Welcome to another impsquared's Vancouver Talks.
I'm on Granville Street here in Downtown Vancouver,
and today's topic has been requested by one of our viewers.
Today's topic is Vancouver nightlife.
How's Vancouver nightlife?
Have you been to other cities, to compare to Vancouver?
I've been to Vegas. Vegas is a hundred times better.
I'm from Prince George, so I'd say vancouver's better, but a lot more expensive for sure.
So are the drinks more expensive?
The drinks are about the same, but the cover's a lot more.
This is my second night out in Vancouver.
Have you been to any other clubs all over the world in different cities?
- I've been to some in Nanaimo and some in China. - Okay
How do they compare to Vancouver's nightlife or club scene?
Um, I'd say they're very comparable, if not the same.
Is it more fun here or more fun, like, in China let's say?
Well...
China gets a little crazy so they can be pretty fun.
Pretty sure you stand out in China.
Yeah, yeah, right? You get a lot of free stuff, right?
You know what? It's good, like, I feel like it's really good.
I feel like there's a lot of girls here.
A lot of opportunity to get some pussy out here.
I would say it's really fun.
I just spent an hour and a half at the Roxy, and I was really pleased with my stay there.
I thought it was really fun. The band was great. I have no qualms, honestly. Everyone was super friendly.
The people here are super nice.
I couldn't ask for more, really.
- How's Vancouver nightlife to you guys? - Kinda shit. (laughs)
- Are you guys from Vancouver? - No. We're Australian.
- So how long have you guys been here for? - Four months, two months?
Have you guys been on the street? Nightlife?
- Have we been on the street? - ...clubs?
- Um, yes, every weekend. - Okay. How was it?
- ...Every Friday, Saturday. - How does it compare to Australia?
It doesn't compare...
Is it better? Worse?
- Umm, Australia's better. - Why?
Umm...
- It's cause you're Australian. - It's actually a really good question.
- I'm trying to think of an answer. - [Are] the clubs open later?
Yes, the clubs are open much later...
- 5 a.m. - ...like 5 a.m.
- 5 a.m.!? - ...so you don't get there until, like, 2 or 3.
- What? - Here they shut at like, what...
- 2... 3. - yeah, it's ridiculous.
The time that bars in Vancouver close... they...
it's a little bit too early. So, for people to really enjoy it
It's kind of tough, right?
and with the skytrain and stuff, if people want to get home...
- it's cut, you're cut after like 1, right? so...
Yeah, exactly, right? So you can't really fully enjoy yourself. Right?
And then, how do you get home? Right? A lot of people drink and drive and whatnot.
So, I mean, realistically there's a lot of solutions we can...
they're easy solutions that we can have, for the entertainment industry within Vancouver.
- We usually take a taxi. - Yeah, we take taxis.
- ...because if you have a little too much, I guess public transport isn't the best.
You want to get to your destination.
- ...delivered at your door. - In Melbourne, there's trains all night, buses all night.
Um, I would say that this is way more, umm...
like high-end, I would put this at like a fancier level.
I don't know how else to explain that, but it's it's not the same as where I'm from, my hometown.
- I just came back from Toronto - How's Toronto nightlife?
-It's pretty good. Everything's alright. Yeah.
- Nothing compared to Vancouver, though. - Oh, really?
So, Vancouver on top?
I'd say so. I would honestly say so. Yup.
Well, we live in Victoria and it's not as cool as this.
Like, you got people in the streets everywhere, clubs everywhere, girls everywhere.
- Sorry, Victoria. We love you, but sorry. - Yeah, it's not as good.
Are you guys clubbers, loungers or bar?
- Hmm - Depends on the mood...
- Depends on the mood. - ...probably wouldn't put us in one category.
- Yeah, I'd say we would fit into all categories... - Little bit of everything.
- ...depending on what we feel like. Depending on how drunk we are.
- I'd say all of the above. - All of the above?
- So wherever the night kinda takes you. - Yeah
I would be good... I would be good going to just a pub and getting drunk, but...
going out once in a while is fun.
- Wow. Douchebag! - This guy.
Ask him what he thinks about the nightlife.
He doesn't think much.
- We hit the strip clubs and we make it rain and... - Ahahaa!
- I feel like that one's too close.
Bar and club.
- Okay, so you don't really lounge, no? - No.
Like, unless I'm going out for dinner.
- I like it all. - Oh, so wherever the night takes you.
