Clubbing with James Tran

 

 

 

 

 

 

Homebake Sydney 2009 @ The Domain Assessment Time: 15:30pm – 11:00pm Opening Times: 12:00pm – 11:00pm Website: http://www.homebake.com.au Address: Royal Botanic Gardens, Mrs Macquaries Road, Sydney. Dress Code: Anything goes. I wore an orange jumpsuit. Everybody else was pretty casual, and being summer, it was lots of shirts, hats and skirts. Entry Fee / Cover Charge: Tickets were $99 Inside: Four or five areas. Most of the big acts were in the two main areas – the Main Stage and the Big Top, which is just a huge tent kind of thing. Food stalls inside, and a merry go round swinging thing. In the middle is a huge grass area to sit down. Plenty of toilets. Cloak Room: $5 Bar: $10 smirnoffs. Lines were extremely long today. Food: Rip off. $5 bottles of water. $7 hot chips, $5 Hot Dogs, $12 Salt and Pepper Squid Acts: Powderfinger, Jet, Hilltop Hoods, Eskimo Joe, Sia, Daniel Merriweather, Midnight Juggernauts, Sarah Blasko, A Special Best Of Performance By Tim Finn, Closure In Moscow, Short Stack, Phrase, Decoder Ring, Bumblebeez, Tumbleweed (Original Line-Up), Eddy Current Suppression Ring,  The Funkoars, The Middle East, The Aston Shuffle, Sugar Army, Record Producer, Shockone Music: It’s all Australian music today. Entertainment: The merry go round provided entertainment, as well as some of the small stores for tattoos or typical carnival like things. In between acts on the main stage, the TV screens would play some funny clips of people rendering their versions of popular songs. Crowd: Dominantly White Australian. I probably spotted a total of 7 or 8 other asians the whole day. Atmosphere: Throughout the day the good weather provided a very good atmosphere. This was a sold out event so there were just people everywhere, walking around, doing their thing. There was enough room to find your own spot in the grass and relax as well. The atmosphere at the two main stages was always pretty packed. I would say it was more intense in the Big Top than the main arena – it could have been because the Big Top had more acts which were ‘dance’ or crowd oriented. People in the Big Top were likely to dance and jump up and down. The Main Stage.. people just stood around singing along. (continue reading…)

A night out with Xav and Storm – The Gaff is apparently the best place to be. So here we go! Tuesdays : Coyote Night @ The Gaff Assessment time: 10:30 – 12:00am Address: 16-18 Oxford Square, Corner Oxford & Riley St Darlinghurst Sydney. Cover Charge / Entry Fee: $10. You are then given a voucher in which you can use for free entry next time, a free drink or some free food. Pretty good. Crowd: Backpackers and locals. Mixed ages, mixed nationalities due to the inherent nature of the backpacker. Music: Upstairs and Downstairs were a mix of top40, rnb, house, rock and pop. Inside: An outdoor smoking area. Ground floor is a bar, with a dance area in the corner to hold 20. Downstairs underground is a large clubbing area of 2 bars, lounges and a medium sized dance floor to hold about 100 people or so. Atmosphere: Friendly and .. party party party! Since everybody I knew had work the next day – there were only the unemployed or backpackers in this place, and it makes for a pretty friendly vibe. Met up with backpacker friends and we just danced around like mexican jumping beans. This place got very packed, and is unbelievably busy for a Tuesday night. There was basically no room on the dancefloor to dance around freely. Door Policy / Dress Code : Almost anything goes tonight. Mohawks ok. Entertainment: Cowgirls dancing on tables and a wet t-shirt contest – Thumbs up. (continue reading…)

A friend’s birthday. He has chosen to dance it out at Side Bar Fridays @ Side Bar (Assessment time: 10:30-2:30am) Address: Corner of George and Pitt St, Sydney Dress Code: Casual allowed. Hats allowed. Entry Fee/Cover Charge: Free all night Crowd: Backpackers from mixed backgrounds Music: Top 40, Pop, Rock, Rnb, House – general party tunes. So some tunes you’ll like, and some you wouldn’t. Atmosphere: It was pretty cold outside, so the place hadn’t reached capacity yet.  it was probably 40% capacity. The important bit was that there were people always dancing in the floor area. (continue reading…)