SYRUP

A Unifying Party

Syrup is about to take off this weekend. The monthly UK bass and future beats club night will bring together and showcase artists and punters alike who have a strong passion for future bass music and late-night partying. ANNABEL MACLEAN sits down with the boys behind Syrup, Tristram Morris and Cameron Scott, ahead of the launch.


“We’re going to start serving picklebacks in Perth,” Morris says, talking of the signature shot which will make an appearance at Syrup. “It’s like a shot of Jameson’s whiskey and a shot of pickle juice with a little pickle in it… The two flavours don’t cancel each other out. It’s a really new shot; it started out in Brooklyn hipster bars.” Morris and Scott are the brains behind Syrup and, having both had their fair share of experiences clubbing, gigging and checking out events around town, decided to start a new club night which is set to fill a gaping hole in Perth’s clubbing scene.
    “People always talk about what Perth doesn’t have and – not on a whole – but don’t do anything about it,” Morris says. “If no one actually does anything about it then Perth’s never going to have it so we’re trying to create a real club night and that’s kind of kicked off the concept for the night.” A midnight until daylight party, Syrup will showcase strictly local talent, a means of celebrating and uniting everyone in the scene. “We’re focusing more on getting the night as good as it can be and the way to do that was to involve all these other guys that are doing similar sort of stuff; there was nothing really uniting them all,” Scott says.
    “They are all doing really awesome things but there was no real unifying community of them all just in this one spot and that’s what we’re sort of aiming on doing – is to say ‘you guys are really talented, you’re awesome DJs who’ve got some really cool ideas, let’s all chuck it into the one night’. No vested interests. It’s a party.”
    Roughly six months in the works, Morris says it’s been a dream-ride in terms of organisation and both he and Scott are incredibly grateful for all the help and support they’ve received along the way so far. “We’re just trying to establish a niche club for Perth where people can go and listen to quality music that they’re interested in instead of having to go back to a friend’s house with 20 friends and put the music on,” Morris says, talking of Syrup’s midnight kickoff. “Hopefully by doing this, we’re going to spark more venues opening up doing similar stuff and finally the government is going to realise that you can actually have late night venues and not have trouble, people just want to go out and have fun,” Scott adds.
    Having refurbished, partitioned and changed the complete layout of the venue in which Syrup will be held; Morris says it’s the venue’s entrance which will have some punters stumped. “Access is off the hook,” he says. “It’s this completely random laneway with like a little back alley section which is normally like one of their fire exists or something and we’ll have to partition off the fire exists and we’ll have to partition off a car park and structure the line out of like 40 wheelie-bins, there’s just this massive barrage of wheelie-bins that you have to walk through.” “It looks like the entrance is something you wouldn’t want to walk down the streets of New York of,” Scott adds, laughing. But hey, don’t get them wrong, this will go off. “The way this thing’s been going and the people getting behind it and the amount of talk around town about it, I’m more than confident it’s going to go like double capacity on the night. We’re going to have to speak to security,” Morris concludes.