@@markhowells13 Just a little inside joke I’m guessing. He presents as someone who is, that’s all, but it’s meant as a compliment. I’m sure if it’s true he would appreciate it, if not, have a laugh either way but I do think there’s a very high chance he is, which from me is a compliment as well.
As someone in mid 40s who lived in Richmond and south Yarra in my twenties early 30s good to watch this and bring the memories back. Was hectic but fun times.
@@DannysrantsI moved to Melbourne in my 20's in 1997 until mid 2000's, it was a great place to be and the best era, lived in South Yarra and the easy access to the club scene was insane, I used to walk to Q-bar, had many wild nights in the area, thanks for bringing back some fun memories and dome crazy ones too ;)
I have so much history there. I remember going to the arcade place above qbar in the early to mid 90s. this video brings back so many memories and that area has changed so much. Lotus bar was almost across the road to south Yarra station like 4 shops to the left on the other side of the road…
Crazy thing is - Steve who owned rythem and soul records on Greville street is still there - he owns profile music directly across the road and is still going strong - he is the last man standing from that area of house/techno vinyl only shops
“This is the most amazing record. Whatever famous dj pops into my mind while I’m talking, they are smashing this record. You must buy this record I’ve been holding it for you”. “Here are another 50 records that you must buy, whatever I just said about the other record, same goes for these50”. Amazing
You’re a bit too young to have been at Chasers back in the crazy 80’s when they had some bad ass boys working the doors and plenty of heads often got kicked - where the McDonalds is on the corner used to be a kebab shop and quite a few fights would happen around in that street. Frostbites was originally the New Orleans Hotel - the Black Prince bar used to be back down Chapel towards the river on the other side ( great party nights ) - and the Country Road Store on the corner of Chapel & Toorak used to be the South Yarra Arms Hotel - ahh, so many fun memories of Chapel - pity the South Yarra / Prahran part is screwed now and all the action has shifted up to Windsor
Yup, those Chasers bouncers were real scum...i spewed up a couple of bottles of red wine in the middle of the black prince, we did runners from everywhere, etc etc fun times for sure..80s-98
Great content Danny! I used to live in South Yarra in the 90’s at the peak of its clubbing scene. Way back from Saloon and Warehouse on Toorak. The legendary Checkpoint Charlie’s to Chasers and Viper Room on Chapel St. That area used to be the hub of nightlife back in the day. I was there when Snoop performed in Chasers and knew some of those people you mentioned. Thanks for the memories. Cheers 🙌
I’m 51 now so in my late teens 20s 30s Salt Dome (Janes Bar!!) Freakazoid Virgin Mary’s! On a Sunday arvo Everybody! High AF! 😂Good crazy times! Opposite 3faces there was a club so the back of that is a laneway and the end a door Club Uranus! Man the techno trance and all weekend! 🎉time! Who remembers Zuzu’s? In the cbd Russell st. Saw Dave Seaman at Salt! Paul Van Dyke at Redheads! Pier 14 Winterdaze Docklands! So many raves too many to mention BUT those decades Were the Best! Glad to experience it growing up But now?! Nothing just a bar for me 🙏🏼 Salt was great! Miss that place! Rip to those that drowned in the yarra
I grew up in Sydney then moved near Melbourne Melbourne was great but have to say SYDNEY was another level I just remember walking out of qbar mid summer and freezing my ass off MIAMI may be the place now
I'm from the same era. Same rotation. Later there was Samsara, Subway (The old one near Inkerman). You could walk into a club alone in those days and either there was someone you know there or you make another weekend friend.
What a trip down memory lane. Thanks for taking the time to do this video. I used to work with Obese records and my sister was a "door bitch" at 161 so I've shared many messy weekends down at "Revolting" & most of the clubs there for years. Chap laps was funny to see....i miss that life..fun time.
Chevron was a old haunt of mine. I can remember some of the old DJ's from in there being Sean Quinn and John Course. But Sunday nights in there were special to me. Chocolate Starfish played there when they started as a 60's and 70's cover band and the night always rocked.
I used to hate Prahan. As a youngin, I used to always get dragged there, I’m adhd and a bit different, either attracts people, which is good, or causes trouble from those who sense a difference they don’t like. I’m also gay, (not quite the stereotype!) I remember always ending up in fights in the straight clubs because people would see my ADHD stereotype for being an easy target. (I think ADHDers evolved as the worlds promote hunters, not wise to mess with em.) Being kicked out of venues for defending myself (with great reservation) was not my idea of a good time. Prahran was the stuffiest, most gloomy, wintry atmosphere. Always hated it. As this dude says, Melbournians prefer rundown to classy. And I hated Market which was formerly 3 faces. And yes, rarely, but sometimes straight dudes would go there and lose their pants or shirts. Maybe it was always too hot in there? I didn’t get it, the lisping didn’t really do anything for me there. Maybe they figures any holes a goal?
That Dome story. Truer words were never spoken. My 47 year old self witnessed it first hand from the guest list line that night and I have and still do, re-tell the story to this day in vivid detail. One of the most surreal clubbing moments of my life.
@@Dannysrants Annnnd I'm pretty sure I still remember his name lol. Being in the club that night while it was locked down after the cops cordoned off the front entrance and declared it a crime scene, was nuts. Management were crafty though, opened a side room door, threw a trestle table inside and some staff and started letting punters in a side entrance. Side note: the final NYE at Dome, I was allowed to bring a HandiCam in the club and film. I still have the tapes, as well as many photos from my 2 years spent there lol
@@Shark_EyesI was there that night out the front in guest list line too and witnessed it. A group of us ran to the car park further up once the shots fired. Other than that night, absolutely loved the Dome Skin on Saturdays. I’d love to see your footage and photos. Please share!!
@@ellenik7407 I was waiting to see if anyone else who was there would find this video and chime in. When I saw the gun pulled and the shots let off, I pushed my two friends to the side wall of the building and watched it all unfold from there. We were basically at the front of the line when the dust settled because most people had run off, maybe you were one of those people lol As for the film footage, I haven't looked at it in years, but I'm not sure how safe it is for UA-cam lol The photos on the other hand show many a familiar face who attended that place weekly.
