The Mark

Like CosmoLava, for some time Candace and I had been wanting to go to another one of Atlanta's few true dance clubs, The Mark, and the other night we finally went to check it out. One of the reasons we hadn't yet been was that Candace had the impression that we were never dressed well enough to go there at the random times we spontaneously mentioned going, but this particular night, we were. Anyway, turns out the club is kinda small, doesn't require being well-dressed, and was mostly attended by a small but friendly group of fairly serious fans of dance music, most notably drum and bass.

In fact the people there appeared to be so friendly towards one another that I decided to start talking to some random guy to find out if they were all friends. As it turns out, they kinda were: they were there that evening to support one of their DJ friends, and evidently a few of them in the group were also DJs themselves. Ultimately, the club had a kind of MJQish vibe without the pretentiousness, the cover charge on weekends, and the overcrowding, all of this contributing to what I consider to be a great first visit, despite the fact that we didn't really dance or stay all that long. On top of all this, I even managed to give the DJ a copy of my most recent mix, which he was very nice about. Although I love MJQ, The Mark might turn out to be more my thing in the long rung, especially if return visits turn out to be just as good.