About Chinese Laundry
Location: 111 sussex st, Sydney
Website: www.merivale.com (Slip Inn)

About ‘The Club Club’

Music: House, Breaks, rnb mashup over 3 rooms
Crowd: Young
Dress Code: Casual accepted
Cover Charge / Entry Fee: $20
Occurrence: Every Saturday
Website: www.jammusic.com.au

Atmosphere: Packed and loud. Hot and dark in the main and break room. Relaxed in rnb room.
Timeline
Getting in
Unlike last week where we just turned up, this week there was a guestlist made by birthday girl and we didn’t wait that long to get in, though we still had to wait as we turned up just after midnight.

Atmosphere
We went into the main room, which was packed to the rafters. The music being electro house. We got our own spot, but it was really dark (literally couldn’t see the people next to us as there were no lights) and it got HOT.. very quickly. We didnt last 5 minutes before leaving. Same story for the breaks froom despite the two huge fans. We went to the rnb room.

Music
The rnb room was much better.. there was actually room to dance but it wasn’t a party atmosphere, as all the lights were on, and was basically the room to cater for the people who don’t know their house music, so an rnb house elctro mashup would be a good introduction. Not surprisingly, this is where us and some other random asians hung out for the entire night.

Creepy guy
Creepy old guy comes and joins our circle without invitation. Fine. He then talks to the girls. Fine. But doens’t talk to us. Not so fine. The girls excuse themselves and it was us 3 guys and the creepy guy. In this particular scenario he should walk away, but instead stays in our circle and keeps dancing. Oh god. The moment he turned his head to the left I immediately left the circle and so did Peter, leaving poor An stuck in a 2-man circle with creepy man. We laugh as we watch An talk to the creepy guy. It took a good 5 minutes before he could shake him off.

I’m famous on facebook

Meet a friend of a friend of the birthday girl and he recognises me from facebook.

“You’re famous on facebook” he says. He tells me my name is James. I have no idea who he is. I’m pretty sure he’s referring to the photos of me dressed as a japanese school girl… but that’s another story. Though it is disturbing knowing guys are facebook stalking me.

Coda
A yes to coming here only with friends, but its a good place to go. Going alone, the people are mostly to themselves (I think anyway but I didnt really give talking to other people a try), but its a good place for the less common types house music. Though, Tank would probably be better if you’re a commercial house type of person.

My Timeline
Pre-arrival
Was due to meet Ange and her friend, but they got caught up in a birthday party and went to Red Room, a 90′s rnb style club, so I went alone.

11.30pm
Cover charge was $20. (thought it was $10/$15?). Went to the crowded electro room but I couldnt dance freely. It was mostly a jumping up and down affair with the banging of your head to the beat. Checked upstairs a but nobody was dancing yet. Upstairs had the smallest dance floor area. So I ended up in the darkier experimentalish-house room where there was a crowd, but it wasnt too crowded. There was enough room for me to go nuts.

12.30pm
I notice people guys looking at me dance. They must’ve thought I popped, but are seemingly impressed (I think).

I head upstairs and they’re playing a song that “1, 2, 3, 4… push it push it” song. I jump to the small floor, find a small space and go nuts. Right away 2 girls dance with me, their boyfriends watching along. A quick wave to the boyfriends, and they dont seem to mind. One of them is chuckling and declares that he loves me. Phew? I am introduced to all, but the only name I remember now is that of Graham.

Graham comes in and starts dancing. His main dance move was of a gorilla like stance moving forward. I imitated him by doing some freestyle laps of the imaginary pool that I was in, but I don’t think he got the joke and kept dancing like that. It was his style the rest of that entire night. I hung out with Graham and his crew most of the night.

1.30ish am until 3am close
I excuse myself and head downstairs. I dance for a bit and come back out. I walk by a guy and he stops me. He’s holding a beer and says to me: “CHECK THIS OUT!!!” and beckons me. He is facing a mirror. One of those wavy curvy mirrors. We both stand in front of it and lean back, both of our heads stretching to infinity. We both put our arms in the air and they become twice as long as our short stumpy bodies.

He was drunk and I thought it was hilarious. So me and this dude go to the floors and dance a bit. We go into the Electro room and we dance with this girl who can shake her stuff. Bit of fluff chat and we part.

Head back upstairs to Graham. He tried to introduce me to random girls on the floor.. which I appreciated, but exactly do you say after when he introduces you as:s “HI GIRLS ! THIS IS JAMES !!” >>> Pan to James, who is madly dancing and waving ‘hello!’… I still don’t think dance floors are a premium medium to pick-up as such.

3am until 4am close
We headed downstairs and most of Graham’s crew chilled while me and G kept dancing in this small room. Graham says he comes out partying every month or so, and that he loved 2nite. I enjoyed it as well. After finishing up at 4, we parted our ways.

Summary
One of the great places for different variants of house music. Behaved crowd. Enjoyed it!