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Jan 30, 03
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Super Clubs In Vancouver?!?!?
How come Vancovuer doesn't have a real multi-staged club that is constantly busy? Clubs like Sonar & Cheers have other rooms, but there tiny.
I think a club that has a mainstage of hip-hop & urban music would bring the crowds. And then maybe a disco room (or oldschool), a rock room and then a underground room (breaks, dnb, trance etc). Check out Club La Vela in FLA. It has 5 rooms and they all seem to be rocking. Or Check Out Ageha, a Super Club in Japan. I think its time for Vancouver to have a super club. If we get the Olypmics Vancouver better have one. Plus with the new laws of opening clubs later its time for Vancouver to join the world club scene. Someone wanna lend me $1million start up money so I can start up a super club. Heh! ~Tim 
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Jan 30, 03
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Toronto has a nice superclub. Guverment has a total of 7 rooms I believe and one of the nicest sound and lighting systems I have seen and heard.
There is also Zouk in Singapore and KISS in Taiwan that are good models to go after.
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Jan 30, 03
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I went to Guvernment and G-Spot when I was TO. Those clubs are bumping on Fridays and Saturday. Trace, Hip-Hop and Latin are very popular there. Woot! Actually, the entire Entertainment district is pretty crazy on the weekends. It's like 4 blocks of partying. Heh.
I've heard clubs in Taiwan that have all you can drink for like $35. :soak:
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Jan 30, 03
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hahha because vancouver has a smaller population then those city's you named and our lifestyle is differen't. vancouverites are way too chill, to get all mangaled on drugs and rave it up all night en masse.
hahahahahaha 1 million dollars ain't shit, a club like sonar would cost about that mcuh to make. to amke a super club you'd need atleast 10 million which is why i doubt it will be happening any time soon.
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Jan 30, 03
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Yeah hopefully azim works with the rage and brings in some quality music.
Its Vancouver, and this town has one hella bad attitude. Everyone is closed minded and they go out for the wrong reasons. blah blah..
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Jan 30, 03
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Id say the Rage and the Commodore border on a superclub level..
Vancouver doesnt really have the crowd for a constant clubnight... Hiphop, house and Top40 are the biggest forms of music in the Vancouver clubscene and none of them really cater for the big crowd scene. Top40 and hiphop rarely get played in clubs over a medium size and the type of house that gets played in vancouver is mostly deep and tech, which is small-room house. Im not saying we have a shit club scene, cuz we dont, but Vancouver's club scene is very relaxed, the music isnt that energetic or hard most of the time, and relaxed music works better in smaller clubs, not something like the Commodore. In other big cities, they have superclubs because the music of choice is generally something like trance or slightly harder house(ie eric morillo) than in Vancouver and theyre big-room genres. I mean when u think about it, youd rarely hear deep house at a huge club or a big trance DJ at a small one... But yeah Itd be sweet if we had a good superclub to go to, which is why Im really looking forward to seeing whats gonna happen with Twisted and the Rage.
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Jan 30, 03
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I have to wonder if we have enough of a population density for a really big club. A lot of the cities listed have way higher populations than we do. If we have a really big club that always looks half empty, it wouldn't feel as happening as a smaller club at or near capacity.
Plus there's the whole music thing. I doubt we need another club serving up more of the same, but the reason they do that is 'cuz it brings the people in. Tho there is the argument that if U have one superclub catering to a 'mainstream' format, it would reduce the patronage at existing clubs of the same format, and may prompt them into taking a bit more of a chance with the music they play.
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Jan 30, 03
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This is a really tough topic over all simply because there is sooooo many variables to pulling off a "super club" in Vancouver.
I won't go into all of them but a LARGE one would definitely be the City of Vancouver. By-laws and laws for clubs, lounges, bars, etc. are extremely tight. I mean, just now they have extended hours of clubs till 4AM to which clubs still have to apply for! I am personally VERY excited for Essential Saturday's starting up at the end of February... That in combination with the Commodore will be the closest things we can do to a super club. We will bring the BIG names, all Vancouver has to do is attend! -- Stay tuned!
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Jan 30, 03
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vancouver has a big enough clubbing population for a superclub but it would mainly be for a top 40 or an urban crowd (and maybe a house crowd). while all the drumnbass, breaks and trance nights are usually not even half capacity every week, top 40 and hip hop nights always seem to have long lineups and alot of the time people cant even get in. plus the 2am thing wont really work for a superclub since the amount of money that needs to made at the end of the night will be hard to make from 10-2.
what i think should happen is a superclub should be build once the 4am thing goes through, start if off with the top 40/hip hop stuff to keep the people happy and get the place packed. then as the night gets a better name and reputation, educate the people about the electronic genres out there in the smaller rooms and hopefully the club can eventually have house, drumnbass, trance whatever pumpin in the mainstage.
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Jan 31, 03
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I went to "home" in sydney. Beatiful club. Had four rooms of trance/hardhouse, house, breaks, and drum n bass.
It was great. However a really young crowd attended almost exclusively. It got really boring really quick. I think thats what would happen in vancouver with a superclub. It would be the mainstream of club culture. Like the plaza is to the rave scene. We need MANY clubs in vancouver for variety, not just one big one.
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Feb 01, 03
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as Myra said there's a few huge multilevel clubs opening up downtown that'll be opening soon. I hope they do great to give Vancity a lil kiss in the ass
But unfortunaly I think after a year once all the hype dies down they're gonna be in the same position The Plaza club is in now....Not doing horrible but not doing great and in desperate need of more people. Now all these places on Granville have to compete? I'm pretty excited for the upcoming nights at the rage, it'll be cool to attend a high quality event on a weekly basis if I wanted to AGROout
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Feb 01, 03
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not exactly. kinda never really got popular and it's a bit small is it not? it's not even an actual club is it? their biggest night was probably when korea advanced to 2nd place in the world cup football game back in the summer
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Feb 03, 03
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yeah a super club would be great here in Vancouver some like 600 North in Daytona Beach Fl. 4mula, if you ever wanna cheak out a dope club when you go back to Fl, check that place out. also YBOR City in Tampa is dope.. it's about 10 city blocks long with over 50 nite clubs all in one area. It's soo packed there all the time that there is no parking on that street at all. You have to park around it and walk in! It's great though because I'd say about 25 of the clubs are playing breaks/trance/electro/hard house/etc. another 20 or so would be playing hip hop/top 40/ latin/miami bass/rap etc. and the rest would be rock... If there is any partyin I say should be done in the tampa area, it's there!
Well Guys Peace out! Cinto PS: you'd need way more than $1,000,000 to start a super club! i would say at least $10,000,000
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Feb 03, 03
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just clear up something...Guvernment has all sorts of music. The Orange Room (one of the clubs that makes up the guvernment) is the best...hip hop and jungle.
in september, lucie, michie and i went to this huge summer end party at the guvernment. the lineup went past yonge street. and when you got in, you couldn't dance let alone walk cuz there were so many people. people were sweating on you and shit. it took us about an hour and a half to get from the entarence to the roof top (the breaks room). the rooftop is like the ROOFTOP...it over looks the city scape of toronto. and then Andy C was spinning in the orange room, it took us 40 minutes to get there and we weren't allowed in cuz the room was too packed. Andy C Deep Dish Bad Boy Bill and so many more big names tat theguvernment in one night. it was so crowded, that i nearly got crushed against the baracades. fun fun fun.
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