Revealing Australia's Nightclub Underworld: Ex- Nightclub Owner's SHOCKING Confessions - Russel St
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
- Welcome to Episode 3 - Russel Street & Lonsdale Street
Dive into the dark underbelly of Australia's nightlife scene with shocking revelations from an ex-nightclub owner Danny Grant. Join us as we peel back the layers of secrecy on Russell St, Melbourne, exposing the hidden truths and scandalous tales behind closed doors. Prepare for an eye-opening journey through the heart of the city's nightclub underworld, where every confession leaves you on the edge of your seat.
Anyone here remember honky tonks in AC/DC lane? Proper tech club
Yep, probably my fav club ever
@@Dannysrants 100%
Best drink selection! I remember grooving to a Boogs set outta that piano, spinning on that pole 😂
That's one I do. Dunno how I was that wrecked
Melbournes most iconic club. Became 3rd class after honkytonks, music direction changed to French touch. Not as good but place was still a vibe.
Please do Chapel street danny.
I was Clubbing there for 15 years. Love it!
Runnin' amuck at 'Lady Luck'
Renataaaa
Billboards institution. Greek night Saturdays around 95/96, underage RNB early 90s Saturday afternoon, Hard Kandy Friday nights early 2000s.
Ballers was Charltons nightclub in 80s. Showing my age haha. Also Timezone underneath SkyLounge which during early 90s was a heroin hotspot and made that whole corner near Hungry jacks a no go zone
Loved playing my sets at Billboard Saturdays.
Couldn’t stay up past midnight to save my life these days.
Went to Hard Kandy for my 18th bday back in 99 and every week after that for a few years, great times, banging tracks 🔥🔥
I remember seeing ads for Hard Kandy on ABC when I was watching Rage, I was only about 12 at the time but I was like what the hell is that?! Fast forward a few years and I was right up the front of the dance floor til the lights came on!
Luke Udorovic was one of the best people I met working in the industry. Would always make sure you were looked after and having a good time!
Anyone remember 3D ???? That was wild … same with Bubble
Yeah i do
They were the best clubs in Melbourne.. I wouldn't go anywhere else
Did you ever go to Twister in St.Kilda? Big Al on the door was a legend. Many tried to take him on but failed. Twister sat night Monkey Sunday nights. You must know Ugly. He ran Twister and Kittens in Elsternwick.
Aston Shuffle at Roxannes was such a fun night. That floor was boucing 😅
Good stuff mate! Billboards is an institution. Surely you have to do Chapel st!
I recon i have to hey
Chapel Street was the best!
Bro! Ive watched a few of your vids now. I’m pretty much the same age as you and was in the scene at the same time…
It’s crazzzzy remembering and reminiscing about my stories at these clubs…
I keep thinking about the fact that we barely had internet and social media back then… Smoking inside venues! Completely different world…
I miss those days 🤙🫶
Have to do a video on the hardstyle scene , bubble metro/ pharmacy phd 3D twister , that era was crazy/sketchy I loved it ! And mebourne bounce took its place when that scene died , and it definitely had an influence on Melbourne sound !
You could call it changing or the guard , maybe you could interview some of the djs/promoters.
Keep the vids coming brother , fuck yeah Melbourne
you’re quickly becoming an Aus icon imo haha. You’re great mate
Anyone remember the mansion on Kings way?
Loved that joint!!!
work at key club from back when it switch over from loft, just after ICON bar got shut down, entry is the door with the green curtain and then 2 floors of stairs, Sharky was bossman Charlie Charls came a few years later, Simon even worked a few shifts there lol
Ugly was one of the people that ran Thursday nights at Billboard during the late 80's and 90's before he want down to St Elmo's on King Street
Rox was Sharkie's before that and it was all three levels, lvl 1 had karaoke and pool tables, lvl 2 had live band and pool tables and top floor had pure disco back in the early 90's
Worked a lot of shows in both Billboard and Sharkie's back between 91 and 96,
Oh damn I feel old now thinking it was that long ago.....
How you do Billboard and not even mention Deluxe on Friday nights in late 90s that turned into the Melbourne rave institution Hard Kandy! The "rear" entrance was the main entrance every Fri Night for HK. Upstairs car park was always dodgy as. Better was across little burke in the underground one.
Santa Fe bar on Russell St up near greater union was always a good laugh too
Chapel precinct -ZOS ,Viper room, evolution day club ,Dome ,virgin marys and so on . Was epic time to be clubbing
Frostbites, Lotus.
