If you went back ten years Red Queen's Club would have been a name on many scenester's lips, in their vocabulary, deep in their trendy little minds. Because back at the dawn of the new millenium the Red Queen's Club was the height of the new, the epicentre of the cool, and enjoyed its fame [and notoriety] for several long legendary years. It's owner had been enigmatic and mysterious, his or her rise to owning this club something of an urban legend. Some say he'd won it in a high stakes bout of russian roulette, and why he called it the Red Queen's Club...because someone most definitely lost their head in that deal. Some say she was a wealthy and disenfranchised european heiress with thoughts of grandeur and a new monarchy of the streets. Other's say they knew them from college, a decent student who had won big in the lottery...Regardless, in its time the Red Queen's Club had been a marvel of the night life scene in Denver.
But that was then, and this is now. Its mysterious owner disappeared [or simply sold the club] a few years back, and since then it has declined from a queen's court into a madwoman's dream.
Upon entry to the club a once glorious circular bar with red neon lights and impressions of wonderlandesque creatures and vista's stamped into metal dominates the view, it's surfaces now tarnished and hellishly lit, radiating out around the bar are a serious of two people tables some with chair's others without.
As you step past the rounded monstrosity, baring witness to chess pieces which have been strung up on wires from the ceiling or lashed to the angular walls of the club one beholds a lowered area in which sits the clubs chess piece inspired dance floor, its perimeter surrounded by booths and tables aplenty, its lighted floor only half operational, giving the space a lopsided and almost painful appearance.
The lighting feels infernal, and the AC seems to either not work, or is barely powered enough to pass health and safety. The crowd is no longer so many of the up and comers, but often those for whom the party never ends...even though it should have some time ago.