It was Wuz’s friend’s birthday. It was also the 2nd open night of Pure. It was also free entry. We were slightly disappointed last time at skygardens, due to the layout of the venue.. maybe if it’s free it’d be better?

About Skygardens
Location: Level 4, Skygarden Shopping Centre, 77 Castlereagh Street Sydney
Website: http://www.roofbar.com.au
Inside: On entry via the elevators you walk onto the dance floor, with a carpeted area between you and the DJ booth about 10 metres long. On the right are some pool tables, and tables/seats in an elevated section. A wooden area sits between these two areas where people usually dance. On the far end lies the bar, while at the very end of the bar is the outdoor smoking area.

About Pure
Occurence: Every Friday and Saturday Nights
Music: “Rnb, hip hop, slow jamz”
Crowd: Mostly Asian
Dress Code: Casual
Cover Charge / Entry Fee: Free
Atmosphere: Bustling.. hard to describe.. I thought it was okay for a free club, my friends didn’t enjoy.

Timeline
Getting in
Theres the normal line and the guestlist line. The lady goes around and asks for our names for the guestlist. We say our names but she can’t find it. Wuz didn’t get our names on the list. She said “Dont worry, its free entry anyway” .. so what’s the point of the guestlist? Probably in case this place reached capacity.

Starting to dance
Since we were first in, it was dead. I wanted to dance, but Brojo and an were quite sober. After a few drinks Brojo joined me in that ‘booya booya booya’ song. I had the afro on, and not many joined us. Just the two hot girls and guy who were dancing earlier. Soon Wuz, Jon and Kim join us. We keep dancing near the big concrete column separating the carpet from the wooden floor.

another bride to be gets sandwiched
Spotted a bride celebrating her hens night here… This only meant one thing. She needed a bride sandwich. Brojo and I proceeded to sandwich her to the amusement of her friends. She seemed happy then after a while of continuous grinding she kinda felt a bit creeped out and just stepped out lol.

Sweat, baby, sweat
I made the decision not to wear a singlet tonight as it would get hot. Pretty much after an hour half my shirt was soaked in my sweat, which was pretty disgusting.

Entertainment
Surprise! two ladies come up to dance! it was either probably due to the opening weekend.. hope they do this every week.

The big guy
I love seeing people dance. On the carpet was a massive Indian guy, 6 ft something dancing up and down the place like a madman. I saw him jump right into the middle of the hen’s night circle and terrorise the girls. Loved it. I joined him on the carpet and he pulled some moves with me. Fun times.

A minute of silence
The DJ was going well.. until the sound system suddenly stopped. Silence for a minute, then two minutes. The MC was calming the booing crowd, and tried to sing ‘Happy Birthday’ to whoever was celebrating tonight. After ‘Happy Birthday’ was sung, there was some more silence, and booing until the DJ got the sound system working again. It pretty much killed the mood and we soon left after.

The only person who asked for the wig
One guy I met in the toilet thought my wig was real until he saw me take it off. He was surprised for sure when I lent it to a girl. Got her pic, and judging by it, it was probably lucky she wasnt keen to go further with it, though her friends encouraged it (note the sweat on my chest):

Coda
We left from tiredness. Friends probably not to return for a bit, I wouldn’t mind this over Pavillion or Cheers if I really wanted free RNB clubbing.