Vic Best nightspots to go in Melbourne

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Boney is great when you're MD'ed to the high heavens. I can't really remember entirely but it seemed to attract people 21, 22-plus which caught us a bit off guard. A cool venue though and I don't know why I don't go there more often. I guess paying $10 and the only beer they have is that tinny shit Carlton Draught is disappointing though...

I've never even been to Revs despite living in Melbs for 18 months and essentially going out every week. What's it like? Comparable to? Are the chicks those horrible Whip/Wahs type or something a bit trendier (I'm talking Cant Say/Boney/Lib Soci/old Rats)?
Revs has a bit of a bad rep but that's just mainly because a majority of its clientele are ****** off their faces a large percentage of the time. Which I don't understand really, because that just means everyone is generally super friendly. So not only is the music fantastic, but there's basically zero drunken antics from wankers trying to prove something as well. I mean there's always a mixture of peeps at Revs but on the whole it's a solid crowd. Gets a little weirder by 7-8am as you'd expect but I usually aim to be out of there before that anyway. Usually.

Mix of girls but they're generally either trendy or kind of rave-scene, which I find to be a positive. If you haven't been there there's really no excuse to not try it. I'm going there tonight with a group of mates, promises to be a big evening.
 

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revs has a great rep because it's mad. a few weeks back i went straight from revs sunday nite to voice class @ 9am; left uni about an hour and half later and str8 back 2 revs. was absolutely heinous but totally awesome simultaneously.

nothing better than dancing with sum bish for like 8 hours str8, then walking down commercial road and checking yourself str8 into the prince alfred.
 

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Revs sounds good, still surprised myself that I haven't been there yet. I'd love something in Melbourne similar to the Basement (Fake Chow) in Geelong... I used to think Geelong clubs were shit (and for the most part they are) but Chow is great. Family-like atmosphere, deep house from international acts every week, you always catch up with people you haven't seen for ages, and everyone wears great kit too. Anyone from Melbs gone down and checked it out?
 
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Revs sounds good, still surprised myself that I haven't been there yet. I'd love something in Melbourne similar to the Basement (Fake Chow) in Geelong... I used to think Geelong clubs were shit (and for the most part they are) but Chow is great. Family-like atmosphere, deep house from international acts every week, you always catch up with people you haven't seen for ages, and everyone wears great kit too. Anyone from Melbs gone down and checked it out?
Do they have a picnic area? Surely some free barbecues?
 

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What actually is there on a Friday? Cant Say where you pay $10 to have a boogie and then spend the rest of the night on the couch, just talking louder versions of the shit you'd be talking on a couch at home.
Friday is Forest. Only decent place on a Friday, Wah apparently has been picking up on Fridays but the music is shit from what I've heard.
 

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Friday is Forest. Only decent place on a Friday, Wah apparently has been picking up on Fridays but the music is shit from what I've heard.
Revs is good fun on a friday night. I see above that you're a fan Silent Alarm . The George is ripper on a friday night on Fitzroy Street.
 

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Ahk yeah thats the bottom floor, dang your missing out if you haven't been to the top floor, lights up there are amazing actually the lighting at Wah is probably the best of any club in Melbourne.
Yeah top floor at Wahs is way better than the bottom
 
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Wahs is not that good. It's okay, we went every weekend for about six or seven weeks. This was for Fridays. It was alright but they played hard to get like a bird and didn't open the top floor until... maybe 1am. Which seemed to put a dull slant on getting there. Drinks are cheap enough. I don't know, it's not my scene though because the girls are just a bit trashy or not that good looking. Harsh but whatever.

And the music is absolutely shocking. Just early 2000s novelty hits being peppered in far too often.

Revs is good fun on a friday night. I see above that you're a fan Silent Alarm . The George is ripper on a friday night on Fitzroy Street.
What's the scene like at the George? Comparable to... set up like...

Also Section 8 is shit. In and out in less than 90 seconds. So packed and who cares if there's heaps of girls? They're all 25 and in groups anyway.

Also, great thing about Revs is that instead of us leaving and walking to somewhere (ahem, Rats) at 10:30, we don't have to leave home until about 1am. And let's not lie – the stubbies at home before you head out are quite often the best bit of the evening.
 
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I'm not a massive clubber but Anyway at The Bottom End on Collins St, Seven in South Melbourne, Roosevelt on Greville St are the ones I've been to on a Saturday. I'm sure other people will have better places to go to though. I didn't mind Roosevelt but security there are knobs and you need to be with girls and wear a collared shirt to be guaranteed entry.
 

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I have deducted that the city on a Friday night is really quite shit. CBD is dead and lacks variety.
There really needs to be a multi-level Heavy Metal Emporium in the CBD, with each level increasing in intensity. First level hard rock. Second level industrial metal. Third New Wave of British Heavy Metal. Fourth thrash. Fifth death metal. Sixth black metal. Live examples (local acts only) of every kind of band playing on each floor. Strippers, maybe even hookers on the seventh floor. Eighth floor would be a cinema showing uncut, uncensored horror movies. Ninth floor a rooftop bar and another stage (international acts) with red spotlights and a smoke machine pissing out hellish smoke everywhere.

Nine floors. The nine circles of Hell.

If I had a wad of cash I would do this. Please, someone give me a wad of cash and let me do this.
 
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There really needs to be a multi-level Heavy Metal Emporium in the CBD, with each level increasing in intensity. First level hard rock. Second level industrial metal. Third New Wave of British Heavy Metal. Fourth thrash. Fifth death metal. Sixth black metal. Live examples (local acts only) of every kind of band playing on each floor. Strippers, maybe even hookers on the seventh floor. Eighth floor would be a cinema showing uncut, uncensored horror movies. Ninth floor a rooftop bar and another stage (international acts) with red spotlights and a smoke machine pissing out hellish smoke everywhere.

Nine floors. The nine circles of Hell.

If I had a wad of cash I would do this. Please, someone give me a wad of cash and let me do this.
Throw in an extra level with heavy psych/stoner/doom and I'm in
 
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