Revealing Australia's Nightclub Underworld: Ex- Nightclub Owner's SHOCKING Confessions - Russel St

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Welcome to Episode 3 - Russel Street & Lonsdale Street
Dive into the dark underbelly of Australia's nightlife scene with shocking revelations from an ex-nightclub owner Danny Grant. Join us as we peel back the layers of secrecy on Russell St, Melbourne, exposing the hidden truths and scandalous tales behind closed doors. Prepare for an eye-opening journey through the heart of the city's nightclub underworld, where every confession leaves you on the edge of your seat.

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@heathRocco 3 месяца назад

Please do Chapel street danny. I was Clubbing there for 15 years. Love it!

@zchettaz 3 месяца назад

Runnin' amuck at 'Lady Luck'

@YallahletsgoG 2 месяца назад

Renataaaa

@paokg495 3 месяца назад

Anyone here remember honky tonks in AC/DC lane? Proper tech club

@Dannysrants 3 месяца назад

Yep, probably my fav club ever

@paokg495 3 месяца назад

@@Dannysrants 100%

@wanya1980 3 месяца назад

Best drink selection! I remember grooving to a Boogs set outta that piano, spinning on that pole 😂

@yeahman8370 3 месяца назад

That's one I do. Dunno how I was that wrecked

@js-sv6kw 2 месяца назад

Melbournes most iconic club. Became 3rd class after honkytonks, music direction changed to French touch. Not as good but place was still a vibe.

@JoeyZaZa-fm2zo 3 месяца назад

Billboards institution. Greek night Saturdays around 95/96, underage RNB early 90s Saturday afternoon, Hard Kandy Friday nights early 2000s. Ballers was Charltons nightclub in 80s. Showing my age haha. Also Timezone underneath SkyLounge which during early 90s was a heroin hotspot and made that whole corner near Hungry jacks a no go zone

@knomelbourne 3 месяца назад

Loved playing my sets at Billboard Saturdays. Couldn’t stay up past midnight to save my life these days.

@SWATA27 2 месяца назад

Went to Hard Kandy for my 18th bday back in 99 and every week after that for a few years, great times, banging tracks 🔥🔥

@briggsy010 2 месяца назад

Bro! Ive watched a few of your vids now. I’m pretty much the same age as you and was in the scene at the same time… It’s crazzzzy remembering and reminiscing about my stories at these clubs… I keep thinking about the fact that we barely had internet and social media back then… Smoking inside venues! Completely different world… I miss those days 🤙🫶

@zorbs4217 3 месяца назад

Brilliant! 👌🏼... so many memories!

@aussiemoe9426 3 месяца назад

Fuggin awesome channel. Memories of running amok as a young headbanger, then a mad raver. Makes me miss Melbs.

@Dannysrants 3 месяца назад

Thanks for taking time out your day to comment

@thegreatbarrerquief7473 3 месяца назад

So many good times had in those venues! Great vid.

@Dannysrants 3 месяца назад

Thank you :)

@CityWalks3216 3 месяца назад

Awesome video the memories 😊

@joshuabrucemellis7933 3 месяца назад

Interesting to see all these spots I've known since a kid man though into the Rock/Metal scene. Keep up the awesome work!

@Dannysrants 3 месяца назад

Thanks brother!

@joshuabrucemellis7933 3 месяца назад

@@Dannysrants No worries.

@helosandco 3 месяца назад

Appreciate you wearing our trucker brother! Appreciate ya! 🙏🏼⚡️

@Dannysrants 3 месяца назад

Thanks brother, love the hats!

@jarudu201 3 месяца назад

Luke Udorovic was one of the best people I met working in the industry. Would always make sure you were looked after and having a good time!

@loomibiq 3 месяца назад

Did you ever go to Twister in St.Kilda? Big Al on the door was a legend. Many tried to take him on but failed. Twister sat night Monkey Sunday nights. You must know Ugly. He ran Twister and Kittens in Elsternwick.

@Untzuntz_hdiv 3 месяца назад

Have to do a video on the hardstyle scene , bubble metro/ pharmacy phd 3D twister , that era was crazy/sketchy I loved it ! And mebourne bounce took its place when that scene died , and it definitely had an influence on Melbourne sound ! You could call it changing or the guard , maybe you could interview some of the djs/promoters. Keep the vids coming brother , fuck yeah Melbourne

@sampatterson7761 3 месяца назад

Anyone remember 3D ???? That was wild … same with Bubble

@Dannysrants 3 месяца назад

Yeah i do

@kingjay-em5nd 2 месяца назад

They were the best clubs in Melbourne.. I wouldn't go anywhere else

@deklares1 3 месяца назад

Good stuff mate! Billboards is an institution. Surely you have to do Chapel st!

