Velfarre is closing down

***nmskalmn*** · #1 2nd December 2006, 11:34 PM

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The announcement that popular Roppongi nightclub Velfarre is closing its doors for good at the end of the year marks the end of an era. The huge facility was opened by Tokyo-based record company Avex in 1994 just after the Juliana's disco/rave phenomenon had peaked, and since then it has struggled to adjust to changing musical and nightlife trends.

Informed sources say the main reason Avex decided to close the club is that the Tokyo Midtown development, now nearing completion on the former Defense Agency site on Gaien-Higashi Dori, is causing property prices and rents in that part of Roppongi to go up. Avex's current lease on the property has expired, and it is not renewing it, probably because Velfarre has become something of a money-losing white elephant.

The last event scheduled at the club is the appropriately titled "Last Dance," which kicks off at sunrise on Jan. 1 and continues until noon that day. Featured deejays include DJ Shinkawa, Monobe Nakahara and Roger Jordan. For more information, check out the Velfarre Web site: http://velfarre.avex.co.jp/index.html.

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/features...02TDY16002.htm

..:Hot:Like:Wow:.. · #2 2nd December 2006, 11:42 PM

I remeber hearing about it and it makes me so sad cause I have always wanted to go there and it is after all the club responsible for making Ayu famous. Now I have no chance at all.

*Petit* · #3 2nd December 2006, 11:49 PM

It makes me sad bacause it was a big eurobeat scene... And this probably means even less exposure for that music. I guess its time is up anyways...

truehappiness · #4 2nd December 2006, 11:51 PM

:<

I hope Ayu attends Last Dance.. :<

immel · #5 2nd December 2006, 11:52 PM

Yeah, right after her CDL and CDTV appearances, last dance time

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Sad to hear it's closing down.

ohsixthirty · #6 3rd December 2006, 06:59 AM

hrm...i don't know why, but that news makes me sad.

Zeke. · #7 3rd December 2006, 07:05 AM

It's so cheesy but I feel like crying... lol

I am going to Japan next year during the summer after I graduate high school, for 2 weeks and I was all excited to go to this club because Ayu always went and I know they would have awesome trance music!

Raleigh · #8 3rd December 2006, 02:33 PM

Sad to see it closing down... it was the place where many artists started from.

ruixiong89 · #9 4th December 2006, 02:50 PM

Yup, including part of the whole Para Para movement! It was at both Twinstar and Velfarre. When Twinstar closed down, I had a bad feeling the same was going to happen to velfarre too. Looks like it's really going to happen. It's really sad and I think it's defining as the end of an era for the Jpop industry.

greggerz189 · #10 4th December 2006, 04:00 PM

aww...that's sad. it's so famous...that's too bad.

Vinylfantasy · #11 5th December 2006, 06:54 PM

Aww, lame! I always wanted to go there...