Straight edge scenesters swamp New York
Author: Jonty Skrufff
Friday, June 2, 2006
New York’s underground club scene is dominated by DJs and promoters who don’t take drugs or drink, the Village Voice reported this week, in a feature celebrating the rise of ‘New York Nightlife's Sober Hipsters’.
“They are sober hipsters—flipping the image of a non-drinking person as a boring, uptight Goody Two-shoes on its head,” the Voice declared.
“They host the best nights, spin at the choice clubs around town, and book the post-gig after-parties that start at 11 and end at 4 a.m. Fashionable and popular, they are the epitome of downtown cool,” the listings magazine suggested.
Characters singled out as role models included Tommie Sunshine, drag promoter Kenny Kenny, Princess Superstar and Larry Tee who suggested drug using performers are missing out ‘the most fabulous moments of their life’.
"They're sleeping before their big gig in Brazil, like with a million people wanting to meet them and f++k them,” said Larry, “And they've got their hands in their heads going, 'Oh, my life is so hard.' "
Larry, who said his own addictions to ketamine and crystal meth at the end of the 90s meant he ended up being unable to write music or DJ at all, told Skrufff quitting drugs not only gave him a far more lucrative second chapter in his career but radically improved his sex life.
“Not only do I get more sex since I have been clean, it has changed my entire relationship to sex,” said Larry.
“Because my sex addiction ran hand in hand with my drug addiction, and since I have gotten clean I have gotten clarity on what I want from sex. I was always looking for love and settling for sex. I now realise that I probably wasn’t even that good at it anyway.”
Larry also helped Princess Superstar clean up, an experience she described as ‘one of the hardest things I’ve ever done.’
“But usually, the harder something is to do, the more life changing it will be,” she told Skrufff, “I haven't relapsed since- it's been two years, the best two years of my life.”
She also suggested quitting has enhanced her sexuality (‘I've seen how hot I've become since I quit’) and sex life in general.
“I get laid less but the quality is finer,” she explained, “And a big plus is that I actually like the person that I am sleeping with and would actually want to have a conversation with them the next day.
“And also I can now remember their name,” she laughed, “Well, most of the time anyway.”
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