Wow, You must have seen the people get shot first hand. Shocking! I haven’t ever spoken to anyone else that witnessed it besides my friends that night. We were in the middle of the line and once the gunshots fired, I first ran behind the telephone box that was there, then my friend yelled at me to run with them. Yeah we didn’t stay there long but still remember it all like it was yesterday. Strange thing happened before the shooting about 3 months prior, I had a dream that I was at the front of Dome and ran behind a telephone box, so when it actually happened it was such a freaky déjà vu moment. Yeah I can understand about the footage as I was there and saw what went on lol. Still so curious to see though. I’m sure I’d see lots of familiar faces too.
Awesome vid Danny. I used to club in the 90s, ol' billboards, warehouse, zoss, the works, even ran the old chap laps back in the days. Sharing and promoting your channel, keep it up bro.
Fuck yeah I lived at viper , Zos for about 5 plus years b4 hitting other clubs. Come to think about it I spent way too many years and far too much cash. FUN TIMES just the same
Mate mate mate that was awesome. Im 45 and live in Dunsborough 2 hours from Perth living a very chill life style now at the beach but lm born and bred in Melbourne up till I was 25 going to alot of clubs like Revolver and a shit load more. I was very hard core into the techno clubs all over Melbourne like Hard Candy were I knew big players in the game my self were it was getting to heavy were I witnessed I professional hit take place in one of the night clubs I used to go to and I decided I was getting to involved in the hard core scene. So at 25 yrs old decided to live Melbourne and look for a better life for me. I loved being a part of the 1998 - 2005 days of clubbing witch listening to this sounds like the best days for it. I was one to always walk with respect in clubs and that's part of the reasons why I knew so many big names in the under ground scene. I will always remember we're Im from and thanks for making the video cause it's been 20 years since and such great memories came flooding back to me. Do you remember one of the doorman at Revolver with his whole face tattooed, very intimidating looking guy, very staunch, trained in martial arts but he was a really good guy to talk to. Anyways thanks again mate that was awesome.
Keep up the awesome content man, great memories and I know what you mean about going into the city these days at night alone and feeling safe/at home even now. Such good times!
Omg all these clubs I used to go to. Full of great memories. Clubs were soooo good back then. Packed all the time and opened all weekend. So many clubs to chose from. Without fail you’d have the best music playing ppl dancing all night and just having fun. Nothing compares. Glad I had the opportunity to experience clubbing back then.
I’m not sure what happened to Melbourne now days. It just seems so boring now. 2000’s was a golden era, I heard the 80’s and 90’s were even more golden.
Before Saratoga was an underage scene they used to have an awesome Thursday night which would attract a few big name DJ's. Was mine and my mates frequent for many years. Great times!
Used to work at Lotus when Johnny & Mel owned it, Adam Trace was the regular Dj, It's now an IGA, the facade of the IGA is still the same as when it was Lotus. Mel and her mum had matching Ferrari silver convertibles. Johnny apparently is responsible for some of the bullet holes at Viper. Spent 4 years working at Tryst when it was owned by Dean, it's now Leonards house of Love, a chicken restaurant. Tryst was once the nunnery for Brideys back when it was a church, then it was a brothel, hence the red light that used to be on the front left corner of the building. It was then a cafe before becoming Tryst. 2 biggest nights were the Superbad premier afterparty and then the last night after Dean sold it before buying Crystal that used to be Hugo Lounge, Tony Mokbels old club.
@@Dannysrants Hugo had shiny metal shelves in the toilets... I remember removing them helping out with the demo for Dean. It took about a year for the sale to go through due to proceeds of crime investigation.
The record store on Greville St was called 'Rhythm And Soul'. Central Station stores are dead now, but Alley Tunes in Hawthorn still kicks. Great content so far!
I was a Zos then Chasers rocker from 2004 to 2012 nearly every Saturday night I was there & at some of the other old venues on chapel st. Always good memories back then 👌💪
Got into revolver via the roof in about 2003, thanks to a double story ladder at a building site out the back. Got my 161 medallion confiscated for being too cooked. Great content!
Danny, ex worker at Mercury Lounge, Bass Station and The Ivy here! Have a LOT of stories of stuff that went on (particularly at Mercury Lounge) but my fractured memories from the time (substances, substances) makes me foggy on some of the names of the players. Did you know them? Circa 1998-2000? From Michael Gudinski on down. If you do, would be keen to chat. Help fill the gaps in my memory! :)
Oh the nostalgia of BEAT magazine, Chap Laps! I was in the underground rave scene and went to alot of the docklands raves at SHED 14, Beat mag was a huge thing for me in high school
Before it was Bridie O'Reilly's it was a club called The Church, great vibe and music but horrible acoustics. Next to Chasers there was the Z bar which was full of the older 'after dinner' crowd who would be sweating to live speed jazz packed together like sardines. After the incident at Salt it was referred to as 'Assault', but before that it was the legendary Warehouse the station hotel before the renovation had massive vibes, they used to host rap freestyle open mic nights called 'The Cypher' Soooo many memories in that area! My time there was from mid 90's to early 2000's Thanks dude
So happy you did 161, use to go every weekend and was my fav place for many many years. Very sad to see such a dramatic change & lack of the old school bars & clubs… thought blue bar might of got a mention 😅 Awesome times and memories
Warehouse was a haunt for me in the late 80’s … Awesome times & trannys everywhere on Toorak rd at 7am in the morning … Saloon bar down the the road also a rocking place … I could name all the clubs in that area back in the days 80’s early 90’s Gosh the good old days & fun times 🎉
Early 90's were eyewateringly epic - Chevron, Sugar Shack, Inflation, Warehouse, Metro, Tunnel, Frostbites, Chasers, Silvers @ Trak, Caddy Bar, Bobby McGees, Santa Fe, The Ivy, Joose, Stylus, the list goes on. Then there were the endless pubs with live music - ET's, Geebung, Cherry Tree, Cherry Bar, awesome times in Melbourne. Heavy Traffic and Joey's on Toorak rd were always a great place to end the night at 7am!
