In the same time frame, property prices trebled (ONeill & McGuirk 2002). As well as that,the Homestead was very big from the early 70s.One of the early resident bands was a group called The Clefswho were there for almost 2.5 years.The venue also had an aray of overseas stars at the time including Helen Shapiro,Louis Armstrong,Edward Woodward(a great baritone singer)as well as actor and others too numerous to mention.The Homestead at Zillmere was originally set up by a consortium of tennis professionals. Sydney's best known illegal casino, sly-grog nightclub and cocaine den during the 1930s. And so we had, in one corner was the band, round the other were these lovely round tables and chairs, there was a seat built in all the way along and a dance floorAnd then you'd go up to the next floor. Soap enthusiast who has amassed more than 2,000 bars of soaps is Helen. Not sure if its the same place you are thinking of, but The Brisbane Tavern was on the corner of Adelaide and Wharf street in the city. Sydney in the 1980s: A look at the past and a glimpse of the future Peninsula Lounge (Moorooduc) Great list. I don't know for exactly how long the Hordern has been a venue for international touring bands (and Australian supports) especially but I saw Yes here in March 1973 and The Flaming Lips were on a couple of weeks back (July 2009). I used to DJ all over Brisbane in the 80s (I had a different name then) working for Kev Batten who ran a DJ business called Modern Music. Prince of Wales (St Kilda) Tunnel night club had, like so many places back then, a heavily policed female majority policy. You left out Apples Disco at The National Hotel. Hi Brett. Addeddate 2019-06-04 08:21:47 Artist Macquarie Media Limited Observations and reminiscences from someone who was there. Scary Canary delivers cheap drinks, foam machines, a huge dance floor and a crowd of international party-goers who aren't fazed its a school night. The room(s) were a completely ridiculous kind of set-up/shape for any serious music venue, but that didn't matter at the time while avant hippypunkers Voight465 Radiator, Crime & The City Solution and some of the initial wave of record company financed Melbourne bands played here (the 'Lethal Weapons' tour). Cinema on the corner of Darlinghurst Road and Victoria Streets at Kings Cross that opened in April 1916. Often, they would roar with laughter at the comedy and cabaret shows, the most prominent of which was the Les Girls troupe, which starred the iconic transgender drag queen, Carlotta. One of those near the junction of George & Roma streets was called Sensoria. It go. This is where I first saw Sydney glamrockers Hush in 1973 - probably the biggest live draw around that year. Then came espresso coffee and eating breakfast in a caf. It hosts special events from Thursday to Sunday, and can fit 2,500 people across three levels and nine bars. I note youve only listed Morticias as being at the Hacienda. on June 4, 2019. And one boofy-haired fellow (centre) had no qualms about wearing his swimming togs and sandals into the district to have a chat with a man in a suit and a cigar chomping acquaintance, The photos aimed to show the 'surface glitter and underground guts' of the city's inner east, in what historian Judith Dunn said was a time of 'hustle, bustle, excitement and activity' for the Cross, Ms Dunn said then, like now, the Cross has always been a magnet for people looking for something a 'little bit naughty' and unique, Rosaleen Norton, dubbed The Witch of Kings Cross, holds a skull as she sits at a table with Alpine cigarettes and a glass of wine, 'A thrill a minute!' Perched just off Oxford Street on Flinders Street, this two-level club is a Darlinghurst landmark. Try another? VJ the DJ spun some bodacious tunes while we sat in old airplane seats. Chinese settlers arrived in Sydney from 1818 and their compatriots followed, especially after gold was discovered in New South Wales. ME. Prince of Wales (St Kilda), Gigs listed in one week: 511 The premises weredescribed as having 'the head of Bacchusto guide guests in and out' with 'shaded lights' and a feeling of 'cloistered gloom'. Yes Mayne Sporting Club with The Clefs was one of the best! You can read more about that whole situation here! Such an iconic Brisbane venue it was sad to see Angus Kennedy was the DJ, and I believe he did open another club under the same name for a very short time which might be the one