There is some random law in south Goa that loud noises have a curfew. So drivers can’t incessantly honk their horns and bars can’t blast out music all through the night. Which makes for a good night’s sleep and less of a migraine induced evening but when you want to party it kinda of sucks. However the clever Goans have come up with a solution for this dilemma, welcome to the silent disco.
If you haven’t been to one before then you have been missing out. You grab a set of wireless headphones with three difference colours representing different styles of music played by three DJs, three for the price of one. For example, green stands for drum n bass, blue for funky house and red stands for r’n’b. You then flick between the music options and have a little rave to yourself checking out what colours are showing on other peoples headphones and how much they are dancing like a loon, which usually means you should switch to whatever they are listening to.
What I love about silent discos are that you get a room full of people dancing away to different music, people singing along to different songs and the djs battle it out to get as many people listening to their set as possible. Once you take off your headphones you are greeted with hearing a mish mash of out of tune singing, jerking dancing and strange atmosphere with people shouting instead of talking to one another. I especially love it when you hear people chatting thinking they are being subtle but forgetting about the headphones, so they end up as human fog horns without the mute button, ‘GOD MY THONG IS REALLY CHAFFING TONIGHT’, ‘DO YOU THINK THAT GUY BEHIND ME IS FIT?’, ‘CAN YOU SMELL B.O?’
I went to the disco with the brothers from London, Jonno and Mark, and had such a good night. The DJs were up on these podiums where you could dance around behind this huge white sheet so you turned into a shadow puppet raver for those dancing on the lower level. All was going well until we got a bit carried away doing big fish, little fish, cardboard box and one of the guys tripped and nearly fell through the screen.
No one was injured, apart from maybe our pride, so we carried on dancing right up till the end of the night. These silent discos are a bit of a novelty and it does get round the noise restrictions in South Goa, the only downside is that by having huge headphones on it reduces the chance for chatting to new people and would be a nightmare if you were trying to pull!
