Expect to hear a mix of The Smiths, Siouxsie & the Banshees and Depeche Mode along with the classic pop of Prince, Madonna and Michael Jackson. Footloose Saturdays – Saturday is 80s night.New Noise Fridays – Highlighting the most modern, newest and hippest tracks of today, the bar promises that you’ll only hear fresh material you can dance to, but nothing that you’d hear on the radio or techno dance club.Expect to hear James Brown, Stevie Wonder, Otis Redding, David Bowie, Abba and everything in between in the mix. Grits n’ Gravy Thursdays – Celebrating all pre-80s music, this night is heavy on classic soul, motown, disco and good old rock n’ roll.Open four nights a week, Barbarella specializes in a different crowd and theme every night of the week.
Named for the Sci-Fi B-movie vixen portrayed by Jane Fonda, this no-holds-barred, all-in-good-fun dance club started in Austin in 2009 and expanded its act to Houston at the tail as the summer of 2013 began to cool its jets. Seems like a lot of Austinites are trying to get to Houston these days. Check out Barbarella Houston the newest dance club to hit Midtown, an Austin import which purports to brake the barriers between social cliques and archetypes while embracing them all.