@Dannysrants 3 месяца назад

I recon i have to hey

@lucystrauss2989 3 месяца назад

Chapel Street was the best!

@jimmysoncookland5446 2 месяца назад

Aston Shuffle at Roxannes was such a fun night. That floor was boucing 😅

@sampatterson7761 3 месяца назад

⁠you’re quickly becoming an Aus icon imo haha. You’re great mate

@baileyfitzsimon8663 3 месяца назад

love these vids

@Dannysrants 3 месяца назад

Thank you for the comment

@michaelteasdale2919 3 месяца назад

Anyone remember the mansion on Kings way? Loved that joint!!!

@AnkosLoveSlave 3 месяца назад

Ugly was one of the people that ran Thursday nights at Billboard during the late 80's and 90's before he want down to St Elmo's on King Street Rox was Sharkie's before that and it was all three levels, lvl 1 had karaoke and pool tables, lvl 2 had live band and pool tables and top floor had pure disco back in the early 90's Worked a lot of shows in both Billboard and Sharkie's back between 91 and 96, Oh damn I feel old now thinking it was that long ago.....

@foxpacito409 3 месяца назад

Love the vid bro I’m a Youngblood who’s made mates a few known ppl in the melb scene its mad to see the history of Russel street Got lucky enough to meet the owner of bb and didn’t even know till it got pointed out to me after I met him in the back room 🤣

@Dannysrants 3 месяца назад

Wyat was he doing out there 🤣

@foxpacito409 3 месяца назад

@@Dannysrants no fucking clue but when I found out who he was I was shitting myself

@philipvassallo6795 2 месяца назад

What about the Ivy car Russell St and Lonsdale St use to dj there it was huge

@moregoldmoregold 3 месяца назад

Enjoyed these episodes. Melbourne is cool. Even with a shit government

@Dannysrants 3 месяца назад

When it not in lockdown its awesome haha

@CheeseNoodleOZ 2 месяца назад

How you do Billboard and not even mention Deluxe on Friday nights in late 90s that turned into the Melbourne rave institution Hard Kandy! The "rear" entrance was the main entrance every Fri Night for HK. Upstairs car park was always dodgy as. Better was across little burke in the underground one.

@CheeseNoodleOZ 2 месяца назад

Santa Fe bar on Russell St up near greater union was always a good laugh too

@EddieSezPhukYu Месяц назад

work at key club from back when it switch over from loft, just after ICON bar got shut down, entry is the door with the green curtain and then 2 floors of stairs, Sharky was bossman Charlie Charls came a few years later, Simon even worked a few shifts there lol

@heathp2178 3 месяца назад

Chapel street and surrounding streets. If you need a cohost for that one, im your man as promoted clubs down there for over 10 years. Keep up the good work mate, its great stuff!

@Dannysrants 3 месяца назад

Awesome, which clubs you do?

@heathp2178 3 месяца назад

@Dannysrants Zos back in the day which is now Chasers, Commercial, Evo, plus some venues such as HiFi Bar, QBH, Viper, PHD, Metro, first TFU, Lotus Bar, Q Bar, Platform 1 . . . Mainly trance scene from 2004 to 2012. Few good yarns up my sleeve.

@Dannysrants 3 месяца назад

@@heathp2178 Lets talk! Hit me on socials.

@johngreek2972 3 месяца назад

Chapel precinct -ZOS ,Viper room, evolution day club ,Dome ,virgin marys and so on . Was epic time to be clubbing

@Dannysrants 3 месяца назад

Frostbites, Lotus.

@daviddudas7287 3 месяца назад

What about circus? Lol

@daviddudas7287 3 месяца назад

@@Dannysrants Sam and Mellisa used to give me a clip behind the ear when ever I used metal scourers on the saucepans. I was a cook at lotus when it was the hump day spot latin night

@Freedomone153 3 месяца назад

Should do Bobbee McGees

@peterRobinson10101 2 месяца назад

wouldnt be the only big tooth spit at Billboards, used to enjoy going to Skybar, Pony which wasnt mentioned, and if i couldnt get in anywhere early at dawn would end up Carlton Club bar.

@genx2585 2 месяца назад

YOYO and The Key Club on Lonsdale used to be called The Loft, I did security there for 3 or 4 years. The same owners also owned The Long Room Collins Street and ICON bar on flinders lane which is now the famous restaurant CHIN CHIN. The Loft by FAR the roughest craziest place I worked, R&B on Fridays and house on Saturdays, and then kick on to WAH WAHS after the shift... fuck me did I see some shit haha...kinda miss those days.

