, “Wizard of Oz Night”, “Slumber Party Night” (we were running out of ideas by that point) were so fun to put together. We got better and better as a rock band, finally buying the proper equipment necessary to plug in and play shows. And it started to change our sound. We had never thought of ourselves as a rock band, truly, until that point. But play in front of a thousand people every week and you find that you have to be bigger, be louder, be…serious.

Our hard work was starting to pay off, and we had to start thinking about what was next. Charleston was officially our home base, and a very strong base. It was time to hit the road.

Next: Columbia (Hootieville) SC, how to apply the Golden Mean to touring, stopping to smell the Rosens, and the Park’n’Fly Mach One

[4951studios]

Abduction is playing in #nightclub near you. . . . . . . #nighlife #themenights #fun #music #night #2019 #bar #nightout #comment #tagsomeone #travel #4951studios #party #vacation #photography #holiday #mayfair #picture #travelblogger #nightphotography #photographer #nightlife #photooftheday #jldivinci #followme #christmas #partytime #share (at Austin, Texas) https://www.instagram.com/p/B6tCVbqlrob/?igshid=s3s1gi42epav

[thelodgeedinburgh]

Thai night @thelodgeedinburgh Wednesday 30th January 5:30- 9:30pm book now #2019 #thainight #edinburgh #edinburghnightlife #themenights #scotland #leith #chickensatay #goodfood #asiannight (at The lodge Edinburgh) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bsdy3CMADrK/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1b885xp6z96dk

[bellafarrow]

Enough is enough #nomoretears, I had so much fun and bringing so many memories performing this song last night for our #duets #themenight at #margaritamarys in @hamburgermaryslb #BellaFarrow #70sfashion Costume by @buganvilia_thorns (at Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/BnDAgQbBwQ3/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=5t450t1vljmx

[jiminrings]

does tae ever get nervous for pilot!y/n because of her profession?? does he go “text me before take-off and after u land ok pROMISE ME”

taehyung always gets you to send your flight schedule to him

“baby i don’t care if your flight’s at 11 in the evening i will sTILL say stay safe at take-off and good job after landing!!”

packs face masks for you to use in-between breaks and lay-overs

there will most likely be a granola bar in your pocket

hops in at your flights every now and then and he brags to fellow passengers each time

“aha the pilot right now?? that’s my girlfriend :D the captain of this flight?? my girlfriend :D i know she’s so cool now clap when we land okay :D”

when tae learned that his picture was sticked to the inside of your pilot’s hat??

he CRIED

taehyung also has some fantasies of you in your uniform and he isn’t lying when he says it keeps him up at night

and when you learned of his fantasies you were like sURE why not and since then tae has never looked at you in your uniform the same :D

[tobycreative-blog]

Rolloways 90's Theme Night Perth Skate Party

Come rollerskating at Rolloways on the 19th May, 2018 from 7pm to 10pm for our 90's Theme Night.

This is the time for you and all your friends or family to have some fun with one of our most popular Theme Nights of the year. The 90's is where the world changed music to a louder tone and more upbeat. So come and enjoy a good time partying with us. Entry is only $10/person - you can't go wrong with that!

http://www.rolloways.com/events/

[belladoliva]

Having a ball! Can you guess what I turned this into? It’s Palmer-Time! #foodie #instafood #dinner #themenight #sundayfunday post #weekendvibes #masterchef #foodies #foodporn #nj #momlife #mom #friends #food #italy #sicily #evo #princess #domamoredop @belladoliva_by_la_marchesi mangia Ciao Bella! (at New Jersey) https://www.instagram.com/p/CMdVaEBHYOe/?igshid=1fees6lm2nnjp