Just left Docks Hotel, on the way to find another place to dance, and there it was, ole’ Scary Canary – it’s reverted to a backpackers night tonight, so lets check it out!
Scary Canary Sydney - 2AM
Friday @ Scary Canary Sydney
Assessment Time: 02:10AM – 03:00AM
Opening Hours: Early in the day – 03:00AM
Lockout: None
Address: 469 Kent St, Sydney
Venue Website: http://www.scarycanary.com
Promoter Website: Self Promoted tonight. On Saturdays – http://www.ozpartybus.com
Occurence: Every Friday, but almost every night here its backpacker night.
Dress Code / Door Policy: There is no dress code. Most people are dressed casually – t-shirts, no t-shirts, collared shirts, etc.
Entry Fee / Cover Charge: Free all night
Guestlist: No guestlist.
Inside: Walk into to a two tiered room. Bottom tier the bar area with some stools and tables, and a pool table. Podium for two as well. Top Tier is the dancefloor, DJ area, large podiums for about 5 people and 10 people respectively, on both sides of the floor. Dancefloor holds about 20-30 people.
Cloak Room: No cloak room services.
Bar Prices: Didn’t drink tonight
DJs: Unknown
Music Style: Commercial House mixed with Top 40 and classic house / trance songs. The undertone of the whole night was trance and house.
Crowd: Backpackers from all over the place. Mostly they look European. There was about a ratio of 30/70 Girls to Guys.
Entertainment: MC’s mingle and dance with the crowd.
Atmosphere: Average. Tonight is a beach theme. The backpackers are dancing like hooligans. There’s a guy dancing on a speaker, there are red plastic cups strewn along the floor, there was a guy passed out on the sofa. There are beach balls being kicked around but at this point in time they have accumulated lots of brown crap, and they look like filth balls instead of beach balls. Its quite dirty when you think about it. People are wearing hats that were given away, and leis. If you embrace the backpacker vibe it was kind of ok. However there just weren’t enough people here at 2AM – if there were more, the atmosphere would be killer. I am sure earlier in the night there were more people.
MCs in orange and green dancing
Video: Walkthrough 
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Trashed from free drinks at the Slip Inn a few hours earlier. Friends at Scary. Time to dance!
Scary Canary
Assessment time (10pm-11.30pm)
Address:469 Kent Street
Website: http://www.scarycanary.com
Entry Fee / Cover Charge: Free Entry all night
Dress code: anything goes. Casual allowed.
Crowd: Mostly euro. Not many people
Atmosphere: A bit dead, but busy near the bar. It *was* a thursday night…
Promotion: Free bubbly for girls 8-9pm.
Music: RnB and House. Pretty good tunes to dance to, no complaints!
- The Bar level at Scary Canary
Walkthrough video:
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No line outside. Not good. The guy instantly offered us $10 entry if we went inside. Not good. We peeked through the window, and it was dead. Not good.
Well, we were already here, after a long walk from Mardi Gras. We went inside..
Emerald @ Scary Canary
Crowd: Asian
Cover: $20 / $10 guestlist before midnight
Music: RNB
Atmosphere: Not too busy, pretty bad
Review
The place to celebrate your bucks night
Walked right in and bumped into Pete (not real name), the ex-boyfriend of a girl I am friends with. We get along well. A high school friend we lost touch with decided to have his Bachelor’s party at Scary Canary. They already had strippers in the hotel room and decided to come here to finish the night. Sadly a bad choice. Congratulated the groom to be, and we had some drinks. Pete was all about drinking and wanting to picking up girls with me, even though he had a girlfriend. “you know what I mean, its been two years.. “.
Atmosphere.. not so good.
I called a friend, and she said she was at Pavillion, and that it was rocking. That is saying something. The place was probably at 30-40% capacity when we entered. I’ve never actually been here on a night when it’s been good. Well then again, I’ve only been here on RnB nights. Not much improved. Had some random guys take photos with me and my Pippi Longstockings Mardi Gras hair. Below is a pic with a drunken long time friend of mine, and his cousin.
Bumped into more friends
I bumped into a girl I met 2 years ago whom I lost contact with. Also bumped into a friend from a different circle of friends. It was someone’s party. In that party, Pete’s cousin was there. Strange and small place to meet people. By about this time Pete was smashed and hitting on my friends. Surprised security didn’t kick him out.
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