Club Contact

Phoenix’s newest nightclub came in hot. By 8 p.m. on opening night, the downtown dance spot opened by Gracie’s Tax Bar owner Grace Perry had a line wrapped around the building. Club Contact took over the former Thundercat Lounge in April, and since then, it’s been nonstop DJ sets, pop-up food nights and shoes gliding on the checkerboard dancefloor. What’s enticing is the customer base. The diverse clientele is eager to participate in lube wrestling events and the club’s periodic Dance Dance Revolution parties. The space is small and is broken up into a bar-dance floor combo, a downstairs lounge with light-up floors, and a moody patio. The intimate atmosphere is just what downtown Phoenix needed: a funky, reckless older sister to Gracie’s.