Paradise Lost: Fall of the Mandarin review
We headed down to the good old crusty, run-down, dubiously managed Mandarin Club on Saturday night for Paradise Lost. These guys put on heaps of parties so it’s not like we won’t be hearing from them again, but the venue is being sold and The Mandarin Club is moving to a new building. We’ve enjoyed many nights of food, birthday parties, Popfrenzy gigs, hip-hop, electro, disco, acid, techno and hip-house here!
Unfortunately, I was put in a really bad mood as soon as we got into the lift to go to the fourth floor. We ended up squished between about 10 drunk nob heads who were pushing, shouting and annoying me. The lift is very slow, we all know that and one of the idiots tells a girl to push Level 2 - for a joke, so it took twice as long. I don’t appreciate being pushed & shoved in a crowded lift. When we reached the front counter to pay they were still pushing us. I pushed back and yelled at one of them. Then Dave tells me that while we were in the lift, the guy in front of me said something about me like “oh I bet this girl behind me doesn’t even know what kind of party this is” - like I’m so new school!!!! That really pissed me off, those who know me will recognise how offensive that kind of remark is. I should have said to him, “Do you know who I am? I could get you killed!!” bwha ha ha. ;P
Anyway, back to the party. There were lots of people filling up the large space, the music was really great for the first 2 DJs. Mikey’s mixing was a bit shaky, but he had some great tunes. Brut 33 really got the crowd going with his dynamic disco tunes, then the next DJ whose name I don’t know… kind of killed it for me. It wasn’t that his music or mixing was bad, it was that the volume was a bit low and the style of music didn’t flow on from Brut 33. He played funk/hip-hop which I like, but not right then after Brut 33. We bumped into few friends which was great but we were tired and the party was in a bit of a lull. What also annoyed me was a few people were smoking inside. Like, hello - it’s banned inside clubs now and it stinks!!! (That’s what I mean about questionable security/management - people get away with it).
I heard that the party picked up later and there was much fun had until it closed.
Benn said,
April 21, 2008 @ 4:13 pm
Bah. I rocked up as people were flooding out on the street - it was 3.50am after all.
As for the punks, you should have taken their photo and had them named and shamed!
Harry said,
May 21, 2008 @ 3:07 pm
No lifts at the next party - no funk/hip-hop either. check out http://www.paradiselost.net.au - true underground dance music in a great warehouse