“A giant of the 1970s through 1990s New York City club scene…paints a picture of a simple guy with big dreams who was always vulnerable to outside speculation and conjecture…crisp, vivid prose…a warm tale of a local boy making good on the other side of the border…Sixteen years after his deportation back to Canada, Gatien tells his side of the story. And finally, the deportation thing… I threw up the white flag. Social Sharing To make matters worse, his life really isn’t all that interesting. What made you want to write a memoir? And I’m not talking about the Armani suit. As per our current Database, Peter Gatien is still alive (as per Wikipedia, Last update: December 19, 2020). What do you make of the current state of nightclubs? The result is a fairly rounded picture of the man, with dysfunction on display. They nurtured vanguard music acts that brought rock, house, grunge, hip-hop, industrial, and techno to the beautiful ones who showed up night after night to tear the roof off every party. The Club Kids scene, and the murder that came with it, has long been a fascinating topic. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 10, 2020, I gave it 5 stars because it was a fascinating insight into the inspiration of one man to achieve the impossible dream and then to read the inside, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 3, 2020, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 16, 2020, Absorbing insight into Peter Gatien's colourful life. There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. We won Best New Club at the 2008 World Club Awards in Miami. Across four decades, a single mysterious figure stood behind them all: Peter Gatien, the leading impresario of global nightlife. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Admittedly, when his clubs made their meteoric rise I was about a decade past clubbing, but even still I certainly had a fairly good knowledge of pop culture during that era so how is it I've never heard of him or any of his clubs -- particularly if he was "all over the news" with his arrest. We’re there to create culture and get people to party together that normally don’t party together. COLLECTABLES THE CLUB KING BY PETER GATIEN (2020) ARC SOFTCOVER MY RISE, REIGN AND FALL IN NEW YORK NIGHTLIFE A behind-the-scenes look at the meteoric rise and stunning takedown of a nightclub empire, by the man who held the reins. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Thursday, June 11, 2020: Sarah Chalke, Tim Baker and more Today on q: actress Sarah Chalke, poet Evelyn Lau, club owner and party promoter Peter Gatien, singer-songwriter Tim Baker. In your book, you portray yourself as a behind-the-scenes guy. It’s almost like you’re the enemy. Get the latest on Peter Gatien on Fandango. Are the kids alright? In your book he really is portrayed as your nemesis. Over the years, agents would reach out and say, “Why don’t you write a book?” And to be honest with you, when I got deported, I basically had PTSD for a couple of years. Peter Gatien’s new memoir The Club King: My Rise, Reign, And Fall In New York Nightlife (Little A, $24.95, 249 pages) arrives at a time when gathering at nightclubs already seems like a distant memory. It's heart-wrenching to look at the legal stuff. This publication features lifestyle stories around cannabis use and experiences, including emerging trends in wellness, travel, food and drink, pop culture, and cannabis-related brands. Therefore, when infamous club owner Peter Gatien’s autobiography was offered via Amazon First Reads, I instantly selected it. Sacha Jenkins, who is directing a documentary about the Tunnel, told me that to the Black community it was like the Ed Sullivan Show breaking the Beatles. August 21, 2020 To revist this ... but had a job before that as a staff photographer for Peter Gatien, the proprietor of a four-club, seven … Gatien was also the executive producer of the film A Bronx Tale. Something went wrong. Peter Gatien Height, Weight & Body Measurements Peter Gatien height 7 Feet 7 Inches (Approx) & weight 258 lbs (117 kg) (Approx.). The run that we had in New York, nobody’s ever had that kind of run. They have one child. Notable Hollywood & Entertainment Industry Deaths In 2020: Photo Gallery. An arresting and provocative narrative.” —Kirkus Reviews, “Gatien once dominated the empire that is New York nightlife. Peter Gatien remained under investigation until 1998, but the DEA never found proof that he'd helped run the drug sales at his clubs. Enjoy a great reading experience when you borrow the Kindle edition of this book with your Kindle Unlimited membership. I landed here with $500 in my pocket and obviously I had to do it with partners but we killed it that first year. Yes, I do. We work hard to protect your security and privacy. He'd overdosed on heroin. Peter Gatien was born on August 8, 1952 in Cornwall, Ontario, Canada as Jean Pierre Gatien. Maurice reportedly had less talent for running a nightclub than Gatien. We spoke by phone about the importance of nightclubs to cities and the dangers of political overreach. Right now we don't know about body measurements. Before she opened City Betty at 1352 Danforth Avenue in 2018 – and in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic repurposed it into Betty’s General earlier this year – she stood by her father, former New York nightclub empressario Peter Gatien, in