Sint-Katelijne-Waver, Willy Jacobs this evening to say goodbye to his Rio Club in the heart of Sint-Katelijne-Waver. Many visitors came one last time to stretch your legs in the oldest nightclub in the country. “I’m standing here with a very double feeling.”
In the disco was last night ‘From disco to new beat’ place. Such as ‘in the good old time’ were the doors to 20 hours open, behind the turntables were the resident deejays of yesteryear. Visitors came one last time to say goodbye, sometimes their youth to relive it. Many returned for the first time in years back, such as Alain Of the Berck (55). “I have here a crazy time to be polite, my girlfriend to know. Anecdotes? Too many to mention! Rio is a monument. The closure is a loss.”
Among the visitors also Idi Desmet, 27 years ago, as the operator of The Mill concullega of Jacobs. “He has very right that he stops. Do all of them. It is no longer feasible. The youth goes on a different way.” According to deejay Droppi (Erik De Rop) continues to do so. “Returns the youth back, then Rio again,” he says. He turned end of the 90s in the club. According to him, the strength of Rio and the adaptability. “Jacobs was in all evolutions. Therefore, Rio all styles and trends survived.”
Willy Jacobs himself held a double feeling about it. “I was born and raised here, this is my baby. I put a dot behind the weekly stress, but to say goodbye I’m not ready yet.” Under the heading, “did you here a love found, then you can marry” the owner will be room now for rent. “I do that deliberately, not in a black hole attack. I am a nachtmens, must reduce.”