Empire Hotel (Annandale) Because the ceiling was so low we couldnt put in any decent (for 1989 anyway) lighting. 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). This material may be protected by copyright law (Title 17 U.S. Code). The first gig for the new partnership was New Years Eve 1984 and I had 7 days to organise and promote it turned out pretty successful too!! Gee how you did you miss Cloudland off the list. . It is the treasure house of the Grape, presided over by the Master Vigneron, Mr. Leo Buring. Strut your stuff to Earth, Wind, and Fire while a hype man shouts encouragement from the stage. Or the Silver Spade Room? Despite being accused of murder, assault, race-fixing, bribery, illegal gambling and narcotics. My intererst was piqued. Historian Ms Dunn speaks of some of the 'wonderful' strip venues which existed at the time, including Abe Saffron's Carousel Club and Venus Room, the Pink Pussy Cat and Crazy Horse, Pictured here dressed to the nines in 1971, Dorothy Dunckley - known as the 'Auntie Mame' of Kings Cross - ran the make-up department at the now defunct Minerva Theatre. This was around 1960. I was the drummer with the dominoes about 1965 or so. {"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. Thanks Used to search the papers to decide which live bands to see in Sydney. 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. Even early 70s has a picture taken at Cloudland. Bars. Springfields (Kings Cross) Popular club above Taylor Square onOxford Streetwhich featured drag shows. Sydney, 2006, most listed venues: Candy's Apartment (Kings Cross) Hopetoun Hotel (Surry Hills) Basement (Circular Quay) Sandringham Hotel (Newtown) Mandarin Club (Haymarket) Cat and Fiddle (Balmain) Spectrum (Darlinghurst) Empire Hotel (Annandale) Gaelic Theatre (Surry Hills) Excelsior Hotel (Surry Hills) Gigs listed in one week: 788 Soup Plus (City) Spectrum (Darlinghurst) I agree with Kim. Arthouse (City/Carlton) The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. Historically, its an important spot as it was the virtual birthplace of the Purple Hearts, a band which had as lead guitarist a pimply youth later known as Lobby Lloyd. I never took him up on his offer. Flamingos was at the bottom of Little St off Wickham St, great club in the early 70s. It was designed as a covered shopping street, with 80 shopfronts on four floors. Model and magazine cover girl who shot and killed her lover, Arthur Griffith, outside Chequers Nightclub in 1954. Abe Saffron - Sydney Crime Museum 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. Other great bands of the time were the Flamingoes,The Echos,The Blue Jays,Beachies,Planets,etc. Sydney: Nightlife - Tripadvisor p.s.TCs and Top Cats are one and the same. I had a marketing company working in club promotions at the time and was approached by Robin Oxland to assist with the marketing of The Manhatten. During that late 60s period a number of mainly short lived venues began to appear including Beatle Village in Oxford Street and the Bowl and the Beach House in Sydney's CBD. It later moved to Adelaide Street, in the National Hotel, but was never in Brunswick Street. The foyer contains a sculpture by Raymond Hoff and the whole was considered one of the finest Art Deco style funerary spaces in Sydney. I think i went back to DJing at The Beat after about 4 to 6 months. Find more fab sticky carpet groove sessions. You wouldn't know it by looking at this dull, vacant street scene - but this is the building that's probably housed more music sights and sounds than any other in Sydney. Shirley Beiger was a fashion model who shot and killed her lover, Arthur Griffith, outside Chequers Nightclub in 1954. He also had Clancys Restaraunt at Taringa sometime later in the early 80s. I remember going to the record store and picking up a copy of Drum magazine regularly. Cat and Fiddle (Balmain) Meanwhile, the average distance between gigs shrinks considerably: 336m, 189m, 85m. Apart from feeling tired at the end of the gig, we werent paid much so we never played there again. Remember when Pinocchios and Rumours dominated Perth's - WAtoday Hi! As with many other industries, live music in Australia has undergone a form of restructuring. Stranded! And that's when we had all the birdcages up and the stage up one end. (Courtesy ACP Magazines Ltd, Mitchell Library), (The Australian Womens Weekly', 18 November 1953, p32 via Trove), Bodgies and African American Influences in Sydney, Breeding delinquents: Surf City 1963-1966, 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, Costume cavalcade at Artists' Ball at the Trocadero 6 November 1953, Jitterbuggers at the Trocadero February 1948, Kandy and friends performing at Ken's Karate Klub, Kensington 1981, Miles of carpet for the Trocadero 1936, Pedestrian crossing Darlinghurst Road outside the Tabou nightclub at night, Kings Cross 1961, Rolf Harris amuses diners at a nightclub in Sydney 1966, Roosevelt nightclub, Kings Cross September 1944, The Beach House Beatles performing at a 2UW Surf Music night at Surf City, Kings Cross February 1964, The Dorchester nightclub in Potts Point 1959, The Echoes band entertaining dancers at Surf City, Sydney 1963, The Phoencian Club on the corner of Broadway and Mountain Streets, Ultimo 1980s, The glamorous showgirls at Chequers, one of Sydney's leading nightclubs 1968, United States R & R men from Vietnam meet Aussie girls at the Whisky-A-Go-Go, 9 November 1967, [Decoration and Glass 1 May 1936 p43 via Trove]. Your email address will not be published. Pingback: Bowie in the Pub: How Sydney Music Died - AUSTRALIAN MUSIC MUSEUM PROJECT, Sydney in the 90s was the best. It was sponsored by the People Magazine. on the Internet. Bustling Haymarket, between Central Station and Darling Harbour, is the home of Sydney's Chinatown, which is Australia's biggest. Please keep the list going and updated, its worth it! Where to daggy dance under a disco ball like no one is watching. Or, seek out thesequeer-friendly partiesin Sydneyfor inclusive vibes and always fantastic beats. McD & East Car Park), Crest Hotel downstairs (now Sebel Citigate), Gardens Point Campus Club, QIT, George St, 210 Brunswick Street, Upstairs next to the Roxy, Alexandra Hills Hotel, Cnr McDonald & Finucane Rds, Basement, Community Arts Centre, 109 Edward St, City Plaza Tavern, Cnr George & Adelaide St, Lands Office, Cnr George and Mary Streets, Embassy Hotel, 214 Elizabeth Street/then Valley, Adelaide Street (rear entrance Alices Rock Cafe). Couldnt wait to legitimately go into Sibils 25 and over downstairs. Sydney was home to some iconic nightclubs during the 50s and 60s and showbiz stallwart John Burls remembers them all. Remember seeing Tony Worsley there many times in the mid 60s. PARIS THEATRE Liverpool St Opposite Hyde Park. Public Bar (City/North Melbourne) One of the greatest gigs I've ever been to happened here in late 1977, when Radio Birdman played their "farewell we are off to Britain" final assault. GRAND HOTEL, Broadway near Central Station. Maybe consider adding The Red Parrot & Her Majesteys at the Hilton late 1980s. he fact it is very different is what draws people to it. The Sound Machine in Elizabeth St was very close to TCs which became Uncles with the telephones on each table. Playing host to iconic crews such as Bang Gangwith theirBang GangPresents series, the electro house being dropped was of an all time calibre. Curiously, a swastika of considerable size sits above her bikie tattoo, After the First World War, Ms Dunn says many 'respectable and advanced' single women moved into Australia's first high-rise apartment building in Kings Cross. We spoke to Stephen Allkins in 2018 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras as it coincided with his 40th anniversary of DJing. 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. Thanks for subscribing!
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