Night Club Tour - EX Nightclub Owner EXPOSES The Hidden Depths Of The Infamous ST Kilda Night Life 

As a regular of twister for 12 years the bouncers did not bash the patrons. It was well controlled by Ugly and the owners George Pascoe, Warren and Rob. Twister started as only one room then got so popular it became 5 rooms. The final night was insane. Everyone was wasted. Around 2.000-3,000 people were there. Big Al was a gentle giant on the door as head bouncer. Now he is a men’s motivational speaker. He has seen everything at Twister good and bad.

YES!! Finally, St Kilda. Just starting to watch now. I really hope you include a decent amount on Bass Station. I worked with Midro and the crew for many years and he was honestly out of anyone the one person who from the baby steps of Melbournes (world famous at the time for decades) RAVE/PLUR/NRG/HARDTRACE/ from 1997-2006 Bass Station (At the Palace St Kilda before it burnt down) traveled Melbourne's unique scene around Australian states even overseas. For any old Bass Family, keep your eyes out for some reunion events soon :) And we are all old now too haha so dont worry. Fuck Yeah BASS STATION.

keep em coming Danny all your stuff has been amazing so far

I'm literally really enjoying these Danny👌👌👌 I'm an old clubber from the late 80s up till around 2015. So much stories and memories in these areas! The George in the 80s, weeeew!

Twister was a crazy joint, one of those of the walls could talk places. I was a resident DJ there in the house room for a number of years from about 2005 onwards. Really when the Electro sound was really gaining traction in Melbourne. The back room played harder sounds, but as easily one of the best rooms in Melbourne. Awesome sound system, Phil G and Booty on the decks, Franky on the steps and old mate on the bongos. Lot of regulars in that room week in, week out. Was an awesome venue. Love these videos Danny, really takes me back to how good the Melbourne scene was and thankful to have experienced blowing the wheels off during these times. Keep it up brother 💪🏽

One night in the early 90s I think it was, I was at the POW when word had got around Fitzroy Street that These Immortal Souls (Roland S Howard) was back and performing at the Crystal ballroom next to the George Hotel. Still the best concert I've ever been to and still talked about today. Great vid and thanks for telling us your first hand experience. I lived 2 streets back for 10 years and loved the craziness and entertainment that was always there. Left living there like many others when gentrification was changing the culture.

Another awesome vid, keep them coming 🙏😄

Loving this series of podcasts, super interesting

DANNNNYYYY I loved this soooo much ! The nostalgia I got from this vid was absolutely awesome! What I would do for that club scene THE BEST IT EVER WILL BE thank you !!!

Loving these mate I’m sure you’ve got a yarn or 2 about the Railway Hotel in Brunswick, used to love that joint back in the day

George Lane bar & Mink were great St Kilda venues too back in the day

MINK bar was great at one stage under PRINCE

OMG! TV Rock, Luke Chabel 😂 fark dude, these videos are great. Thank you

My son and I stayed at the St Kilda Beach Hotel in mid march...An incident happened there on the 13th/14th when we were there..Police , Detectives, and an array of others including Camerman there for 2/3 days ..The floor on which the "incident " happened was closed and the occupants rehoused ... It was quite unsettling at the time and we weren't told what had happened ..Can anyone shed any light on this please...Strangely there was no media at all in attendance....😢😮

Love this, can you do Brunswick next plz?

Yeah some good venues and memories there man. Was also another pub up the road called The Greyhound which was a bit more rock, now closed. Loved to sit outside the Prince on Fitzroy St and have a few Friday arvo and watch the passing parade. Sad to see so many closed shops and bars. 15-20 years ago you couldn’t sit at home watching RU-vid, had to get out and amongst it for sure, and no Tinder either.

Great vids but you got Robarta Bar and Cushion mixed around , great memories down there at both

Love your experience of St Kilda!!

Shout out to Peter Raff!!! Good yarns Rant 💯🔥 keep it up

you should live stream Melbourne DJ sets in the clubs, would get traction imo, in case you run out of places you talk about. could also get a mic and interview the clubbers about random shit off their heads, you'd get heavy views 🤙

This series is killer 🔥

Someone needs to do this for the Adelaide night clubs……great hearing yarns about other states night life 🤙

Yo! Time for another trip down memory lane, thanks for the catalyst

I loved St Kilda ❤it was the best walking around at St Kilda fest drunk and happy cursing the streets, bar hopping. We always look at that time as the good old days.

