Soused at sunrise
Depending on how fortunate you’ve been in life, ‘last call’ may be the most painful term you’ve ever heard. There are many on this island who can’t bear to hear those words and they travel from place to place trying to extend their night into the next day. With the Wave’s recent closure, Galaxy is the prime choice for an all nighter.
Finding Galaxy can be as hard as spotting the beast with three heads because the club is known by at least as many names. Aside from its mode of operation under the Galaxy moniker, many still refer to the club as Seventeen’s, though that name passed away long ago. In addition, Galaxy occasionally features its Dungeon night when the entire parking lot is fenced off to shield the mostly naked partiers waiting to get their kink on.
Open until 6am, Galaxy serves as an insomniac’s paradise, but as it’s strictly BYOB–planning is paramount. And people do plan. Walk in the door after 2am when most places and patrons have called it a night and you’ll see a ton of people who refuse to call it quits carrying around enormous bottles, usually one in each hand. It makes sense: With a $10 cover and a $2 re-entrance fee, there’s no storing extra booze in the car. You should keep all your stuff with you, because everyone knows that once you enter, it’s gonna be a long night. And the patrons’ hoarded stock is not the cheap stuff from the liquor barn’s clearance sale, either. Employees of the club must have the most well stocked cabinets at home from the sheer variety and volume of booze left behind in the wee hours of the morning.
With the excesses that happen behind the entrance, it’s probably fortunate that the club is only open on the weekends. Featuring two separate dimly-lit dance rooms, both littered with cigarette butts, spilled liquor and liquids of an undeterminable sort near the couches that are often occupied by exuberant couples (and sometimes triples and more), this is not a place for those with cleanliness issues. It’s best not to think about it.
Though the two DJ rooms showcase numerous genres throughout the evening, as the sun gets closer to rising the tone changes, primarily concentrating on house, trance and breakbeat music. The plethora of styles goes past the music pumped through the sound system as well, and it’s one of the few places that serves as a venue friendly to all walks of life and sexual persuasions. Galaxy is more like a community than a standard club where the only goal is to desperately search for your next pick up.
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