you are referring to. The hotel with the best view when having a beer was the city view hotel. Cat and Fiddle (Balmain) Yes TCs was a great spot. Chef Dave Evans told the Daily Telegraph people were 'voting with their feet' and going to different parts of Sydney after the laws, Lasting icon: The El Alamein Memorial fountain - a memorial to the soldiers who passed in World War II - stands as a lasting reminder of the link Australian and American servicemen have had with Kings Cross. Band/Performer count: 353, Sydney, 2006, most listed venues: The building is still there - you walked down the stairs behind that gate, but the Stage Door Tavern, which ran a reputation second only to the Lifesaver for a couple of years (the variety of music was better at The Stage Door - it embraced the new music, while the management and clientelle of the Lifesaver were openly hostile to punk/ new wave/ post-punk whatever you wanna call it), closed it's doors for good as a venue one sad night back in 1980. My dad is Chris Johnson, I think one of the guys you mention here. Even early 70s has a picture taken at Cloudland. CHEQUERS (also RAGS 1979) Goulburn Street Sydney. The Speakeasy used to sometimes host Morticias, as did The Orient Hotel. Basement (Circular Quay) Mass was awesome! We used to hang out at The Manhattan in the valley almost every night of the week. Atmosphere: Nightlife for Party Freaks and Local Legends. Rather, it highlights the human geography already present in existing accounts, but often lost in focusing on particular venues or on aggregate activity. Nightclub in Sylvania Waters which featured drag shows. A prominent gay club, the most recent on this list of closers. JB or Lil Wayne, the spot is the best place to serve you some of the most remarkable hip hop trends. What was the name of the nightclub next to or down from the transformers nightclub. Dance battle someone to Staying Alive and wave your arms in the air with hundreds of your new friends to Rufus and Chaka Khans Aint Nobody while glitter and streamers rain down. An L shaped room with a curving bar on the first floor held host to Mental As Anything, X, The Lipstick Killers, Tactics, Flowers(later Icehouse) and lots of others. Meanwhile, Jools, which had been opened in 1973 by the NSW premier, Robert Askin, attracted such international acts as the Supremes, Sherbert, Danny La Rue, Eartha Kitt, Johnny Mathis, Marcia Hines, Carlotta, Skyhooks and the Village People. They are based on gig listings (published listings for forthcoming live music events) from the same week in three separate years (1983, 1994, 2006), in both Melbourne and Sydney. Before Whispers and all the others following. In the years following World War II, American military personnel became a common sight in the Cross - delighting locals by introducing American products like chewing gum, chocolate and silk stockings, Dubbed 'Tattoo Girl', this Kings Cross character with a blinding wedding ring shining on her left hand had no qualms about unbuttoning her pants and stripping off her top to show off her ink to photographer Rennie Ellis. The Club (Collingwood) In the clubs of the 1980s and 1990s there was no such thing as excess - ABC PARIS THEATRE Liverpool St Opposite Hyde Park. Real Sydney intelligentsia punk. Many a good time had there. One-C-One Folk Club (Princes Hill) How much: FreeHot tip: Security is very strict about closed-toe shoes. Like most serious criminals, he chose to serve his country during World War II on the home front. The structure of the historical GIS allows maps to be generated on live music distribution in different cities and timeframes, as well as enabling summaries of the number of different bands, or calculation of the distance between venues and gigs. Those were the days. No sensible drinking cautions, no smoking bans, and generally less . This article, based on oral history interviews, reveals how bodgies modelled their dress and movement on African Americans, including black GIs stationed in Sydney during World War II. I worked across the road. [3] The Sydney Symphony is internationally renowned and regularly performs in the Concert Hall (2,600 seats) of the Sydney Opera House under Chief Conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy (until 2013) and, as of 2014, David Robertson. Opened in 1892, the Strand Arcade was one of five built in the city centre during the late nineteenth century. Great read. I