Let's go find the Novocastrians...

So we intended to review the Gateway Hotel, the Cambridge Hotel, the Suspension Cafe, Lass O'Gowrie, Hamilton Station, the View Factory, Goldbergs and the Wicko. There were some modifications to the schedule as you'll see. The View Factory looked worthy of our attention for dinner or something but we never made it back there. Cambridge Hotel had good reports from the locals. We never got any further than the Gateway on Saturday night. The Wicko, Lass O'Gowrie, Hamilton Station and Gateway looked like standard provincial hotel pubs but we probably shouldn't judge from the outside as the Gateway turned out to have a hidden nightclub out the back.

Let the great review begin...

Yup, that's it

The reviewers outside Goldbergs

Suspension has coffee. And that's about it. No chains. No whips. No beer.

Gateway is gay for real. Unfortunately my camera did its special black and white thing as we tried to capture the rainbow flag

Ultimately, we found lesbians in Newcastle. Best talent @ Gateway and Goldbergs. Best shag toilets @ Sesame's. Best staff @ Sesame's. Best music @ Suspension. Best overall experience @ Goldbergs. Oh yeah, and remember to head to the beach. There's a nice cafe with yummy banana bread where you can sit and watch the surfers. Such a novelty for a Canberra gal.

Indie.

Newcastle...where it all began

So the bitches and I decided to go a for a long weekend to visit our good friend and drummer of ILYGSMBWSN, Kage. We ascended on Newcastle from Canberra and Sydney with no real plans but realised we needed to find the lesbians. Where are all the lesbians in Newcastle?? Nobody knew much except The Gateway Hotel, the local gay bar (GROAN...). We can do better than that! Fear not, we did review that as well.

I googled on arrival to solve this problem: "lesbians newcastle". The answer was found at samesame.com.au where someone had already asked that very question and there was a list. Win! http://www.samesame.com.au/forum/showthread.php?t=13226

Thanks to nickdisco we had this to start with:

The gateway hotel in Islington, is the only gay bar.

In terms of finding lesbians outside of there, it depends what kind of lesbian you want to see.

Arty lesbians are at the Lass O'Gowrie

Rock Chick lesbians are at the Cambridge Hotel

Bogan/Bikey Lesbians are at the Hamilton Station

Muso Lesbian are at the View Factory.


They are really the only lesbian areas I can think of, in terms of bars.


My other suggestions would be Art Hive, Goldbergs, Suspension Cafe.

All my lesbifriends are Art Grads, so I am not sure where the regular lesbians are.

Someone else said there were no lesbians in Newcastle. Pfft. We're lesbians and in my book where there are lesbians, there are more lesbians. So if we're there, they will come. If we rate it, she will come!

Indie.