Man the 80's and 90 were as wild as when you're talking about You forgot Joe's that use to be up the stairs and The Saloon Bar which had wild nights and that's just on Toorak Road The Market was Three Faces before that I think
I’m from Perth and had a gf that lived in Melbourne was seeing her for two years travelling there every month for a week and go to know these clubs well. You’re a great storyteller and suit your vocation to a tee! 👌
Good yarns man . I don't even live in Melb ( in Perth ) and am not involved in the clubbing scene but this was an interesting watch / listen . Subbed .
“Punching through these like cones in a bungalow…” 😂😂😂 Best memories of Checkpoint Charlie, across the road from there (3 Faces?), Chevron, Metro, Billboard, Warehouse, Cadillac Bar, Bombay, Inflation, Underground, Chasers, incredible vibes so lucky to be in my twenties during this golden era 😂
Mate this is awesome I was a small town country boy that moved to Melbourne in 2004 and went to many of the joints but every sat night was TFU jezz Hargreaves was our man what a time to be alive
In the late 90's earlier 2000 ( I was still in high school year 11, 12) I worked at Kanpai Japanese Restaurant close to the end of chapel st and near Toorak rd and I also worked at another Japanese restaurant Sushi Belt on Toorak near the hotel Como in early 2000 too. That Asian night things you were saying, I was there on that night and the 2 guys died are brothers and 1 of the guy was my friend's boyfriend at that time, my husband and me know them personally! It's a very sad story for the family! Boys were only fighting because a girl! Thank you that I able to have a look around by your lens, back the days cheapl st always packed of cars, now like no body there!
Bring back memories, used to go to Salt back in the early 2000s, I was still in high school. They had techno, CJ pop 😊 etc. that place provided me and my mates with so many fun nights.
Dome, Freakazoid, Virgin Marys then Megabar, then Sunday night at Q Bar with Sean Quinn on the decks and the Men's Gallery girls in the back room. Walk of shame home Monday morning then work. Alternative Sunday night at Hellfire. Go hard or go home.
@@gti500 there was also a very crusty Monday morning recovery off Hardware Lane. CBD I think it was called. The trauma of exiting at lunchtime was too much!
So sad this is same story all over australia. I went back my old home town in Bendigo last week. The nightlife is non existent. I’m bout same age as you and Bendigo was thriving nightlife in early 2000s. All the old clubs are being turned into apartments. Long long plan of agenda 21 it will never come back 😔
Thanks for this be good to know what it was like earlier on can you speak to your older timer mate, my older cuz said Dome was lit Chasers The Continental Inflation in King St, disgraceful since we became a commo state pre and post pandemic there is nowhere t go now, where did everyone go?? Good times 🖤🖤
This was spot on, there used to be somewhere to go every single night in Melbs now its just full on gentros who have ruined it wish he would do one for the Saratoga Dome days and the rockers who were shuffling fml it was epic
They left or grew up I guess Harcore agree on this would be lit to see what it was like before when we were nightclub central remember Vineyard ? good times arvo sessions till late slapping smarties
Feels like a lot of you all would have watched my brother DJ every week at Q, candy bar to name a few back in the 90s / early 2000s. Wish I was born that handful of years earlier so I could have got to spend some time with him and you all enjoying what was clearly an infinitely better scene
Was part of the opening bar staff at ZoS, it was so dead the whole 6-8 months I worked there. Then ended up rounding out my nightclub bar work at Q Bar a few years later, it was the Summer of red mitsies and probably one of the best 6 months of club work/partying I ever did. Great memories of all the venues you visited in this vid - keep ranting!
Love the channel, bro. Keep up the fantastic work. Would love if you could get some old timers from back in the day to rip out sone legendary stories from the 80’s and 90s, back when things would’ve been a lot more ‘loose’ so to speak lol ❤️🎵
Well documented. Loved warehouse before it became salt it’s was a huge called night XTC 1997. QBAR….. still no reunion? Remember the sneaker shop at entrance of qbar called Ghetto….. the best! Pawn and co’s first venue was previously Cristal and prior to that Hugo lounge and prior to that gamma bar which was huge greek night. Cristal was destroyed by fire and sure enough a few years later the rest of the complex went up in flames which caused structural damage and all the other businesses and venues to close. Faulty electrical wiring throughout the entire building apparently! The building was then demolished and the block has been a big arse patch of overgrown weeds with cyclone fencing around it for 5 or so years, awaiting the fancy apartment complex with entertainment and retail….. some of which were existing businesses that were promised a prime position in the new complex….. a big chunk of good vibes was lost along that building. I think that was the beginning of the end of that era for entertainment and retail. Add to that covid lockdowns!
Great video. Definitely takes me back. You say you ran some nights at Evo? I use to go there. There was a DJ there who I remember use to play Friday nights where it was a house night and he use to play his track that used a sample of Gogh Whitlams dismissal speech. I forget his name. Wish I knew. Been trying to find that track for years haha.
yew! I'm big into the Melbourne Psytrance scene. So I havent been to a lot of these clubs on Chapel. But alot of them are on my to do list. Great video mate.
Back in 1991/2 we used to go to The Warehouse nightclub.. was very cool. Mid 90’s also started to hang at Revolver when it first opened.. taking acid trips and chillin to sets by Honeysmack.. those were the days!
19:23 love the spanian "hectic' impersonation. 😂 10 years ago Temperence was always packed on Sat nights. Now it's dead. Electric was dead, now it's a teenage hang out. Amazing how the scene changes when the venue stays the same.
man thx for the memories! I was DJing RnB and hip hop at many of the clubs in the 00s. You gotta find someone to go through the history of RnB/hip hop nights in Melbourne from the 90s onwards!
