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#102507 16-May-2012 08:13

Hi,

I am after a place to head to and have a dance after dinner this Saturday. Ideally something that plays 80’s music although I guess that is unlikely. Pop/House music is the aim not rock.

Walkable from the waterfront. Any ideas?

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#625935 16-May-2012 10:17

Family Bar on K Road is a Gay bar, not sure if you'd be interested but the music there is fantastic and there's another like mini club underneath which is a lot calmer, its called Down Under I believe. Plays roughly the same music as Family but there's usually more of a straight crowed when I've gone to that part.

Then across the road is Eagle, it's a gay friendly bar, but it plays quite a mix of music which was house or 80's/90's when we were there, all of it you can dance to however and there's usually people dancing there, and at about 5.30am when everyone's tired and drunk as hell, everyone starts singing to the anthems we all know, quite a laugh.

There's also DNA, just down the road, quite a large place, with a big mix of people and great music, club style with a bar in the middle etc. Quite a modern place with a big dance floor. More straight people there when I've been but it really depends on the crowed you're after which you can usually judge when you walk in anyway.

Urge is down the Road from there too, but this is a Bear Bar (FYI Bear in the gay community is a big hairy man xD) so the crowd is usually all older tough men, good music though but wouldn't go there by yourself haha.

Those aren't the only clubs/bars on K Rd as you can imagine, they're just the ones I tend to go to when I'm in the mood for it and my mates prefer to stay in those ones anyway because its just safer for us because you can't really be too safe being drunk, gay, and in the dark.

K Rd is just littered with clubs and bars, absolutely fantastic, you're bound to find the right one there I'm sure.

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#625957 16-May-2012 11:06

take your boombox to a warehouse and dance your feelings out, Kevin Bacon footloose style. Otherwise organise a flashmob on Queen St...

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#626027 16-May-2012 12:10

To the OP, sorry, I would have recommended boogie wonderland by Britomart, but I am not sure it exists still or has disappeared in the 5 or so years since I last went to town.

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#626159 16-May-2012 14:15

Lionel Ritchie had the best idea.. The Ceiling.

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#626316 16-May-2012 17:19

You won`t see me down the disco mama coz bright lights really hurt my eyes'

I`d rather stay and dance with you to the funky music playing on our stereo ooo

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#626339 16-May-2012 17:49

paulmilbank: To the OP, sorry, I would have recommended boogie wonderland by Britomart, but I am not sure it exists still or has disappeared in the 5 or so years since I last went to town.

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#626945 17-May-2012 16:37

paulmilbank: take your boombox to a warehouse and dance your feelings out, Kevin Bacon footloose style. Otherwise organise a flashmob on Queen St...

I could so do this although the daughter's pink bookbox might not make the grade. I had a Pioneer one ..... I digress.

K'rd would be fun but not keen on hiking up there with the wife after Dinner. Also Boogie Wonderland would have been interesting, had wanted to go but never got there.

Grapes, Harbourside, Candyos (sp?) anything similar now? I wonderered about Sky City, on the website is had a bar called Twentyone with the beats of Auckland's favourite DJs any good?

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#626995 17-May-2012 18:23

Number 1 High Street I think is meant to be pretty good. Going there next weekend because they're doing $5 drinks :P.

Take a taxi up Queen St, cost you only a couple of dollars anyway haha. Then when you get there and you wanna go home, theres an abundance of the things.