Club entertainment in Australia
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Alumbra
Great music and a stunning location will impress – even if the Bali-meets-Morocco follies of the decorator don't.
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Palms on Oxford
No one admits to coming here, but the occasional queues prove them liars. In this underground dance bar, the heyday of Stock Aitken Waterman never ended. It may be uncool, but if you don’t scream when Kylie hits the turntables you’ll be the only one.
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Yu
Debut the sassy new Eastern Suburbs you at Yu. Sydney’s best house DJs and vocal MCs spin hip hop, nu-skool, vocal and funky house in three rooms divided by sliding video screens. Do Over Sunday sessions give you the chance to relive the highlights of Friday and Saturday nights. Upstairs is Soho Bar, an art-deco space where visiting celebs repair to shoot pool.
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Morocco's
Run by Koala Backpackers, Morocco's is Hervey Bay's only true nightclub. It is usually crowded with young, hard-drinking, looking to hook-up backpackers. There is a strict ID policy (no-one under 18), but once you get past the giant bouncers, you'll be inside a disco-like noise-proof dance hall with multicoloured lights and a giant flat screen TV playing MTV's latest hits.
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Lady Lux
The Lady was having a facelift when we visited, but we’re assured that the sophisticated but seductive vibe of this intimate club will endure (let us know if not!). Friday is underground house night with loads of international DJs. Sunday is mammoth, attracting the young and restless, sticking it out until the first train back to the ’burbs.
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Cross Lounge
It's so hot and new the bouncers are working overtime. This classy disco sports a glowing pink bar, a lounge area for wallflowers and of course the hoppin' dance floor. Wear your best and get ready for slammin' house and funk music. Friday night is ladies' night, complete with male strippers. It's located above the snazzy Bourbon bar.
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Q Bar
With more reincarnations than Cleopatra over the years, this funky and eclectic joint (located in the Exchange Hotel) has DJs playing nightly. Weekends means house and dance music, but if you're not into that there's always the pool table and cocktail bar. On Fridays and Saturdays this place should be more accurately named Queue Bar.
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Tank
Down an alleyway dark and dank is Tank. They’ve got a VIP room – the question is, are you ‘I’ enough? Muster tankloads of glamour and crash the party. Otherwise, mingle with waaay -too-young, clean-shaven stockbrokers and their waiflike girlfriends in this world-class underground club.
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3rd Class
Legendary ‘if your name is not on the list, you’re not coming in’ club Honkytonks imploded a few years back and was reborn as this perversely dingy club that draws a very young, very up-for-it crowd. The antiaesthetic can be both shocking and appealing, depending on the time of night.
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Double O
Make the illuminated 'o' within an 'o' down the end of Sniders Lane your target for sneaker-busting beats till dawn. Downstairs is concrete and exposed plumbing, simply furnished with little hideaway booths for D&Ms. Upstairs is the place to boogie beneath the mirror balls to hip-hop and drum and bass.
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Candy’s Apartment
It’s dark and very sweaty in this subterranean venue with two bars, a dance floor and a space for bands to play (Aussie acts Wolfmother and the Presets have both graced Candy’s stage). At weekends they pack ’em in and you’ll find plenty of guys and gals scanning the crowd hoping they won’t go home alone.
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Onesixone
The haunt of trendy southerners (of the river that is), this sceney club is a beautiful people’s meat market. It doesn’t stay refined all night though, and after the cocktails, mixed drinks and other enhancements have kicked in, the bedlam of good dance music and happy young things takes over.
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Funk Club
Like the man says, 'Funk is its own reward'. On Friday nights, the Funk Club is full of colour and fun. Recently relocated from Leederville to much-loved live music venue the Rosemount Hotel, the Funk Club's happy punters bop away for hours here, kicking off their weekend with a bang.
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Brown Alley
This historical pub hides away a fully fledged nightclub with a 24-hour licence. It's enormous, with distinct rooms that can fit up to 1000 people.
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Eve
Florence Broadhurst wallpapers, a black granite bar and Louis chairs set the tone, which gets rapidly lower as the night progresses. Footballers, glamour girls and the odd lost soul come for cocktails and commercial house. Expect to queue after 9pm.
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Hoey Moey Pub
The kind of place that may leave you deaf in one ear and with a layer of stick from the carpet on your shoes, the Hoey Moey isn't too proud turn thongs away. Pool comps, live music and terrifying karaoke sessions are nightly norms.
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Revolver Upstairs
Rowdy Revolver can feel like an enormous version of your own lounge room, but with 54 hours of nonstop music come the weekend, you're probably glad it's not.
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Alhambra Lounge
This place caters to clubbers who have outgrown their glow sticks. Themed around a Spanish castle, the dark red interiors are filled with sofas and private booths. Tunes are typically break-beat, house and new-school funk.
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Icbm & Meche
Young drinking crowds attend this clubbing complex, with the music-blasted bar icbm downstairs and the dancehall Meche upstairs. Hosting the odd international DJ, the complex diversifies with Wednesday comedy nights.
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Empire
The Empire’s street-level corner bar is a popular spot for kick-starting a night out. People who like their beats hard go upstairs to the moon bar for drum and bass.
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Boutique
This opulent little spot on a funky little strip fills its plush booths with lovely, lithe young things who are heavy on the hair product and light on the attire.
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Warehouse Nightclub
This is one of Devonport's few clubbing hangouts and draws a young crowd to boogie to up-and-coming bands a few times a month and Saturday-night DJs.
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Peel Hotel
The Peel is one of the best-known and most popular gay venues in Melbourne, but it also attracts a lesbian crowd. It’s the last stop of a big night.
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Central Hotel
Stick your elbows out and reach for the lasers at Bundy’s loosest night spot where pretty young things and backpackers crowd in every weekend.
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Griff nightclub
The ugly modern Griff Hotel can be a fun place, especially on Saturday night. It often has local bands and is open late.
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