A friend’s birthday and the criteria were: Good contemporary music, somewhat classy and non-Asian. I’ve thrown out the suggestion for the new location for the RnB Superclub event, with the risk that I had no feedback from anyone who had previously been here. Well, tonight is the night so, here we go!
I had to take a photo with a podium dancer
RnB Superclub (Sydney) @ Arthouse Hotel
Assessment Time: 11:15PM – 2:45AM
Opening Hours: Unknown – 3:00AM
Lockout: Unknown, but definitely after 2:30 is a lockout
Address: 275 Pitt St, Sydney (At TGV, Town Hall)
Venue Website: http://www.thearthousehotel.com.au
Promoter Website: http://www.rnbsuperclub.com / Facebook Page
Occurrence: Every Friday at the Arthouse Hotel since July 2011. Previously it ran at Tank Nightclub for a few years before the venue closed as a nightclub.
Outside Line: Actually arrived at 11PM but we loitered around the area to wait for other friends – during this time, the line was initially empty and eventually progressed to about 20 people deep when we joined the queue at 11:15PM
Dress Code / Door Policy: Code is smart casual and mostly people wore this. Guys had collared shirts as well as short-sleeve collared t-shirts. Girls could wear anything but most, if not all, opted to wear dresses
Entry Fee / Cover Charge: $20 for 2 before 11.30pm provided that you printed out the voucher obtained from the website. $20 was the normal entry fee charge. This is quite a generous offer especially if you use the voucher.
Guestlist: Contact details unknown, but they are available from the website.
Main Room - 1:30AM
Continue reading »
As I write this review, news has come through that Tank Nightclub, after 10 years, will be shutdown after April 2011 and converted to a non-clubbing venue by the owners. It is sad to see one of the great club venues of Sydney go out like this, as it was definitely underutilised in recent years…
Here for a friend of a friend’s birthday tonight – simple enough.. here we go!
RnB Superclub / Not Myself @ Tank Nightclub
Assessment Time: 11:30PM – 01:15AM
Opening Hours: 10:30PM – 04:00AM ?
Lockout: Unknown
Address: 3 Bridge Lane, Sydney CBD, Sydney
Venue Website: http://www.merivale.com/establishment/tank
Promoter Website: http://www.rnbsuperclub.com
Occurrence: Every Friday until April 2011.
Outside Line: About 4 people in front of us, but the line is held up FOREVER, so as to not have an empty appearance. Okay, it was more like a 15 minute wait – but when you’re out at the front it does feel like forever – you would access within 5 minutes.
Dress Code / Door Policy: You need to be pretty much at least smart casual. Casual won’t cut it, unless you are with company of hot girls.
Entry Fee / Cover Charge: I don’t recall. Either $25 or $20 full charge.
Guestlist: See promoter website to submit guestlist details. Various forms and what not would need to be filled out
Cloak Room: None tonight. Strange as it usually is available.
Bar Prices / Line: Didn’t drink tonight. Oh wait, I did, but my friend bought drinks. He’s awesome.
DJs: Unknown
Music Style: Rnb in Main room (which only opened after midnight). Meanwhile some house tracks were being played in the upstairs small room and downstairs den area.
Crowd & Ratio: Mostly Caucasian crowd of Euros and Aussies with some other minor nationalities here represented. Mixed crowds of prior where Indians/Asians used to be a good part of the population are no longer tonight. Likely to blame is door policy. The age of the crowd isn’t teeny bopper but still looked young, but a little more grown up. I would hazard a guess to be a 21-25 year old crowd.
Entertainment: No extra entertainment.
Atmosphere: Kind of empty at first, and it only truly picked up the pace after midnight when downstairs opened up and people flocked down here.
Continue reading »
It’s been a while since I’ve properly been here for an entire night, so here we go!
RnB superclub @ Tank
Assessment Time: 11:30-2:30am
Website: http://www.rnbsuperclub.com
Address: 3 Bridge Lane, Sydney CBD, Sydney
Dress Code:
(Men) You must waer collared shirts, no dirty shoes, no sneakers (unless they are classy e.g. Lacoste), and no chucks. No bucks parties, no chucks, no large groups, no high proportion of men to women in the small groups. That’s from what I can remember from the guestlist terms of entry.
(women) Just turn up.
Entry Fee / Cover Charge: $20 on guestlist, $25 on the door otherwise
Guestlist: Send an email to info@platinum1.com.au. You are then rewarded with a FORM to sign. Yeah, a form! The form lists the complete guestlist rules above. You need to sign it and send it back. After that, there is still no guarantee that you will be allowed entry. But geez, what a hassle! This must be the only club that I’ve ever sent a guestlist to that has forced me to sign a waiver.
Inside: The RnB superclub nights have apparently died down!! So much so the upstairs room was closed. So tonight, only the main room and the back room den was open. I was a bit disappointed that its died down. The tight dress code is turning away many to go to other places
Cloak Room: $3 i think. Good value.
Bar: One bar for each room. Main room the wait can be upto 10 minutes. the back room you only have to wait up to 5 minutes.
Music: RnB obviously. Modern banging tracks. There may have been an lectro mashup.. Back room was old school rnb. Less loud as well in here.
Crowd: Mix of asians, indians, aussies, euros
Entertainment: No podium dancers. I think there was an MC
Atmosphere: Pretty pumping in the main room. Back room was more laid back, pretty quiet in comparison to the main room.
Continue reading »