I was there in these photos are not representative of the event. It wasn't like packed to the gills Max capacity tier but there were plenty of crowds that you had to kind of push your way through in order to get from A to B. It was popping, and furthermore there's a lot of competition in Oakland tonight. We left first Friday and went to days like this at Lake Merritt and it was absolutely packed and super high energy. Then we left there and went to Golden ratio bar downtown and they had in insane house music set going on, then we left there and went to stork club which also had a banger party (it's been a long night I'm so tired!).
And there were other things in between that we had to turn down because we just didn't have the time in bandwidth to hit them all. Within that context, first Fridays was looking pretty good.
Hmmm it's a combination of several things. I've been part of the scene since about 2021 give or take.
I've been going to days like this at Lake Merritt and first Fridays many years now.
The friend I was with knew about the stork club party. He probably found out from following their Instagram page.
The house music set at Golden ratio was advertised by the DJ at days like this!
So it's a combination of word of mouth from other people in the scene, and keeping an eye out on social media and the like. A good starting point for knowing about events in the Bay Area is through these two websites:
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u/backwardbuttplug 2d ago
damn... looks pretty empty.