Clubbing with James Tran

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here for a birthday on a Sunday – here we go! Sundayze @ The Albion Assessment Time: 8pm-Midnight Website: http://www.albionhotel.com.au/ Address: 135 George St, Parramatta Dress Code: Casual ok. Most guys wore t-shirts, and girls wore dresses. Entry Fee / Cover Charge: Free Guestlist: n/a Inside: Courtyard was open only tonight. Small narrow dancefloor on the side to hold about 100 people. Cloak Room: N/a Bar: One bar DJ: DJ Jorgie Jay, DJ Fresh & DJ Adrian Allan Music: House, RnB, Pop Crowd: Dominantly European and Middle Eastern. Some Aussies and no Asians except for us. Lots of men with tight t-shirts on showing off their muscles. It’s gross. Entertainment: n/a Atmosphere: Dead early, but just like any normal nightclub, people did not dance until around 10:30, but after that it got pretty packed in the small dance area. In the courtyard it was bustling, with most tables occupied. It was a good atmosphere later in the night. (continue reading…)

Fridays @ Star Bar Assessment Time: 22:45pm – 01:45 Website: http://www.starbar.com.au Address: George St, Sydney Door Policy: Casual dress ok. Outfits are ok. However groups of guys are not ok. At its peak it is hard to get in, but after 2am, you should be able to get in wearing most attire. Entry Fee / Cover Charge: Free Guestlist: None required. However if you don’t match door policy, you will get the ‘guestlist’ treatment. Inside: 3 levels, but only the top floor has a proper setting for clubbing. Medium-large round shaped dancefloor surrounded by lounges. DJ booth at the front. The middle floor has a DJ as well, but the volume of the music is laid back. There are also pool tables on these bottom two floors, and extra lounges. Cloak Room: none. Bar: 2 bars top level. DJ: Video DJ for the top level, and normal DJ middle level. Music: Rnb, house, pop.. all the typical top 40 tracks. Crowd: Mixed nationalities, a mix of backpackers and locals, and mixed ages. Entertainment: Glowsticks were being thrown out by the security guy onto the stage. Atmosphere: Pretty average to good. (continue reading…)

It’s been a while since I’ve properly been here for an entire night, so here we go! RnB superclub @ Tank Assessment Time: 11:30-2:30am Website: http://www.rnbsuperclub.com Address: 3 Bridge Lane, Sydney CBD, Sydney Dress Code: (Men) You must waer collared shirts, no dirty shoes, no sneakers (unless they are classy e.g. Lacoste), and no chucks. No bucks parties, no chucks, no large groups, no high proportion of men to women in the small groups. That’s from what I can remember from the guestlist terms of entry. (women) Just turn up. Entry Fee / Cover Charge: $20 on guestlist, $25 on the door otherwise Guestlist: Send an email to info@platinum1.com.au. You are then rewarded with a FORM to sign. Yeah, a form! The form lists the complete guestlist rules above. You need to sign it and send it back. After that, there is still no guarantee that you will be allowed entry. But geez, what a hassle! This must be the only club that I’ve ever sent a guestlist to that has forced me to sign a waiver. Inside: The RnB superclub nights have apparently died down!! So much so the upstairs room was closed. So tonight, only the main room and the back room den was open. I was a bit disappointed that its died down. The tight dress code is turning away many to go to other places Cloak Room: $3 i think. Good value. Bar: One bar for each room. Main room the wait can be upto 10 minutes. the back room you only have to wait up to 5 minutes. Music: RnB obviously. Modern banging  tracks. There may have been an lectro mashup.. Back room was old school rnb. Less loud as well in here. Crowd: Mix of asians, indians, aussies, euros Entertainment: No podium dancers. I think there was an MC Atmosphere: Pretty pumping in the main room. Back room was more laid back, pretty quiet in comparison to the main room. (continue reading…)

Fridays @ Kings Cross Hotel Assessment Time: 12:00 – 12:15am Location: 248 William St, Kings Cross Website: www.kingscrosshotel.com.au Inside & Music: Bottom level general area band/pop music/bar (small), Level 3 chillout (small), Level 4 RnB (medium), Level 5 Private Function. Cover Charge: Only on Level 4 there was a $10 charge Dress Code: Casual OK. Atmosphere: Dead. See timeline below for details. Crowd: White Video: If you managed to watch that whole video, you would have noticed the club was missing a little something to make it better. Can you guess what it is?? Can you? Why yes, my dear Watson. It’s missing people. Elementary. Timeline - Had to walk up the stairs to get to level 3 - Level three only had 2 people when we go there – the DJ and the bartender. NO PUNTERS WERE INSIDE. - Walking up to level 4, there were about 5 people who somehow got sucked into coming here. So shithouse. - When we reached level 4 – The DJ stopped playing music. - When the DJ stopped playing, Martin makes his own music in his head and waltzies right in. “Shouldn’t we charge him?” one of the cash register guys say. “No, we can’t charge him. We can only charge cover if the DJ is playing music.” Recommendation Let’s cut to the chase. Avoid this place for general dancing at all costs. This goes in the scrap alongside Golden Palace (GP always has drugs.. and violence to the level where police have to be called in). Drinks are ok here though, but that’s not why you’re on this website. Kings Cross Hotel – Zero (0) out of however many marks you want.  This place sucks.