was the drummer with the dominoes about 1965 or so. Sign up and we'll keep you updated weekly with fresh new content (no spam, we promise! She spent decades performing with the troupe, who performed in a purpose-built building owned by 'Mr Sin' - Abe Saffron, Welcome to the Paradise Club, I'm your host: Decked out in a tuxedo (and with very fashionable mutton chops), the master of ceremonies at a Kings Cross strip club glances away from the camera. we used to see live music 3 nights a week. Brilliant Vietnamese restaurant next door. My team, Roy Merrin, Lenny The Giant and I won the Ashes created by incinerating seven copies of snow white and the seven dwarves. Tunes were covers of stuff on Five Live Yardbirds (Clapton), early Manfred Mann etc. Gigs and live musicstill thrivein the smallerdrinking hole worlds of theInner West and beyond. with a song selection to match. She was tried for murder andacquitted. These remarkable black-and-white pictures show Sydney's notorious Kings Cross red light district in its heyday - a heaving hotspot of glamour, grime and good times. The pub rock sound that defined Australian popular music in the 70s and 80s was still years away. He also had Clancys Restaraunt at Taringa sometime later in the early 80s. It was designed as a covered shopping street, with 80 shopfronts on four floors. I have a couple of recordings of the Dominoes that were recorded live and someone got hold of them and put them on Youtube. ..that dude catered to the RnB clubbers pioneerfun fun times, except when the Islanders had one too many drinkslol. Dj vu! By entering your email address you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy and consent to receive emails from Time Out about news, events, offers and partner promotions. Nightclub owner and property developer reputed to be a major figure in Australia's organized crime in the latter half of the twentieth century. Not a regular nightly or weekly gig, but hirable for those putting something on. Meanwhile, the average distance between gigs shrinks considerably: 336m, 189m, 85m. Sydney's 4 best retro dancefloors - Time Out Sydney But beyond the bricks and mortar of the venues and one can, in several cases, buy a brick to save a particular venue the data also speak to the human geography of music, and, to borrow a useful phrase, its lost geographies of power (Allen 2003). Nightclub in a former car showroom on Elizabeth Street in the city in the 1960s. The late award-winning photographer Rennie Ellis and his friend Wesley Stacey snapped these startling images over six months from 1970 to 1971, mostly in the summertime. I am in my mid 50s. Spectrum (Darlinghurst) He became the public, and to a degree the deceptively benign, face of organised crime. Document draftedby NSW Policeafter the death of Anna Woodin 1995 to ensurethe health and safety of participants at dance parties that was published in 1997. From there, wed walk, yes walk, to Sybils, for some more of the same. Thanks for commenting, and yes its amazing to remember how much more separate the Australian cities would have seemed in the 1970s and 1980s; they still are (and more so with the borders closed! 1978 to 1981. In these particular maps the larger symbols represent venues with more individual gigs in the respective time frames, found in either the Rock, Jazz or Folk sections of the relevant publications. Sammy Lee's Pigalle nightclub, Sydney, 26 October 1960 (SLNSW) Sammy Lee's Pigalle nightclub, Sydney, 26 October 1960 (SLNSW) Pink Pussycat, Sydney, 1967 (SLNSW) Stripper at the George Hotel, St Kilda, Melbourne, Victoria, ca. Her trial gained significant national media attention at the time. Bombay Rock (Brunswick) It was run by John Harrigan, the manager of Surf City and other venues. Band/Performer count: 738, Sydney, 1983, most listed venues: By Daniel Piotrowski for Daily Mail Australia, Published: 02:57 BST, 28 April 2016 | Updated: 18:30 BST, 28 April 2016. Club located in Oxford Street,Woollahra, where Lea Sonia would often appear in drag. Disco music, then, evolved into rave music. They aimed to show the 'surface glitter and underground guts' of the city's inner east, in what historian Judith Dunn said was a time of 'hustle, bustle, excitement and activity' for the Cross. Other great bands of the time were the Flamingoes,The Echos,The Blue Jays,Beachies,Planets,etc. I'd been to a pub or two & seen some bands but this was like, at