He was one of seven kids born and raised in the suburbs of Long Island, but he described Manhattan as his playground. In these videos, you can hear Yorkie’s native New Yorker: Yorkie becomes Yawkie. RELATED | Subscribe to the ATXplained podcast (Yorkie calls his younger friends his kids or grandkids they call him Pop-Pop.) “But I’m here to tell you this Saturday, it’s only gonna get hella hotter.” “Hi kids, it’s another hot one on Planet Austin,” Yorkie says in one video posted last July, as he encourages people to spend the night at a party on Sixth Street. The 20-somethings behind the operation throw dance parties throughout the city, many of which Yorkie promotes on his Instagram account.
His name is Yorkie Louie, but he’s crowned himself the 'Godfather of Clubbing.' An anonymous listener wrote to KUT’s Hi, Who Are You? project about him: '‘Keeping it Weird’ is embodied by Never met him, but regularly see him on the dance floor.'Īt 67 years old, Yorkie goes clubbing every weekend, typically with a crew called Vibe Vessel. He fits in among the chaos because he’s just that: a shimmery oddity, a “sparkly unicorn,” as one friend describes him. The man carrying it dons a fur hat, sunglasses and a black kerchief around his neck. Then a disco ball emerges – a disco ball on a stick.
