Brent Bolthouse

RJ here, hanging out with the Young Hollywood studio with the king of LA nightlife, the one and only Brent Bolthouse.

So, we got to talk about this brand because you know what you're going to get. I mean, you hear it's a Bolthouse event. Beautiful people, they're going to be hot girls. They're going to be celebrities. It's going to be a very just chill laid-back vibe. It's going to be good music. It's always amazing music. You're not DJing, it's the best DJs. Yeah. Super important. DJs around. And the lighting. That's one key thing I always notice at your events. Like it's it's dark and moody but it's like not too dark, it's just enough. We gotta make girls feel sexy, so that's super important. Let's talk about the evolution though, how how nightlife has changed. I mean, there there've been dramatic changes from 21 years ago, but what would you say is the most surprising?

There's a lot more nightlife culture in Los Angeles. Los Angeles for many, many years was always sort of like the bastard stepchild of nightlife. Like, It's always New York and LA was just It was New York or Paris or Miami or anywhere but Los Angeles. But, you know, I I built a career on going into burnout restaurants like Josephs or Doublins and like making these places hot on certain nights. And that was like the best nightlife experience in Los Angeles. Like. Like Monday night you had to be at Joseph's. Right. But that was like a burnout Greek restaurant that would been around for 25 years that like, that's nightlife in LA. And you think that's in the greatest city in the world? Obviously, there's a lot more competition today. There's there's a lot more promoters, there's a lot more places opening. But again, things just go back to good old fashion. What's always worked in business. Good is good every day of the week. I don't believe I can just put my name on anything and something will work. I think that it it all, it's all the elements of what we put together makes it successful. So it's from the music, to the DJ, to the location, to my name, like all of it makes it work.

And what do you think the biggest difference is between the the New York nightlife and and LA nightlife?

We haven't done events in New York in quite some time. We used to do them all the time. It was sort of we always would do like the BMAs, you know, and that was always nice because it's sort of like home court advantage. So you had to kind of all the Angelinos that would come into the city were like, oh, you're here, you're having a party. Great. We're going to come support, which was always really nice.

Then you're just in New York for for Fashion Week. So that was more just hanging out and stuff?

Yeah. I was just in New York. I picked up my fall pass.

Yeah, you got the new look going on. It's fall fashion accessory for What else are the fall fashion accessories that you picked up?

Just this. Just just a beard.

You're in the mix, or there are certain things that like you're listening to and you're loving that the public hasn't maybe heard yet.

See, I'm listening to the XX a lot. It's a great band out of England. They're young and they're singer-songwriters and they make beautiful music. Grizzly Bear. I've got a couple albums out. People don't always know about them that are really nice singer-songwriters from New York. As fashion's concerned, there's for women, there's this great company called Witches that I like, that's out of Los Angeles that the stuff for girls that's really cool and innovative. I'm a simple guy when it comes to fashion. Like I wear like Margiela and like Dior. Like Right. That's like And then T-shirts from American Apparel. Like I kind of like keep it simple. Like I always try to be humble in my approach to life. I ride motorcycles so I'm always in a leather jacket or something like that. And that's that's my big passion.

Simple and humble. So you're an expect. Like the the LA nightlife impresario and it's simple and and and humble.

You have to be. You never know. It's this world. You can never take anything for granted.

That's why we wanted to get you in here and get to know the real Brent Bolthouse, because you don't get to know Brent. You see the name and you see images, but you don't get a chance to really get to know Brent.

Look, I even have tattoos. From Kat Von D.

Oh, is that the one from Kat Von D?

No, this is Kat. Yes, she's. That's that. On my elbows.

Wow. So, there you go. The real Brent Bolthouse. Well, who knew?