least in my Read more The Manzil Room - Springfields Nestled in a Pitt Street dungeon, it held prominent queer events until 1997 and continued to run for a few years after. {"name":"Opened","target":"","target_text":null,"date":{"#markup":"1959<\/span>"},"date_start":"1959","date_end":"1959"}, {"name":"Closed","target":"","target_text":null,"date":{"#markup":"1970<\/span>"},"date_start":"1970","date_end":"1970"}, {"name":"Employee","target":"Lee, Donald George","target_text":null,"date":{"#markup":"<\/span>"},"date_start":null,"date_end":null}, {"name":"Dancer","target":"Bowen-Daniels, Gill ","target_text":null,"date":{"#markup":"<\/span>"},"date_start":null,"date_end":null}, {"name":"Owner of","target":"Wong, Jap Kuan (Keith)","target_text":null,"date":{"#markup":"<\/span>"},"date_start":null,"date_end":null}, {"name":"Owner of","target":"Wong, Denis","target_text":null,"date":{"#markup":"<\/span>"},"date_start":null,"date_end":null}, {"name":"Owner of","target":"Harrigan, John William","target_text":null,"date":{"#markup":"Nov 1969<\/span> - <\/span>Aug 1970<\/span>"},"date_start":"1969-11-01","date_end":"1970-08-01"}, {"name":"Entertainment venue","target":"","target_text":null,"date":{"#markup":"<\/span>"},"date_start":null,"date_end":null}, The glamorous showgirls at Chequers, one of Sydney's leading nightclubs 1968. Sandringham Hotel (Newtown) By the 1950s it was neglected but in the 1970s the arcade was refurbished, and has since been restored after fire damage. Go Inside the Most Iconic Nightclubs in History I saw a band called The Last Words there in 1978, and a whole bunch of name Sydney new music bands played there around that time. Midnight shows with drama, naughty themes and showgirls were popular in the Cross in the early '70s, with Ms Dunn saying many would head into the Cross for a show after a dance in the city. I remember a chap called Robin Oxland was in charge of the Australian side of things. Whisky a Go Go nightclub, Kings Cross 11 August 1969 APIA Club dance at the Trocadero March 1958 Band playing at a Popular Dance night at the Trocadero 1938 Carlotta, Kings Cross 1970-71 Costume cavalcade at Artists' Ball at the Trocadero 6 November 1953 Jitterbuggers at the Trocadero February 1948 There was a go-go dancer on each side of the stage doing their thing, and because of a lack of staff that evening one of my friends and I were allowed to operate the spotlights at the other end of the room shining on the go-go dancers. Some of the info you have needs correction. This made it popular with the ladies and beefed up athletes who were all probably on blow. From the depths of Kings Cross all the way over to Pitt St in the CBD and back towards the queer district of Oxford St, hundreds of nightlife venues have come and gone and here are some that we consider iconic for their own reasons. We would go to The Basement or The Windsor Hotel in the CBD, Lord Nelson at the Rocks, The Rest Hotel Milsons Point, Selinas Coogee. Excelsior Hotel (Surry Hills), Gigs listed in one week: 788 She was tried for murder andacquitted. Arthouse (Melbourne), Gigs listed in one week: 839 United States servicemen on a twelve-month tour of duty were given seven days R & R outside Vietnam. - 2 Roslyn St Kings Cross. Did they wear a Velcro suit and also thrown against a Velcro wall? There seems to be a great deal of alcohol-relatedviolence today.At the Mayne Sporting Club between 1976-1982 we saw none. Perhaps someone else can confirm? Also loved Crash and Burn and Mass. Alarm in Elizabeth street doesnt appear to be on the list. This was the first place I recall seeing The Laughing Clowns after The Saints first split and Ed Kuepper returned to Australia. Average distance between gigs: 336m very fast music for 30mins. There was a drinks waiter there who also worked day time as a buyer for Woolworths or Coles in the Brisbane Markets at Rocklea. The number of gigs also increases, but not in proportion with the number of performers. Sydney Australia was my choice. If you're more in the mood for some body-numbing technocheck our guide to the best night clubs in Sydney. Tammys disco was run by the Ashgrove west Methodist church in its hall on waterworks road. 10 Vivacious Clubs In Sydney To Beat The Night In Fun And Dance The glamorous showgirls at Chequers, one of Sydney's leading nightclubs 1968. . Resident band was Sebastian Wood in which I was the keyboard player. Nightlife is