Hi,

As you can see I'm pretty new to this site: I'm just wondering if any gay clubs in Sydney play indie/alternative music? Or even some techie-progressive house music.

You stay classy now Sydney.

I wish!

Hot damn or SFX will be your closest place for alternative music, and a lot of gay guys hang out their to.
77 has great music on saturdays and is also gay friendly.

Not that I've encountered unfortunately...

There are a few lesbian nights that play good indie music though. Can't remember what they were called though...

@scottee: cheers, might check them out.

@pioneer: thanks, I'm not sure being the only Gay in the Lesbian Village would be appreciated.

Perhaps I should start a night where indie/alternative/rock'n'roll loving LGBTers can release their inner rocker. Although if the places scottee suggests are gay friendly, perhaps this is the ultimate in bridging the gulf. One nation under the Rock Gods.

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Not that I've encountered unfortunately...

There are a few lesbian nights that play good indie music though. Can't remember what they were called though...

There re nights at The Sly Fox Hotel in Enmore Rd, Enmore that are worth checking out.

Hot Rod/ Gay Bash at the oxford
Loose Ends on sundays at Phoenix
Club Kooky which is on unregulary around the place, next one is over halloween i think
Bad Dog, which was just on and i think another is on in Jan, but easily one of the best parties.

also some friends put on a night a little while back called velvet hammer which had a heap of rock bands and DJ's playing all sorts of music, if they do something again it'd definitely be worth going to.

Cheers Raoul and Blaah.

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Hot Rod/ Gay Bash at the oxford
Loose Ends on sundays at Phoenix
Club Kooky which is on unregulary around the place, next one is over halloween i think
Bad Dog, which was just on and i think another is on in Jan, but easily one of the best parties.

Could you give us an idea of what kind of bands and/or artists they play at Hot Rod/Gay Bash?

Cheers again.

I've been to the Oxford Hotel a few random times and the music has been really good (indie/alt type stuff). I'm pretty sure these occasions were Thursday nights.. pretty packed with good lookers too ;P

I wish there was more indie/alt music played at gay pubs too.. i know plenty of straight places but yeh.. if u find something cool let me know! lol

oh shit, completely forgot buzz, duh. Thursday nights with ben drayton and the naked barber doing buzz cuts, playing everything you don't normally hear, lots of rock, punk, weird electronica etc etc

gay bash and hot rod play a whole mix of stuff, i'd say its a bit like the purple sneakers nights, anything from the strokes, to nicki minaj, florence, robyn, lcd soundsystem, and a shitload more and some 80's stuff as well, its a massive mix of different bands

one of the best nights i've had out this year was the oxford after kooky at the opera house, fucking amazing vibe and music, they actually played toecutter at a gay night which is pretty amazing.

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oh shit, completely forgot buzz, duh. Thursday nights with ben drayton and the naked barber doing buzz cuts, playing everything you don't normally hear, lots of rock, punk, weird electronica etc etc

Sounds odd. Where and when?

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oh shit, completely forgot buzz, duh. Thursday nights with ben drayton and the naked barber doing buzz cuts, playing everything you don't normally hear, lots of rock, punk, weird electronica etc etc

gay bash and hot rod play a whole mix of stuff, i'd say its a bit like the purple sneakers nights, anything from the strokes, to nicki minaj, florence, robyn, lcd soundsystem, and a shitload more and some 80's stuff as well, its a massive mix of different bands

They all sound the goods: it seems like I won't need to spend bottomless pits of non-ricocheting moneys setting up my own thang. How shit! I was really looking forward to wasting some $Jackies: - on something meaningful.

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Sounds odd. Where and when?

Thursday nights at the oxford in the front bar.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/169572726389640/

theres the group for buzz

https://www.facebook.com/groups/hotrodboys/

theres hot rod

I shouldn't be doing Thursdays anymore...

Thursday is buzz's first birthday, heres a list of some of the music they have played there

