Comments on: Then & Now: Roxy Blu http://thenandnowtoronto.com/2017/01/then-now-roxy-blu-2/ Influential Toronto nightclubs from the 1970s through 2000s. The stories of Then & Now explore both Toronto after dark and the ways in which social spaces tend to foreshadow gentrification trends. Sat, 18 Apr 2026 02:04:44 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.40 By: Don http://thenandnowtoronto.com/2017/01/then-now-roxy-blu-2/#comment-34666 Sat, 20 Apr 2019 01:41:46 +0000 http://thenandnowtoronto.com/?p=2022#comment-34666 Hi Denise
Thanks so much for all your Work and love over the Mani years. Every week I usted to 110 min tape your show, and Higher Ground, as well as Cup of Butter. Amazing!!! Thank you!! We still are entranced by Peace Orchestra all these many years later!! Much love, happy listeaning!

]]> By: Melissa http://thenandnowtoronto.com/2017/01/then-now-roxy-blu-2/#comment-18345 Wed, 07 Feb 2018 05:03:09 +0000 http://thenandnowtoronto.com/?p=2022#comment-18345 Loved reading this article. So many fond memories of Roxy Blu and Una Mas…
also was thinking of Octopus Lounge on Wednesday nights… what an amazing era.

]]> By: Ish http://thenandnowtoronto.com/2017/01/then-now-roxy-blu-2/#comment-12485 Mon, 16 Jan 2017 20:35:30 +0000 http://thenandnowtoronto.com/?p=2022#comment-12485 I completely concur with this Dale. It was a life changing experience for dancer in that Era. Grateful to have witnessed how so many blessed that floor. : )

]]> By: Nyree Odabashian http://thenandnowtoronto.com/2017/01/then-now-roxy-blu-2/#comment-12473 Mon, 16 Jan 2017 02:33:00 +0000 http://thenandnowtoronto.com/?p=2022#comment-12473 I loved loved loved this article til I read Dale’s comment. “Walked in a dancer left a DJ”… Lmao… And the dancers you shouted out to…. Amazing…. So where were you last night? Oh sorry… You probably had something better to do…
Despite the fact that most of the djs were your “friends” that you stepped on to get where you are…
Or where u think you are anyway….
Sorry everyone…. I’ve kept way to much in for way too long….

The Roxy Blu reunion party was AMAZING!!! JUnior Palmer and Joe Rizla’s sets were the best. I felt like I was back at Roxy…. For real!! THank you thank you thank you!!!

]]> By: Jennifer Pratt http://thenandnowtoronto.com/2017/01/then-now-roxy-blu-2/#comment-12464 Sun, 15 Jan 2017 15:55:33 +0000 http://thenandnowtoronto.com/?p=2022#comment-12464 Fond, yet crazy memories of pulling all nighters working on that place. And yes, working on a 10,000 budget was also crazy. I remember finding all the furniture at the Reuse Centre in Burlington and felt like I’d hit the jackpot, buying retro couches for under $50 a piece. Thanks for the blast from the past.

]]> By: Dale Arseneault http://thenandnowtoronto.com/2017/01/then-now-roxy-blu-2/#comment-12436 Sat, 14 Jan 2017 12:55:13 +0000 http://thenandnowtoronto.com/?p=2022#comment-12436 This place was heaven on earth for a dance music lover. Night life never felt so good in Toronto. I walked in as dancer 1998 left as a DJ. Big shout outs to the Dancers. They were huge part of the atmosphere. I layed down some of my most loving and beautiful energy my humanity can produce. It changed me as a dancer. D4c crew, Benzo, Jazzy Jester, Steve, Dwight, Walker. These guys pushed me to another level in that place when it came to dance. One of the most amazing moments was a night Ron Trent was playing. I’m not sure what was in the air? But myself and Tarik from the crew D4C had 9 round dance battle. We must of danced on every piece of furniture including the bar. By the end of it there was no winner. We just looked at each other and said thank you. Moments like that can only be produced in a place of magic that Roxy Blu had.

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