constantly evolving and were constantly trying to look forward, but we cant pretend we dont miss some of the older ones! Royal Derby Hotel (Fitzroy) I would definitely have suspected that the vibe in 1970s and 1980s pubs would have been very unpleasant for women, let alone children: somewhere between Wake in Fright and Puberty Blues. Melbourne, 1983, most listed venues: Rob Roy (Fitzroy) Lost Venues, Long Nights: An Introduction to Historical Maps of Live Richter described the venue: it was $2 to go in. Rhythm Zone Wednesday nights at Rumours on Adelaide St. Shirley Beiger was a fashion model who shot and killed her lover, Arthur Griffith, outside Chequers Nightclub in 1954. easy way tea has replaced the music and cafe culture we had (actual cafes not the corporate cafeterias they call cafes now).. sad. Cheers, Kim. And Mass. Best Nightclubs in Sydney [2023 April Update] - Nightflow.com How much: $20Hot tip: Free entry if you arrive dressed to the weeks theme. Grant. For the times you just want to sing YMCA at the top of your lungs or drop down and get your eagle on, head to these dancefloors that specialise in guilty pleasure old-school hits. The Junction is one of the hottest nightclubs in Sydney hosting live gigs and art exhibitions. The Tote (Collingwood) Culture of Sydney - Wikipedia Nightclub or 'discotheque' in the city in the 1960s and 1970s that was ownedand managed by John Harrigan and Denis Wong. Nightclub in Kings Cross on the corner of Darlinghurst Road and Roslyn Street that was owned by Abe Saffron & Sammy Lee who had built the venue to house the revue 'Les Girls'. Saturday shoppers would wander past with mouths hanging open at the intensity of the music. Managers: Edward Chan and others . Restaurant which became one of Sydney's most elaborate and fashionable, open from the 1920s to the 1960s. opened Primitif Junior, up the stairs. Sylvania Hotel (Sylvania) Bustling Haymarket, between Central Station and Darling Harbour, is the home of Sydney's Chinatown, which is Australia's biggest. the other problem was with The Roxy having bands (i remember Paul Kelly and the Colour Girls playing there) as well as music from Patches leaking into the Roxy and visa versa. The joint then sought to look after its patrons by creating a room with relaxed vibes and a cooler temperature stickered with information regarding the effects of drug use. If you have any information about actual dates and addresses or clubs not listed here, please leave a comment below, or Contact us, What about the wicked witch bald hills hotel Thursday nights with resident band The Flamingoes, I am now 46 yrs old and I still remember, like it was yesterday, the many nights of going out in the city. It was located in Goulburn St, Sydney, between Pitt and George St ,close to both the Mandarin Club and to the notorious Goulburn Club, one of the major illegal casinos of the period. Theres not much to say except that it was widely renowned as one of the best clubs in Sydney and it stuck it out for as long as it could post lockouts, but all good things come to an end and in 2017 we said goodbye to one of Sydneys oldest clubs! Great list! They had different themes for different nights girls night, boys night, mixed night..and the music was to die for, all cool and funky. Stripping in the 1960s: theatre, television and clubs Remember it well. Sydney Pub & Nightclubs of the 60's, 70's & 80's. - Facebook The starting point for discussion is a set of maps and figures derived from gig listings in Melbourne and Sydney in three respective sample years, forming a necessarily brief but novel forest through the trees perspective on long-range change. Esplanade Hotel (St Kilda) Nightclub in Redfern featuring drag shows. In these samples the spatial variation of gigs (represented in the Average distance between gigs figure, and in the visual clustering in the maps) declines over time, while the number of performers increases. Where were they? Nightclub in Surry Hills established by the American Red Cross during World War II, exclusively open to those of African or Aboriginal cultural background. The Sydney data does not indicate a drop in gig numbers or performer numbers in the 1990s, but there is a plateau in both, as well as a lack of inner-city clustering (either visible in the maps, or measurable in the average distance figure), which contrasts with Melbourne.
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