From the Vaults of Faces on Fourth Street: It's sometimes fun to look back at where we started, where we have been, what we have done, and what we have seen...Faces on Fourth Street will be celebrating our 29th anniversary in October 2006. For those of you who are new to the gay scene or just new to the Faces experience, we hope to share fun, little glimpes of our past to help you understand us and maybe make your night @ Faces more interesting. Wednesday nights @ Faces didn't start with our Original Battle of the Amateur Queens. Our Drag Battle evolved over time into one of our most popular show nights while launching the drag careers of many of St. Louis' most popular entertainers (Siren & Madison Elise peformed first @ our Wednesday Drag Battle). We looked at the club scene on Wednesdays and decided to try something that no one else was doing. On March 7, 2001 Faces introduced a new concept to St. Louis...Stroke....our flyers read, "Finally...a reason to go out on Wednesday night..." Stroke @ Faces was all about presenting special guest DJs on a night when no one else was really doing that. We boldly presented a new night with a roster of incredible DJs that included, Lego from Chicago, Chris Allen from Lafitte's in New Orleans, Bill Bennett, at the time he was from Cobalt in Detroit, Rob Thomas from LA, Julian Marsh from LA, Michael Serafini from Chicago, Monty Q. from Miami, as well as Jeff Jones, Mikey B., Billy Coons, and Beezwakz from St. Louis. While we loved the incredible guest DJs, our Stroke night proved hard to sell to St. Louis...we heard from our customers...and Stroke evolved into our Wednesday 18+ College Dance Party with The Original Battle of the Amateur Drag Queens. We continue to bring in incredible guest DJs but we find that it works best for us to do that on weekends. It was around this time that we also featured a weekly night of deep house and progressive trance music every Friday night. We also found it hard to sell house and trance to the gay community and shifted our Friday focus as well. So, next time someone says they are tired of the music and declares that someone needs to change it...that someone needs to try something new and different...that someone needs to shake things up...you can look at them knowingly and smile.
