Bligh Bar Sydney

Klassic Nights @ Bligh Bar
Assessment Time: 11:15pm – 3:00am
Opening Times: 10:30pm – 3:00am
Website: http://www.klassicnights.com
Address: 2a Bligh St, Sydney
Dress Code: Casual ok. I had a Fedora, white collared shirt and vest going on.
Entry Fee / Cover Charge: $15 on guestlist, I think. Can’t remember if it was $10 of $15. $20 otherwise
Guestlist: See website
Inside: Setup hasn’t changed. One small dance floor, one bar, and seats on the other end.
Cloak Room: None
Music: Contemporary RNB first, with the occasional electro song. Around after 1:30am the hip hop/rap music comes out, reggae, whatever. A typical RnB club setup.
Crowd: All asian, with the exception of one group of wogs. Two or three birthdays here tonight.
Entertainment: Nil
Atmosphere: Better than last time, (last time was shithouse). However it still was dead outside the vicinity of dancefloor. Dancefloor itself was ok and constantly busy, but it wasn’t packed. So long as you stayed in the direct vicinity of the dance floor you were ok, but once you stepped outside, you could see how desolate the rest of the place was. The entire place was only at best at a third capacity, and that whole third was on the floor.

Timeline
How I became “Balloon Man”
I was bored, and there were balloons everywhere for the birthdays. So I got two balloons and stuck it on either side of me. I looked awesome. My friends, using me as their puppet of amusement, decided “Wouldn’t it be funny to collect EVERY SINGLE BALLOON and tie it up to James?” So off go my friends, and after about 20 or so minutes, my friends have successfully managed to get every single balloon and tie it to my belt.

Balloon Man meets his Maker and Nemesis – Birthday Girl
A girl comes up and asks why I have these balloons. It was my birthday I reply. A lie, as every single one of the balloons were actually for her. She demanded I return the balloons!

‘OK’ I say, and I tug some balloons, but my friends have cleverly tied the balloons so tight, they cannot come off with a mere tug. Birthday girl then grabs a whole bunch of balloon strings and tugs, which just tugs at my pants. haha. Nothing happens, and she storms away, a little angry that Balloon Man spared no balloons for her birthday party. In my defence, the balloons weren’t doing much at all – they were just hanging around with someone awesome.

I, Balloon Man

Balloon Man annoys the other patrons at the club
Being a man with many balloons hanging off his backside, it proved very difficult to navigate around the club. My balloons were always hitting people in the head, and whenever I danced – well it was pretty dificult. I would move my hands back and move the balloons. Then the balloons would rise again and hit me in the head, as well as hit other people.

See if you can spot me in the club

The Demise of Balloon Man
Around 1am, people get drunk. People thought it was funny to pop my balloons. Not just one, but all of them. It initially started with people tugging at my strings to steal one or two balloons. Then someone decided to pop a balloon. Then another person came, and another. Suddenly there were a swarm of asian people squeezing and popping my balloons!! This was terrible. Eventually, all the balloons were popped, and I had just balloon string hanging from my belt as a reminder of what I once was.

An attacker tries to pop one of my balloons. In this particular picture, she failed to pop it. However later, the balloon was eventually worn down and popped. =(

Coda
It became a sausage fest after 1:30am. We left at close time 3am.

Recommendation
Still a no for now. Better than last time though. Still a new event, so it might get better in the future.

Tonight a 5.5/10

Preface: Chinese Whispers @ Arthouse
The longest guestlist line on planet earth

The guestlist line outside arthouse. ha.

Video:

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We had been in the guestlist line for about 30 minutes at the time I took this video. Meanwhile, the normal line ($5 extra) was a measly 20 people deep.After 10 more minutes of waiting, me and the guys left. C stayed in line to get in 30 minutes later, for a total of 1 hour waiting. She said she had an awesome time there, and that it was pretty packed. Of course it was packed, look how many asians there were in line!

Coda: Ditching the line for another club
So where did we go? We went onto Bligh Bar… I honestly wasn’t keen to come to Bligh Bar, but it was a friend of a friend who was organising it. When I met the friend of a friend, I recognized him! He was the same promoter for the Fridays @ Bar Europa (I think I gave it an ok review….) Here we go!

Klassic Nights @ Bligh Bar
Assessment Time: 12:30am – 1:30am
Address:  2a Bligh St, Sydney
Website: http://www.klassicnights.com
Dress Code: Casual ok. I wore a fedora hat, jeans, collared shirt, dress shoes.
Entry Fee/ Cover Charge: I think we paid $15
Inside: One main room, sectioned off by a hinese pretzel looking wall. Bar occupies an entire corner of floorspace. Tables and chairs everywhere else.
Crowd: Asian, young to mid 20s.
Music: Modern RNB

Atmosphere: Felt a little empty, could have been better. Actually it was shithouse. Think of Pavillion Hotel on a bad night. People sitting around the floor. At peak time, all 20 or so of us were dancing on the small floor.  There wasn’t much promotion that I noticed for this event, but the dance floor was small enough to have a vibe going. The last time I was here, urban agent held a Friday Night here back in December 2008 – they did a pretty ok job (I didn’t write an entry for it but I was dressed in a Santa Suit, feeding people chocolate). Tonight was worse. However we had paid our entry, and so we just danced it off. The only benefit of a dead club though, was that there was no waiting at the bar – Hooray!

Walk-in video:

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Timeline

I am a social whore
Promoter: JAMES! My god you know everyone
Promoter (to my friend): I have THREE social circles, and James knows all of them! Social whore!

I am now officially an E-Grade Social Whore Celebrity amongst the mid 20′s Asian community in Sydney. I’m slowly getting there- Perez Hilton here I come!

