Melbourne scene guide
Melbourne scene guide — find your venue by sound. House lands at Solace. The venues, promoters and artists shaping Melbourne’s electronic scene.
Find your venue
- House — if you like Richie Hawtin: Solace, Collingwood Basement, Sidney Myer Music Bowl
- Techno — if you like Richie Hawtin: Solace, Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Howler
- Electronica — if you like Slumdog: Collingwood Basement, TBA - Bell City , QQQ ST. Park
- Deep House — if you like Nora En Pure: Howler, Workshop, The Night Cat
- Tech House — if you like Boogs: Revolver Upstairs, OneSixOne, Sooki Lounge
- Disco — if you like Alex Vieira: Collingwood Basement, Dr Morse, The Toff in Town
- Progressive House — if you like Nora En Pure: Glamorama, Solace, Joey Smalls
Busiest venues
How big is Melbourne’s electronic scene?
Over the last 12 months soundcheck tracked 3,944 club nights across 351 venues in Melbourne, featuring 2,438 artists. Every listing carries the line-up, times and venue — see what’s on in Melbourne tonight.
Which Melbourne venues have the most club nights?
Counted over the trailing 12 months of listings:
What time do Melbourne club nights actually start and end?
From the 3,944 listings publishing door times: the median Melbourne night opens at 20:00 — 76% open before 22:00, 24% between 22:00 and midnight, and 0% after midnight. Of the 414 listings publishing a close time, the median close is 03:00, 34% run past 04:00 and 13% go to 06:00 or later.
How much does a club night in Melbourne cost?
Across the 241 listings publishing prices (6% of all nights): the median advance ticket is null 15, with half of all nights between null 0 and null 25. 31% of listed nights are free.
When does Melbourne go out?
Saturday is the biggest night (38% of all listings); Friday and Saturday together carry 68% of the week. The busiest month of the year is August.
What does Melbourne sound like?
By share of genre tags across the year’s line-ups: House 36% · Techno 28% · Tech House 8% · Deep House 8% · Jazz 7% · Electronica 5%. Genre-by-genre venue picks are in the routes above.
All figures derived from soundcheck’s listings database over the trailing 365 days; updated with each rebuild.
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