Coogee Bay Hotel’s iconic rock’n’roll club Selinas to be demolished

Selinas has hosted scores of legendary Australian and intercontinental rock legends due to the fact the 1970s, like Cold Chisel, INXS, Nirvana, Elton John and David Bowie, cementing alone into Sydney’s nightlife hall of fame.

The hotel’s operator, Chris Cheung, advised the Day-to-day Telegraph the club has not been on a regular basis applied because closing in 2009 and there is “no room” for it moving ahead.

The new improvement will involve a 5-storey household building with 60 flats.

“Presently, Selina’s doesn’t have a area in the new progress. We just need to have to move with the times and new legislations,” Mr Cheung claimed, incorporating he was confident there would be a venue to match it in the potential.

The wildly well-known club, at its most crowded, could maintain up to 2,500 partygoers and served as a launchpad for quite a few bands who went on to obtain fame.

Former band supervisor and producer Stuart Coup, in an interview with 9, reminisced about his time at Selina’s.

“It was a golden, excellent time for equally rock and roll financial institutions, and rock and roll enthusiasts. And Selina’s arrived to epitomise the pub-rock period in Australia,” he reported.

“If you were being headlining at Selina’s, you were undertaking very, very nicely.”

Hoodoo Gurus – an Australian rock band shaped in the 1980s – front gentleman Dave Faulkner described the club as “a little bit like a residence base for us in Sydney”.

“I’ll hardly ever fail to remember the sight of the heaving group, you know, slam dancing throughout the whole flooring of that giant room there, the full group heaving and sweating,” he informed the Each day Telegraph.

“It was just unbelievable. Just the whole memory of it all is wonderful to me even now.”

Midnight Oil executed Selina’s closing gig when it was eventually shut in 2009, having said that, the location ongoing to host bands on specific events, like Hockey Father before this yr. 

Lots of loyal patrons have taken to social media to categorical their disappointment at the club’s destiny and to share their favorite reminiscences of Selina’s.

“Nooo! Not “Selinas at Coogee Bay”. How many bands did I see there in the 80s? Matt End, the Cockroaches are 2 I can remember,” a person Twitter person wrote.

“Late 80’s and early 90’s so numerous wonderful memories of bands at Selinas. Hoodoo Gurus and Rose Tattoo standouts. But the best was The Angels for me. Doc Neeson in total flights,” another reported.

One particular Twitter consumer explained they had communicated their objection to the news to the neighborhood council, creating “I am a local and was privileged plenty of to have developed up all through the 70s and experienced obtain to so a great deal live new music by means of Selinas. It’s legendary and need to remain!!!”