In Conde Vizela Street, a yellow light indicates the entry: high and narrow facade and an interior that lurks beyond a red velvet curtain that separates the input space, "transparent": between us and the curtain, José Luis , who was the doorman Swing and a part of this "family business", says Carlos Machado (son). We are in the "basement" of the buildings from the street parallel to Cândido dos Reis, and the new Griffon 's warehouse was one of the fabric stores that gave fame to the street. There was nothing here, "no water", underlines Carlos Machado (son).
The space is divided into two: the front is more "bar", the back is almost alone on the dance floor - from both a short corridor flanking a lounge that will open in the summer but these days is covered with an awning. In the former, describe them, there was also this separation, but on two floors, and there was the same general atmosphere, as well as a darkness that emanates from the dark gray walls and is quenched by lights rarefied.
Crossed the "crazy" 1980s portuenses as "the place to be." In Brasília Shopping Centre, where the port is opened on the escalators, its matinees were legendary ("people were like sardines," recalls Tó Zé Ferreira Lopes, DJ) and their nights unavoidable meeting point in a city where clubs be counted on the fingers of one hand.
"People came and Antas da Foz, Spain, Portugal entire" says Tó Zé, house DJ between 1982 and 1989, was the nightclub where "suddenly you could hear Rolling Stones." It was stated precisely the musical aesthetics: those who wanted to know the forefront of music was the Griffon 's which, in turn, went to England in search of novelties, epic journeys, and remember Tó Zé Carlos Machado, owner.
