Converted from paper version of the Broad Ripple Gazette (v04n19)
Beats from a Broad Ripple Rat - by Lisa Battiston
posted: Sept. 21, 2007
This past Wednesday, I walked into the Casba and proceeded to dance for a full hour. Yay!
Several months ago, I wrote a column about the lack of a really good indie dance night in Broad Ripple (or anywhere in the city for that matter).
Well, friends? Perhaps we've found one.
Wednesday nights have become the home to Mutiny! night at the Casba. Pirate clothes are encouraged. Oh yes.
Admittedly, some (okay, a lot) of the music played on these Wednesday nights is not music I listen to - some goth and techno, which was a phase I never really got into. Mutiny! normally has one guest DJ that tends to play music that runs so underground I would've never thought to look for it. But this past Wednesday's guest DJ was phenomenal. I don't know who he was but, frankly, I felt like I was dancing in an indie club in London again.
We danced to Bloc Party. We danced to Franz Ferdinand. We danced to the Killers. We even danced to AFI. It was good. And to hear someone actually play Flock of Seagulls' "Space Age Love Song" - one of my all time favorites! - was an absolute treat.
So if you like hearing dancing around to the Clash or Dead Kennedys or the Cure or New Order or Blur or Joy Division or Placebo or the Smiths or David Bowie or god knows what other great dancey songs that no other club plays, I swear, seriously, come down to the Casba on Wednesday nights. Your own associate editor will actually be the guest DJ on October 3 (2007). I mean, really, what else are you doing on a Wednesday?
lisa@broadripplegazette.com