the rug club mission statement

Rug Club is a love letter to the power of party. Party being the borderless, transient and eternal energy, the unquenchable human desire to share and to love and to celebrate life. Rug Club is a recognition of the importance of decolonial social environment, an engagement with space, place and face. We believe every thing and being to be of equal intrinsic value. We believe this provokes a fundamental respect and peace making between things. Love for love, look after one another. A DIY & not for profit venture holding space on unceded Kaurna Land.

Rug Club is run by queer and non-binary folk, for queer and non-binary folk.

We do events of all kinds, both our own and helping our friends + community. Mostly focussed on creating spaces for dancing, we also work on workshops, presentations of film works, live music, etc. etc. etc. We are insatiable! if you have an idea, email us. rugclub@nook.quest

about us

Started by Cam and Gilbert in late 2022, as a passion project exploring the mechanics of speaker crafting. The project quickly progressed and expanded with support and interest from other friends into the collective it is today!

We're an open and rotating collective, meaning members take part as they desire, for the projects they want to be a part of!

Our recent active friends/members are Carol, Maxim, Ben <3

past events
2023.03.18 Soundsystem ShowcaseEvent Link

This is not just a party but a showcase, of the love of music and dance that birthed the Rug Club and the incredible forces that inspired the project. We're so excited to share our work with you!

2023.04.01 Laser Inferno

A private party put on by the crescidents crew! Strobe warning for the video. Rug Club only provided sound and tuning for this party.

2023.05.23 Autumn PotluckEvent Link

Rug Club are coming together once again to host a cute autumnal potluck! We're opening up Rewind Studios for a day to those who wish to participate! There will be Live music! Games! Workshops! Food! a Sensory Friendly zone to lay and recharge in and super cosy times all round:)
This event was a hybrid of DJ's, Live Acoustic and Live Bands, with different sound setups for each!

2023.07.08 Purr Poetry presents Markus Whale and Jazmine Deng

An intimate and cosy contemporary performance art event with performances from Markus Whale(sydney) and Jazmine Deng. Featuring dinner by your host Grace Marlow supported by DJ Cookie. Sound provided by Rug Club.

2023.09.09 Voyage Through RaveEvent Link

Are you curious about golden era rave music? This session is for you! Join us at Rewind Studios as we chronicle rave culture through music, guided by your local tune lovers, taking you through the sounds that shaped electronic dance music as we know it today! From early house and golden era 1990s rave anthems to current forms of production. Feel free to stretch out or move your body. Creativity and freedom of expression is encouraged so if you donโ€™t mind creating to pulsing beats go for it, just bring something to work with. We present you this session in the spirit of Rave, to share space and experience with all people in a caring environment. We will have a quiet(er) zone if you need to decompress.

2023.10.14 Rewind RelaunchEvent Link

Come along to the official relaunch of the Rewind Space. It's going to be a FREE dinner and info session for anyone who wants to be involved, know more, support, or just get to know us better. We'll be discussing direction, intention, goals and more. With Rug Club providing sound of course :)! 4pm-9pm. Dinner from 6, info from 7.

2023.10.28 A very demonskull birthday

Rug Club Sound going big mode at Demonskull's backyard birthday bash. Providing sound for bands and casual party tunes.

2023.11.11 Mad Hatters Tea PartyEvent Link

โ€œ[people], when [they] cease to sleep, are above all the plaything of [their] memory.โ€ So letโ€™s play and make memories! Saturday the 11th of November we come together to play, dance, eat and wear ridiculous hats! with a stacked lineup of musicians, djs and creatives there's much fun to be had! Or should we say, much fun to be 'hat'! There will be workshops, music, DIY hat station and more! Come along ๐Ÿค 

