New Wing Of Ange Noir Set For Grand Opening
Oct 03, 2002
It’s like a time bomb.
By Harry Sagara
It’s like a time bomb. Everyone is talking about it in whispers and they cannot wait to see this time bomb explode and usher them into a new phenomenon on Kampala’s entertainment scene. The grand opening of the new state-of-the-art executive wing of Ange noir Discotheque is upon us. It was meant to have opened sometime last year but due to circumstances beyond control, it stalled. But now the lots have been drawn and in exactly three weeks, we shall be dancing inside a new-look Ange Noir.
If you have been to the club lately, you will notice that there is a three-storeyed structure. It is in this part of the club that the executive wing will be housed. The storeys will each house a different group of ‘clubbers’ depending on the type of music they prefer. Apparently, the third floor will be a ‘members only’ venture and membership cards are already up for grabs at a whopping sh500,000.
The bars have already been fixed and expert sound engineers are doing the sound balancing in the white building. Lubega says that the entire discotheque is now soundproof so there will be no sound escaping to disturb the neighbourhood: “Almost everything in here was imported from the United Kingdom. We shall be fully ready by the end of next week,†Lubega says.
According to pundits, after the executive wing has been opened, Ange noir will be propelled to the standards of a world class discotheque.
For the unprimed, Ange noir is one beguiling dot that blends an alluring entertainment menu to keep punters wanting to go back every other time. It is the first ever contemporary night Club in Uganda.
Owned by Lubega, the club has maintained its stand as one of the top night Club in Kampala, running neck to neck with it’s neighbour, Club Silk.
The ideal Ange noir client is one who’s music taste is inclined towards the seventies, eighties and early nineties music. With that as one of it’s strong points, it has enthralled many a newcomer to Kampala’s night scene and its client base keeps surging in leaps and bounds by the day.
Apparently, Ange noir existed in the late eighties and was co-owned by Charles Sabune and Patrick Bitature (who also owned Tropicana 110) in the late 80’s until Lubega bought it and transformed it into the force it is today on the entertainment scene.
A typical Friday in the club has punters clad in diverse costumes raiding the place and unleashing their wrath on whatever is at stake (and here we are talking of drinks, food and music). The music concoction literally carries you back to the times when you were at a single-figure age before flinging you into the current times (and boy this is beautiful) you get to listen and dance to such great acts as Ray Parker Junior, Luther Vandross, Imagination, Shalama, Rochearou,.....name it. What we are talking here is the raw and refined music, cool and smooth and it even gets more interesting when there is a frothy beer swirling in your head! (what more can you ask for).
Ange is one of the only places where people have rubbed shoulders, or even shared urinals with such people as Sudhir Ruparelia, Henry Tumukunde, Mike Mukula and all the corporate moguls you can think of.
In Conjunction with B.A.T Uganda, they introduced an addition to their contemporary entertainment menu-The Sega Rally where you enter into the cockpit of a dummy rally car and feel the virtual reality of an accomplished rally car. I mean, you feel it when you do the bends and the humps and your navigator is a duo of speakers that keep on reminding you that there’s a bend over there, a wet surface over here and the like. Whatever the case, just make sure you are on the guest list for the grand opening, you surely don’t want to miss this.Ends
It’s like a time bomb. Everyone is talking about it in whispers and they cannot wait to see this time bomb explode and usher them into a new phenomenon on Kampala’s entertainment scene. The grand opening of the new state-of-the-art executive wing of Ange noir Discotheque is upon us. It was meant to have opened sometime last year but due to circumstances beyond control, it stalled. But now the lots have been drawn and in exactly three weeks, we shall be dancing inside a new-look Ange Noir.
If you have been to the club lately, you will notice that there is a three-storeyed structure. It is in this part of the club that the executive wing will be housed. The storeys will each house a different group of ‘clubbers’ depending on the type of music they prefer. Apparently, the third floor will be a ‘members only’ venture and membership cards are already up for grabs at a whopping sh500,000.
The bars have already been fixed and expert sound engineers are doing the sound balancing in the white building. Lubega says that the entire discotheque is now soundproof so there will be no sound escaping to disturb the neighbourhood: “Almost everything in here was imported from the United Kingdom. We shall be fully ready by the end of next week,†Lubega says.
According to pundits, after the executive wing has been opened, Ange noir will be propelled to the standards of a world class discotheque.
For the unprimed, Ange noir is one beguiling dot that blends an alluring entertainment menu to keep punters wanting to go back every other time. It is the first ever contemporary night Club in Uganda.
Owned by Lubega, the club has maintained its stand as one of the top night Club in Kampala, running neck to neck with it’s neighbour, Club Silk.
The ideal Ange noir client is one who’s music taste is inclined towards the seventies, eighties and early nineties music. With that as one of it’s strong points, it has enthralled many a newcomer to Kampala’s night scene and its client base keeps surging in leaps and bounds by the day.
Apparently, Ange noir existed in the late eighties and was co-owned by Charles Sabune and Patrick Bitature (who also owned Tropicana 110) in the late 80’s until Lubega bought it and transformed it into the force it is today on the entertainment scene.
A typical Friday in the club has punters clad in diverse costumes raiding the place and unleashing their wrath on whatever is at stake (and here we are talking of drinks, food and music). The music concoction literally carries you back to the times when you were at a single-figure age before flinging you into the current times (and boy this is beautiful) you get to listen and dance to such great acts as Ray Parker Junior, Luther Vandross, Imagination, Shalama, Rochearou,.....name it. What we are talking here is the raw and refined music, cool and smooth and it even gets more interesting when there is a frothy beer swirling in your head! (what more can you ask for).
Ange is one of the only places where people have rubbed shoulders, or even shared urinals with such people as Sudhir Ruparelia, Henry Tumukunde, Mike Mukula and all the corporate moguls you can think of.
In Conjunction with B.A.T Uganda, they introduced an addition to their contemporary entertainment menu-The Sega Rally where you enter into the cockpit of a dummy rally car and feel the virtual reality of an accomplished rally car. I mean, you feel it when you do the bends and the humps and your navigator is a duo of speakers that keep on reminding you that there’s a bend over there, a wet surface over here and the like. Whatever the case, just make sure you are on the guest list for the grand opening, you surely don’t want to miss this.Ends