Friday night. One of the remaining ‘Asian’ rnb clubs that I had yet to visit. an and Brojo went a few weeks earlier and liked it, so I went along this time.

About Cherrijam
Location: 16-18 Cross Street Double Bay
Website: http://www.cherrijam.com.au
Inside: You are led upstairs where everything is. On entering the top floor, on the left are some sofas.. the right is the dancefloor area and 2 bars. Enough bars to not wait long. The dancefloor area is medium sized.. its good except the concrete poles are in the way near the back. The DJ area is along the far wall with a short, but wide elevated podium (to hold 10 people) in front. There is also a smaller sectioned off room in the far corner with its own bar for private parties. Along the walls are lounges. A classy looking place indeed.

About Fever @ Cherrijam
Music: Rnb
Crowd: Asians, plus a group of older white ladies
Dress Code: Casual. The white sneakers got in.
Cover Charge / Entry Fee: $25. Guestlist $20 (?)
Atmosphere: Sparse

Timeline
First impressions
11.30pm, and forced to line outside… It was a line of 3 people. Should be good. We soon got in, expecting a jam packed place. It was quite empty.. and I simply went straight to the podium to do a dance in front of the 10 people dancing and the 20 or so standing by the sidelines. Right away one of the pretty girls started to touch my wig.. the hair looked very cool. We were right in front of the speakers so there wasnt really a chance of a conversation happening. Some of the older white girls had a few glances at me… i decided i was going to dance with them later.

What did she say?
So later, two of the older girls get on the floor and dance .. and myself, being so full of confidence walked up and boogied behind one of them, while the other saw me. I did a very close proximity dance where i went from her left and right about 4 times.. then i ran off, expecting a few giggles…. “DON’T DO THAT!”

Well that’s what i heard. I think that’s what came out of her mouth. I could feel the icy cold air hit me, and so did the others as they cracked up laughing at my obvious receiving of abuse from this lady.. who obviously didn’t like hot, modest men popping out of nowhere and doing a bit of boogie right behind her without her knowledge. She then concluded the outburst with the meanest death glare she could muster.. which was quite cold, then turned back. Wow. I just stood there. I hadn’t felt so shocked since I tried to break into a conversation of two girls coming straight out of the toilet, as one of them told me to ‘f*ck off go away now’. I was pretty wasted at that time, so that’s my excuse. I digress… Nethertheless my mood went down a bit.

Music
We had an MC and the DJ going at it with the rnb beats. The MC added some fun (as they usually do) to the otherwise dead room. The tunes were good, but perhaps the DJ could have played out each song longer.. instead of doing the main lines from each song.

Entertainment (Savage)
Tonight, we had special guests Savage from New Zealand. I didn’t even realise. Tonight wasn’t obviously promoted well, as the last time I saw these guys were when they were the pre-show act for Snoop Dogg. They sung for about 20 or so minutes.. I did feel slightly sorry as the crowd was only 2 or 3 people deep around the podium area, especially as they started chanting to both sides of the crowd “fuck you over there.. the party’s over here” (I think that’s how the chant went) .. people only knew their final song performance. Once they finished they left pretty quickly.

More dirties
We spent $25 to get in, so we all just made the most of it and danced away on the podium. I saw two girls dancing near the stairs going nuts. I decided to join them but avoid the mistake of popping out right behind their asses. So I went up and did a jiggle boogie in front of one of them when she was alone. She absolutely freaked and gave me the death stare like “you freaking wierdo get away from me” and she stormed off, not happy sexy old me crashed her party. Wow. Could be a Cherrijam thing? It was probably my sudden appearance in front of her. Oh well.

C gets the dirty too
Me and C did lots of dancing on the now crowded podium, with crazy claire constantly bumping the indian girl next to her. Half the timeshe was shielding her head from Cs elbow, giving her dirties. C was totally ignorant and never noticed a thing. Quite amusing.

Coda
Most of the girls went, so we all left. I was ok with the experience, but I wouldn’t be rushing back. Brojo, an disappointed as well. Better luck next time.. as we agreed next time to only go on a promoted night if we were to go back to Cherrijam.