Robarta was where bunny is now, Cushion was further down the street towards Topolinos.

I work in St Kilda there are parts of St Kilda are still rough. Just not the nightlife. There is a huge meth problem in st kilda

used to work at the vineyard in 2005 and a hairsalon that was across the street.. Still live in the area, sad to see how dead it is these days but thanks for the reminisce. I pretty much say the same shit when im walking around St Kilda with a friend haha. One Love was also a big club for me I even went to meet a girl at Twister once haha. Many good times Once working at the Vineyard a dude got ejected, got aa taxi to a servo and filled a jerry can of petrol, taxi back to vineyard, security caught him lighting it with the intention to throw thru the front window of the Vineyard. Man was taken home in an ambulance

It was Definitely Bass Station on a Friday Night and Twister on a Saturday night!!!! Someone please take me back!!! ❤️🙌🏼

bunny = robarta

Thanks for mentioning bass station 😀

In the Mid Nineties the Bowls club used to run a massively popular bar. It was for funding for a fifth rate cricket club. It didn't even have a liquor licence.

14:50 for me it was Stephan Bodzin at Prince back 12th October 2007. It was the first time he ever came down too. But then I got to see Booka Shade at Stereosonic 1st December 2007. The beginning of my clubbing and festival journey in my early 20’s. The best years of my life 🥲

That Booka Shade gig was sick 👌

Robarta was where Bunny's is at now.... Cushion was a couple doors down... Felix is now a chemist...

twister was wild. absolutely one of the best clubs in early 2000s

I haven't been down that way since i was 20 something cant believe its all gone now 😢

bro i was there that night One Love for booka shade!! the greatest memories of that place

Would be good to mention years you were active? My peak was 2005-07. These bring back siiiiick memories

Such a good walk down memory lane St Kilda was such a vibe ❤

"ill lick the skin off it like a cat" thats hilarious

i just found my twister flyer will upload, fluid thursdays at warehouse, insanity at chevron,g spot and cream at silvers

Fitzroy St. used to be great back in the day, the espy too, at least that has come back but doesn't have the same feel as it used to, shame what has happened to st. kilda really Also blew my mind you never went to twister, was a great venue/night out

IN WHITE ROOMS 😂 MAD TRACK!

Was sick used to paint to gig wall at the Prince and the Espy. Great people at the Prince is an epic venue.

St Kilda Festival use to be the best, real crazy but now it's more like Moomba run by nanny state types.

Would be great to hear you interview the guys from bubble, bass station, hard kandy and even PHD.

Any info on my aeon that was on Sydney rd??

Big Mouth was at the end of Acland!!

did you just call me a yuppy lol

we need danny to buy st kilda baths and bring bojangles back!

Baaaassssssss Stayssssiiiioooonnnnnn!!!!!!

You should get Vince in for one of your interviews. I'm sure he would have some awesome stories from the time he owned the Espy...

Fark I remember Bookashade I feel old asf now lol

Dont forget the black fellas at that park some good blokes there ay

We used to drink at the Espy and then go to the Lindentree to score some Quick. The Seaview Ballroom hosted fpur "last-ever" gigs in all and l was a the second of those - pretty scary as a 15 yr old with all the Punks pogo-ing around. They actually had Iggy Pop there once. The Grey was a place you could score anything, and Lindsay Fox's brother used to deal weed out of the Greyhound.

Back of the palais on Sundays in the late 90s early 2000s was known as monkey Incredible... Used to head there after better days upstairs at the prince bandroom. Sunday nights back then in Melbourne were elite. Hospo workers and the rest of the non 9 to 5 crowd. So good

awesome vid! been watching metal leo and the decay of LA and venice beach, melb lookin apocalyptic a little bit, but not like usa, but yeah nightlife looks dead!

Rza from wutang played at the palace and kunts were smoking a tonne of weed, was the only time i paid big money to go there. Bass station and Twister nights were hectic, best venue anywhere outside of Hard Kandy and Kage. all 3 were big size and big scene, unrivalled by anything else in your journey. Clubs, furniture shops and tattoo shops get burnt down. Furniture for insurance and the other 2 for insurance/debts. You need to do get some Kage and Hard Kandy stories.