@mahieumahieu6398 22 дня назад

The lounge had great history and club filter was the longest running techno club on a Wednesday night way back

@whtfla 3 месяца назад

Wah wah was off its guts lol...awesome dancefloor...I went back there after they turned it into a Alice in wonderland gin bar

@Dannysrants 3 месяца назад

Yeah not the same haha

@unclenick1968 3 месяца назад

Nothing about the other end of Russel Street? Isabella, Santa Fe nightclub, Santa Fe Gold. Used to be run by Ross Kennedy, Peter Ivaniuk, Wayne Groves, etc.

@Dannysrants 3 месяца назад

Where on Russel? I know Peter, didnt know he was a promoter though.

@unclenick1968 3 месяца назад

@@Dannysrants Peter is OG part owner. Gave me my first job at The Tunnel, then my boss Andrew Hughes and i went over to Santa Fe Hotel to help run the Santa Fe nightclub. Live bands like Voodoo Surf Gods were playing downstairs, upstairs had a pool hall and dancefloor. Thurs, Fri and Sat nights were pumping. Then it shutdown to become Santa Fe Gold, the first one, the one that kicked it all off in Melbourne, before the Men's Gallery.

@brissywink 3 месяца назад

Haha nice I snuck into billboard through the staff door in the back alley. The gig was sold out and we were trying to find tickets by asking randoms and I saw What I was wearing looked kind of similar to the seccies, so just risked it and followed one in and through the hallways til I popped out right near the bar haha great times

@zacciahwilliams5076 3 месяца назад

Do a video on hidden forest

@wanya1980 3 месяца назад

Bro, that was my fave club like 20 years ago …. TFU was were it all started for me

@Dannysrants 3 месяца назад

Waratah lane?

@wanya1980 3 месяца назад

@@Dannysrants yeah, waaay back in the day. First went to a gig called Liquify by Willie Tell (WETMusik) - Sunshine opened up the downstairs (but upstairs) sesh, then we would go stomp the roof in upstairs with some banging techno (think old teriyaki anakinsaki days, Ben Cromack, disco pussy, willie tell

@MsSovereign1214 2 месяца назад

billboards feels like the default nightclub like everyone turns up there atleast once in their life

@Itchydexx01 3 месяца назад

You missed 12 Mckillop street. ......

@Dannysrants 3 месяца назад

Whats there?

@kennnyau2455 3 месяца назад

3d a hardstyle club on friday nights @@Dannysrants

@alexlee8709 2 месяца назад

Was it where bass station started?

@alexlee8709 2 месяца назад

Was it bass station? Where it first started. But that was up near little Collins and Burke st.

@EddieSezPhukYu Месяц назад

lol after cleaning the secret room at whaa whaa on a sunday arvo, i used to find enough shit to keep me going till Tuesday.

@martynclements3518 2 месяца назад

Richmond / swan St next pls

@thisissolidsnake97 3 месяца назад

Reckon Revolver will need its own video if you do chapel hahah

@Dannysrants 3 месяца назад

Hahaha!

@ghostinplainsight4803 2 месяца назад

I only ever knew about Krankin, PHD, Bubble, Kandy and Bass. Ended up in TFU a couple of times, wasn't hard to get in. No regerts, but it's cool to hear about the history. No mention of megabar/drop on King, that was the most juicy day club I've ever been to, didn't see any blowouts, but cunts were off tits.

@danielmusumeci661 2 месяца назад

Damn I remember at TFU when the bouncers tipped a guy into the Asian restaurants bin.!!! I loved that place

@Dannysrants 2 месяца назад

Great venue

@waynehackney6350 2 месяца назад

Billboards used to run delux on Friday nights best music by far only Monkey on Sunday nights went harder

@Essneary01 3 месяца назад

Altitude was off chops,

@Dannysrants 3 месяца назад

Many were off chops there also haha

@callantaylor8587 2 месяца назад

Shoulda mentioned the brawl at Stalectites.

@TheKinky4ever 3 месяца назад

Why did the old days end? what came in to stop it?

@joshuabrucemellis7933 3 месяца назад

Any chance of Crown Casino?

@Dannysrants 3 месяца назад

I never went there to club, so basically have zero stories sorry bro.

@joshuabrucemellis7933 3 месяца назад

@@Dannysrants That's fair enough man - heard there was a club there but not sure, I mostly just went there for a Cigar and Beer then possibly see a movie or eat at the Texas meat place. It's been a while...

@mickeybonacci7360 3 месяца назад

I still have my wah medallion l! Holy shit what a time that was bro!

@kemshasan8866 2 месяца назад

Russell Street! Who remembers "White House" the pinball/games joint! Thank God I never tried heroin but I knew alot of Viets way back

@r.mhaych5021 2 месяца назад

22:00 yo-yo was my spot fuck I spent most my young years there was so good circa 2013-2016 then it turned to shit

@leobordin9896 3 месяца назад

Charltons

@troyonplanet 3 месяца назад

Nah, I never let dudes back into a club or bar who have been fighting or splattered in blood, snot, spew or piss - that’s just asking for more trouble and the chicks do not like seeing blokes walking around with blood and snot all over themselves - sends entirely the wrong message….

