Clubbing with James Tran

Review Assessment Time: Sunday – Got in 11pm, left 1.30am Entry Fee / Cover Charge: Free Entry (everything else around the cross was free entry as well). Attire: Casual allowed. Door policy: Asians definitely allowed in on Sundays – the crowd was dominantly caucasian. Music was House. Commercial tunes and other electro-like stuff. Atmosphere was very loud, and high energy – It was probably 40-50% capacity but didn’t feel too empty, it was busier than any other places we checked out tonight. Fairly busy, but the side room was closed, as it was a sunday. Was with some guys and we parked at a spot at the back at one of the lounges. Ratio of women to men was good, until around 1am where it just became a sausage fest. Timeline I haven’t been dancing friday/saturday and I had real itchy feet. Danced with a guy – and he loved it, he was dancing out back so we went to the front and danced with.. more guys, who were also loving my dancing. Girls weren’t very willing to dance with me for some reason.. hmm I found an empty spot on the floor and did some dancing. A bunch of women  nearby were impressed. But instead of dancing with me, they cheered me on. I wanted some grinding damnit! This was the case most of the night, and we just got tired and left 1.30am. This is a good place for pure dancing on a Sunday night – since everything else is closed. Possibly Moulin rRuge would be the alternative for dancing but I have yet to check it out on a Sunday.

Friends want to go to Dragonfly for a birthday. A group of 10 asians try to go into Dragonfly on a saturday night? Ha!!! To my surprise, we are stopped before we even reach the line – “Are you on the guestlist?” Of course not.. “sorry, can’t let you in”. At least they didn’t wait until we lined up to get rejected for wearing too much Asian. Meanwhile, a bunch of other men just walk up past us and line up uninterrupted, then get in. So Plan B: Moulin Rouge! Location: 39 Darlinghurst Rd, Kings Cross, New South Wales 2011 Website: http://www.moulinrougesydney.com.au/ Inside: Entry takes you down a set of stairs to a well decorated set of rooms. It is exactly as it is.. a moulin rouge like lounge, down under beneath the street. A nice venue, but a little small dancefloor size wise. About Moulin Nights Music: House Crowd: Mixed. Asians, Euros, Aussies, Backpackers Dress Code: Casual Cover Charge / Entry Fee:  $20, but me and Henry got asked for $15. Weird as we didnt claim a guestlist. Occurrence: Every Saturday Atmosphere: Packed. Loud. Timeline + Early Coda 1. the birthday girl left to go to another club and didn’t join us at Moulin!? 2. everyone paid $20 to get in, except Henry and I. 3. These guys weren’t much into House music, especially this non-commercial/non vocal house. 4. A very small dance pit area. This pretty much meant that we left after 30 minutes. Disappointed. We ended up going to Shark hotel (There was literally ONE drunk guy dancing. I danced with him for a bit much to the amusement of the entire audience of 50 men and 4 women), then Cheers afterwards (Smelly as usual) NB: This was my second time here. First time was during xmas 2007, but was not blogged about.. I had a general good time and pretty much stayed the entire night.

Clubbing Spree Night 3… Out with Han, looking for a club. A man passes us a flyer to Dragonfly. Free entry. Han was wearing dodgy shoes… but somehow we got in! Sunday must be relaxed .. [ Promiscuous Disco @ Dragonfly ] Cover Charge – Free Door Policy – Relaxed Music – House Crowd – Young, dominantly white, no flouros. Atmosphere – Good, busy [ Timeline ] This was my first time clubbing with Han. He totally dissed my brand new (Ben Sherman!) shoes and wasn’t too eager about peacocking with the sunnies. I forced him wear the silly sunglasses and in a few minutes he had a random girl ask to take a photo. He didn’t want to give back the sunglasses back to me after that.. he was walking around like king dingaling dancing with everyone! So we spent most of the night just dancing away. It was quite packed for a club on a Sunday.. though it was the holiday season. I only managed to dance with some guys as far as I can remember.. Han was doing much better. I think the crowdiness makes it more difficult to meet people here – Too many dancers and not enough drinkers.. fun times! (continue reading…)

About Dragonfly Location – No. 1 Earl Place Potts Point

Website – http://www.dragonflysydney.com.au/

Bars – On the left of entry door is a inner room with a bar, and on the right is another bigger bar to service the loungers. You didn’t have to wait long at all for a drink. Service wise was good on the packed night.

Drink Pricing – $16 for a gin on ice and a vodka lemonade (small glass cups).

Food – Nil

Description – On entry is the rear dance floor. The DJ is on the left. The floor holds about 100 people, and occupies about 20% of the entire real estate. The first thing that catches your eye is the countless number of shiny disco balls along the ceiling.

The entire ceiling space above the dance area are shiny balls. It’s horrendously sexy. . The rest of the club is carpeted lounges, chairs, and along the walls around are elevated sit in areas for private functions. It is a one roomed club, about the same size as Havana.

About Taboo

Cover Charge – $20

Music – Commercial house throughout the entire night.

Crowd – Aussies and Euros. Even number of boys to girls. Everyone here was pretty.

Atmosphere – Crowded and fun. Big party atmosphere.

Repeat ? This is a weekly event.

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