The Most Legendary Club Nights in Sydney, Australia

MOS transformed London’s clubbing culture in a derelict bus depot in 1991, and although the salubrious surrounds of the Ivy Complex in inner-city Sydney are somewhat different, the super-club is hoping the impact of their 2017 foray into the Sydney scene is equally profound. Ministry of Sound Club Australia launched to much fanfare in June and has lived up to lofty expectations by attracting the country’s biggest DJs, such as Peking Duk, Tigerlily and Will Sparks.

This Eastern Suburbs stalwart delivers something for everyone: a sports bar for the locals to down schooners, a beer garden for Sydney’s social elite to see and be seen, plus a huge upstairs band room that plays host to Sosueme on Wednesdays, a midweek party night that serves up cracking live music for free. Score.

By day, the Greenwood Hotel dishes up award-winning pub grub in the heart of the North Sydney business district. By Thursday night, the courtyard of the converted chapel swells with North Shore teenagers raising a Vodka Cruiser to toast finishing school or getting into uni or leaving on their gap year. This place doesn’t carry the nickname ‘Teenwood’ for nothing.

Sydney’s only rooftop pool bar sparkles with beautiful weather and even more beautiful party-goers every Sunday over summer. Marco Polo enters its tenth season in 2017, pumping out disco, deep and classic house by the pool plus hip hop, bounce and electro in the Changeroom.