San Francisco has a diverse disco scene that often crosses over but not often enough! The goal of Go BANG! is to bring the crews and their devoted dancers together in a mixed, diverse, exciting environment, with a nod to the diversity and freedom of the 70's/80's New York/Chicago/San Francisco disco nightlife
Disco freaks, art school boys & girls, drag queens & kings, boogie-heads, fierce dancers, flashy dressers, sexy girls, hot boys, DJs, dancers, photographers, artists, fashionistas; gay/straight/bi/tri/whateva! Bring your flashiest, trashiest, classiest, sexiest, craziest style; but bring an open mind, big smile, and shoes that will allow you to dance from opening to last call! We will start with fire and end with fire!
Taking inspiration from the classic Dinosaur L. song
Steve Fabus is one of the first nationally recognized DJ's that originated during the disco era in San Francisco starting when he moved here in 1975. His soul disco sound of the late seventies and early eighties would be a precursor to the House music that would follow. After moving to San Francisco, Steve would host house parties, where he would mix music for the many new friends he was making in the city. San Francisco was already the counter-cultural capital of America, home of the North Beach Beats and Haight-Ashbury hippie movement; now it was the epicentor for the sexual revolution and gay liberation. There was a social, sexual, political explosion in the city. It was a wild, exhilarating time and the whole city was a party. Two people that were part of the scene at Steve's parties included a pre-disco Sylvester, who was a member of the radical drag troupe "The Cockettes", and Harvey Milk, who would become America's first gay politician elected to public office. They would be part of the growing energized gay subculture that was creating a party for the world.
Steve played at San Francisco's first major all-night loft party called "Boiler Room." In 1977 Steve Fabus was hired to play at San Francisco's first big disco, the I-Beam. Trocadero Transfer opened a short time later and Steve worked with Bobby Viteritti. During these same years, 78, 79, Steve was the resident DJ at Chains, which was the leather bar at 8th and Howard street, Black and Blue, that was transformed into an all-night dance club. In 1980, Steve Fabus became a resident of the legendary EndUp in San Francisco. His shift was the 6am to 2pm slot on Sunday mornings. Many credit Steve for starting what is still known to this day as "Church" at the EndUp. Steve established a soulful edge in the morning with records like D-Train's "Your The One For Me" in 1982.
With a friendship that budded over modular synthesizers, Jordan Presnick & Johan Churchill nestled into Tres Lingerie in the summer of 2009 as an electro-dance funk duo. Working bi-coastal, they hammered out a few tracks together over the last 5 months, sharing ideas over the Interweb and rocking parties and airwaves in New York and the San Francisco Bay Area. Shared inspiration comes from all styles of dance music but specifically from early electronic Garage, the twilight of disco, the early days of MIDI, and dancefloor-oriented soul from the 1970's through the 1980's during the rise of house music. Taking inspirational cues from producers like Randy Muller, Hubert Eaves III, and Larry Levan, Tres Lingerie hope to dissolve the skin and cut out the heart of the funky beast inside everyone.