Flow Fridays @ World Square Pub (WSP): Thursday 24th December 2009

Assessment Time: 11:30 – 3:30am
Website: http://www.flowfridays.com.au
Address: 680 George St Sydney (Formerly Equilibrium)
Dress Code: Casual / Smart Casual. Girls wore dresses, and most guys wore nice shoes with collared shirts.
Door Policy: Tight on the female/male ratio. Bring girls with you if you are a guy wanting to get in. Many a man hath been rejected from Flow for being alone or by grouping with his fellow man. This in turn helps with atmosphere
Guestlist: See website
Cover Charge / Entry Fee: $10 tonight for all patrons. Only for tonight, as there was less patronage on Christmas Eve/ Thursdays.
Inside: The Flow event is only held upstairs. It’s a small room for 200 or so people.
Cloak Room: None
Bar: $5 Gin and Tonics
DJ: Typical Asian RnB DJs on rotation
Music: RnB
Crowd: Entirely Asian.
Entertainment: Not even an MC tonight, so it was just the DJ holding the show together.

Atmosphere: Very dead in the beginning – usually its packed on Fridays, but it *is* christmas eve. Around midnight it still isn’t packed, but it is getting busy. At around 1am the place is definitely very packed now, which was pretty good.
Timeline

Is it me or do some of the girls here just hate conversation?
I went in and say my hellos to friends. Suddenly a girl leaps on me and dances very close to me! Whoa..

James: Hello
Her: Hey
James: who are you?
Her: (cutting me off) I dont want to know you!
James: um, ok!
(we kiss)
I will spare you the boring details of it… This was bizarre, I don’t even know her name. After a few bizarre minutes of kissing, she then runs away and goes back to a guy and resumes hugging and kissing with him, who was probably her boyfriend! Sickening. Oh well..

Friend gets kicked out
I have a friend, Special K, who dances quite promiscuously, very close to a stripper like-way. The boys love it, but she gets kicked out for being too sexual on the dance floor. That is so not fair, there wasn’t really much else to perve on tonight!

I don’t deserve this… another girl?
By miracle freak of nature, I am dancing with another asian girl, and somehow we are kissing.. I really don’t know why or what I did to deserve this. It could have been a lack of guys, I don’t know. Then she left to go home without inviting me! How rude, haha… I think I was getting pretty drunk right now.

Arrivederci
Well more dancey dancey, met some other friends – we sodded off home at closing time.

Recommendation:
This was a good turnout for Christmas Eve. Not too packed, and not dead, it was just right, but only after 1am. Before that it was pretty crap.

Flow Fridays on Christmas Eve Thursday @ WSP - 6.5/10

Location – Equilibrium Hotel, Corner of George and Goulburn st.

http://www.equilibriumhotel.com.au/

Description – Bottom level is the bar level with lounges and a long bar with lots of beer on tap. Outdoors area for smoking. It looks modern and stylish. A DJ plays but the music is such that it is subdued and relaxing.. not for clubbing. A set of stairs leads you upstairs to the ‘Trust’ bar level, where a smaller room is presented.

Surrounding the centre floor are beds (!) made of leather with accompanying cushions. There is a small DJ area but in the centre stage is a slightly elevated area for bands to play.

[Event]

Cover Charge – Free

Music – House beats by DJ but sung by a live singer with accompanying bongo drummer. 9pm onwards

Crowd – Mixed, but not dodgy.

Atmosphere – Fun.. there was a bongo drummer !

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

[Leadup]

I was drinking with old workmates. Too lazy to find a club we went upstairs.

[Experiences]

Didn’t do much except dance with Sam most of the time (I have a thing for her). The DJ played some beat to a commercial house song and the singer would do her thing.. going through all the goodies. Everyone seemed to like it. They went through the songs quite quickly each time instead of playing the song in its entirety.

Shop closed up at midnight to kick us all out.

[Summary]

Go here for a cheap fun dance with a bongo flavour !