Crash Trash and Weekend Bash! The MJ Club Crawl.

[AntigoneStarr]

That would work probably. I mean, I'm not about to hit up Aqua on a Friday night anytime soon or Rain on a Wednesday but someone who actually likes that scene would want to know that it's there.

Reviews for the general public who goes out at night are good - especially when trying to suggest something for out-of-towners who don't necessarily appreciate the same late-night scene.

A friend and I did a similar project like this over the summer, and if there were a clubbing frequent flier card for Jacksonville, that would be amazing. Our two month crawl every night of the week had a specific purpose though - to locate EDM in Jacksonville, because most venues we called wouldn't answer the phone when I called them. That was a long two months.

[CrysG]

Steven,

I guess I don't understand the purpose of the reviews then. I go back to my original argument about reviewing art galleries but not noting the type of art. You don't have to be an art major to say either you like art xyz because it's not your thing but you still have to review the art.

The point I'm getting at is that you don't want to review a club for a basic thing that a club is, a crowd of people drinking, dancing to music at a certain place. When you do that it stops being a review of clubs and more of a report of quirky or interesting things that happened at a club/bar.

[AntigoneStarr]

I doubt you'll be able to quantify the music aspect. I suggest just including the genre and if there were people dancing (not just if the reviewer was) if it was a dance type club, or if the were people standing at the stage for a live performance, or if half the club was nodding their heads or whatever for jazz or whatever or even if they were singing along  or whatever(I mean, how might one judge the Metro on a Tuesday v. Saturday?).

I think crowd participation or response to the music is more subjective than the reviewer's personal opinion on the type and how good it is...

[TREE4309]

I think just stating the kind of music playing, whether it was DJ, live band, karaoke, etc. and naming an artist or two that was played (if known) will suffice.  "Quality" of music is going to be subjective, so no point in overdoing it, just state the facts in this case...that's my opinion at least.  Names of DJs couldn't hurt either.

[CrysG]

Steven,

Not to nickpick but then I don't really see this is a review but more of a persons night out on the town. With a review you can compare and contrast based on agreed upon basics(ie the one's I've outlined) so that you can decide if the club is right for you. The reviews as they stand only give one part(which is subjective) of an overall club. From the reviews that we have I would have no idea if I wanted to go to any of the clubs that have been reviewed.

Lastly I do like the multiple people going on different nights.

Maybe we can have a mix of both. The outline of the clubs and then a personal narrative.

[CrysG]

Crys,  Other than Crowd Size, the friendliness of the crowd, the quality of the service, the quality of the drinks served, and the professionalism of the club to the review staff, how else would you define
'fun' in a nightclub that works for everyone no matter what kind of music or decor they are into?

some of our readers don't like crowded spaces.  etc.

Ask yourself did you have fun? Then you'd say yes to it's a fun night club. Which points out my desire for having a overall baseline of questions, then everyone get together, you give us who rated what, how then the average. The reason for that would be if you know Bob is a 30 year old, married who doesn't drink but Sue is a 20 year old single who does drink then you can say I'm going to pay attention to Bob rating the club a 2 for fun vs. Sue's rating of 5.

[AntigoneStarr]

I figured that you were going to do that anyways? I mean, facts are informative but a narrative does provide insight in which statistics alone can not compete.

I'd just avoid giving points due to someone's appreciation of how "smokin' hot" the bartender is... unless of course that bartender is J. Depp or Jessica Alba.

[CrysG]

Steven,

But to be objective you need to have facts that are things everyone would want to know not just things that some would like to know. My outline is a good base. You could add cleanliness or crowd involvement.

If you add the baseline questions you could add me as a reviewer.

[DavidWilliams]

Stephen,

Keep a level of personality (subjective input) in the reviews. It humanizes it. MJ is not in the business of reviewing surgical suite cleanliness here. Keep it light and entertaining.  And, I don't it is in the the business of doing paid club consulting. One of the better threads. Lots of people checking in with opinions and thoughts. 

[Jennifer Browning]

I doubt you'll be able to quantify the music aspect. I suggest just including the genre and if there were people dancing (not just if the reviewer was) if it was a dance type club, or if the were people standing at the stage for a live performance, or if half the club was nodding their heads or whatever for jazz or whatever or even if they were singing along  or whatever(I mean, how might one judge the Metro on a Tuesday v. Saturday?).

I think crowd participation or response to the music is more subjective than the reviewer's personal opinion on the type and how good it is...

yeah.  I really thought is was kind of fun that Jennifer was like all ready to dance to some song at Maverick's that literally cleared the dance floor.  It tells you something about the reviewer as well as the crowd.

I'm still laughing about this as well.  It was quite hilarious... really! 

Apparently they all like country. And they all hate Black Eyed Peas.

still chuckling over the image of her alienated retreat from the club.

[alta]

Glad to see Fusion got a 4.2 rating at 8 p.m.  That place is absolutely amazing.  The Pearl 2.8 even on a slow night ridiculous.   

[David]

^

I guess there weren't enough hunky bartenders that night.

[Dapperdan]

Moon River is a  club?

[RiversideLoki]

Well, the place could use some bouncers... if that counts. 

[TREE4309]

It serves beer and is full of douchey hipsters...does that count?