Havana
Candy Dreams (Final Night) @ Havana Club de Luxe: Friday 21st May 2010
by James on May.21, 2010, under Havana, RnB
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A friends birthday at Havana, so here we go!
Candy Dreams (Final night) @ Havana club deluxe
Assessment Time: 11:30PM – 02:00AM
Opening Hours: 10:30PM – 02:00AM
Lockout: None
Website: N/a
Address: 169 Oxford St, Sydney
Dress Code / Door Policy: Anything goes.
Entry Fee / Cover Charge: $15 on guestlist.
Occurence: Tonight was the final night of this particular event.
Inside: Dancefloor for about 250 people surrounded by lounges, and 3 bars.
Cloak Room: $4 for standard size. $6 for larger items
Music: RnB, House mashup.
Crowd: Asian.
Entertainment: Modelling show. Tonight was the grand final where 8 of the most beautiful girls from previous rounds, strut it out for the $1000 grand prize.
Atmosphere: Dead. Pretty much the worst I’ve seen Havana at.
Video: 360 from the side bar:
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Candy Dreams Thursday @ Havana Club Deluxe: 1st April 2010
by James on Apr.01, 2010, under Havana, Hip Hop, RnB
Asian Night at Havana - Thursday 1st April 2010
Good Friday is on tomorrow and all the clubs in Sydney are closed that day, so they are open Thursday night in lieu… Just left Space with Derelict, to meet up with Marty and some other female friends, so here we go!
Candy Dreams Lingerie Party @ Havana Club de Luxe
Assessment Time: Midnight – 02:30am
Opening Hours: 10:30pm – 03:00am
Website: http://www.havanaclub.com.au, http://www.teamhkr.com
Address: 169 oxford st, Darlinghurst Sydney
Dress Code / Door Policy: Casual ok. I had dress shoes, a vest and collared shirt on. Others wore t-shirts and some girls wore corsets tonight.
Entry Fee / Cover Charge: $25. $20 on guestlist before midnight. I employed use of my free pass from the last week I visited Havana.
Guestlist: See promoter website
Inside: Walk upstairs two flights of stairs to the top level of the building, where Havana is. Main dancefloor for 250 or so people, with 3 bars on 3 sides, and DJ on the 4th wall. Lounges and carpeted areas surround the dancefloor.
Cloak Room:$4
Bar: Didn’t drink tonight
Music: RnB with the occasional House mashup
Crowd: Mostly asian with a mix of the others such as euro, aussie. Mostly local.
Entertainment: Podiums in the middle in front of the DJ and next to him. Dancing poles are not installed tonight.
Atmosphere: It was a Thursday, so it wasn’t as packed as a typical Friday night, nethertheless it was still busy enough to keep it away from the status of ‘dead’. Later around 2am it did die down considerably.
Video - 360 View of the main floor around midnight
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Candy Dreams @ Havana Club de Luxe Sydney: Friday 26th March 2010
by James on Mar.26, 2010, under Havana, RnB
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Katsuyaku Girls @ Havana Club Deluxe Sydney: Friday 19th February 2010
by James on Feb.19, 2010, under Havana, RnB
3am in Havana Asian RnB night.
A new promoter has taken over Havana for two weeks only. Last week was packed out, and tonight was week two. I somehow got stuck at Haymarket Hotel, but eventually worked my way to Havana, albeit late at 2:30am, so here we go!
Katsuyaku Girls @ Havana Club de Luxe
Assessment Time: 2:30am – 4:00am
Website: http://www.havanaclub.com.au
Address: 169 Oxford St, Darlinghurst, Sydney
Dress Code / Door Policy: Casual ok. I was wearing a top hat, collared shirt, jeans and dress shoes, which had no complaints upon entry. Entry Fee / Cover Charge: $25 full price after midnight. They’ve upped it and it hurts my wallet.
Guestlist: Check facebook page.
Inside: One main danceflor for about 200 or so people. Both sides are lounge and booth areas. DJ at the front, and a bar on each other side – Enough to keep one happy
Cloak Room: $4 Bar: Didn’t drink tonight Music: At point of arrival (2.30am) it was some rnb, hip hop and house all mixed up.
Crowd: Asian with a few euros and islanders as well. It’s a little mixed.
Entertainment: Two dancing poles. Earlier in the night the Katsujuku girls were dancing the poles to the amazement of the crowd. There is also an MC tonight to keep the night going.
Atmosphere: Enough people and barely enough women to keep wanting to dance. I was surprised at the number of people left at this time.
Video
(I caught it during the house segment. Look at the crowd go!)
