Once upon a time, Lipgloss DJ Michael Trundle was my babysitter. (Okay, not really)

By Bree Davies Tue., Jun. 5 2012 at 7:59 AM

Categories: Breeality Bites

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I loved that bar (now 3 Kings Tavern) at that time. I also loved getting too drunk at that bar.

It was cool. It was part of the reason I wanted to move to Beauty Bar. I mean, La Rumba is a beautiful space, but having been there for eight years, it's just so long. And it's so big. And the "big room" music -- the dubstep-electro stuff -- was working fine...when not a lot of other places were playing it. But now everyone is playing it. And, I don't know? I kind of wanted to go back to the stuff that I love to listen to at home. I'm excited to play shit like Velvet Underground once in a while.

Do you have any records in mind to play that you maybe haven't played in a while for the opening night of Lipgloss at Beauty Bar?

I hadn't really thought about it? I don't like to plan my sets ahead -- I like to wing it. It's so much based on how the crowd responds. But I mean, I'll probably start the night off with "Lipgloss" by Pulp -- I want that to be the first song that gets played for the night at Beauty Bar. And end the night with Joy Division's "Love Will Tear Us Apart."

I think it's kind of cool to be back on a block like 13th Avenue -- with Wax Trax and Fashionation and Beauty Bar, which resides in the old Snake Pit space, places that mean a lot to people around our age who grew up in Denver. I bought my electric yellow hair dye in high school on that block. A lot of people bought their first records here.

A lot of where Lipgloss was sort of subconsciously formulated was at the old Snake Pit; me and Tim (Cook, co-founder) and Tyler (Jacobson, co-founder) went to Shag! (a weekly Britpop night at Snake Pit) all the time. Prior to that, Tyler had a night there called Hypersonic. That was a couple of years before that. But that place had a lot to do with us wanting to DJ a night. So it seemed fitting for us to end up back there.

I found this photograph of us from, I think, Hipster Youth Halfway House or Gargeland (both now defunct DIY venues in Denver) from 2004. That was a great summer in Denver. I kind of miss that place in time.

It probably was Hipster Youth Halfway House. We saw each other there quite a bit. There was something special about that place -- I mean, it was a shit hole. The bathrooms were horrible. But it was a really fun time. One of my favorite memories, that summer. It was a lot of fun, even though I had a lot of my shit stolen out of cars in front of that space. All of my CDs, actually. I had a signed copy of a Cure album. I don't know what I was doing driving around with those. I had to play the opening night of Sputnik with a spool of burned CDs because I had lost everything.

But yeah, 2004 felt like when the ball really got rolling for Denver. It was a cool city to be in. You could still go to LoDo and get looked at weird.

Lipgloss makes its debut at Beauty Bar this Friday, June 8, with DJ Boyhollow, Option4 and guest Brooklyn-based DJ Sammy Bananas. For more information on Lipgloss, visit the night's website.

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