"It's weird walking through St. Kilda and not fearing for your life" 😅😂😂

Sunset was the last club standing on a Saturday night when I lived there

parties at the docklands were also something else

I use to live on Jackson st right behind Fitzroy st long time ago 94'

What was the underground bar behind Prince in the side sreet? used to rock with the house music. I believe Sunday was the day..

late 90's to 2000 was the place to be at 7 days aweek .. Live Bands and Djs 7 days aweek from 6pm till 7am .... its such a shame that the goverment got so greedy with GST and fu*%&( Pokies .... the people i meet those days from South Yarra to St kilda venues Eg Edwards Tavern, Joeys Espy etc iv either have played or worked at 7 nights aweek ... Melbourne did have the best live band scene for many years .. WTF

Oliver Leib in the early 90s I think it was at the palace was great as well as a few other parties they had at the palace

Ed banger party at onelove after Daft punk at the bowl was a cracking night. Can't believe it was 17 years ago.

One love - best years of our lives 🙌🏼

You didn't mention The Venue which was located where The Novatel is. I think it got knocked down around 1987. It was two floors, one floor was DJ music and the other was a live venue where you'd go to watch bands like Icehouse etc. The place was nuts where even the bouncers were smoking dope, the whole place was a drug fest, there were glasses and bottles smashed all over the floor, bikies and gangsters every where.

28:50!!! Palace FUCK YEAH BASS STATION! So many story's from there over the years as a raver, promotor and assisting Mark and Jason (Midro brothers) on many occasions organizing events. My equal second favorite venue (on par with Metro) with 3 HUGE rooms, the main with a massive second level and a carpark full each fri night with hundreds of cars and ravers dancing haha. Only behind Kryal Castle and Festival Hall. Would love to exchange some stories with you Danny if you're interested. I'm in Wheelers Hill and only help out/attend events once or so a year (Ambassador with Evolution Events but I only get involved for Subculture and it's more a fun thing, I don't care about pay or politics) If your keen to catch up for a beer mate and have time near wheelers its my shout. Love your content :)

Thanks for the video man, a few corrections 😮 Bunny = Robarta, back in the 90’s it was called Chicios Cushion = that empty lot you walked past on the way down to Topolinos, two doors down from Bunny Felix = closer to the POW, just after St Kilda Cellars St Kilda was already gentrified by the mid nineties. It’s just gotten worse. My family owned buildings and businesses from the 70’s. A lot of changes. No hate brother. Liked the video. Edit: The Gatwick was FARKED!!

Thumbnail Danny you norty devil playing the algorithm

Bass station, sideways many times. And gray st heckling the shims 😆

Wasnt robarta where bunny is now. Yep, unless it moved.

Booka shade, fuark reckon i got a cd they mixed at home. Wasn’t vinyl sessions i think. Tv rock, holy fuck.

The Linden Tree Fitzroy st. If you know you know.

Haha i remember that at the vine yard 😅

Stereo sonic sold for 84 million, i dont think they even did anything with it... booka shade, that marshmallow space bass. What about midro and the station of bass.

Lol your like the opposite of underground. King of mainstream cheese.

and the bank vault room at the saint

Wth is that monstrosity 😂 big white joint with giant circle windows 😂

in your king st video you said you were from the west and now this video you say your from the south east. which area are you really from

get Nick Compound on to chat bass station.. He'd have old revolver stories too I reckon

You forgot how you loved Mandate, don’t be shy 😂

No Joey's? I must be too old😅.

Yea Dude Saint Killda Festival used to the madness.. lived in the apartment on top of La Bon cake shop on Acland St 20yr ago it's Sad how SK has died 😢

Before twister was Pure!

Good old Acland st ay

Good old munted days at Bass station

@Danny Rants Was this before your time brother? If so have a quick flick threw this. This was Bass Station every friday night for years. This night was a few weeks before the undercover Herald Sun investigation made frount page on Sunday Morning about reporters filming massive drug auctions standing on cars selling 10 packs of orange dolphins, butterflys ect haha I wont comment if that was me or not at any stage of the clip :D ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-vrcePlmD2BQ.html

What about Joey’s……maybe a bit before your time Danny

Prince Bandroom is still good

Bass Station was grouse!!! 😊

You also forgot about the infamous CATHOUSE now that was the place to be on a Saturday night

Stevie tops at prince now your going back

Oh man, in white rooms!!!❤❤❤

Qbar was elite

Danny… for fucks sake… Robarta is bunny… cushion is 3 doors down in the place that’s been demolished and getting built. The story behind Robarta and Matt, are way deeper than you know.

Did somebody say mynt !

Take a breath mate, farkkkkkk

The bouncer that hit Hooks was king hit by Hooks and got off for self defence. Hooks did the king hit