The photographer with nothing to photograph.
When you’re a photographer at a busy club, you usually find an endless supply of women and different people to take photos of. You get people coming upto you asking for their photo taken. You are a star. Second to being the DJ, or the promoter, being a photographer is just another way to stalk on women. Now, that said, our club photographer had already photographed the other 20 people three times over. So when we walked in, (a whole bunch of men), he pouned on us. Especially on Martin and Myself, since we were wearing Fedora hats. SNAP SNAP SNAP SNAP! goes his camera. It’s quite scary.

I put on my headband. SNAP SNAP SNAP SNAP! it goes again. He’s trigger happy. If I didn’t feel it before, I really feel like an E-grade Asian celebrity now. Later in the night he stopped taking photos and started dancing. He’s an extremely energetic and good dancer. Perhaps that could be a future career for me.

The bartenders likes us
We are dancing about and ask for water. About half an hour later we ask for water again. By the 3rd time she knows what we want. For some reason we do a dance for her, and then the whole bar is watching Martin pull some slick moves, while I pretend to push a lawnmower. Self amusing indeed.

Coda & Recommendation
Left around 1.30am to try another club.
At this point in time I can’t recommend this place. Bligh Bar seems to be a magnet for mediocre to craptacular events. It might be the venue or promotions, but it’s not good for the opening night.

Bligh Bar Klassic Nights 27th September 2009 – 1.5/5

Bligh Bar sydney 12:30am. At least I had room to dance.

Star Bar
We amzingly managed to get inside, but at 2am, this place was packed as! Seriously it must be the fact that its free entry and on George St. Martin and I dance around a lot.

We are talking to some girls, and we convince them for a dance. “Sure!” they say. They stand up and walk THREE STEPS to the edge of the table and dance. They are way too scared to enter the crowd. Why? Fobby girls are bizarre.

Coda:
We are all kicked out 3am and move on to Cheers

Star Bar 27th September: 3/5

Cheers Nightclub
I had to show Martin this hellhole. It’s something I like to do for people after 3am. There’s only one story worth telling here…

I almost kissed a super short chubby chick
He bumped into a friend who he met at Parramatta. He is hitting on her and her short chubby friend is cockblocking him, so I have to take this grenade. I say hello and ask for her name. She suddenly grabs me and starts grinding on me. It’s pretty sudden, and pretty rough. Why are all the fat chicks so good at dancing?? Her hands are all over me and I am praying to the dance gods that Martin has done something with his girl. Meanwhile, my short friend has turned arond and grinded her ass on me. She is really really into it, and she is also really really drunk. She keeps grinding.. swiping her ass left and right over my general crotch area. Then it happens, I get a hard on. I can’t help it! no matter how much I thought of unsexy thoughts.. her sheer force and willpower to give me a good time worked. I felt ashamed, but my mind started to wonder – maybe she’s good in bed. She pulls me down to her eye-level and she’s looking into my eyes, just waiting for me to make out with her… and I can’t do it. I have already had my fair share of chubby girls in the past, and I could not shame myself again. I hold it off and keep dancing. Eventually after kissing my friend her friend comes back to save he from me. phew!

5 minutes later my short friend is heavily making out with another guy. The sight of this literally made my stomach churn. I couldn’t look at all. However it was worth it.

A guy begs me to call him
A guy we danced 1 minute with asked for my number then pleaded.. made me promise that I would call him so we could hang out – now you’re thinking – he’s gay. But I saw him hitting on a girl before! Well he could be bisexual. I just can’t face calling this guy to hang out with. It’s a little creepy.

Coda:
We leave at closing time. It’s 5.30am. Cheers wasn’t as bad as it usually is, which was funny.

Cheers Nightclub after 3am – 27th September 2009: 1.5/5 for a club open at this time as it was still busy. Seediness did not help.

[Bligh Hotel / Bar]
2a Bligh St, City (http://www.thebligh.com.au)
Bligh is a small sized venue, and is basically a bar during the day. On entry are stools and tables. There is an open floor area at the back with some side lounges. DJ booth at the back. It’s a nice venue.

[ Rise @ Bligh Bar ]
Entry: $15, Free if on guestlist organised before midnight.
Occurence: Monthly
Crowd: Euro
Music: RnB and Dance
Atmosphere:  Despite the nice venue it was lacking a bit of something – enough people.

[Timeline]
$100 entry
“It’s $100 to enter”
(huge eyes) “Wha?!”
“…unless you strip!”
I did some lame nipple touch I think. She was having a bet with one of the guys whether I would really strip for free entry! Fun people. I should have been more slutty.

People
Not many people turned up, I would say about 20 to 30 people were in the club. Nobody was on the floor. I did a bit of prancing but I didnt even last half a song. It was terrifying knowing people were staring at you. Eventually around past midnight the floor picked up and about 8 people were dancing.. which made the place actually look busy. Perhaps it was the small floor. The floor had a huge blue circle light thing which made it uber cool.

One of the girls from the main group there took a photo with me. She obviously liked my dance. So did her boyfriend who took the photo. I didn’t ask for a copy to be sent to me.

Music
Around 12.15am.. the floor was empty again. Such a shame. Normal RnB songs were playing. Selvi was bored and didnt want to dance too much with me. I danced to some of the Lil Jon songs then we left.  Didn’t get to find out what house songs they were going to play.

We lasted 45 minutes.

[Coda ]
I would not come here alone. Come with someone who likes to dance or doesnt mind a tiny crowd. Wouldn’t recommend it yet to anybody though. Perhaps in the future with more promotion this will be a great event for a matching venue.