Club 24 Exclusive
The old Taj Mahal, next to the Deili City / BP Gas Station, off Bladensburg Rd
They say they aren't a Go-Go club... but they keep having Go-Gos... This is actually a pretty nice spot for Go-Gos, saw TCB there on a Wednesday and BackYard there on a Friday, and had fun both times.
Nota Bene this club tries to charge $20 for parking even when there is on-street parking a block away.
Nota Bene this club is gaining a reputation as being heavy handed with the cut-line crap, where they let one person in every 5 minutes and offer a "VIP" line for an extra $20, and walk up and down the regular line hawking it.
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2122 24th Pl NE Washington, DC 20018
http://www.youtube.com/user/24exclusive
Near DcStar (the old DcTunnel, old Envy) location.
Contact: club24dc@gmail.com info@24exclusive.com
Hilarious: Click the google map. Read the oldest review. Read the below letter. The positive review is the club posting about itself! I love me some self sicage!
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 07:48:27PM -0800, Massinissa Belkessam wrote: To whom it may concern: My name is Moss and I represent 24 Nightclub over in Northeast DC. One of our marketing team members recently brought to my attention that you have our venue listed under the gogo club section on [1]gogobeat.com. Our venue is not a gogo club and we rarely will host gogo events. I would like to request that you remove our club from your website's gogo listing. Thank you very much, Moss
Gogobeat wrote: I also list the Best Western Hotel, the House of Chang Restaurant, the Hyatt Regency Hotel, the St. Barnabas Church, the Shady Side Kiwanis, the Masonic Temple, and the Tucker Road Swimming Pool. It is not a list of "gogo clubs", it is a resource for finding information about venues. It is, by intentional design principal, inclusive rather than exclusive. Our site carries no information about Club 24 which is non-public or derogatory in any way. You called it a "gogo club section", but the category on the site is in fact referred to only as "Clubs", as your name is "Club 24", you can hardly say that listing you as a "Club" in inappropriate. Go-Go is an imprecisely defined term for a musical genre derived among other influences from Funk Rock music. I'm not implying you are a "gogo club", or that there is necessarily a precise definition of such a thing as a "gogo event". We object STRONGLY to negative stereotyping and characterizations of the Go-Go musical genre which DC has every right to be PROUD of. I'm just helping fans of certain bands learn about venues where those bands perform. Certainly fans of the good Backyard Band and the upstanding members of TCB who perform as Polo and the Boyz are among our the readership our website is designed to serve. We do thank you for hosting the events on January 18th and 19th, and hope that you are not wedded to pigeonholing certain venues, music, or fanbases as "gogo clubs" or "gogo events". I'm glad to include your sentiments on the page referring to you, and have added this correspondence to the page. I'll be glad to respect your wishes if you would like only your original request, or neither letter, to be there on the page. If a period of time passes where no events are held at Club 24 of interest to the readership we serve, I'm likely to remove your listing, anyway. But certainly it doesn't make sense to remove it when there are two events of interest to our readership occurring at Club 24 in the next week. Let me know if you don't want this correspondence on the page, -Thanks, - W.I.M.C.
Moss wrote: We are in no way characterizing gogo into any negative stereotypes. We have our marketing strategy in place, I can't help what you take offense to, that's not my job. My job is to follow the orders I was given and that is to remove us from your club listing. Sorry if there were any misunderstandings. Anyone is still free to come to the venue on the dates you have posted on your reply message.
Gogobeat wrote: No. To clarify, your job is to request that I remove you from the listing, but I'm not going to remove you from the listing, as my choice is to provide information I deem useful to my readership, not to support your marketing strategy.