Metro was hectic in my days throughout the mid 90's.... The Sports Bar & upstairs was Bar 20, was the Wild West.... I would also party at Crown as working in the Racehorse Industry & my owner's owned a club upstairs at Crown. Then it would be downstairs to Barcode🤣😂🤣😂
Fken salt, when I was out there, it was called warehouse, used to party from metro, to warehouse, weds night wogs night, Saturday Asian night! Silvers, chasers, chevrons Fken helllllllll those were the days mate
You grabbed me in a head lock from behind once at Lady Luck. You thought I was on juice but I proved I wasn’t I was just fucking blind a had a random pinga 😂 I saw you there the next week and you apologised and gave me a couple drink cards 🤙🏾 Legend.
Man these vids are awesome!! I miss those days.... taking me down memory lane puts a smile on my face .... ZOS was the shit & the KFC was a club in it's self 😂.... Love Mac Sundays was great at one point...
I was working at the City of Prahran Council as a 20 year old back in 1990 and remember the By-Laws Officers and Police having "raided" Chasers on weekend for overcrowding. 😁
And during my time rocking it at Chasers between 2007 to 2011 the Police still did regular raids through Chasers nightclub on Saturday nights during F#*k The Love nights.
What about The Social bar that started of as Ibiza.. one the longest running venue in Chapel St. Packed every Friday Saturday and Sunday was the pre Monkey party with lots and lots of stories.
Circus bar ! - i remember when i had a DJ set in the smoker's area upstairs - the single tripod mounted speaker may as well should have been a single Apple AirPod. Haha
You mentioned 161 is a place where people in their late 30's and 40's still go. Where else would you recommend for those of us that age to meet each other?
I heard about this scene in the news, but I've always been into rock music instead...Went to festivals like the Big Day Out and Soundwave. Liked to go to gigs at The Corner Hotel.
The club scene is defs not what it used to be. But it's still pumping on chapel every Friday/Saturday night. Maybe not a fat stack of clubs like back then, but still some decent new bars down windsor end and a few old clubs still kicking it. Great vid btw, so many spots I've never heard of.
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Bro, you're articulate, reflective, reminiscent....and definitely on the spectrum. Peace
Lmfao 🤣
Best comment ever.
What makes you think having a memory and being articulate means he is on the spectrum ?
Why did u even feel the need to comment this ? 😅 random as .
@@markhowells13
Just a little inside joke I’m guessing. He presents as someone who is, that’s all, but it’s meant as a compliment. I’m sure if it’s true he would appreciate it, if not, have a laugh either way but I do think there’s a very high chance he is, which from me is a compliment as well.
@@ABEKSIZM Why do you need to reply asking me why I need to comment? Redundant as, cuz 🫠
As someone in mid 40s who lived in Richmond and south Yarra in my twenties early 30s good to watch this and bring the memories back. Was hectic but fun times.
Was such a vibe!
@@DannysrantsI moved to Melbourne in my 20's in 1997 until mid 2000's, it was a great place to be and the best era, lived in South Yarra and the easy access to the club scene was insane, I used to walk to Q-bar, had many wild nights in the area, thanks for bringing back some fun memories and dome crazy ones too ;)
I have so much history there. I remember going to the arcade place above qbar in the early to mid 90s. this video brings back so many memories and that area has changed so much. Lotus bar was almost across the road to south Yarra station like 4 shops to the left on the other side of the road…
Crazy thing is - Steve who owned rythem and soul records on Greville street is still there - he owns profile music directly across the road and is still going strong - he is the last man standing from that area of house/techno vinyl only shops
Thats awesome!
“This is the most amazing record. Whatever famous dj pops into my mind while I’m talking, they are smashing this record. You must buy this record I’ve been holding it for you”.
“Here are another 50 records that you must buy, whatever I just said about the other record, same goes for these50”.
Amazing
Great record shop - when he is around
I used to go to rhythm and soul and dmc recirds almost every day. Thanks for letting us know. I will go pay him a visit
@@lat-roc9733 is he not working the full 6 days anymore?? The lad use to do 12 hour shifts in there haha - May be semi retired now?
I never did the Melbourne nightclub scene in my 20s/30s but legit couldn’t stop watching this video!! Super entertaining. You’re a great storyteller
Love that!
I did St Kilda in those days
Tryst, Viper Room, Market, Circus, Revs, Candy bar, the nostalgia, flashbacks and good times 💜
Literally lived a few doors down from Circus 😫oh the memories, Revs, Pawn n co
You’re a bit too young to have been at Chasers back in the crazy 80’s when they had some bad ass boys working the doors and plenty of heads often got kicked - where the McDonalds is on the corner used to be a kebab shop and quite a few fights would happen around in that street. Frostbites was originally the New Orleans Hotel - the Black Prince bar used to be back down Chapel towards the river on the other side ( great party nights ) - and the Country Road Store on the corner of Chapel & Toorak used to be the South Yarra Arms Hotel - ahh, so many fun memories of Chapel - pity the South Yarra / Prahran part is screwed now and all the action has shifted up to Windsor
The South Yarra Arms (now Cnutry Road) - I used to go there prior to watching Spinal Tap on Toorak Road
Yup, those Chasers bouncers were real scum...i spewed up a couple of bottles of red wine in the middle of the black prince, we did runners from everywhere, etc etc fun times for sure..80s-98
@@lat-roc9733 spinal tap is gold - such a laugh 🤣🤣🤣
Everyone had those country road bags
@@Kingkong-qu8eh my girlfriend did..
I’m having full ptsd flashbacks as if I served in a war, foc moiiiiii 😂😅
Hahaha me too😂😂
Great content Danny! I used to live in South Yarra in the 90’s at the peak of its clubbing scene. Way back from Saloon and Warehouse on Toorak. The legendary Checkpoint Charlie’s to Chasers and Viper Room on Chapel St. That area used to be the hub of nightlife back in the day. I was there when Snoop performed in Chasers and knew some of those people you mentioned. Thanks for the memories. Cheers 🙌
Thanks for watching :)
One of the owners of Checkpoint Charlie's was my waterpolo coach at Wesley College. That place was filled with us wagging and getting pissed underage.
