Melbourne's Northcote Social Club Bound For Sydney
News posted Wednesday, October 17 2012 at 10:00 PM.
Related: Northcote Social Club, Newtown Social Club.
Sydney is set to become just a little bit more Melbourne, with a much-loved venue announcing plans for an outpost up the Hume.
Akin to the Hi-Fi’s expansion into Brisbane and Sydney, the team behind Melbourne’s Corner Hotel and Northcote Social Club have announced plans to open a sister venue in Newtown. While details are still scarce, a Facebook page for the Newtown Social Club was set up yesterday, promising the “same atmosphere that’s known and loved at our Melbourne venues”.
The venue is described as a “free entry social club with friendly staff, great food, great drinks and all our favourite local, national and international tunes pumping through the place”. There are also plans for a self-contained band room, with the venue’s address and opening date to be announced soon.
Opened in 2004 on the former site of the Commercial Hotel on High Street, the Northcote Social Club has become one of Melbourne’s premiere mid-sized bandrooms. It’s recently hosted the likes of Pond, Zulu Winter, The Rubens, Redd Kross and Last Dinosaurs, and was the destination for Lady Gaga’s official after-party in July. Sadly, The Northcote Social Club’s sister venue, The East Brunswick Club, shut its doors earlier this year after the new owners decided to redevelop the bandroom into a five-storey apartment building.
Meanwhile, another Newtown venue – the refurbished Newtown Hotel – is set to re-open at the end of the month. Refurbished over the past 18 months, the 130-year-old hotel plans to host local bands and DJs. Other features include a beer garden and Greek restaurant.
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Yeah!
Newtown Hotel is open now..abused happy hour last night. Looks great so far
I wonder if it'll happen in the old Newtown RSL space, which was briefly known as Goldman's in the '90s, home to great shows by The Go-Betweens, Tim Rogers etc.
newtown rsl on emore road is turning into student/boarding housing (approval went through mid/late august) so unless this is a short term thing?
or the bottom went out of the housing market and they've delayed the plans, still, the sword would be hanging over the venues head.
Might be the space they opened up for the Fringe on Eliza St?
the hub!?
Thought the Newtown hotel looked a bit gross myself...
can't think of where they would put the nsc but Newtown needs a space like that, hopefully there won't be any pokies.
Would be awesome if something happened with the hub...Newtown is already going to shit really but a good venue would be a welcome change.
The Hub would be awesome!
Nah, the Hub would be a disaster. The room would be too way big to be sustainable and it's right next door to residentials.
Something really should happen with it though, I don't get why it's just been sitting unused for so long
Yeah, apparently it's been locked up in a family trust dispute for years.
Typical
Excellent and very welcome news this is.
Won't be the rsl or the fridges and kitchen equipment has been taken out and sold on grays bout two weeks ago,
It's welcome news but it will make things a little trickier for Green Room and The Union as Nic books a fair few Melbourne indies there - especially as it's touting free entry. But in the bigger picture it's just what Newtown needs. Also might make some inroads on Good God.
Has anybody been upstairs at the Newtown Hotel? There would be room there right? The Bank has been bought by the people who run the Courthouse so in the future that might get done up into a less offensive space. Plenty of room for a band room upstairs there.
Sorry should say Nic books a fair few Melbourne acts at Green Room.
good on you sydney; if you can;t beat 'em, join 'em.
in other news- team OLD BAR have just bought the strawberry hills hotel and team TOTE have just taken over the hopetoun!!!
What, really? Weird!
there's already a Newtown Social Club
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I'll settle for the monkey butlers.
It's the Sando. Trademark application here.
Note the name of the company, 387 King Street Pty Ltd...... and what building resides at 387 King St you ask? The SANDO!
Well played.
Be really good if they could open the back up in the band room instead of the single door entry. Really hard to get in to the room when there are 150 + in there..... and yet there is always a 2/3 metre gap at the front.
Upstairs toilet would be tops too...
This is a major win. Awesome news.
Moot to this thread now, but Enmore Theatre (about 100m from the Sando by crow so) is 1500-2500, and Goldmans I reckon would have been 600 or up on the top floor (I think the middle floor was meant to be 250, but once you got over 100 the stage was invisible.) The Hub at 500-600 is probably about right if they put seats back in, but could take more if left standing*.
And going five minutes either direction from Newtown - The Factory's 700ish without seats, isn't it? And the York Theatre in the Seymour gets used for gigs, and that's a hair under 800.
*It's generally awkward to have a sloping floor to stand on for hours, but it works for Brixton Academy...
Yeah, I should have prefaced that with ''another'' 800 capacity venue.... given the Factory, Enmore and Metro would all be booking similar acts to what the NSC would presumably be going after.
It worked for Goldmans/@Newtown though. And the Gaelic was 800 before the rebuild, and is gone completely now - there's a gap in the market!
Actually the Hi-Fi probably only holds >800 since they gutted it, but on the other hand it's horrible now
Does this mean the hipsters will leave Goodgod and take over this joint?
Seriously though - Newtown is in a damn good state atm for live music.
Enmore Theatre (for large acts)
Newtown Social Club (Sando)
Notes
Vanguard
Union Hotel (free)
Botany View (Sundays - free)
Townie (free)
Green Room (ok so thats Enmore)
+ The Factory Theatre close by + potential gigs at the Newtown Hotel + Marrickville Warehouses
Good times !
If we're counting Marrickville then there's also the Red Rattler, Camelot Lounge (Qirkz' ongoing temporary but legal home), and the Bowlo - Ha Ha or Mad Racket nights often have live acts.
Jimmy Edgar's Australian tour made its Sydney stop in a flooring warehouse in Marrickville last Friday, great fucking night.
Sly Fox had some live bands during the Fringe Festival too, and have a new stage in. No-one ever seems to be able to make a regular go of a night there though.
Might as well count Manning Bar as local too, that's well over 900 (and hugely underused).
Is the Townie still doing shows?
Getting a new system in at manning soon which will hopefully attract some bigger acts...swans are playing there next year!
Remember Ratcat + Magic Dirt @ St Georges Hall, above the old Repressed Records shop?
Horrible sounding, beautiful room.
I guess the school now just uses it, no?
You Am I did a show up there too with The Strokes supporting.
The Ratdirt / Magic Cat shows at the school were a last-minute reschedule because Goldmans closed down suddenly - the room sounds way too terrible to be used on the reg. Or ever again, probably.
Yep, on looch's list
GO TEAM MOFFAT
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