@Inksess 3 месяца назад

That guy drove through bourke St mall years ago wot? Is this an old video haha?

@jaysonayres543 Месяц назад

The first love Lucy was at Roxanne’s, if you want the rest to that stabbing story bro. Yell out!

@lucystrauss2989 3 месяца назад

I used to live down Kings Street… Red Light district in Melbs… I will never forget it. It was scary. North Coberg was scary too… you could get raped at the Train station. I got followed home a few times even in front of the police station… the cops were hopeless.

@Walker_Texas_Danger 2 месяца назад

pfft... wishful thinking sweetheart...

@lucystrauss2989 2 месяца назад

@@Walker_Texas_Danger excuse me? Did it happen to you? No it didn’t. Don’t do a turd on another persons lived experiences. It just make you look stupid.

@lucystrauss2989 2 месяца назад

@@Walker_Texas_Danger someone’s personal life experiences is NOT “wishful thinking”. You’ve got to be kidding me with that attitude. I grew up in a time where this happened a lot.Maybe you coddled yourself. Real hard truth is it’s not peachy. Cringe behaviour happens more often than not just because you’ve lived a limited life and haven’t had experiences so you can’t fathom it. Don’t comment what you don’t know.

@kathaRoo 2 месяца назад

We did 3D on Friday night and Bubble on a Saturday night. I was there with the machete attack and that was my last night

@loslogo 3 месяца назад

Nightclub scene is dead in Melbourne. Was always pretty fkn average but now all the pingers are gone(thank fk) it’s over.

@scottmazza2748 3 месяца назад

That tfu venue..

@Dannysrants 3 месяца назад

Which one? 🤣

@monogramadikt5971 3 месяца назад

got so many stories from that era, best to let dead dogs lie though yeah lol

@Dannysrants 3 месяца назад

Need to hear them haha

@chrisasterion5050 3 месяца назад

2 floors up began as a Wog Club...

@user-eg1gk2jm4q 2 месяца назад

Granny's Rants... I can't handle the bullshit

@Dannysrants 2 месяца назад

I mean, you could try just not watching them?

@user-eg1gk2jm4q 2 месяца назад

@@Dannysrants 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@grimdiscovery627 3 месяца назад

Did you ever go to 3rd class?

@andrewreed1329 2 месяца назад

kings cross

@sydneyfc7769 3 месяца назад

How do you have so many story’s my life has been so boring compared to yours

@Dannysrants 3 месяца назад

Lived a few lol

@sydneyfc7769 3 месяца назад

@@Dannysrants yeah someone people have crazy lives while others just never do even if they live to 80 it’s really weird

@joshuabrucemellis7933 3 месяца назад

@@sydneyfc7769 If you go to the City every weekend specially night clubs your bound to see something.

@sydneyfc7769 3 месяца назад

@@joshuabrucemellis7933 yeah that’s true it’s just the vibe off the city on weekend is so bad with all the drunks

@joshuabrucemellis7933 3 месяца назад

@@sydneyfc7769 I understand, used to pretty much live in the City - even staying at a girls place across from Crown Casino Melbourne...hardly ever there these days unless for a concert etc.

@lovefist208 2 месяца назад

Euro-bar

@fabulousdick 3 месяца назад

The club on coverlid pl was called Cage night club around 99-2003. They had a night called Excessive and then Atmosphere. I liked it more than Hard Candy at billboards

@Dannysrants 3 месяца назад

Didnt know that! Thats cool!

@matthewbeale8570 3 месяца назад

Yep. It had the nick name cage. Because no one wanted to leave.. John and James ran security there. Simon (can't think of his last name) had the lease on the place... Funny story... As I got to know James pretty well (even offered me the club on a Friday night if you know what I mean).. I got to know a couple of the guys at hard candy to.. Through James.. As far as the little groups went. I was known as a atmosphere (cage) guy. Standing out the front of hard kandy having a chat with one of the boys. He's like "Matty take my badge. I need to piss. And don't let anyone one in. Till I get back".. So, some of those hard kandy people weren't too impressed I was holding the door... A couple tried to test me.. Hahaha.. Gee have some stories from those days.. 👍🏻

@user-dj4he1ql3j 3 месяца назад

I loved it there! Arriving at midnight and leaving at daylight was common practice 😂

@matthewbeale8570 3 месяца назад

Old mate.. Ran security for club x on King Street back in the day. When it was red hot... Offered the job the day of him being released.. After a decent stint.. Took it on the condition it was his rules... No guns.. Only guy pissed at that was J. Maron. Mind you old mate use to wipe his snotty nose as a kid...