Kudeta celebrates 4 years in style

Among the many nice things about Kudeta is its sense of space, no matter how many beautiful people cram through its doors. Such was the case last Saturday night as the perfectly manicured lawns swelled with revellers sensing the onset of high season and a quality party as Kudeta celebrated four years of standard setting in Bali.

The evening’s entertainment started with a cocktail-lounge flavoured performance by the multi-talented Christine Anu, who entertained diners as they settled back with their cigars and after dinner drinks. She appeared a little lonesome out there in the middle of the swimming pool area searching for a stage but being the performer she is, carried it off with pizzazz.

She came back on for a second set about an hour later and with more people arriving and the drinks sliding fast, the crowd warmed and Miss Anu warmed with them. She put on a delightful performance which was followed by a lavish sequence of shows including fireworks, white butterfly go-go dancers (and later Japanese school girls) with beats from Billy The Kid and Donni 1. The highlight of the show was the cutting of the fourth birthday cake with all the Kudeta staff singing in unison with fireworks in the background to the beach.

By one in the am, the specially set up dance deck was a thronging mass of ecstatic hedonism, shot through with lasers and a mist of smoke from the smoke machine. Two big screens were showing the cult French nature film Microcosmos, depicting giant stag beetles and all manner of other beesties looming large in the night. The party and evening at Kudeta was reminicient of the Nyang Nyang parties of old.
Effortlessly hip as ever.