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DCMs @ Havana Club de Luxe – Saturday 24th October 2009
by James on Oct.24, 2009, under Havana, House, Trance
DCMs @ Havana
A birthday for a friend. She has chosen Havana, so here we go!
Assessment Time: 22:45- 1:30am
Website: http://www.havanaclub.com.au
Address: 169 Oxford St, Darlinghurst, Sydney
Dress Code: Casual OK. Hats OK.
Entry Fee / Cover Charge: $25. $20 on guestlist (?)
Guestlist: see website. No problems getting in
Inside: One central dance floor, three bars. Private room in the corner, and lounges everywhere.
Cloak Room: Yes
Music: ‘Scouse’ House and Trance. It was actually pretty good tonight, as the DJ has a big group of songs to choose from. Of course, he chose some of the popular house songs as well as mixing it up with a bit of progressive trance. It was pretty good i would say.
Crowd: Dominantly Euro, some Aussies.
Entertainment: Dancers on the podiums. No MC’s tonight, but dancing chicks are good enough for me.
Atmosphere: Good vibe. Not as packed as the Chocolate City RNB nights, but still busy nonetheless. A good vibe in general.
Video: 360 View from the dancefloor
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Candy Paint / Chocolate City @ Havana Club Deluxe Sydney – 16th October 2009
by James on Oct.16, 2009, under Havana, RnB
Friend has suggested a night out to Havana. So I’ve sent in a guestlist and invited everyone.. here we go!
My booth reserve sign at Havana
Chocolate City / Candy Paint @ Havana
Assessment Time: 11:30pm – 4:00am
Opening Times: 10:30pm – 4:30am
Website: http://www.myspace.com/chocolatecitysydney
Address: 169 Oxford St Sydney
Dress Code: Casual ok. I had a t-shirt and jeans.
Entry Fee / Cover Charge: $15 on guestlist. $20 otherwise
Guestlist: See website for link. I send mine to candypaint.fridays@gmail.com
Inside: Setup hasn’t changed. One central dance floor, three bars. Private room and lounges everywhere.
Cloak Room: Yes.
Music: RnB
Crowd: Mostly Asian
Entertainment: Podium dancers, fancy lights, MC
Atmosphere: Pretty busy and packed on the dancefloor, and surrounding areas.
Video: 
Asian crowd at havana. Spot me if you can =)
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Candy Paint / Chocolate City @ Havana Club Deluxe (Friday Night)
by James on Apr.17, 2009, under Havana, RnB
Two friends wanted to go Havana tonight, so I sent in a guestlist. Organisers even gave me a free booth! woohoo! So off we went!
Candy paint / Chocolate City
When: Every Friday Night
Entry / Cover charge: $25 general entry. Guestlist is free before 10:30 (chance of getting in before then is unlikely), $15 before midnight.
Attire: Casual accepted, including all hats.
Music: RNB
Crowd: Asian
Timeline
Jason re-appears
Got in and the first thing I saw was Jason, the Korean bum dancer from the Bamboo events. He was up on the podium doing his thing. I later say hi to him but he doesn’t recognize me, as usual – he probably has hundreds of fans saying hi to him randomly. The last time we met clubbing, I was in a fully fledged santa suit. Tonight I was just plain James. I think he was wearing his favourite green striped polo shirt. He must be sponsored by the polo green striped division.
My booth gets stolen
The organisers – so nice of them, reserved me one of the lounge booths at the club. So, what a surprise that when we got into Havana, when there was no longer one for me. All the other lounges had “reserved for Anna” “reserved for Ben”, etc etc… and there was two booths which had their “reserved for” signs pulled down. One of them was mine!!! GRRRR which one stole my booth!!?? I didn’t really want to start a confrontation, so I let it go. This was definitely karma getting back at me for what we did earlier this year – we pulled down the “reserved for Susan” sign then stole her booth.
Music/Dancing
The 4 of us chose a orner near the DJ and danced our socks off. The place was packed to the rafters – It was the first time this year that Havana was completely packed on the dance floor. We were literally stuck in our corner and didn’t have the freedom to move anywhere – so we were really restricted to limited dancing moves such as swaying, and “raising your hands in the air”, which happened quite often.
Music was typically RNB, and I had no complaints. Most of the DJ’s mixed it up well, chopping out the boring bits.
Otherwise quite a good atmosphere if you love your music and your asians
Claire tries to hook me up
She intoduced me to a Chinese girl she met last week.. from Bamboo. She was cute. Not bad at all. I said hi, and that was that. Later Claire tells me she tried to get us two to hook up. It didn’t help that I had a scream mask on when we were formally introduced:
Posing with an unsuspecting clubber
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