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Hanoi Rocks- Nightlife In Vietnam (feature)

July 15th, 2009 |

(Heineken Green Party in Hanoi, Youtube footage: 19 December’08)

“Hanoi’s club scene right now is dire; there’s no other word for it. There’s simply no infrastructure in place to support a decent nightlife here at present. The cops closed down the only decent club- New Century- about a year ago following a drug raid and fragmented the scene well and truly.”

Though New Zealander Giles Cooper heads up CAMA one of the few party promotion crews currently operating in Vietnam’s capital Hanoi- he’s refreshingly candid in his assessment of the city’s current nightlife scene.

“A couple of reasonable small venues have opened up but they tend to get filled with fancy boys and girls purely there to be seen; it seems no-one really gives a toss about the music,” he continues, “That’s not to say there isn’t good stuff going on from time to time (CAMA events of course) but it’s slim pickings. Probably the biggest problem is the supposed official shut-down time of 12am. It’s pretty hard to get cranking properly before that time, isn’t it.”
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