I’m 51 now so in my late teens 20s 30s Salt Dome (Janes Bar!!) Freakazoid Virgin Mary’s! On a Sunday arvo Everybody! High AF! 😂Good crazy times! Opposite 3faces there was a club so the back of that is a laneway and the end a door Club Uranus! Man the techno trance and all weekend! 🎉time! Who remembers Zuzu’s? In the cbd Russell st. Saw Dave Seaman at Salt! Paul Van Dyke at Redheads! Pier 14 Winterdaze Docklands! So many raves too many to mention BUT those decades Were the Best! Glad to experience it growing up But now?! Nothing just a bar for me 🙏🏼 Salt was great! Miss that place! Rip to those that drowned in the yarra
Janes bar lives on at billboard
I grew up in Sydney then moved near Melbourne
Melbourne was great but have to say SYDNEY was another level
I just remember walking out of qbar mid summer and freezing my ass off
MIAMI may be the place now
I’m 51 born 6th March 1973 great generation 👍
@@DannysrantsIs Jane still running it?
I'm from the same era. Same rotation.
Later there was Samsara, Subway (The old one near Inkerman).
You could walk into a club alone in those days and either there was someone you know there or you make another weekend friend.
Late 90s early 00 best place in Melbourne EVER. Will never have anything like it.
Late 80's early 90's destroyed the late 90's early 2000's bro. Nightclubs were massive back then.
Kings Cross has it covered in that era.
What a trip down memory lane. Thanks for taking the time to do this video. I used to work with Obese records and my sister was a "door bitch" at 161 so I've shared many messy weekends down at "Revolting" & most of the clubs there for years. Chap laps was funny to see....i miss that life..fun time.
Fark! We’re getting old now, Warehouse, Chevron, Dome, amazing memories
The kids of today will never understand mate….great times chapel street use to be pumping
Need to cover these places
Chevron was a old haunt of mine. I can remember some of the old DJ's from in there being Sean Quinn and John Course. But Sunday nights in there were special to me.
Chocolate Starfish played there when they started as a 60's and 70's cover band and the night always rocked.
Remember Boulevards night club😂
I used to hate Prahan. As a youngin, I used to always get dragged there, I’m adhd and a bit different, either attracts people, which is good, or causes trouble from those who sense a difference they don’t like. I’m also gay, (not quite the stereotype!) I remember always ending up in fights in the straight clubs because people would see my ADHD stereotype for being an easy target. (I think ADHDers evolved as the worlds promote hunters, not wise to mess with em.)
Being kicked out of venues for defending myself (with great reservation) was not my idea of a good time. Prahran was the stuffiest, most gloomy, wintry atmosphere. Always hated it.
As this dude says, Melbournians prefer rundown to classy. And I hated Market which was formerly 3 faces. And yes, rarely, but sometimes straight dudes would go there and lose their pants or shirts. Maybe it was always too hot in there? I didn’t get it, the lisping didn’t really do anything for me there. Maybe they figures any holes a goal?
That Dome story. Truer words were never spoken. My 47 year old self witnessed it first hand from the guest list line that night and I have and still do, re-tell the story to this day in vivid detail. One of the most surreal clubbing moments of my life.
The guard involved is still on the streets running boys today
@@Dannysrants Annnnd I'm pretty sure I still remember his name lol. Being in the club that night while it was locked down after the cops cordoned off the front entrance and declared it a crime scene, was nuts. Management were crafty though, opened a side room door, threw a trestle table inside and some staff and started letting punters in a side entrance.
Side note: the final NYE at Dome, I was allowed to bring a HandiCam in the club and film. I still have the tapes, as well as many photos from my 2 years spent there lol
@@Shark_EyesI was there that night out the front in guest list line too and witnessed it. A group of us ran to the car park further up once the shots fired. Other than that night, absolutely loved the Dome Skin on Saturdays.
I’d love to see your footage and photos. Please share!!
@@ellenik7407 I was waiting to see if anyone else who was there would find this video and chime in. When I saw the gun pulled and the shots let off, I pushed my two friends to the side wall of the building and watched it all unfold from there. We were basically at the front of the line when the dust settled because most people had run off, maybe you were one of those people lol
As for the film footage, I haven't looked at it in years, but I'm not sure how safe it is for UA-cam lol The photos on the other hand show many a familiar face who attended that place weekly.
Wow, You must have seen the people get shot first hand. Shocking! I haven’t ever spoken to anyone else that witnessed it besides my friends that night. We were in the middle of the line and once the gunshots fired, I first ran behind the telephone box that was there, then my friend yelled at me to run with them. Yeah we didn’t stay there long but still remember it all like it was yesterday. Strange thing happened before the shooting about 3 months prior, I had a dream that I was at the front of Dome and ran behind a telephone box, so when it actually happened it was such a freaky déjà vu moment.
Yeah I can understand about the footage as I was there and saw what went on lol. Still so curious to see though. I’m sure I’d see lots of familiar faces too.
Awesome vid Danny. I used to club in the 90s, ol' billboards, warehouse, zoss, the works, even ran the old chap laps back in the days. Sharing and promoting your channel, keep it up bro.
Thanks heaps for the support! You are a legend.
Which Glen Harrison is this ??? Are you Egyptian ?
If you are mid 40’s to mid 50’s you these were awesome times
Fkuc yeah !
Fuck yeah I lived at viper , Zos for about 5 plus years b4 hitting other clubs. Come to think about it I spent way too many years and far too much cash. FUN TIMES just the same
Mate mate mate that was awesome. Im 45 and live in Dunsborough 2 hours from Perth living a very chill life style now at the beach but lm born and bred in Melbourne up till I was 25 going to alot of clubs like Revolver and a shit load more. I was very hard core into the techno clubs all over Melbourne like Hard Candy were I knew big players in the game my self were it was getting to heavy were I witnessed I professional hit take place in one of the night clubs I used to go to and I decided I was getting to involved in the hard core scene. So at 25 yrs old decided to live Melbourne and look for a better life for me. I loved being a part of the 1998 - 2005 days of clubbing witch listening to this sounds like the best days for it. I was one to always walk with respect in clubs and that's part of the reasons why I knew so many big names in the under ground scene. I will always remember we're Im from and thanks for making the video cause it's been 20 years since and such great memories came flooding back to me. Do you remember one of the doorman at Revolver with his whole face tattooed, very intimidating looking guy, very staunch, trained in martial arts but he was a really good guy to talk to. Anyways thanks again mate that was awesome.