Husker Du, Sonic Youth, The Kills, Wire, Dead Kennedys, The Stones, Led Zeppelin, M83, Pixies, Joe Gibbs, Sly & The Family Stone, Gary Glitter, Divinyls, Nine Inch Nails, The Kinks, Stereolab, The Knife, The Beatles, The Cramps, Kiss, Depeche Mode, Prince, Ween, Fugazi, LCD Soundsystem, Can, Jah Wobble, Cold Chisel, The Specials, John Cooper Clarke, ZZ Topp, The Normal, Psychic TV, Throbbing Gristle, Midlake, Arcade Fire, Heart, The Smiths, Morrissey, Metallica, Faith No More, Bad Religion, Curtis Mayfield, Public Enemy, Peaches, Patti Smith, Public Image Limited, The Stooges, Iggy Pop, Gil Scott-Heron, The xx, The Stone Roses, Interpol, Tricky, Betty Davis, Frank Zappa, Primal Scream, Funkadelic, Glass Candy, Bjork, The Sugarcubes, Captain Sensible, Lydia Lunch, Laurie Anderson, Julee Cruise, Brian Eno, David Byrne, Talking Heads, Buffalo Daughter, Canyons, Honey Claws, Ian Dury, Anti Nowhere League, The Radiators, Skyhooks, Pere Ubu, Hunters And Collectors, Blondie, L7, Royal Trux, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Rocket Science, Sidwho?, MC5, Aerosmith, The Gossip, Dub Syndicate, War, The Cure, New York Dolls, The Modern Lovers, Richard Hell And The Voidoids, The White Stripes, Screaming J. Hawkins, AC/DC, Rage Against The Machine, Bob Dylan, Cody Chesnutt, David Bowie, The Jesus And Mary Chain, Gang Of Four, The Undertones, Ratatat, Sisters Of Mercy, Curve, The Breeders, The B-52s, Muddy Waters, The Ramones, Nurse With Wound, The Seeds, Nick Cave, The Birthday Party, Grinderman, The Saints, PJ Harvey, Roxy Music, My Bloody Valentine, The Angels, The Go-Betweens, Swans, Martha Reeves & The Vandellas, Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, The Runaways, Broadcast, Alice Cooper, Holger Czukay, Bosom, New Order, The Fall, Joy Division, Nina Simone, Lulu, Nirvana, Shackleton, Cymande, Tackhead, Johnny Cash, Siouxie & The Banshees, Planning To Rock, Boards Of Canada, Digable Planets, Motley Crue, The Stranglers, Queen, Sex Pistols, The Buzzcocks, Pete Shelley, Les Savy Fav, !!!, blur, The Supremes, Placebo, Pink Floyd, R.E.M., Queens Of The Stone Age, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Nona Hendryx, Soft Moon, Suicide, Black Sabbath, Whitey, Devo, Dwight Yoakham, The The, Soft Cell, Was (Not Was), Cosmo Jarvis, The Mountain Goats, Radiohead, Nathan Fake, Sandy Shaw, Elvis Presley, Linton Kwesi Johnson, 2raumwohnung, XTC, ESG, RTX, Marvin Gaye, The Clash, Spiritualized, A Tribe Called Quest, Pulp, The Jam, Tool, Dinosaur L, X Ray Spex, Lee Fields & The Expressions, The Weeknd, Mansun, Thurston Moore, Pigbag, Bauhaus, Junior Boys, Eels, Al Green, Rance Allen Group, Big Star, Velvet Underground, Television, Bloc Party, Babe Ruth, Baroness, Deerhunter, The Rapture, Amy Winehouse, The Polyphonic Spree, The Last Poets, The Temptations, Peter Brown, Yello, The Zombies, Mechanical Black, Redd Kross, Digital Underground, The Dresden Dolls, The Muppets, Little Dragon, Klaus Nomi, The Velvet Underground, Earth Wind & Fire, Andy Williams, Echo & The Bunnymen, Gus Gus, The Selecter, The Beat, Tom Tom Club, Johnny "Guitar" Watson, Of Montreal, The Doors, Grace Jones, Exuma, Dr John, Lalo Schifrin, DJ Mehdi, Atari Teenage Riot, Hamilton Bohannon, Gui Boratto, Give Me Static, Modeselektor, Holy Fuck, The Orb, Foxy, The Sweet, Jimi Hendrix, Labelle, The Hives, The Prodigy, Stevie Wright, Hoodoo Gurus, The Fauves, Parliament, Karen Finley, The Walker Brothers, The Dead Weather, Big Two Hundred, Jimmy Castor Bunch, The Spencer Davis Group, Van Morrison, Sons And Daughters, Arthur Russell, The Police, Romeo Void, Bob Marley & The Wailers, Prince Far I, Mr Fingers, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Violent Femmes, Squeeze, White Denim, Gladys Knight & The Pips, Jefferson Airplane, Simple Minds, Living Colour, Miles Davis, The Strangeloves, Rodriguez, Rose Tattoo, Zapp, Kyuss, Paul Weller, Louis Armstrong, Captain Beefheart, Little Feat, Them, M.I.A.,The Black Keys, Stone Temple Pilots, De La Soul, Supernaut, The Who, The Postal Service, Hanni El Khatib, Sparks, Young-Holt Unlimited, Suzi Quatro, Jane's Addiction, Mazzi Star, Simon & Garfunkel, The Carpenters, The Human League, Killing Joke, Harry Nilsson, Jose Gonzales, A Perfect Circle, Stevie Wonder, Cocteau Twins, Lush, Babes In Toyland, Cut Copy, My Morning Jacket, James Brown, Salaryman, The Chambers Brothers, The Incredible Bongo Band, Low, Love, Sister Irene O'Connor, Kraftwerk, Joe Dolce, The Coup, T-Rex, Deep Purple, Hole, Spencer P Jones, Aretha Franklin, Cream, 1000 Homo DJs, The Butthole Surfers, on and on and on we could go .... and there's still plenty more to crawl out from under the rock where that came from!

So here's to another cage ratllin' year, see you Thursday at 8!

Fuck Yeah!!

Rich & Ben

Unfortunately I can't do Thursday nights... damn you work.

What do you recommend on weekends, Raoul?

i'm playing some choons at buzz tonight, mostly sydney/aussie stuff and a few of my old favourites thrown in, like ween, weezer pavement etc etc

ur DJing? thats pretty sick. U seem to have a good taste in musics wish i couldve made it tonight.. oh well holidays coming up so ill make an appearance in the next few weeks for shiz

well i would have been, but i got there and the whole of the oxford had lost power! we were drinking by candlelight in there!

haha mad! that wouldve made for a different night out xP

Nothing on weekends?

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Hi,

As you can see I'm pretty new to this site: I'm just wondering if any gay clubs in Sydney play indie/alternative music? Or even some techie-progressive house music.

You stay classy now Sydney.

You might like to check this out. It will be on a Saturday and is set to launch in February. http://www.facebook.com/noizeparty

hot rod is on tonight with their xxxmas party, gunna be fun!