On Friday night i went to Caberet Nocturne at 272 Russel Street in the CBD. It’s a Goth club, and they have a rotating roster of four DJs. Tilt nightclub (the venue) has two narrow levels, with a little dancefloor on both of them, and on Friday nights there’s a DJ on each level – Caberet Nocturne below, and the rotating roster above.

On the ground floor you can hear a pretty cool range of alternative (whatever that means to you) music from the lighter to the heavier (e.g.// Gwen Stefani to Rammstein), and it’s probably going to appeal to most people who are likely to be attracted to a goth club in the first place. Very fun to dance to, especially if you are (like me) generally bored of the poppy R&B stuff you find at most more popular clubs. If you went to Q&A about two or three years ago, and can’t take it anymore because it’s drifted away from the “alternative” part of the name, you’ll probably like what they play at Caberet Nocturne. Dress in black, get your chains together and be open toward heavier industrial and death metal sorts of stuff, and you’ll have a great time.

On the second level the DJ changes each week; last Friday it was whit3nois3 according to the pamphlet; i sometimes couldn’t dance to it, and spent some of the time sitting and just listening to what the DJ was doing, but it was definitely worth listening to. The DJ did a lot of the playing-with-knobs sort of DJ-ing, actually messing around with what could well have been a base track of actual white noise (though i’m not an expert by any stretch of the imagination, so don’t take my word for it). If you want to hear some genuine DJ-ing, where the content sometimes becomes 90% on-the-spot rather than playing pre-recorded tracks, whit3nois3 is upstairs from Caberet Nocturne every 3rd Friday of the month.

The entry fee’s $10, the atmosphere’s friendly and there’s usually heaps of totally uninhibited dancing going on, so you can just have fun. (I don’t drink so i can’t really tell you much about the price of alcohol at the venue (Tilt), but i did run into that issue you get at some places – where the price of a drink varies depending on which bartender you talk to (A soda wavered between $3-4). I’ve been to Caberet Nocturne a few times in the past and never found that before, though, so it’s probably not a feature of the place and it probably wouldn’t happen for all you alcohol-drinkers.)