Love it
Keep up the awesome content man, great memories and I know what you mean about going into the city these days at night alone and feeling safe/at home even now. Such good times!
Thanks for the comment :)
Omg all these clubs I used to go to.
Full of great memories.
Clubs were soooo good back then.
Packed all the time and opened all weekend.
So many clubs to chose from. Without fail you’d have the best music playing ppl dancing all night and just having fun. Nothing compares.
Glad I had the opportunity to experience clubbing back then.
same
This just came up on my youtube feed. This is brilliant 😢😢😢 Melbourne back then was the place to be man. So many memories
Thanks for the message
I’m not sure what happened to Melbourne now days. It just seems so boring now. 2000’s was a golden era, I heard the 80’s and 90’s were even more golden.
Lotus , Q , Robarda , the Saint, 16 , Revolting 😂 ahhh the memories ..
Good times
Before Saratoga was an underage scene they used to have an awesome Thursday night which would attract a few big name DJ's. Was mine and my mates frequent for many years. Great times!
Used to work at Lotus when Johnny & Mel owned it, Adam Trace was the regular Dj, It's now an IGA, the facade of the IGA is still the same as when it was Lotus. Mel and her mum had matching Ferrari silver convertibles. Johnny apparently is responsible for some of the bullet holes at Viper.
Spent 4 years working at Tryst when it was owned by Dean, it's now Leonards house of Love, a chicken restaurant. Tryst was once the nunnery for Brideys back when it was a church, then it was a brothel, hence the red light that used to be on the front left corner of the building. It was then a cafe before becoming Tryst. 2 biggest nights were the Superbad premier afterparty and then the last night after Dean sold it before buying Crystal that used to be Hugo Lounge, Tony Mokbels old club.
Yeah wow haha. I know some stories but was worried to spill all the beans.
@@Dannysrants Hugo had shiny metal shelves in the toilets... I remember removing them helping out with the demo for Dean. It took about a year for the sale to go through due to proceeds of crime investigation.
This is great. I'm in Melbourne but never went anywhere near the club stuff. It's like a whole hidden history of Melbourne thing
“She text his number off the car and it was destiny and they got two kids now and probably live in Roxburgh park.” 😂😂😂😂
The record store on Greville St was called 'Rhythm And Soul'.
Central Station stores are dead now, but Alley Tunes in Hawthorn still kicks.
Great content so far!
What did i call it? I didnt know alley tunes was still open!
@@Dannysrantsrhythm and vine
My cousin Greg owned it
@@duke1724 And now he owns Hub 301 records.
@@MattNucleus thanks for that info haven't seen Greg for yrs I'll drop in now I know we're he is
I was a Zos then Chasers rocker from 2004 to 2012 nearly every Saturday night I was there & at some of the other old venues on chapel st.
Always good memories back then 👌💪
Love it!
Yesssss
Got into revolver via the roof in about 2003, thanks to a double story ladder at a building site out the back. Got my 161 medallion confiscated for being too cooked. Great content!
🤣
This brings back so many memories.. Such a shame that so many of the venues don't exist anymore.. Loving these videos
Yeah it is isnt it..
Danny, ex worker at Mercury Lounge, Bass Station and The Ivy here! Have a LOT of stories of stuff that went on (particularly at Mercury Lounge) but my fractured memories from the time (substances, substances) makes me foggy on some of the names of the players. Did you know them? Circa 1998-2000? From Michael Gudinski on down. If you do, would be keen to chat. Help fill the gaps in my memory! :)
Unfortunately im 2005 onwards
Billy M & Corey?
Oh the nostalgia of BEAT magazine, Chap Laps! I was in the underground rave scene and went to alot of the docklands raves at SHED 14, Beat mag was a huge thing for me in high school
I only ever went to one
Before it was Bridie O'Reilly's it was a club called The Church, great vibe and music but horrible acoustics. Next to Chasers there was the Z bar which was full of the older 'after dinner' crowd who would be sweating to live speed jazz packed together like sardines.
After the incident at Salt it was referred to as 'Assault', but before that it was the legendary Warehouse
the station hotel before the renovation had massive vibes, they used to host rap freestyle open mic nights called 'The Cypher'
Soooo many memories in that area! My time there was from mid 90's to early 2000's
Thanks dude
Going out in that era was awesome. Would have loved some imagines from inside the venues edited into the video as you explain but still kinda cool
Man that brings back memories. I started work as a bus boy at inflations in 1999. Your walks bring back a lot of memories.
So glad i can do that for you!
Great stories my man. I’m from Perth but I’m familiar with a few or the places you’re talking about. Keep u the good work
Awesome! Maybe ill get to perth one day.
Before it was salt used to be called the warehouse
So happy you did 161, use to go every weekend and was my fav place for many many years. Very sad to see such a dramatic change & lack of the old school bars & clubs… thought blue bar might of got a mention 😅 Awesome times and memories
Probably should have!
This was like a trip down memory lane for me, used to frequent a lot of these places in my late teens / early 20s. Thanks for sharing mate.
Thanks for watching
Warehouse was a haunt for me in the late 80’s … Awesome times & trannys everywhere on Toorak rd at 7am in the morning …
Saloon bar down the the road also a rocking place … I could name all the clubs in that area back in the days 80’s early 90’s
Gosh the good old days & fun times 🎉
the Kebab joint near South Yarra station - good times
@@deesalkelly3069 Mr Squeeze ! use to rock until the early hours for years .
