Lewis and the Jet Set

All of you who follow my attempts at being cool will be glad to know that they took another leap in the right direction yesterday with a visit to a club called Jet Set. it was recommended by a few of the local Dominican guys as the best place in the country to be on a Monday night, and with a cover charge of 2000RD$, which is about 35 pounds, its obvious that the clientele aren't the usual Santo Domingo crew. The ladies (I say ladies as it's an older crowd) are all dressed up to the nines - tens and elevens in some cases - with corsets doing a massive amount of work throughout the night. There were two live music acts, one merengue group, the name of which I can't remember, and a salsa artist called Victor Manuel (pic). He is very famous, apparently, but I've not found much about him online, which is a shame, as I wanted to know if his gaudy dress sense (grey silk waistcoast, white tie - huge knot, stripey blue and white shirt) was at all related to his sexuality (ambiguous at best). We also discovered that there are many songs you can do in a merengue style, including George Michael's "Faith" and the Verve's "Bittersweet Symphony", prompting the idea of a "Now that's what I call unusual pop merengue 1" CD launch. Date to be decided.