Vic Best nightspots to go in Melbourne

[PP34]

Which is unlikely to happen, pills aren't that dangerous as drugs go unless you take like 15

Cloud is filled with GHB though.

Very easy to end up dead taking GHB. Particularly when mixed with booze.

 

[Stratton_Gun]

Cloud is defs shifty. Underage too. And this is from someone who regularly used to go to rats. Pretty sure I've only been once or twice but I remembered I had sobered up a bit when I went in and I felt the oldest there by about a decade. Very few would.have been older than 19/20.
Average patron would be a skinny heavily tatted 18yo looking scummer who's there with his filthy looking gf who is wearing something between a provocative outfit and underwear.

 

[Silent Alarm]

Cloud is defs shifty. Underage too. And this is from someone who regularly used to go to rats. Pretty sure I've only been once or twice but I remembered I had scored up a bit when I went in and I felt the oldest there by about a decade. Very few would.have been older than 19/20.
Average patron would be a skinny heavily tatted 18yo looking scummer who's there with his filthy looking gf who is wearing something between a provocative outfit and underwear.

Don't you do go out anymore?

It was always a dream I'd one day see you out at Rats Strats.


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[Stratton_Gun]

Don't you do go out anymore?

It was always a dream I'd one day see you out at Rats Strats.

Been maybe 3 times this year. Hitting up Persa a bit more now which has had its own problems of late


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[tazaa]

Glamorama
You guys mentioned it on here a year or so ago
I dont rate any places in Melbourne so whats this place like?

 

[PP34]

Glamorama
You guys mentioned it on here a year or so ago
I dont rate any places in Melbourne so whats this place like?

I rate it. Crowd is fairly normal. Been pretty ****ed up most times I've been there so haven't paid too much attention to the music but I think it was okay.

Plenty of places to sit down and talk shit with people too if you don't want to be around the dance floor. If you're lucky too you can get in there pretty quickly without much of a line.

 

[JG22]

 

[PP34]

Bump. With uni break coming up, safe to say I'll be out a fair bit.

Are there any new places worth checking out?

Was giving Brunswick St a fair crack up until the last month or so when 21sts made going out too hard (**** dress up parties). Bit drained from that area though, even though it's cheaper to get home from there than it is the city. Actually ended up at that George Constanza themed bar a few weeks back without even realising. That's how much of a crock of shit that venue is. Maybe had one photo of George on the wall and that was it. Nice publicity stunt.

 

[katana]

the story goes that the guy's dad was named george, he died, and they were going to call it 'george's' irrespective of the constanza thing - that was just a nice broadsheet narrative.

anyway who ****ing knows where to go anymore. and why would going out even be a worthwhile thing. the other night i was at loch and key at 5am and hooked up with this girl who claimed to work at rats... apparently that club still exists. melbourne's 'club scene' is in a bad state of flux between replacing the mercat but not being as lamestream as lounge, or in a terrible location like sub club, or are full of trendy 'daddy-culturalalists' like hugs and kisses. or a wanky cocktail setup like toff. mercat was never even good but seemed to at least have a clearly defined aesthetic, venue and patron alike.

i guess the point is that there's no direction anymore, clubs don't have niches like when zany, but weirdly well-dressed prescription addicted girls would rock up at lib soc on a thursday (come to mention it, the death of lc foreboded death of them all). or the terrible normies at can't say, or that huge joint on bourke street. at least those venues seemed to represent something (good or bad) other than the egotistical dj, the bad drugs, and the watered-down beers.

 

[Catgirl]

Had a geeze at New Guernica last night with some friends

Wasn't too bad. Music was pretty repetitive and the crowd fairly older-inclined; was fairly Mercat-esque. Much prefer it to Cloud, do not rate Cloud even slightly

 

[Spirit Level]

Wah Wah lounge, Circus, Tramp, Cloud 9

 

[PP34]

Wah Wah lounge, Circus, Tramp, Cloud 9

You naming Melbourne's filthiest clubs?

I use to go to Circus a bit but I couldn't stand the methhead vibe. Also something weird about being out at 5am and seeing 40-50 year olds in there cooked off their heads.

