Ah..Lips Disco! I started going there since 2004. Damn happening
then man! 100% local...from the staff, waitresses to the bartop
dancers...good mix of old school and NRG. Used to be damn packed on
weekends with a happening crowd. DJ Supreme used to spin there
occasionally too... After that...sigh. Became more and more fucked
up. They started to use foreign girls as waitresses, maybe cos
cheaper? Then they started to double up as 'customer relations' to
earn more on the side...started to become a lasap bar, and
attracted all the uncles. Of course, when the uncles started
flooding in, the music started to lean towards the cheena
techno..you know lah...Huang Hun remix, Mei Fei Se Wu...soon the
bartop dancers came less frequently, coz the uncles were too touchy
with them..sigh.. i became good friends with some of them!
(dancers, not uncles). Last time i went there was early this
year..the foreign girls are quite aggressive, and they rotate girls
from upstairs (After Dark KTV nightclub) into Lips and vice
versa..music-wise still the same old cheena stuff...but when i went
with my group of friends..we requested a few old-school stuff, and
i guess the dj knew what we wanted so he played old-skool all
night. Had a good sweat! But the girls were quite a turn-off..not
to mention a huge group of barely-18 small punks sitting there and
making a nuisance. So conclusion is...still not a bad place to go.
LOL. But go in a big group if possible, for safety reasons..
Thanks for the advice, it's being a while. A few weeks back, I
tried exploring Lips Disco alone around 9pm on Saturday. As
expected being early, it was quite empty despite its small space
but the foreign girls were already there as you said. To my
surprise, the DJ already started with eurodance songs though the
beats are much faster than normal pace. I ignored the foreign girls
and enjoyed the old-skool songs while they lasted. True enough,
when the uncles and young punks flooding the place around 11pm,
cheena techno took over and so I left the place. All in all, it was
a decent place but it is a pity they change their management
strategy to survive.
