Sandringham Hotel
Editorial
The Sando is still going today, inspiring new legions of followers despite a recent policy to charge bands that don't bring out a reasonable amount of people on uber-competitive Friday and Saturday nights. That bit of controversy aside, the venue still prides itself on being a showcase for up-and-coming acts. There are affordable gigs in the 300-capacity room upstairs and often free ones downstairs, including an open mic night every Monday.
And a rare variety of bands continue to blow through: the equal-billing Otouto and Seja tour recently hit the Sando, which has also seen the likes of the Hard-Ons, Johnny Casino, the Snowdroppers, and Jim Moginie of Midnight Oil.
The venue itself is more than 125 years old, with a gem of a location on Newtown's mobbed King Street. It has undergone some dramatic changes in layout in recent years, notably changing hands in 2005, and yet today it mostly has retained its idiosyncratic reputation.
Doug Wallen, May 2010
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david and Julie
February 27, 2009
staff very frendly - you should be proud.
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