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Photo Credit :: MRNY
Nightlife
May Day Night Flowers
By Mark Thompson & Robert Doyle 
May 1 2011
www.saintatlarge.com     photo-album 
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In the pre-Christian era, when pagans ruled the world, May Day was the festival of Flora, the Roman goddess of flowers. Is it any wonder, then, that the gays love to dance around a maypole on May Day - which was precisely the scene for the Saint-At-Large's May Day party at Amnesia in New York's Chelsea.

Bimbo Jones was in the house for his stateside debut, and he worked the boards with as much jubilation as a bumblebee amidst a bounty of spring blossoms. For those who don't know, Bimbo Jones is the UK dance music trio consisting of production team Lee Dagger and Marc JB (aka Dead Stereo & Element), with singer/songwriter Katherine Ellis - but for May Day, it was all about Lee Dagger whose contagious ebullience from atop Amnesia's mezzanine kept a floor of May Day sunflowers beaming and bursting with spring fever.

For years, May Day was celebrated as the end of winter in the northern hemisphere with maypoles, may baskets, and the crowning of the Queen of the May. And while there were many queens dancing around several maypoles and sashaying along the club's multiple catwalks, the crown belonged to Saint-at-Large head, Steve Pevner who, with Mike Peyton and wunderkind Adam Koch, provided the perfect excuse for New York gays to waltz with the flowers.

Amnesia (once known as Sol) is a beautiful three-level club with skywalks and staircases - and scenic designer Adam Koch turned the space into a neon-lit, bedizened and beribboned conservatory, with a gigantic disco flower ball bursting with hallucinogenic blossoms. Pole dancers worked the maypoles like Jack (and Jane) on the Beanstalk while aerial artists swung through the air like the Girl in the Velvet Swing.

The upstairs was industry-heavy with radiant nightlife night bloomers like Tony Moran, Brett Henrichsen, Corey Craig, Patti Razetto, Guy Smith, as well as Freemasons, who were sharing the bill with Bimbo - while downstairs, the floor was packed with a gorgeous bouquet of hothouse flowers, including "Ricky" Michael Perez, Alex and Ryan, Christian, Nicky, Alan and Joey, Steve W., Adam and Richard, and a bevy of sweet boys as pretty as cherry blossoms.

Midway through the night, word ran through the crowd that a tyrant had died halfway around the world - and as remote as that world seemed from this maypole mayhem, there was also, thereafter, a kind of increased merriment. A kind of "Ding Dong, the Wicked Witch is Dead" frivolity swept through the house and the energy kicked up a notch.

Dagger's infectious mixes are perhaps best described as fist-pumping, happy, hard-driving vocals. His remix of Gaga's "Born This Way" has topped the charts - and his enthusiasm during this party was palpable and contagious. Bimbo was a perfect complement to Freemasons, another duo whom Saint-at-Large introduced to the States, whose energized remixes of Beyonce, Kelly, Rihanna, and Kelis kept the boys as happy as strippers on a stage.

Say hello to summer, that's what this May Day was all about - and if this party was any indication, the summer of 2011 is going to be loaded with festive fun.