Love you used the proper wog way of saying "Inflation". "Inflations". Bonus points for "The Inflations".
Haha that’s gold! Inflations!
Early 90's were eyewateringly epic - Chevron, Sugar Shack, Inflation, Warehouse, Metro, Tunnel, Frostbites, Chasers, Silvers @ Trak, Caddy Bar, Bobby McGees, Santa Fe, The Ivy, Joose, Stylus, the list goes on. Then there were the endless pubs with live music - ET's, Geebung, Cherry Tree, Cherry Bar, awesome times in Melbourne. Heavy Traffic and Joey's on Toorak rd were always a great place to end the night at 7am!
Man the 80's and 90 were as wild as when you're talking about
You forgot Joe's that use to be up the stairs and The Saloon Bar which had wild nights and that's just on Toorak Road
The Market was Three Faces before that I think
Oh really, i didnt know that.
Oh! And . For all those who remember all those places! Kenny Norris , diamonds for her ! Your welcome
I’m from Perth and had a gf that lived in Melbourne was seeing her for two years travelling there every month for a week and go to know these clubs well. You’re a great storyteller and suit your vocation to a tee! 👌
Could watch your tours & stories for hours on end brother. Keep rocking it….
Thanks so much for the kind words!
Good yarns man . I don't even live in Melb ( in Perth ) and am not involved in the clubbing scene but this was an interesting watch / listen . Subbed .
You've taken me down memory lane with this video dude. Cheers!
Proper flashbacks from the early naughty’s. Nicely done.
“Punching through these like cones in a bungalow…” 😂😂😂 Best memories of Checkpoint Charlie, across the road from there (3 Faces?), Chevron, Metro, Billboard, Warehouse, Cadillac Bar, Bombay, Inflation, Underground, Chasers, incredible vibes so lucky to be in my twenties during this golden era 😂
Mate this is awesome I was a small town country boy that moved to Melbourne in 2004 and went to many of the joints but every sat night was TFU jezz Hargreaves was our man what a time to be alive
In the late 90's earlier 2000 ( I was still in high school year 11, 12) I worked at Kanpai Japanese Restaurant close to the end of chapel st and near Toorak rd and I also worked at another Japanese restaurant Sushi Belt on Toorak near the hotel Como in early 2000 too.
That Asian night things you were saying, I was there on that night and the 2 guys died are brothers and 1 of the guy was my friend's boyfriend at that time, my husband and me know them personally! It's a very sad story for the family! Boys were only fighting because a girl!
Thank you that I able to have a look around by your lens, back the days cheapl st always packed of cars, now like no body there!
Omg. Thank you 🙏 Danny for an amazing walk down memory lane ❣️❣️❣️
Thanks for watching
Bring back memories, used to go to Salt back in the early 2000s, I was still in high school. They had techno, CJ pop 😊 etc. that place provided me and my mates with so many fun nights.
Who remembers Virgin Mary's Sunday afternoons?
Dome, Freakazoid, Virgin Marys then Megabar, then Sunday night at Q Bar with Sean Quinn on the decks and the Men's Gallery girls in the back room. Walk of shame home Monday morning then work. Alternative Sunday night at Hellfire. Go hard or go home.
@@gti500 there was also a very crusty Monday morning recovery off Hardware Lane. CBD I think it was called. The trauma of exiting at lunchtime was too much!
So sad this is same story all over australia. I went back my old home town in Bendigo last week. The nightlife is non existent. I’m bout same age as you and Bendigo was thriving nightlife in early 2000s. All the old clubs are being turned into apartments. Long long plan of agenda 21 it will never come back 😔
My mates owned universal and huha back then
@@Dannysrants uni was great back in day. Haha I was regular at both. Good times !!
Thanks for this be good to know what it was like earlier on can you speak to your older timer mate, my older cuz said Dome was lit Chasers The Continental Inflation in King St, disgraceful since we became a commo state pre and post pandemic there is nowhere t go now, where did everyone go??
Good times
🖤🖤
This was spot on, there used to be somewhere to go every single night in Melbs now its just full on gentros who have ruined it wish he would do one for the Saratoga Dome days and the rockers who were shuffling fml it was epic
They left or grew up I guess
Harcore agree on this would be lit to see what it was like before when we were nightclub central remember Vineyard ? good times arvo sessions till late slapping smarties
Chapel is EMBARRASSING no wait Melbourne is cringe for clubbing now
@@j.benterprises3060 cringe
Feels like a lot of you all would have watched my brother DJ every week at Q, candy bar to name a few back in the 90s / early 2000s. Wish I was born that handful of years earlier so I could have got to spend some time with him and you all enjoying what was clearly an infinitely better scene
Was part of the opening bar staff at ZoS, it was so dead the whole 6-8 months I worked there. Then ended up rounding out my nightclub bar work at Q Bar a few years later, it was the Summer of red mitsies and probably one of the best 6 months of club work/partying I ever did. Great memories of all the venues you visited in this vid - keep ranting!
Love the channel, bro. Keep up the fantastic work. Would love if you could get some old timers from back in the day to rip out sone legendary stories from the 80’s and 90s, back when things would’ve been a lot more ‘loose’ so to speak lol ❤️🎵
Well documented. Loved warehouse before it became salt it’s was a huge called night XTC 1997.
QBAR….. still no reunion?
Remember the sneaker shop at entrance of qbar called Ghetto….. the best!
Pawn and co’s first venue was previously Cristal and prior to that Hugo lounge and prior to that gamma bar which was huge greek night.
Cristal was destroyed by fire and sure enough a few years later the rest of the complex went up in flames which caused structural damage and all the other businesses and venues to close. Faulty electrical wiring throughout the entire building apparently!
The building was then demolished and the block has been a big arse patch of overgrown weeds with cyclone fencing around it for 5 or so years, awaiting the fancy apartment complex with entertainment and retail….. some of which were existing businesses that were promised a prime position in the new complex….. a big chunk of good vibes was lost along that building. I think that was the beginning of the end of that era for entertainment and retail. Add to that covid lockdowns!
