Vic Best nightspots to go in Melbourne

[Run n Spread]

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...

In that case.

The pub scene is pretty dead. You have one of 3 options:

a) After an event. Where it is empty and suddenly a hoard of pissed revlers wanders in after said game/show/race.

b) After work crowd. Stop for 1 or 2 after work which turns into 8-10 but they leave when the sad weirdos show up

c) Tourists. Who crack open their first at 3 as they can't find anything else to do in Melbourne.

 

[getthefooty]

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.

This is not my experience at all.

I am mid 20s, just finished uni. Last three days our group of friends have started off drinking at a pub and gone from there. Occasionally we go to some sort of ritzier venue (not a club) but the vast majority of our time socialising is spent talking garbage at a pub. Seems to be the same with other groups I know too.

Maybe what you are referring to is a slightly younger demographic but I don't think pubs are going out of fashion anytime soon.

 

[tazaa]

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

no?

**** Yeah Bubble

 

[00Stinger]

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

no?

Are they still around?
Use to rock them in the early 00's.

You forgot Bass Station

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[Wojcinski]

Are they still around?
Use to rock them in the early 00's.

You forgot Bass Station

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Bubble, PHD and Twister are definitely gone, not sure about the others. Bass Station closed just before I started going out

 

[JG22]

Never heard of any

 

[Angus Young]

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.

campaigners haven´t grown up.... good on them. Wait till you get to that age before u knock it.... it´s either have a good time for the last years of your life or sit home with your fat wife and wait to die.

 

[JG22]

There's not seriously dads on googs in circus?

 

[NMFCMUFC]

Wah Wah lounge, Circus, Tramp, Cloud 9

**** how many pingers do you do

 

[Silent Alarm]

Baby Boomers are statistically the biggest drinkers in the country and technically the biggest abusers of the catch-all term 'drugs' in Australia (generally due to abuse of prescriptions). I was down the beach the other day and smelt doob expecting it to be a bunch of scungey Germans slacklining and drinking Hammer N Tongs but to my surprise it was some 70+ year old women. Earlier that week a few of them were pissed in the sun dancing to some twat with an acoustic guitar at the pub. I guess that's what you get when you never had to fight in a war, found yourself with a million dollar house 40 years later, and have nothing else to do because there's such a thing as a retirement age.

It's like that whole dinner party vibe, the kids have gone off to bed, and someone suggests 'I have a joint if anyone would like to partake?'

 

[NMFCMUFC]

There's not seriously dads on googs in circus?

I work near chapel st, they're usually late 30s, early 40s you see em stumbling out at 7:30am

Pawn & Co on Greville is similar but younger crowd, mid to late 20s

 

[NMFCMUFC]

Baby Boomers are statistically the biggest drinkers in the country and technically the biggest abusers of the catch-all term 'drugs' in Australia (generally due to abuse of prescriptions). I was down the beach the other day and smelt doob expecting it to be a bunch of scungey Germans slacklining and drinking Hammer N Tongs but to my surprise it was some 70+ year old women. Earlier that week a few of them were pissed in the sun dancing to some twat with an acoustic guitar at the pub. I guess that's what you get when you never had to fight in a war, found yourself with a million dollar house 40 years later, and have nothing else to do because there's such a thing as a retirement age.

It's like that whole dinner party vibe, the kids have gone off to bed, and someone suggests 'I have a joint if anyone would like to partake?'

Baby Boomers are legit the most spoilt generation iof the past 100 years but are World Champion whingers

 

[Silent Alarm]

Baby Boomers are legit the most spoilt generation iof the past 100 years but are World Champion whingers

A little while ago at the pub:

Old bloke in boat shoes, white RM Williams shorts, navy blue Polo Ralph Lauren linen shirt, Gant cap: 'hey mate can I grab this stool?'
Me: 'ah sorry I'm actually waiting for someone, might be a bad move if I dragged them here and there's no seat for them'
Old codge: 'Come on mate, you guys are young'

At this point I turn around and notice there's about five of them and there's already six chairs, old prick then goes on to tell me how they could possibly maybe be expecting someone soon and they want a chair for them before it gets too busy. Says how I'm being disrespectful. Silly old bastard.

Five minutes later one of his mates goes up and starts saying how the James Squire 150 Lashes (I swear this shit accounts for 75% of all alcoholic purchases made by people over 58) keg line needs replacing because his beer looks 'a little bit pale.' This is on the first warm day of the year when the pub is spilling out it's so busy.

 

[Dylan8]

Five minutes later one of his mates goes up and starts saying how the James Squire 150 Lashes (I swear this shit accounts for 75% of all alcoholic purchases made by people over 58) keg line needs replacing because his beer looks 'a little bit pale.' This is on the first warm day of the year when the pub is spilling out it's so busy.

I can't wait to be this much of an insufferable campaigner in my middle age

 

[NMFCMUFC]

Lol the entitlement is baffling

 

[showdownhero]

Lol the entitlement is baffling

Come back to rz pls

:monica:

 

[NMFCMUFC]

Come back to rz pls

:monica:

Lol I’ll try and pop back more

 

[showdownhero]

Lol I’ll try and pop back more

:dasit:

 

[class78]

best club to score mdma? asking for a mate

 

[TBellicious]

best club to score mdma? asking for a mate

Yeah my brother wants to know too

 

[class78]

Yeah my brother wants to know too

yeah just got off the phone with my dad. he's visiting from country south australia. he also wants to know.

 

[PP34]

There's not seriously dads on googs in circus?

Walked in there at 6am once and there was this bald 50 year old bloke who looked like he was straight out of The Sopranos with some old trashy women. Both looked out of it too.

Been in line multiple times too and had the bouncers tell these blokes to piss off and comeback later because they were too old.

 

[JG22]

best club to score mdma? asking for a mate

Any

 

[PP34]

campaigners haven´t grown up.... good on them. Wait till you get to that age before u knock it.... it´s either have a good time for the last years of your life or sit home with your fat wife and wait to die.

I don't know. They just stand out badly and they're not your regular 40-50 types either. They're complete weirdos.

Also don't know how you could deal with a comedown at that age. **** that shit.

 

[JG22]

Bizarre, oldest I've seen is maybe 30yo weird campaigners.

But I don't stay out past 4 tho