 

[JG22]

the bottom end seems to be having a short spike with the new name

 

[Golden_6]

You naming Melbourne's filthiest clubs?

I use to go to Circus a bit but I couldn't stand the methhead vibe. Also something weird about being out at 5am and seeing 40-50 year olds in there cooked off their heads.

Can't stand Circus but get dragged there quite a bit as it seems to be the place where a lot of people from my area go out to when they're in the city. The place starts to get real weird after about 4am when a fair chunk of the **** doof crowd wanders over.

 

[PP34]

Can't stand Circus but get dragged there quite a bit as it seems to be the place where a lot of people from my area go out to when they're in the city. The place starts to get real weird after about 4am when a fair chunk of the **** doof crowd wanders over.

My first experiences at Circus came at 5-6am after failing to get into Revs. Incredibly interesting place at that time of morning that’s for sure. First time I went I had multiple blokes sitting next to me wanting to get with me. Good laugh.

Last time I went though some campaigner was talking about smoking meth in the smokers. Don’t think I’ve been since. Multiple times I’ve been there I saw meatheads clearly looking to start shit, not a great sight when you’re pinging.

 

[Silent Alarm]

melbourne's 'club scene' is in a bad state of flux between replacing the mercat but not being as lamestream as lounge, or in a terrible location like sub club, or are full of trendy 'daddy-culturalalists' like hugs and kisses.

saw u on the dancefloor,
diamante dotted cap
'choke me daddy' the enscription
wtf that's wack
'can you roll this for me?'
adding to ur addled-toll
poly drug using
for instagram abusing

 

[Silent Alarm]

In a way, the festival killed the club. Back then people would go out a lot and go to the Big Day Out and that was it.

Young people now generally have less money and less social skills and are interested in things that revolve around social media. People would rather go out once every six or seven weeks, take heaps of drugs, spending $400 on tickets and outfits and alcohol, and go to a festival. Bands also travel to Australia a lot more, and smaller acts can come and everyone does a sideshow, so wanting to see a band every so often for $50-130 eats up a lot of money for people. All sorts of people now travel to Europe. So in winter people would rather try and go to Europe and in summer just go to a festival every few weeks instead of regularly going to a pub or a nightclub. People also don't have parties anymore because no one moves out of home until 22-23, and at that age the allure of the club is much lesser.

There's also Tinder, which has probably helped people in a few ways but in other ways has really damaged the vibe of a pub.

If you go to an establishment that isn't in the CBD or say Fitzroy, a pub will generally mostly be full of two groups: borderline and Baby Boomers necking pints and buying counter meals, and your 30-40 group of young men or more commonly, young women, who live in the inner city and have some disposable income but don't have kids yet. They're on the rosés and at a renovated pub near Johnson Street/Brunswick Street. It is actually fairly rare to see a group of young people down a pub, and in my experience you're seeing maybe one or two. The flow-on effect of Tinder is people are generally socially ******ed and the golden days of maybe making friends or a girl out somewhere is gone. In a weird way, in the 90s it was probably boring as **** to meet your girlfriend down a Sunday session at your local, now having a relationship that started in a smoker's room is quaint.

The idea of clubbing now bores me to ****ing tears and I've cut back from being an everyday drinker to only doing it on weekends. The last few times I've been to a club I was so bored I remembered why I hated them at 18... you either get so ****ed up to enjoy it, that you're buying 10 drinks at $10, and you spend the next day sweating it out and feeling awful all day and night, or else you just look around and think wtf is the point of this. I'd definitely be down to go somewhere if there was a good DJ, and after a night of pints I'm not going home at 12am with nothing else to do the next day, but I guess you move on after 18-22 and that old text message you once sent out on a Thursday/Friday to get your weekend plans have gone. I used to love meeting a mate at Bourke Street Mall as the sun was setting or it was the middle of winter and the city was weirdly buzzing, going to someone's house with a carton that took you 25 minutes to pick out, and having a clear plan to leave home by the time a Chris or Brad Scott press interview started and to head to a specific venue, but at the same time it doesn't really hold much point anymore. Feels better to just decide on a pub somewhere and sit there and see what happens.

