Favela Nightclub downstairs area

It’s a new promoter, same music and same venue. Been nagged to go as I was originally going to go to The Tunnel- so here we go!

Quick review: Friday rnb @ Favela (New Promoters)
Assessment Time: Midnight – 3:00AM
Opening Hours: Unknown – 3:00AM
Lockout: None
Website: http://www.favela.com.au
Address: Kings Cross, Sydney
Dress Code / Door Policy: Casual ok.
Entry Fee / Cover Charge: $25. $20 on guestlist.
Guestlist: Yes, facebook event.
Occurence: Weekly on Fridays.
Cloak Room: $5
Bar: 2 bars.
Music: RnB
Crowd: Asians and Wogs. Mostly asians on the dancefloor
Entertainment: An MC, but that’s about it.
Atmosphere: Initially pretty shit an later picked up for a short bit in the main room.  Downstairs was a private function but it was pretty dead.
360 Video:

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Only asians are dancing.
Most of the time in the main rnb dancefloor, only us asians are dancing. Occasionally some of the other natios would dance but its not a very big dancefloor

Taunted by cloak room people
As I leave, I realise I lost my cloak room ticket. The guys taunt me and tell me they are going to keep my stuff. I impressed them with a blood type analysis of their personality, and they let me have my bag back.

Arrivederci
Left at closing time

Recommendation
I did not expect much to happen here, and I was right. Don’t come here on Friday.. It is not worth the high entry fee. 4/10

Highlife - Favela Podium

I’ve always wanted to go back to Favela. With Privilege Bar closed, their Friday RnB nights moved to Favela – It was time to check it out – Dance buddies C and Marty are with me tonight – here we go!

Highlife @ Favela Nightclub Sydney

Assessment Time: 12:50am – 1:50am
Website: http://www.favela.com.au, http://www.paulstrangepresents.com
Address: 1 Kellet Way, Potts Point, Sydney
Dress Code / Door Policy: Casual ok. Hats were ok in here.
Entry Fee / Cover Charge: $20
Guestlist: send to guestlist@paulstrangepresents.com
Inside: This is a two room setup. As you walk in, you will see lounges and a central bar. On the lower level is a tiny dancefloor area for 20 or so people and a DJ. This is where the old school and funky house is playing. There are two separate flights of stairs to go up to the main room. Here is a slightly larger floor for 50 or so people. Bar, DJ, and lounges along the side. There is also a VIP room if you choose to borrow.
Cloak Room: None
Bar: $4 Tap Beers, $6 House shots. The wait was about 5 minutes for a glass of water.
DJs: Moto, Tikelz, Samurai, Mo Funk, Maurice Beats
Music: RnB, Hip Hop, Old School, Funky House. No real complaints.
Crowd: Mostly white. I think we were the only asians in here. Everyone here is young and good looking.
Entertainment: There is an MC in the main room to help out with the atmosphere. The lights help as well.
Atmosphere: It was pretty crap throughout the whole place. I heard Saturdays are packed, so I assumed Friday tonight was to be awesome as well. Well, it wasn’t. It was pretty shit. There were no more than 5 people on the dancefloor below, and no more than 10 in the main pit of the dancefloor.

Videos:

Walkthrough:

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Video of the ceiling lights:

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Timeline

Taking over the floor right away
I found my friends pretty much right away, and within 5 minutes we have taken over the place.By taking over, I mean everybody else has been intimidated by us and evacuated the dancefloor.

Dancefloor pit at Favela - Highlife Fridays. This is the peak of it.

Taking over the second floor
We went downstairs and there were about 4 people there. We dance, and they stare at us. We are rocking it out, and then after a song or two we are bored and go back upstairs.

Arrivederci
The place just got more dead and dead and we left after an hour to go to Soho

Recommmendation

I did arrive late, but even so, it should still be somewhat busy at 1am. A good venue, two promoters (Paul Strange Presents and Hypnotize Entertainment) should have usually guaranteed a good night tonight, but it was not meant to be. Perhaps Kings Cross is never meant to have an RnB night for the white folk that frequents it.

Highlife @ Favela Nightclub (2nd week of opening) – 3/10

[ Coco @ Favela ]

Website: http://www.favela.com.au
Address 1 Kellet Way, Potts Point
Music: House, Retro
Cover Charge: $20
Crowd: Young, mostly white but it looks like they were taking everyone in

[Favela]
Walked in and saw the restaurant / lounge area. People drinking and relaxing. I went straight upstairs – The dancefloor in front of the DJ is quite small but you could basically dance anywhere around the lounges in the area. Looking above are the lights, which take up the entire space of the ceiling. I thought the lights would play according to the music, but it follows a predefined lighting pattern. Nethertheless its sexy.

Later downstairs was cleared to play the Retro music. Even a smaller dance floor with less people, about 5x5m. Good vibe though.

(Music) The music was good. Favela claims to not play commercial house music, so it was good to enjoy the new house sounds that were to probably become commercialised. The volume of the music wasnt as loud as other clubs.. this made it really easy to talk and dance at the same time.. nothing I have seen at any other club. However at times, the pace of the house music was a bit too slow, and I didnt feel the full potential of it.

The bottom floor was retro .. all your classic retro songs were being played. Good times.

[Timeline]
People were saying that there was usually a 1 hour line outside. I arrived and there was no line. Apparently the Saturday before Xmas is a very dead one.. I just chose to arrive to Favela at an unfavourable time.

It was about 11.30 and the dancefloor was busy with women.. with men ogling alongside on the walls. I was dressed up quite well, and I looked at these guys. They were wearing shirts, jeans and sneakers. I felt very overdressed. I did get a photo with some randoms.

The place looked pretty empty, so nobody new joined the floor. It was just me and about 10 girls who were in their own circles. It was about an hour before some guys joined. One of the guys who spoke to me told me this place is usually packed, and that I did pick an unlucky night to join the fun.

Nyarr..
So these two guys looked at me and went “NYARR..”.. you know.. that manly excited grunt that men yell at each other. I replied with a “NYYYARRR”… then what do you think they said in return?? “NYARRRR!!!”

Say Nyarr..

So this conversation kept going with “nyar nyar?” “nyar!!”, and lots of hugging. Not one word of English was spoken in this primal conversation…

Coda
That was pretty much it. The place closed at 3am (!!) which was pretty wierd for a place like this near the cross. It was full of guys anyway as usual at the end of it. I will give this place another chance on a better night as I did like the atmosphere of the whole place.