Yeah, exactly. I don't... I don't like to set myself on one particular, like, path.
All of the above.
- All of the above? - That's me.
Do you go to a club first? Do you go to a bar first? Do you pre-drink at home?
Umm
- I... After... I... - What's your strategy? What's your four-point strategy?
When I get off work I usually go to a restaurant for dinner
and then I usually go to a bar. And if things get a little wild, then I go to a club.
So that's that's usually my strategy. - So that's your steps.
Yeah. 1, 2, 3. Yeah. Absolutely, yeah.
I think it depends who you're with, but...
I think you go home, you get ready. You go out, you have a bite to eat.
You get... you drink somewhere, at a bar.
So hopefully you can get to a bar that also has food.
And then you get, you know, a little bit tipsy, and then you head out to a...
a bar with music or a club.
- We always don't have time to pre-drink, so... - So, straight to the club?
Finish work at about 8 o'clock...
Race home. Try and get ready, get to the club at about 11.
Night ends at about 4 a.m. - And then, we usually hit up Cabana.
Let's not specify.
- Pre-drink for... - Gotta get ready, then you gotta pre-drink.
What do you pre-drink?
Usually just go to a liquor store and drink wine or sangria...
- Wine? - Actually I went to the Steamworks earlier
and got a sangria fishbowl. That was pretty good.
So pre-drink, and then you meet up with your friends or you meet them at a club, or...?
No, we all drink together. Yes.
Pre-drink, someone's house or...
very small percent of time pre-drink at a bar and then go to the club.
- And never... Do you buy drinks at the club? - Yup. Yeah.
You mean the guys buy you drinks at the club.
Actually, I've just been buying my own so far. So far.
Yo, yo, yo. I got this. I got this. I got this.
The first thing I like to do is brush my teeth.
Keep it clean.
I'll eat some spaghetti, some pasta. I don't know, whatever mama wants to make.
I go to mama's house before I go to the club, and I eat mama's pasta.
Third thing I do, I like to smoke a joint.
Get's me on a good level. I get high.
I'm there. I'm there, I'm there. - You're ready, you're focused.
The third thing. I'll get my girlfriend over and I'll fuck her.
Okay. I'll fuck her, and I'll tell her everything's ok, baby. It's fine, whatever.
And I'll go to the club with my boys, and it won't be fine.
You know me though. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Me 'n my boys, we got shit. We got it. We got it. - Stone cold. Stone cold.
For the viewers out there, what club, what bar should they hit up?
...in Vancouver. People who have never been to Vancouver.
Wow. That's a great question.
Can I take this question, to begin with? - Yeah yeah yeah.
Ok. So, for me, It's Gastown. I'm in the wrong area. Right now we're in the Granville strip.
It's not my scene. My scene is Gastown.
- Why is that? - Gastown? Cause it's a little bit more laid-back
a little more, for me, a little more authentic.
You know. I mean, obviously I have a few connections there, so that helps a little bit.
Talk to this guy for some connections there.
Okay, but it's a little bit more my style.
Now, Granville's good. It's just a little bit more... hard-edge.
Venue's lovely. They have a show going on tonight, so...
cover was insanely expensive, yeah. - It's crazy.
- It's busy as hell. - So We weren't about it.
But, um, on any other night it's lovely.
- Most of them, like... - Celebrities...
- Um, Venue. - Portside...
- What's your favourite one?
I don't think I'd say favourite club, but I think our favourite night was at Celebrities.
- Celebrities was fun. - Celebrities? There you go Celebrities. Please like me.
- Shout out to Celebrities.
Give us free entry, please.
- Ooh, I don't know. I don't go out that much. - I'd say Studio, or Venue.
Okay, why is that? Is the music good there?
Studio, yeah. It's a good vibe there, and then Venue's always, like, party.
Granville street's a little bit way too mainstream
whereas when you go to Gastown
you get a little bit of everything, right? You got a little bit of different people
and you really get to experience the culture of Vancouver, right?
A little bit of everybody there, in one place.
And you really get to see a bunch of different stuff, right?
Whereas Granville is like too generic, and a lot of the clubs...
- Cheaper cover in Gastown. - Is it more mainstream, on Granville strip?
- Way too mainstream. - It's mainstream? Would you call it mainstream?
- Way too mainstream. - Like the music? The music's...
- The music's pretty... top 40. Too top 40. - Yeah, too top 40. Yeah.
We wanna go somewhere where it's chill...