 

[Carl Hooper]

should start calling you Alex Rants

 

[Wojcinski]

Bubble, Twister, 3D, PHD/Infekted, Hard Kandy, Pharmacy

no?

 

[Bomberboyokay]

"Back in my day of 2013"

 

[katana]

"the world doesn't change in 4 years"

 

[JG22]

Deep post, but real.

Particularly the outer city pub part, feels out of place being there tbh. Feels even weird rocking up sober to a venue really.

Not sure people are socially ****ed but maybe the systems changed. Pulling a random is some sort of effort. Social media seems to shape young relationships.

 

[Silent Alarm]

I have never heard a single good word about Circus, it sounds like the sort of place where the worst possible demographics, although disparate, all cobble together. Sort of like a West Coast Eagles home game or the Railway Hotel.

At the same time seeing this thread warms the cockles of my heart. What will be the trendy drink? What will the kids drink? What are the omnipresent trends and what sounds are gonna bleed from woggy car windows and beer gardens? Has the round Ray Ban with thin gold frame already taken the early mantle of the obvious item for 2k17/18? What shitty footballers is everyone going to see out all the time? What will be the one-day festival/concert this year that everyone is 'looking for 2 tix happy to pay bit extra' for?

 

[Run n Spread]

In a way, the festival killed the club. Back then people would go out a lot and go to the Big Day Out and that was it.

Young people now generally have less money and less social skills and are interested in things that revolve around social media. People would rather go out once every six or seven weeks, take heaps of drugs, spending $400 on tickets and outfits and alcohol, and go to a festival. Bands also travel to Australia a lot more, and smaller acts can come and everyone does a sideshow, so wanting to see a band every so often for $50-130 eats up a lot of money for people. All sorts of people now travel to Europe. So in winter people would rather try and go to Europe and in summer just go to a festival every few weeks instead of regularly going to a pub or a nightclub. People also don't have parties anymore because no one moves out of home until 22-23, and at that age the allure of the club is much lesser.

There's also Tinder, which has probably helped people in a few ways but in other ways has really damaged the vibe of a pub.

If you go to an establishment that isn't in the CBD or say Fitzroy, a pub will generally mostly be full of two groups: borderline and Baby Boomers necking pints and buying counter meals, and your 30-40 group of young men or more commonly, young women, who live in the inner city and have some disposable income but don't have kids yet. They're on the rosés and at a renovated pub near Johnson Street/Brunswick Street. It is actually fairly rare to see a group of young people down a pub, and in my experience you're seeing maybe one or two. The flow-on effect of Tinder is people are generally socially ******ed and the golden days of maybe making friends or a girl out somewhere is gone. In a weird way, in the 90s it was probably boring as **** to meet your girlfriend down a Sunday session at your local, now having a relationship that started in a smoker's room is quaint.

The idea of clubbing now bores me to ******* tears and I've cut back from being an everyday drinker to only doing it on weekends. The last few times I've been to a club I was so bored I remembered why I hated them at 18... you either get so ****** up to enjoy it, that you're buying 10 drinks at $10, and you spend the next day sweating it out and feeling awful all day and night, or else you just look around and think wtf is the point of this. I'd definitely be down to go somewhere if there was a good DJ, and after a night of pints I'm not going home at 12am with nothing else to do the next day, but I guess you move on after 18-22 and that old text message you once sent out on a Thursday/Friday to get your weekend plans have gone. I used to love meeting a mate at Bourke Street Mall as the sun was setting or it was the middle of winter and the city was weirdly buzzing, going to someone's house with a carton that took you 25 minutes to pick out, and having a clear plan to leave home by the time a Chris or Brad Scott press interview started and to head to a specific venue, but at the same time it doesn't really hold much point anymore. Feels better to just decide on a pub somewhere and sit there and see what happens.

At the risk of calling the kettle black you have put way too much thought into this.

 

[Silent Alarm]

At the risk of calling the kettle black you have put way too much thought into this.

Of course but I'm bored shitless, this is a forum about putting thought into the selection policy of Nick Suban over Matt DeBoer.. I mean...