Xmas-New Years Clubbing Spree Night 6
I was in the area.. asked bongo (199bongo) which club was good on the north shore.. Bongo said to check out Cremorne Hotel on Thursdays..

[ Lucky Thursday’s @ SoBar (Cremorne Hotel) ]
Where: 287 Military Road, Cremorne
Website: www.sobar.com.au
Cover Charge: $15 (? May have been $10). Discount if you’re on a guestlist.Music: Commercial House
Crowd: ‘Pretentious’ as described by Bongo. White people. Young.
Dress Code: Not strict.
Atmosphere: Cold, then warm ?
Opening times: 8.30pm – 3am
Smirnoff Double Black: $8.50
Music: Commercial House

[ Timeline ] (11.30 – 3am)
Getting in
Bouncer1 : (Looks at me) “Sorry .. ” (I was about to be rejected for some unspecified reason)
Bouncer2: “Nah, let the guy in, he’s alone”
Bouncer1: “Ok, come in!”

Detail: Bottom floor is the Cremorne Hotel. SoBar is upstairs in its own little corner. SoBar is a two room venue, however tonight only the main room was open (mabe due to a lack of people?). On entering main room, big bar is on your left along with lots of lounges.

The awesome dancefloor: On the right is the elevated dancefloor. The floor is half wood and half colourful plastic squares with lights underneath that change the colours of the tiles. It is easily the most awesome dancefloor I have ever seen.

Getting the party started…
11:45 am: The dancefloor is empty. 2 guy go on the floor to dance. After 2 minutes they back down.  I am too intimidated to go out there alone.
12:15 am: The dancefloor is still empty. WTF!! This is peak time – and nobody was on the floor!! Everybody seemed to be enjoying their drinks. I was starting to regret visiting this place, and told myself not to visit any form of club in the north shore on my own again on Thursday. So, knowing that someone had to be ‘first’ to initiate a crowd.. I went up and started dancing on my own. It helped having the sunnies on, it acted like a shield from all the eyes that were now staring at me.
12:30 am: After the longest 15 minutes of my life practicing my dance moves, some girls finally get the courage to jump up and dance on the floor.
By 1am, the floor was packed.

I get a dance cult following: I walked around pretending I was digging up holes in the dancefloor. Suddenly about 4 people follow me doing the same thing. Whoa.. this was entirely new to me, having a group of people following, worshipping, and replicating my every move. I kept digging, they kept digging. I went swimming in the air, they went swimming. I did some other fancy stuff, they kept up and loved it. Hahaha, wow it was something I could never forget. It must be true, white people can’t dance. However they sure know how to have fun!

Dance off, again and again: It’s quite a small dance floor, and this guy had a few to drink but was a psycho dancer. Psycho as in he would keep bumping into people but he did good hand and arm work. Everytime we bumped into each other. This guy would push some people out of the way to make a small space. Then he would tell me to do a little dance as part of our dance off. So I did my little dance, then after a few seconds he would always push me and say ‘watch this ! watch this!’ and do his own thing. I was more than happy to let him do his thing.. as I really dont like going into dance offs per se. Of course, everytime he did his dance, he would inevitably hit someone and tell them to get out of the way. What a funny guy.

Obsessed drunk dancer with the sunnies.

This place seemed like an easy place to pick up as well.. lots of pashing going on.

I got a lot of randoms complimenting my dancing, my bravery, my sunnies.. my whatever. It turned out to be a pretty cool night.

[ Coda ]
The club closed at 3am. The drunk guy had half a beer left and wanted me to drink it. I couldn’t. I was driving. He was totally off his face but managed to finish it off. Lots of people continued to drink at the bar below. I went home.
The next week I saw some photos of me on the inthemix.com.au website gallery. There’s also one of me on the lucky sobar website. Yay.