THAT timeless relic of Wan Chai nightlife, the Pussycat club, may soon become the territory's international alternative music centre for live bands.
Keeping Posted hears the bar and disco (now renamed the New Pussycat) - a boisterous home away from home for migrant workers, military personnel and expatriate policemen for three decades - is looking to draw top local, regional and international acts into its dark and smoky confines.
Sources said the bar's management are hoping to capitalise on the failure of other organisers to showcase local talent regularly in the territory, while also bringing in bigger names in alternative music from overseas.
They said the bar intends to keep aside one evening per week for local acts to play original music and try to fit in international acts according to tour schedules.
Flies on the Pussycat wall say the bar's management is already in the process of securing some major acts from Australia, said to include such names as Diesel, the Cruel Sea and Frente!, who last summer played at Tsuen Wan Town Hall.
Top DJs from various London clubs could also be receiving invitations.