CATHOUSE HISTORY
About us / who we are
Il Cathouse è il primo progetto in Italia nato per la rivitalizzazione del rock'n'roll, hard rock, glam rock & hair metal/class metal del periodo '70 - '80.
ENGLISH TRANSLATION
The Cathouse is the first project in Italy born for the revitalization of rock'n'roll, hard rock, glam rock & hair metal / class metal of the 70s - 80s. He was born in 1997 and since then he has carried on his 'party dj set - show' in many discos in Italy. Our characteristic is to rediscover what was in the fateful eighties and propose it again with the right mood and spirit. To do this we make use of a staff, collaborators, PR, photographers and image girls who vary according to the evenings, locations etc ... Cathouse in recent years has also opened up to new sounds, the most current ones (because it is right to support all the music), and therefore the Cathouse party is divided into different musical moments A part where we propose the story: ROCK '50, PUNK, HARD ROCK SEVENTIES, SOUTHERN ROCK, NEW WAVE OF BRITISH HEAVY METAL, SPEED & THRASH METAL A part that re-proposes the golden years of eighties hair metal: GLAM, STREET, SLEAZE ROCK, CLASS METAL A part instead that offers the most corrosive sound of the late 90s to date: ALTERNATIVE, GRUNGE, CROSSOVER, NU METAL
over four decades of activity ...
Dear and dear ones, I have been collaborating / working in music since 1994 and since 1997 in clubs as a DJ and event organizer since the birth of my project, many people, many rockers then very young who then alternated with other very young people, they followed us decreeing the fortune and giving life to the "Casa Del Gatto". So here is a brief history ... What have I done ? If it matters to anyone: writer in the prog rock fanzine Nobody's land ('94 -'96) and then writer / journalist & photojournalist for several years on hard'n'heavy FLASH magazine, radio speaker / DJ at Radio Lupo Solitario, dj and animation evenings Cathouse, responsible and founder Cathouse Italy Rock'n'Roll Project, event and live organization. 20 years of 'live' activity in various renowned rock clubs in Milan and beyond. I could increase the period by including as written above also the years of the Radio ('Cathouse' program at Radio Lupo Solitario) and the column on the music magazine FLASH (where I worked for many years until 2006 as a reviewer, photojournalist and journalist) or, even before that, being present in the editorial office of one of the best Italian progerssive rock magazines, Nobody's Land (and here we go in the first half of the nineties… 1994 if I remember correctly). But here, ultimately, we talk about the 'highlight' of the 'Casa Del Gatto': the disco parties often combined with live events in collaboration with various labels and booking agencies, but also events in collaboration with HAMC and the many years passed as soundtrack 'of the Tattoo Convention in Milan. However, Cathouse was the first and still the only Rock'n'Roll project in Italy. Specific: the only project born with the desire and intent to revitalize and re-evaluate the rnr, with a great willpower to establish itself in a very worn, saturated and dangerous music market like a jungle. We often talk about rock, rock'n'roll and the like and therefore it is also right to specify what Cathouse's 'musical line' is. I created this creature (if we can call it that) which then turned into a real community and an organization complete with a registered trademark / copyright and I thank, of course, all those who have been part of it before and those who are still members of the staff.
The intent was simple but ideologically strong: I grew up (in the true sense of the word) attending rockers circles from the mid-eighties, I made friends with different cultures and movements, from punk to metal but my heart has always remained on the hard rock, street, glamor and - basically - the great hard blues of the seventies. The boundless desire to search and bring to a place open to the public a sum of all (... and only !!) these musical genres (read below) with attached image girls, animation and so on, pushed me to create a project I called Cathouse. What you can hear from us - as a DJ set - are the following musical genres: rnr 50s / 60s, boogie rock, seventies rock & hard rock, southern rock, eighties hard rock, punk rock, glitter rock, glam-street-sleaze rock, class rock, Aor, heavy rock, class metal, New wave of British Heavy Metal. Currently we also pass new sounds more in line with more powerful sounds such as crossover, alternative & nu metal. Specific: the only project born with the desire and intent to revitalize and re-evaluate the rnr, with a great willpower to establish itself in a very worn, saturated and dangerous music market like a jungle. We often talk about rock, rock'n'roll and the like and therefore it is also right to specify what Cathouse's 'musical line' is. I created this creature (if we can call it that) which then turned into a real community and an organization complete with a registered trademark / copyright and I thank, of course, all those who have been part of it before and those who are still members of the staff. The intent was simple but ideologically strong: I grew up (in the true sense of the word) attending rockers circles from the mid-eighties, I made friends with different cultures and movements, from punk to metal but my heart has always remained on the hard rock, street, glamor and - basically - the great hard blues of the seventies. The boundless desire to search and bring to a place open to the public a sum of all (... and only !!) these musical genres (read below) with attached image girls, animation and so on, pushed me to create a project I called Cathouse.
What you can hear from us - as a DJ set - are the following musical genres: rnr 50s / 60s, boogie rock, seventies rock & hard rock, southern rock, eighties hard rock, punk rock, glitter rock, glam-street-sleaze rock, class rock, Aor, heavy rock, class metal, New wave of British Heavy Metal. Currently we also pass new sounds more in line with more powerful sounds such as crossover, alternative & nu metal. It all began at the Rainbow club in Milan (but previously an evening with another name "ROCK DOC" in 1997 at the Living Color -Mi- was herald of the future development of the CATHOUSE brand !!!) and then moved to Transilvania Live and then make a stop at the Indians Saloon. Then the move to the Zoe club to start with the inauguration what has been an authentic landmark of the Milanese rock scene from the '0' onwards and then, almost simultaneously, the summer at Aquatica. Further collaborations led us to work with Heineken Jammin Club, Jail, Shelter, Nuovo Estragon in Bologna, Suomy Cafè, Club House HAMC Nomads, TNT in Milan, the former Inkubo Kafè (later, which became the new 'Rock'n' Roll '), Legend 54, Nautilus, Zoe, Amnesy, Stadio 54 in Monza, Rock'n'Roll in Rho, Login Black Hole, Centrale Rock Pub, American Stable in Pavia, Alcatraz, Temus Club in Switzerland, Pier 95 in Cesenatico , Honky Tonky in Seregno, Rock Out in Brescia, and many others ... We have also supported numerous biker events and parties, and have become a bikers group ourselves. We also worked for a festival sponsored by Rock Hard magazine in Genoa 'Rock your Bones'. It is difficult to summarize here everything we have done ... now we work every Friday and Saturday evening in rotation in different places.
The bands that played at the Cathouse evenings were really many, among which I would mention: Hanoi Rocks, Pretty Boy Floyd, Faster Pussycat, Bang Tango, Quireboys (that concert was organized directly by Cathouse!), Hardcore Supestar (not live but as a DJ set !!), LA Guns, Gemini Five, Plain 9, Steven Adler, Enuff 'z Nuff, Black Cat Nine, Richie Kotzen, Adam Bomb, Crystal Pistol, Hard rock meets Dark fest at Zoe .... and many acts Italians. In addition to what is written above, Cathouse also organizes several events related to the musical world but this is just a brief summary I cannot go further. What we have done in recent years is further summarized in our HISTORY section with lots of posters ... Cathouse is a community of Rockers recognized throughout Europe and also overseas. For anyone who wants to collaborate with us and / or contact us for various and eventuals our door is always open. The important thing is only one thing: respect. As always said: everyone can steal an idea or a material thing from you ... but an IDEAL never dies and always lives inside you.