DIFFERENT BEAUTY

It happened just by accident, that I had a chance to discover/to meet/to taste the real underground scene of Sydney. People who you never see in the city, about whose existence only few know.
As we were organising our Smirnoff Ten Christmas Party in one gallery space, the owner asked me how I found this place, as there were only a few such places in Sydney and rather unknown and uncommon.
Things just happen. Just on my second day in Sydney, I enjoyed an afternoon in one nearby arty cafe with a young intellectual crowd. There, on the way to toilet I just grabbed an interesting looking exhibition flyer. It happened to be 'THE' place with freedom to get creatively wild. I contacted him and everything worked out as you can see in our Australian video, but at the end of our party Pete, the owner asked me if I would like to continue with him and his friends – the night was still kind of young so why not?



It was well organized as well. Outside on a parking space was a chill out, chatting and smoking area. Then there was a huge hall filled with art objects and another room with atelier leftovers to give away. Then we entered another hall – a music hall with stage, dancefloor in front and a DJ booth. Next was a bar and another hall accomodated for DJs. The line up was planned carefully, as performers changed in a time circle and music was really involving – from drum 'n bass, to punk, metal, even live a group of about 15 drummers., and electro.
So we were circulating between the halls. It was great and long lasting :-)

The only sad thing was that I met these art environment on my last Sydney night, but I hope you guys take care and meet you soon – Underworld is not dead!


We drove for a long while... but it was worth as we met a different world. Something that we had never seen before – real anti-fancy Sydney underground.
The venue was an old ice cream factory taken over by a group of artists, whose studios were there for 15 years and that night was the last official night of
existence of that place. It was huge and full of creative looking people.
Conscious personalities, self designed characters in very often self designed clothes. I haven't seen such a variety of characters in the two weeks I’d been in Sydney as there was in that one night. It was beautiful. Art was present everywhere. I felt really happy to be able to see and experience this phenomena.