It's a Friday night and you've had a shit week. You feel like having a few drinks and a groove but your local pub's DJ is likely to stick to a safe and generic theme that will include a 12-minute remix of 'Crazy Frog'. The ‘beer’ that you will buy for fourteen dollars can't be pronounced. The ‘beautiful’ Gen Y contingent that will frequent the venue later will down their Jägermeister shots whilst they clamour about the labels on their sunglasses. And the security, they will be ready to escort out anyone for wearing or not wearing a suit.
Solution? Self-medicate to the seductive tunes of 'Footscray I'm In Love' every Friday night
Inhibitions are gone as soon as you step through the front door of Footscray's Exchange Hotel. The generous serve of cheesy 60's, 70's, 80's and 90's tunes fill your immediate surroundings. The sport and music video clips on the television sets give way to Australian television commercials from the 1970’s and 1980’s, five dollars gets you a drink with change, and punters seem more focussed on a boogie rather than looking chic at the bar or obsessed by their hair and designer label apparel.
Gone is the stereotypical retro night formula. Never mind the songs that you won't hear - you WILL hear obscure cover songs, legendary Australian rock and roll, French pop hits just to name a few. Even TISM and Nana Mouskouri get a run at the most unexpected moment. Not to forget, all set lists come with a generous serving of cheese.
By the time the music finishes you've been there for hours, everyone knows your name and you’re already making plans to catch up with your new acquaintances next Friday at Footscray I’m in Love.
Friday I'm in love? Fuck no! … It's Footscray I'm In Love!
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we know, we know. fuck off.
bzzzzt
cheeeeeeeesse!!!
Nothing on the events page about this.
There's no tuppy like footscray gunnie.
You can use that if you want.
Tell me more about this 2003 themed club night.
Oi! behave .... most genres up to 2000 ... the cheesier the better!
Footscray; I'm in hospital
I got no problem with Swizzle or FIIL per se, but they do love to regularly spam everyone else's event pages and walls on Facebook. Cock it down a notch, guys.
Get the fuck out of my fucking suburb, cuntnugget.
hahaha POTD
Yep. I've de-friended the spam-merchants on facebook. Posting three of their events on my wall (not even private messages) in one day finally pushed me over the edge.
Massive promo fail!
I didnt accept their request on fb, as when I clicked on the profile I saw that stupid intro about it being Friday, and I knew it would suck. And it does
poor Frankie!
Just wasted precious minutes of life deleting your 8 or 9 identical events from tonight's event calendar listings. One will do next time.
Because these cocknecks keep fucking spamming you on every part of the internet!
Im at hoppers crossing... who's gonna share a beer with me at the train station?
Homeless chicks!
I was. Born at the Western General.
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Bogan.
I don't get the Dog on/in Tuckerbox one.
Although it did make me thick of Tuckerbag. Remember that?
*think
I presume it is an attempt at humour drawn from the fact that Footscray has a sizeable Asian populace, and - as we all know - Asians love to eat dogs, cats and other household pets.
Fucking hilarious.
And yes, that was one creepy anthropomorphic paper bag.
Shudder
My place is fucken big.
Had a walk to Yarraville. Wee Jeanie made really good coffee. Vegan (and coeliac) friendly Cambodian dinner at Bopha Devi. Also..lost count of pubs/bar/wine stores/bottle shops. Reverse Box hill.
Also checked out the Hipster district of Seddon. Amazing.
How good is The Reverence? Really good.
it's only Wednesday!
I wanna go out somewhere tonight, I finally got that dogshit off my shoe, Where can I go?
The Dancing Dog.
home
we had a deal swizzle, you broke it. goodbye.
Unfortunately it's ''local'' morons like untold/animals who constantly bitch and moan about the absence of a decent local that supports local music in the Footscray area!. If you prefer paying for a taxi from Collingwood / Northcote then keep your comments to your fucking self.
huzzah!!
Went to The Reverence last night to watch some punk bands in the back room. This dude was walking around taking photos of people in the beer garden and claiming they were there for his event... gross.
Buy my house mofo's.
BTW I wrote the copy, I thought 'the burgeoning Footscray scene' would be quite the hilarious touch (note this does not refer to swizzle) And you just watch, Footers will be the new real estate aspirational hipland in no time........
karaoke at the vic hotel. went there for brothers birthday on a friday and i wanted lo kill myself. i survived and surprisingly want to go back. i need to die.
Fucken nice house/location!
Estimated price range makes a mockery of estimated prices everywhere!