What about circus? Lol
@@Dannysrants Sam and Mellisa used to give me a clip behind the ear when ever I used metal scourers on the saucepans. I was a cook at lotus when it was the hump day spot latin night
What about the Ivy car Russell St and Lonsdale St use to dj there it was huge
Fuggin awesome channel. Memories of running amok as a young headbanger, then a mad raver. Makes me miss Melbs.
Thanks for taking time out your day to comment
Bro, that was my fave club like 20 years ago …. TFU was were it all started for me
Waratah lane?
@@Dannysrants yeah, waaay back in the day. First went to a gig called Liquify by Willie Tell (WETMusik) - Sunshine opened up the downstairs (but upstairs) sesh, then we would go stomp the roof in upstairs with some banging techno (think old teriyaki anakinsaki days, Ben Cromack, disco pussy, willie tell
Appreciate you wearing our trucker brother! Appreciate ya! 🙏🏼⚡️
Thanks brother, love the hats!
wouldnt be the only big tooth spit at Billboards, used to enjoy going to Skybar, Pony which wasnt mentioned, and if i couldnt get in anywhere early at dawn would end up Carlton Club bar.
Chapel street and surrounding streets. If you need a cohost for that one, im your man as promoted clubs down there for over 10 years.
Keep up the good work mate, its great stuff!
Awesome, which clubs you do?
@Dannysrants Zos back in the day which is now Chasers, Commercial, Evo, plus some venues such as HiFi Bar, QBH, Viper, PHD, Metro, first TFU, Lotus Bar, Q Bar, Platform 1 . . . Mainly trance scene from 2004 to 2012. Few good yarns up my sleeve.
@@heathp2178 Lets talk! Hit me on socials.
You missed 12 Mckillop street. ......
Whats there?
3d a hardstyle club on friday nights @@Dannysrants
Was it where bass station started?
Was it bass station? Where it first started. But that was up near little Collins and Burke st.
Enjoyed these episodes. Melbourne is cool. Even with a shit government
When it not in lockdown its awesome haha
Should do Bobbee McGees
Nothing about the other end of Russel Street? Isabella, Santa Fe nightclub, Santa Fe Gold. Used to be run by Ross Kennedy, Peter Ivaniuk, Wayne Groves, etc.
Where on Russel? I know Peter, didnt know he was a promoter though.
@@Dannysrants Peter is OG part owner. Gave me my first job at The Tunnel, then my boss Andrew Hughes and i went over to Santa Fe Hotel to help run the Santa Fe nightclub. Live bands like Voodoo Surf Gods were playing downstairs, upstairs had a pool hall and dancefloor. Thurs, Fri and Sat nights were pumping. Then it shutdown to become Santa Fe Gold, the first one, the one that kicked it all off in Melbourne, before the Men's Gallery.
Damn I remember at TFU when the bouncers tipped a guy into the Asian restaurants bin.!!! I loved that place
Great venue
billboards feels like the default nightclub like everyone turns up there atleast once in their life
Interesting to see all these spots I've known since a kid man though into the Rock/Metal scene. Keep up the awesome work!
Thanks brother!
@@Dannysrants No worries.
Do a video on hidden forest
YOYO and The Key Club on Lonsdale used to be called The Loft, I did security there for 3 or 4 years. The same owners also owned The Long Room Collins Street and ICON bar on flinders lane which is now the famous restaurant CHIN CHIN. The Loft by FAR the roughest craziest place I worked, R&B on Fridays and house on Saturdays, and then kick on to WAH WAHS after the shift... fuck me did I see some shit haha...kinda miss those days.
Richmond / swan St next pls
Wah wah was off its guts lol...awesome dancefloor...I went back there after they turned it into a Alice in wonderland gin bar
Yeah not the same haha
The club on coverlid pl was called Cage night club around 99-2003. They had a night called Excessive and then Atmosphere. I liked it more than Hard Candy at billboards
Didnt know that! Thats cool!
Yep. It had the nick name cage. Because no one wanted to leave.. John and James ran security there. Simon (can't think of his last name) had the lease on the place...
Funny story... As I got to know James pretty well (even offered me the club on a Friday night if you know what I mean).. I got to know a couple of the guys at hard candy to.. Through James.. As far as the little groups went. I was known as a atmosphere (cage) guy. Standing out the front of hard kandy having a chat with one of the boys. He's like "Matty take my badge. I need to piss. And don't let anyone one in. Till I get back".. So, some of those hard kandy people weren't too impressed I was holding the door... A couple tried to test me.. Hahaha.. Gee have some stories from those days.. 👍🏻
I loved it there! Arriving at midnight and leaving at daylight was common practice 😂
Brilliant! 👌🏼... so many memories!
So many good times had in those venues! Great vid.
