BWAH HA HA HA
Sydney clubs bid to outlaw the Melbourne Shuffle
From: http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=306965
By Wade O'Leary
A Sydney nightclub promoter has started a campaign to ban a style of dance that he says is a danger to other patrons.
"Shuffling" ? a mix between the moves of one-hit wonder MC Hammer and the frenetic steps required by dancing machines in amusement arcades ? has long been a staple of the Melbourne rave scene.
But Tim Sabre of Raw Entertainment says Sydney clubbers swallowing booze rather than ecstasy tablets are turning the free-flowing style into a dancefloor disaster.
"I've seen some near-misses and some not-misses involving young ladies being sideswiped ? it's more the patrons who are going off about it, the clubs are happy to have anybody there," he said.
"It's ridiculous ? what are they doing?"
Sabre promotes nights at some of the city's classier venues ? including Soho, Mandalay and Goodbar ? and says the smaller Sydney clubs can't cope with the southern style.
"It used to be in those clubs where people stood two metres apart from each other and they were all on ecstasy, so if they bumped into each other they'd give each other a hug," he said.
"In Sydney, on the other hand, they try to do it on a crowded floor while drunk.
"You need precision and when you're drunk you lack that, so when somebody goes staggering around and hits the wrong people ? it's not good."
But fellow club promoter and DJ Peter Glass described the campaign as "ludicrous".
"That's their self-expression, that's what dancing's about," he said.
Glass ? a fixture at top-drawer Sydney venues like De Nom, Ruby Rabbit and Will & Toby's ? believes there is a simpler solution.
"If you play that sort of music you're attracting that sort of clientele, so if you're having that problem you should change your music policy," he said.
"I've never come across this sort of thing in any venue I've worked in."
But Sabre insists he will continue his fight to let his patrons dance in safety.
"We're just trying to get it banned, basically," he said.
"With the help of the media, this could be a thing of the past."
could it get more ridiculous?
even the fact that this makes news....
can you imagine the protest rallies if it does get banned???
-fluffy little ravers just pounding along, shuffling in droves up the streets of sydney....
It should be banned in Sydney.
Unless you are a trans-tech dance diplomat, such as myself.. Then again, legally, we can already do anything we so desire ^^
That's hilarious ;D
they should ban alcohol then!
no thats silly....we should send someone up to teach them.....bloody ameteurs!!!
Seriously.. I think there is enough wakk-dancers here in the greater Melbourne 2 B worrying about the Sydney epileptic danger-ravers.
that's such a pisser.
with the help of the media? maybe they should plant some valium and viagra on them
no thongs, no singlets, no arms above chest heght
we should start a fund send these guys to sydney.... that'll put some bruise on em
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yMwJ79IeHk&mode=related&search=
LOL! Circle pits.. never really got the circling round a mosh pit thing! Funny as hell. The kids used to do it at Commish gigs and we'd laugh...
I do remember Billboards banning talc back in 99-00 because all the "shufflers'" talc used to mess with the airconditioning...
But ban the shuffle? Well maybe it should be banned, but not for those reasons!
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i reckon it's a bullshit article that tim sabre has whipped up as subliminal spam. i get spammed by that dude all the time on my myspace. :o
rock the fucken fuck or stfu
yeah right...
[smiley=vrolijk_26.gif]hi cuz!! [smiley=vrolijk_26.gif]
Yeah, its shameless self-promotion disguised as a dance critique and safety issue. I'm all for the ban of the shuffle, but where will it end!!!!!
As for circle pits, I've never been bowled over so fucking hard in all my life running through the centre of a circle pit/skank.
yeah, nah have never circled much in groups.
However, giggity.
delete Tim Sabre, Cuz
I still have no idea what the shuffle looks like, but that's no reason to start telling me about it.
I was Melbourne shuffling the other day. At least, Sophie told me I was and it seemed to be the closest I've ever got to actually performing this dance successfully (attempts at kryal castle earlier this year aside). It was due to utter desperation in the face of bitter cold on a mountain in Kazakhstan. The shuffle was the ONLY remedy that seemed to help arrest my plunging body temperature.
That said, clubs in Sydney are really a long way from kazakhstan and rather a different kettle of fish altogether...
says the smaller Sydney clubs can't cope with the southern style.
;D
rock the fucken fuck or stfu