The shenanigans mentioned in last week's blog - that led to one of our residents' suspension - have been resolved – the suspension is lifted and all is well. The poacher is banned – but we don't give life sentences… though sometimes people have to realize there are repercussions for mischief and a second chance is a second chance but no third chances..

So, last Friday didn't jell into a big one. There was an okay crowd – but not what we're used to… has the tide turned? – does this downturn betoken a trend? Unlikely, after a phenomenal run sooner or later a night will dip.. and this was the one. Funnily, we factored it into the budgets for the night's operations and costs were down and that compensated and we closed as well as usual. We've got so many new rising DJs and our band programming is going through a massive uplift with a new band booker employed to shake some action.

The coming Friday will be massive. We have Mercy Arms doing their farewell gig before their first international tour. The band support package is a super solid followed by a superb DJ line up (see the flyer below). We're also pushing boundaries with blended visual effects and Mercy Arms controversial white sets and tight.. – and if Kirin from Mercy Arms isn't too pissed later in the night he may be on stage with his sonic effected guitar improvising with CSK OK… we're going back to pushing the boundaries and this is the start of a run of band and dj packages that'll we'll curate like we did a few years back when we kick started Candys from a dormant club to a thriving entity. It may look like a coincidence that the week after a dip – there's a programming upsurge – but these things are planned way ahead and put into place to keep things fresh and current (if you read the blog about music and politics a few weeks ago we mentioned gigs being interfered with well this friday was the date - through some good karma and synchonisity we got the Mercy Arms going away gig)… anyway, back to the Friday nights; so the combination of the decreased operation costs last Friday and the Mercy Arms going away gig this Friday means we step over and out of the dip without even feeling it. That's an element of knowing the cyclic nature of events, understanding the effects of changing seasons, knowing the music and people and that all keeps the club jumpin', thumpin' and happenin'.

            Saturday 20^th was Big Guns and as usual it just blasted the rest away… MASSIVE – over 1000 people and not an incident – not one fight, not one altercation… with the warm weather here and the later sunset the clubbers came later than they were coming for winter – so we programmed with a longer times for the warm up djs and a super line up of backend djs, Steve Lind, Helena, Keli Hart, Miss Savage and Renae Stanton – they kept killer track after killer track coming. We also got a swag of good new djs in the back bar. Candys filled by midnight and til dawn she breathed in people and breathed out people – she's like a living thing when party kicks in – at 6am we had to shut down and we were still packed – front and back bar – when we turned off the music, turned on the flouros to empty her so many of clubbers were begging for more. … if we had a later license we could have kept the place full til 8am – and being underground with no natural light – the eternal night of Candys creates a world far removed from the morning outside.

            One crazy thing was this big Indian fella, a Sieke or whatever you call them, you know turban on the head big bushy grey beard and standing for a few hours on the edge of the dance floor motionless with his arms crossed watching, with detachment, the madness around him.. no other club in town would let a cat  like that in, square, foreign and with no groove, he juxtapositioned everything else around him and strangely emphasized the bizarre character of the Candys.

That's all for now folks – it's back to booking and promoting more gigs and parties..

Check out below for this week @ Candys – three nights coming – back to back with around 55 performers – superb line ups of bands and djs and new producer/performers… that's how we like it! Candys Apartment (whereelse?)

… for the next blog - tune in next week same time same url… that's all folks!