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Carnegies
Rating: 0 356 Murray St
Perth
WA 6000
Phone: 9481 3222
<hr><BR> <p>Brought to you by <a href="/View-user-profile.html?user=96">NicJJ</a> and <a href="/profiles/paul-loney.html">Paul</a>, Photo credits to: <strong>Doug Flanagan </strong></p><p>It's Wednesday evening, around 9pm - Hump Day for the working class - and we can hear Carnegies humping well before we can see it. In our books, some notable exceptions aside, it’s always a good sign when a place doesn't feel it needs a weekend to come alive. </p> <p><a href="/external/carnegies-perth.html">Check out more pics from Wednesdays at Carnegies</a></p> <p><img src="/images/stories/news/bar1.jpg" alt="" align="right" />We meet Warren, the Duty Manager, outside and slipped past the bouncers checking youthful IDs – hardly a problem for Paul anyhow – and into the throng of moving bodies. One of the first things that jumps out of you at this bar is a long library ladder, wide at the bottom and narrowing towards the top, which slides along the floor giving access to a (literal) wall-full of shelves, filled from bar to ceiling not with books but with a glorious array of bottles.<br /><br />A cornucopia of cocktail ingredients are arrayed for Wednesday's HALF-PRICE cocktails. Yep, cheap liquor rates highly for the drinking class! Of course, these are mostly colourful cocktails (not serious martinis or real daiquiris) where blue and green and yellow liquids get poured into a blender to create icy alcoholic slushies – bright, shiny goo food for the young gals in their party dresses. <br /><br />Warren introduces us to Todd – the Manager of Carnegies – and we wander around for a bit, getting a feel for the mood of the place. Things are pretty busy – there is at least a three-person wait at the bar – but, as impatient as some of the punters may get, the staff are efficient and industrious. On Paul’s ‘preview visit’, he found the solution was to simply reward himself for the wait, with a shot of 1800 to accompany his cider. Around the bar there are plenty of bodies moving to the music – played by a DJ, largely without comment – in synch with a number of large plasma screens showing the associated video clip. Most of the music is heavy beat largely based around the themes of ‘BABY GOT BACK’ and ‘PUMPING YEH!’ (thanks Paul – ed.) Everyone seems to be enjoying it and there are plenty of spots to gyrate in and on the various levels and areas within the bar. <br /><br />It would seem the el primo dancing and perving spot, is upstairs, however. There’s a fairly sizeable queue, manned by a bouncer ensuring that only a certain amount of worshippers make it up the stairway to heaven. The queue is about four-wide by about ten-deep through most of the evening, and people seem more than willing to stand around in this inner-pub queue to get upstairs (even complete with wheel-chair access, via a lift). After watching somewhat bemusedly for a while, we once again slip past the throng of hopefuls, and into the upper bar. <br /><br />Looking around, we are, again, suitably impressed. The décor is carried through well, and there is a good use of space – made up of dance areas, a bar, a raised are that can be cordoned off, and suitable balconies for looking down on those below. The masses are still grinding away, lapping up all that Carnegies has to offer.<br /><br />We move on, and a quick tour of the kitchen and coolroom facilities confirms that Carnegies is a multi-purpose bar. We note 20 beers on tap, and Todd casually informs us that the cocktail menu has 108 cocktails detailed down an entire 3-fold side. Nice.<br /><br />Overall people seemed to get on, with no aggro to see, unless Paul felt it intrusive to have a guy want to high-five him every time he passed him on his last visit. We figured he was suitably impressed<br />by the Viking Leprechaun beard!<br /><br />All up, there’s no doubt that Carnegies hits it’s target dead-on. For the clientele they’re aiming to serve, they provide precisely what is wanted. They get a cool 500 people through the door over the course of a Wednesday evening – there’s certainly no arguing with the numbers. Don’t come here late on a Wednesday if you’re chasing a quiet drink with friends or the best martinis in Perth – but by all means, if you’re after cheap (and often potent) cocktails, pumping music, and plenty of perv, head along.<br /><br /><img src="/images/stories/news/bar2.jpg" alt="" align="left" /><strong>O</strong><strong>verview</strong><br /> <br />Getting There: 7<br />Disabled Access: 7.5<br />Décor/Ambience: 9<br />Food: {Not Rated}<br />Beverages: 8<br />Music/Entertainment: 7<br />Staff: 8.5<br />Restrooms: 5<br />Afterwards: 8<br /><br /><strong>OVERALL: 7.5</strong><br />More detailed review to come!</p><p><a href="/external/carnegies-perth.html">More pics from Wednesdays at Carnegies</a> </p><p>Photo credits to: <strong>Doug Flanagan</strong> </p>


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