My weekly spam last month came in – There was a secret warehouse party going on! A bus to take us to a secret warehouse for dancing all night. Sounded good, so bought my tickets and off we went – here we go!

Boarding the bus to the secret warehouse location!

Secret Warehouse Party @ Unknown Location

Assessment Time: 09:30PM – 03:00AM
Opening Hours: 09:00PM – Unknown, but probably 4 or 5AM
Lockout: None, but good luck trying to find this place in the first place.
Address: Unknown. Somewhere in Alexandria/Erskineville, Sydney. We met at the Alexandria Hotel and were shuttled by buses to the location of the warehouse.
Promoter Website: Tonight there were two promoters. I bought my tickets from http://www.funkdafied.com.au .. I can’t remember who the other promoters were.
Occurence: Appears to be a once off party. Promoters have promised similar ones in the future.
Dress Code / Door Policy: anything goes. Everybody though is wearing casual or smart casual. Girls are in dresses, but not too glammed up.
Entry Fee / Cover Charge: Presold tickets only were $30 each.
Guestlist: All tickets are presold.
Inside: The venue appears to be a large hall for at least 1000 people with multiple studios attached. 2 of these studios were open as smaller dance rooms to hold 100 or so people each. The main hall floor space is about double the size length wise of Home Nightclub. Bar at each of the rooms. Smoking areas outside each of the rooms.
Cloak Room: Cloak room was available, and everybody was using it, except me. I never learn my lesson from past experiences. Not sure what the pricing was.
Bar: Coronas $8. Red/White (House) $8. Vodka + Red Bull $10. Bars were sponsored by Red Bull. There was also a BBQ outside
DJs: Simon Caldwell, Peter Glass, Frenzie, Thomas Crown, Klevakutz, JC (Funkdafied), Mickey Morphingaz, Digital Love DJs, Karl Prinzen, Terry A, Lee Spatcher, Monkey Tennis DJs, Paul Guy.
Music: Main room was Funky House and US House. The Funkdafied room was Funk, Soul, Rare-Groove, Latin, Boogie – think of all the Blaxpoitation kind of stuff you would hear.. yup Exactly. The third room I can’t even remember, but it was messed up – Latino, Classical, who knows. The point was that tonight there was basically nothing from the 80s onwards being played in the 2 smaller rooms. I did catch in the main room a commercial house song being played, but that was once.
Crowd: Mostly local Aussies. 95% of the people here are at least 25+, with the average age probably being 35 or 40. These are the guys from the last clubbing generation, who have been displaced by the younger crowd of rnb, commercial lady gaga top 40 tunes/house, and hard music. Speaking of teenagers, there were none of these around. Wow! A blessing. I felt like a baby here.
Entertainment: There were some peacocked ladies with large feather things on the front stage looking pretty. In the funkdafied room there were also some dancers teaching us some classic funk moves. More on that later.
Atmosphere: It was very friendly in here. Everyone was having a good time. People are dancing in a kind of relaxed manner – or they didn’t know how to dance. In either case there was little seating to be had, so everybody had to stand up and either mingle or dance. Also from a big warehouse you would be scared there would be some empty patches of space but it was not to be – tonights event was sold out a few weeks beforehand, so the population was just right.
Video: Walkthrough of the main room and the Funkdafied room (3rd room did not know about until later)

Timeline:

The bus
We wait at the Alexandria Hotel, where it is packed as hell inside. I grab some bangers and mash ($15 shiiet) and then wait for the bus. They come every five minutes. They must have hired 3 or 4 of these things. The ride was short, and its pretty loud, everyone is laughing and chatting away, excited to go on this adventure to the warehouse. Kind of lost track which road we were on, but when we arrived, all my phone told me was that I was still in Alexandria!! Well, it was definitely in an industrial area somewhere. C’s iPhone failed her in telling us where we were at all.

It’s big but everyone is simply jiggling around.
This place is big, but the biggest room that counted – the main room – I wasn’t feeling it. I have no idea why. It might have been because the music wasn’t suited to dancing to. It was some deep shit going on. Well really, I could dance a bit, but I couldn’t sustain the rhythm. you could see everyone dancing around in their same spots – nothing too vigorous at all.

Even the podium dancers were not trained to dance! They stood there, looked pretty and performed some slow steps to the left and right, flaunting theie bodies. Understandably the big Brazilian style head pieces their wore would limit the amount of vigor in the dance, but there was no attempt to push the limits of how much they could dance. Still, it was a good perve.

Two hot chicks with headpieces doing.. nothing

Some real dancers
Back in the funkdafied room, two more energetic dancers come up and show the crowd some classic Funk moves. The Travolta, the hustler, the roll.. I recognized these retro moves from a classid dance moves book my Dad bought me a few years back. The dancers and MC encouraged the brave to learn on the spot in front of everyone.

Video of the dancers roping people in

blonde does her limbo. she didn't make it.

Some random photos with the white wall

This place was a photographic studio or media related one of some sort as you could tell by the white walls. So we took some photos

M

James

Arrivederci
Left around 3AM due to the music in the main hall suddenly going all bass heavy. It was too much for me and I was tired as a dog, so I left

Recommendation
Well this was a once off, but it was worth checking out for $30 and something to experience. Despite the music not to my taste (it was definitely for the older crowd), the atmosphere and crowd made up for it. You could feel lots of friendliness and love all around. No drunken boof heads here. 7.5/10