a very public battle with then-New York mayor Rudy Giulliani. Established as the news, lifestyle, and entertainment weekly in Vancouver for 50 years, the Georgia Straight is an integral part of the active urban West Coast lifestyle with over 1.081 million readers per week. It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. He pleaded guilty in 1999, paid a $1.6 million fine, and spent 60 days in jail. Had he delved more deeply into what was really going on in and around his clubs, this would be a five star book. NOW Central Communications Inc. 2021 Terms of Use As you get older, you start to have a different perspective on everything. His clubs didn’t follow the trends—they created movements. But to completely downplay his involvement with his promoters made for a book that was good, but not great. But when tourists come to your city, they’re not remembering how many condos they saw. Everybody from Jay-Z, Mary J. Blige, Puffy, NAS, L’il Kim, Snoop Dogg, Biggie Smalls, Tupac – every one of them performed there for free. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. Peter Gatien tells his story honestly. Your book covers a lot of your innovations in the club world which are you most proud of? Limelight, Tunnel, Club USA, and Palladium—the cutting-edge, insanely successful, and notoriously decadent clubs that dominated New York City’s entertainment scene, their influences reverberating around the world. A behind-the-scenes look at the meteoric rise and stunning takedown of a nightclub empire, by the man who held the reins. Required fields are marked *. Looking to clean up Manhattan of the mega-clubs he called “drug supermarkets,” Giuliani pursues Gatien relentlessly, until the club mogul finds himself in an INS detention centre and eventually deported back to Canada. You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition. And you know, I’m not saying stop building condos. His parties attracted the cultural glitterati, from Andy Warhol and Grace Jones to Jay-Z and L’il Kim. They’re gonna remember Toronto for the experience that they had when they were there. Today he splits his time between Toronto and New York City, enjoying a home life with his wife, Alessandra, his four children, and his two grandchildren. A self-described “small-town kid” from Cornwall, Ontario, Gatien made his name and fortune transforming unique spaces into trendsetting mega clubs in Miami, Atlanta and eventually New York City, where Limelight, Tunnel and Palladium became cultural landmarks. If you want to be lectured about your American Culture from a Canadian who earned a living promoting hedonism, then this book is for you. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. So I’m wondering if you might have a unique perspective on how club culture is going to survive. If one is honest, then one has to own up to his behavior in more than a few paragraphs. Peter Gatien writes with a voice that is by turns self-deprecating and nearly narcissistic. Absolutely. But their contributions to the city’s history are usually overlooked. Peter Gatien is the author of The Club King (3.94 avg rating, 1509 ratings, 131 reviews, published 2020) I mean, did you add sequins? Club owners now evaluate a customer on how much they can spend. Here, for the first time, the mogul and impresario of global nightlife tells his own story of those heady and fascinating times. April 24, 2020. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 14, 2020. But even still, I think this book might only hold the interest of people who actually knew him. .orange-text-color {font-weight:bold; color: #FE971E;}Ask Alexa to read your book with Audible integration or text-to-speech. In Gatien’s book, THE CLUB KING: My Rise, Reign, and Fall in New York Nightlife (Little A, 253 pp., $24.95), bones are picked. Does he have a score to settle? If there’s any truth to the old William Blake line about the road of excess leading to the palace of wisdom, then Peter Gatien may be the wisest cat in New York. Privacy Policy, Peter Gatien on nightlife’s survival and the dangers of political overreach. People have been dancing for 10,000 years. Now he’s telling his story—the highs, the hedonism, and all the gritty details.” —Newsweek, “Peter Gatien may be the wisest cat in New York…he’s got a tale to tell, one filled with fabulousness and tabloid phantasmagoria…The Club King, his slick new memoir out this month, chronicles Gatien’s rise from a working-class kid in a sulfurous paper mill town in Ontario.” —Rolling Stone, “The Limelight and Tunnel are long gone. Peter Gatien. You lived through the AIDS epidemic in New York City, which also had a decimating effect on club culture, and saw it rebound. .orange-text-color {color: #FE971E;} Discover additional details about the events, people, and places in your book, with Wikipedia integration. Monday, May 4, 2020. Dolls! I was pretty shell-shocked, to say the least. Thu, Apr 2, 2020 1:00 PM PETER GATIEN ON HIS REIGN AS THE KING OF NYC NIGHTLIFE In the 1980s and ‘90s the large-scale nightclubs Limelight, Tunnel, Club USA, and Palladium dominated New York City’s entertainment scene, their influences reverberating around the world. If anyone has ever experienced the inconvenience and harassment involved in the relative minor infractions of parking and moving violations, you can easily relate to this guy's massive persecution and prosecutions.