# Best Clubs You Have Never Heard of: Hordern Pavillion Sydney

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**Created:** [May 27, 2026, 5:19am UTC](https://forum.testpressing.org/t/best-clubs-you-have-never-heard-of-hordern-pavillion-sydney/7071 "2026-05-27T05:19:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![tobyhemming](https://forum.testpressing.org/user_avatar/forum.testpressing.org/tobyhemming/32/34983_2.png) [@tobyhemming](https://forum.testpressing.org/u/tobyhemming)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2026, 5:19am UTC](https://forum.testpressing.org/t/best-clubs-you-have-never-heard-of-hordern-pavillion-sydney/7071/1 "2026-05-27T05:19:58Z")

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Long (ish) piece I wrote for [djhistory.com](http://djhistory.com), on the greatest untold rave scene of the late 80s you have never heard of. A club named by iD and the Face as the best in the world at one time, but where was it??

> **[CLASSIC CLUBS: The Hordern Pavilion - DJ History](https://djhistory.com/read/classic-clubs-the-hordern-pavilion/)**
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> Driver Ave, Sydney, Australia Thanks to the energy and culture that flowed from its phenomenal LGBTQ activism, in the late ’80s Sydney hosted some of the most spectacular events of the acid house explosion. In 1989 i-D magazine declared it the dance...

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**Author:** ![Sam\_C](https://forum.testpressing.org/user_avatar/forum.testpressing.org/sam_c/32/4977_2.png) [@Sam\_C](https://forum.testpressing.org/u/Sam_C)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2026, 6:29am UTC](https://forum.testpressing.org/t/best-clubs-you-have-never-heard-of-hordern-pavillion-sydney/7071/2 "2026-05-27T06:29:19Z")

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Went a couple of times in 1991, decent nights. Had a great time in Sydney that year.