2007 May 27 San Francisco

SAN FRANCISCO @ The Cat Club
27 May 27 2007
Sunday, midnight!

THE GET GO - I drove up to San Francisco with my 20-year old daughter and a visiting cousin. We stayed at the Hotel Nikko in the Union Square district of San Francisco. We were a quick 15 minute walk away from The Cat Club in the SOMA district. Pretty good, eh?

Well, at midnight , this area somehow transforms to another place altogether. Here one quickly encounters the hard under belly of the city - and I'm not talkin' about feral cats either. More like feral people. Walk fast and with a purpose, my basic survival instincts told me. Longest 15 minute walk of my life. Jeez...

The Cat Club

FOR STARTERS - The Cat Club had several small adjoining rooms each playing an assortment of 80's era music. The back room had a DJ booth and a couple of big screens on the wall showing vintage 80's new wave videos. This room was very crowded - was a bar too- if you could get to it.

THE WAY IT GOES - At midnight, Jane and Gina (our judges) made their entrance onto a small stage area located directly below the DJ booth. They both wore master-of-ceremony type outfits. Very cute.

After a short introduction (and bottomless drinks) our judges were then escorted to a couple of raised chairs on the side of the room. From here they viewed the lip-sync contest which featured our favorite GOGO songs performed by San Francisco's favorite female impersonators. Jeez...

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Our judges then seriously deliberated amongst themselves regarding who should be the winner.

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Sometimes our judges didn't agree.

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Sometimes they strongly disagreed.

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They squabble, they quarrel and they bickered.
They even tussled and wrangled over who should get the prized GOGO T-shirt.

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Finally, the prizes were awarded and everyone was friends again.

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WORTH NOTING - Lots of trannys have good looking legs.

HIGH NOTES - The water skiers singing Vacation.

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LOW NOTES - The thought of walking back to the hotel. So I cabbed it.

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I didn't see any cats.

2006/ 2007 Tour Route

July /September 2006 & January/ May 2007, I went to the following GOGO shows:

15 July 2006 - Los Angeles @ The Greek Theater

15 September 2006 - Newport Beach @ Taste of Newport

26 & 27 January 2007 - Las Vegas @ the Luxor Casino & Resort

19 May 2007 - San Diego @ 4th & B Club

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So thats how it goes - for now...

2007 May 19 San Diego

SAN DIEGO @ 4th & B Club
19 May 2007
Saturday 8pm

THE GET GO - I drove down to San Diego with a long time friend of mine. It was a beautiful day - so we decided to take surface streets the whole way. We started in the Crescenta Valley area just north of Los Angeles. We started our road trip around 9am.

We rolled into San Diego around 5pm. As we walked up the the 4th & B club, we realized I had left the tickets at home. Ahhh! - I don't even believe it! We then spent the next hour on the phone with Ticketmaster so they could issue us new tickets. Jeez!

The 4th & B club was located in the historic Gaslamp District of San Diego.

My ticket stub

FOR STARTERS - No start up band. Yeah!

THE WAY IT GOES - Small, general admission venue set up like a House of Blues. In fact, it was a House of Blues. There was a great, adoring crowd.

The show started promptly at 8:15pm. It was tight and concise. Jane joked around a bit in reference to their ages.

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Kathy
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Charlotte
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Jane
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Gina
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Set List

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HIGH NOTES - Great venue. Great show! Very enthusiastic crowd. It was Jane's birthday so they handed out some cupcakes to the audience. I was right up front so Kathy handed me one.
Very special moment.

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Images of cup cakes danced in my head...