Thank you :)
Shoulda mentioned the brawl at Stalectites.
lol after cleaning the secret room at whaa whaa on a sunday arvo, i used to find enough shit to keep me going till Tuesday.
Billboards used to run delux on Friday nights best music by far
only Monkey on Sunday nights went harder
Altitude was off chops,
Many were off chops there also haha
Reckon Revolver will need its own video if you do chapel hahah
Hahaha!
Love the vid bro I’m a Youngblood who’s made mates a few known ppl in the melb scene its mad to see the history of Russel street
Got lucky enough to meet the owner of bb and didn’t even know till it got pointed out to me after I met him in the back room 🤣
Wyat was he doing out there 🤣
@@Dannysrants no fucking clue but when I found out who he was I was shitting myself
The first love Lucy was at Roxanne’s, if you want the rest to that stabbing story bro. Yell out!
Russell Street! Who remembers "White House" the pinball/games joint! Thank God I never tried heroin but I knew alot of Viets way back
Haha nice I snuck into billboard through the staff door in the back alley. The gig was sold out and we were trying to find tickets by asking randoms and I saw What I was wearing looked kind of similar to the seccies, so just risked it and followed one in and through the hallways til I popped out right near the bar haha great times
I only ever knew about Krankin, PHD, Bubble, Kandy and Bass. Ended up in TFU a couple of times, wasn't hard to get in. No regerts, but it's cool to hear about the history. No mention of megabar/drop on King, that was the most juicy day club I've ever been to, didn't see any blowouts, but cunts were off tits.
Awesome video the memories 😊
how about little collins street
Nah, I never let dudes back into a club or bar who have been fighting or splattered in blood, snot, spew or piss - that’s just asking for more trouble and the chicks do not like seeing blokes walking around with blood and snot all over themselves - sends entirely the wrong message….
Nightclub scene is dead in Melbourne. Was always pretty fkn average but now all the pingers are gone(thank fk) it’s over.
We did 3D on Friday night and Bubble on a Saturday night. I was there with the machete attack and that was my last night
Why did the old days end? what came in to stop it?
love these vids
Thank you for the comment
Charltons
22:00 yo-yo was my spot fuck I spent most my young years there was so good circa 2013-2016 then it turned to shit
I still have my wah medallion l! Holy shit what a time that was bro!
I used to live down Kings Street… Red Light district in Melbs… I will never forget it. It was scary. North Coberg was scary too… you could get raped at the Train station. I got followed home a few times even in front of the police station… the cops were hopeless.
pfft... wishful thinking sweetheart...
@@Walker_Texas_Danger excuse me? Did it happen to you? No it didn’t. Don’t do a turd on another persons lived experiences. It just make you look stupid.
@@Walker_Texas_Danger someone’s personal life experiences is NOT “wishful thinking”. You’ve got to be kidding me with that attitude. I grew up in a time where this happened a lot.Maybe you coddled yourself. Real hard truth is it’s not peachy. Cringe behaviour happens more often than not just because you’ve lived a limited life and haven’t had experiences so you can’t fathom it. Don’t comment what you don’t know.
Any chance of Crown Casino?
I never went there to club, so basically have zero stories sorry bro.
@@Dannysrants That's fair enough man - heard there was a club there but not sure, I mostly just went there for a Cigar and Beer then possibly see a movie or eat at the Texas meat place. It's been a while...
2 floors up began as a Wog Club...
That guy drove through bourke St mall years ago wot? Is this an old video haha?
got so many stories from that era, best to let dead dogs lie though yeah lol
Need to hear them haha
That tfu venue..
Which one? 🤣
Did you ever go to 3rd class?
kings cross
Euro-bar
How do you have so many story’s my life has been so boring compared to yours
Lived a few lol
@@Dannysrants yeah someone people have crazy lives while others just never do even if they live to 80 it’s really weird
@@sydneyfc7769
If you go to the City every weekend specially night clubs your bound to see something.
@@joshuabrucemellis7933 yeah that’s true it’s just the vibe off the city on weekend is so bad with all the drunks
@@sydneyfc7769 I understand, used to pretty much live in the City - even staying at a girls place across from Crown Casino Melbourne...hardly ever there these days unless for a concert etc.
Granny's Rants... I can't handle the bullshit
I mean, you could try just not watching them?
@@Dannysrants 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Old mate.. Ran security for club x on King Street back in the day. When it was red hot... Offered the job the day of him being released.. After a decent stint.. Took it on the condition it was his rules... No guns.. Only guy pissed at that was J. Maron. Mind you old mate use to wipe his snotty nose as a kid...
Wouldn’t mind a in-depth talk on TFU 🤌