Yeah wow was Khokolat bar also at one point
XTC was Saturday night
Something Gen Z will never experience. 2000 to 2018 RIP
That carpark at viper was wild , still love the viper room vol 3 cd
I can only imagine!
I’ve only been to a couple of these clubs but I know all the streets and hearing all these stories is so interesting, keep doing it haha great work
I was about 4 years before you.... finishing up when you started! great yarns bro
I lived at Q bar. Used to get wasted there. Loved Sean Quinn, John Course and Adam Bartas. Richard Chatdiled was lovely and kind. A great owner.
His still around owning venues
Shout out to Cameron Cooley Smith owner for Killingtime, hes an absolute legend! Great place
Great work I used to run Sublounge on Mondays industry night, so a big hello :)
hello!
@@Dannysrants
I just went way back in time... Thank you I needed this 🙏
Rock paper scissors- I remember the old couch out the front 😂
Great video. Definitely takes me back. You say you ran some nights at Evo? I use to go there. There was a DJ there who I remember use to play Friday nights where it was a house night and he use to play his track that used a sample of Gogh Whitlams dismissal speech. I forget his name. Wish I knew. Been trying to find that track for years haha.
Nick foley I think ‘god save the queen but nothing will save the governor general’
@@dannygrant3452 Legend. Thanks.
yew!
I'm big into the Melbourne Psytrance scene. So I havent been to a lot of these clubs on Chapel.
But alot of them are on my to do list.
Great video mate.
The nostalgia is real.
Back in 1991/2 we used to go to The Warehouse nightclub.. was very cool.
Mid 90’s also started to hang at Revolver when it first opened.. taking acid trips and chillin to sets by Honeysmack.. those were the days!
Mad memories watching this. Was living in St.kilda and working at the Motel for 8years in the early 2000s
19:23 love the spanian "hectic' impersonation. 😂
10 years ago Temperence was always packed on Sat nights. Now it's dead. Electric was dead, now it's a teenage hang out. Amazing how the scene changes when the venue stays the same.
I use to watch it happen all the time. Culturally something shifts and then its packed.
Interesting vid, first one of yours I've seen. Chevron and Hippodrome during the mid to late 80's was my scene, real crazy times.
Jeez this brings back memories or the early 2000’s
man thx for the memories! I was DJing RnB and hip hop at many of the clubs in the 00s. You gotta find someone to go through the history of RnB/hip hop nights in Melbourne from the 90s onwards!
Thanks for the comment
I played at Revs twice back in the day (in a rock band), have absolutely nothing to do with this scene on Chapel but this video was great dude.
“If ed hardy spewed on the ground”😂
So good. The memories are flooding back!
I used to work and hang out at Inflations. I remember Martha, what a legend she is....
Pawn & Co, Killing time lock ins, Blue Bar, DMC on commercial road was sick hangout
Metro was hectic in my days throughout the mid 90's.... The Sports Bar & upstairs was Bar 20, was the Wild West.... I would also party at Crown as working in the Racehorse Industry & my owner's owned a club upstairs at Crown.
Then it would be downstairs to Barcode🤣😂🤣😂
Oh yes!! 👍❤️
Wow...Barcode..... 😅
Started clubbing at 15 in all these places. Thanks for the memories. Happy I grew out of it by the time I was 20.
Glad you enjoyed the throwback
Fken salt, when I was out there, it was called warehouse, used to party from metro, to warehouse, weds night wogs night, Saturday Asian night! Silvers, chasers, chevrons Fken helllllllll those were the days mate
Doubt he knows what those places are mate, Warehouse ha that used to vibe, hard did you used to shuffle bruh?
You grabbed me in a head lock from behind once at Lady Luck. You thought I was on juice but I proved I wasn’t I was just fucking blind a had a random pinga 😂
I saw you there the next week and you apologised and gave me a couple drink cards 🤙🏾
Legend.
Man these vids are awesome!! I miss those days.... taking me down memory lane puts a smile on my face .... ZOS was the shit & the KFC was a club in it's self 😂.... Love Mac Sundays was great at one point...
Glad you enjoy the, i like making them so happy some people are watching.
I was working at the City of Prahran Council as a 20 year old back in 1990 and remember the By-Laws Officers and Police having "raided" Chasers on weekend for overcrowding. 😁
And during my time rocking it at Chasers between 2007 to 2011 the Police still did regular raids through Chasers nightclub on Saturday nights during F#*k The Love nights.
You’re a legend mate! 😂 so good to see someone thought of doing this!
Thanks mate
What about The Social bar that started of as Ibiza.. one the longest running venue in Chapel St. Packed every Friday Saturday and Sunday was the pre Monkey party with lots and lots of stories.
Circus bar ! - i remember when i had a DJ set in the smoker's area upstairs - the single tripod mounted speaker may as well should have been a single Apple AirPod. Haha
hahaha yeah they always had sound restrictions there
You mentioned 161 is a place where people in their late 30's and 40's still go. Where else would you recommend for those of us that age to meet each other?
Oh man the terrible memories working at the KFC on Saturday nights 😂
Cool vid mate great memories
:P
Thank you
Melb had the best nightlife worldwide
Agree, back then.
i was always hanging at smith street when i was younger but its interesting to learn the lore behind chapel
I heard about this scene in the news, but I've always been into rock music instead...Went to festivals like the Big Day Out and Soundwave. Liked to go to gigs at The Corner Hotel.
The club scene is defs not what it used to be. But it's still pumping on chapel every Friday/Saturday night. Maybe not a fat stack of clubs like back then, but still some decent new bars down windsor end and a few old clubs still kicking it.
Great vid btw, so many spots I've never heard of.
Thank you
ive played a couple of dj sets at 161, it was always a bit of a vibe, that rubix cube-esqe lightup dancefloor was pretty swish, is that still there?
It sure is
@@Dannysrants hell yeah! big ups danny super interesting hearing you spin yarns about all these places in our fair city, keep em coming !
U guys remember SALT night club? How many ppl died going to that club..