2023.12.16 RugClub X YorisBeltsin presents Lightning Bridge PartyEvent Link

Pushing the iconic lightning bridge to new heights, 7 hours, 7 acts. @rugclub.sound & @yoris_beltsin are teaming up to bring you something rather special! Come with an open heart and an open mind, bring plenty of water.
This event takes place on beautiful Kaurna Yarta. It's crucial we acknowledge Kaurna Mobโ€™s living sovereignty and ongoing relationship with this country, especially when it's land we're dancing on. The Karrawirra Parri is a key piece of both past and ongoing Kaurna Culture, and we must acknowledge the violent colonial history of this space. In hosting this event we hope to provoke questions about the roles we all play in upholding and perpetrating colonial violence in contemporary culture. We believe ideas of kinship and shared responsibility are crucial to this fight! So, please be kind to this place and the people on it; always aim to leave things nicer than you found them and be open to learning! As of writing this I don't know the history of lightning bridge, but it is surrounded by some key locations of colonial violence in the settler history of this place, namely the gaol and the golf course aka Pirltawardli. By kicking up the dirt with our feet we make history airborne, there is real weight to that and we hope you don't take it lightly. :)

2024.01.05 Dem Mob - Dip Music Video Shoot

The hype for this one was unreal. So fun, Dem Mob and the film crew were both delights to work with! Big ups!

2024.01.20 Coconut Kisses

You read that right! Two events in the same night (We used -almost- every speaker we had)! Private party hosted by the cresidents. Rug Club provided sound :)

2024.01.20 Moviejuice presents BassendreamEvent Link

You read that right! Two events in the same night (We used -almost- every speaker we had)! Moviejuice is a collective focusing on the presentation of local indipendent film works. With tasteful selection of Live Music, DJ's and Live Jams afterwards.

2024.02.17 Small City Systems X Vu Deja Vu X Rug Club - Meraki

So-called adelaide hard hitters team up to bring you a fun party in the car crash quarry in Belair, unfortunately shut down at 2AM by SAPOL.

2024.02.18 + 03.15 PULP @ Therapy Coctail BarEvent Link

PULPULPULPULP. We are starting off silly season with a banger of a night. Dripping fruit, catharsis and contemporary dance. ๐ŸŠ๐Ÿ’๐ŸŒ For the girls, gays and theys. Pulp is running only twice this festival season ~ show 1 is this Sunday 18 Feb & show 2 is on Friday 15th of March ~ We are so excited to share this queer, messy mayhem with you all !

2024.02.24 Amarositie Presents - Wickid LickwidEvent Link

This saturday we're supporting Amorosities first event, Wickid Lickwid !! Super excited to see this come together and for more locals to be putting together events they're excited about :) Liquid Drum and Bass, arts, craft and more all afternoon!

2024.03.02 Rug Club X duck! Radio - DM For Address @ The Lab

This saturday we're taking over the lab! For 5 hours we'll be belting the concrete columns with heaters, soothing your eyeballs with visual delight, and blessing your butts with couches (a lab first).

2024.04.13 Tongue Dissolver and Friends

Free live music in the park 13th of April! 5-9pm then Skorpion King on the decks till midnight. Mystery band from Naarm?????? Should be a fun night, bring a friend!

upcoming events
2024-05-11 Quark - The Embodied SpaceEvent Link

A full day of multiple workshops aimed to explore and experience the connection you have to yourself, and your own energy! And the way your connection and awareness of youself allows you to connect with others. A shared community meal.Followed by a night of putting it all into practice on the dance floor as we get down and dirty in the dust amongst the trees, celebrating our existance and the way we CAN CONNECT through dance!

Our Systems :)

Rakali - DIY Build

Ideal for small venues, house parties, intimate spaces!

Includes 2x 3way stack(Dual 15" bass, 10" mid-range, 1" horn), amps and processing.

Introducing our first hand built sound system! Built using vintage and/or second hand components and almost entirely wood otherwise destined for scrap. We're stoked with the clarity and volume they achieve!

Starting from measurements in WinASD->3D models in AutoCAD, our biggest limitations were our physical tools, but we're exploring our options for quicker and more complex builds in the future, this is only the first iteration :)

Hire fee for this system starts at $350. To hire, copy this form into an email, fill it out and send it to us rugclub@nook.quest, with HIRE:(your project) as the subject.

RugClubHireForm.txt
Pacarena - Restoration Project

Ideal for big venues, wide open spaces, small festivals

Includes 2x fully horn-loaded 3-way tops, choice of 2 or 4 dual 18" reflex boxes, amps and processing.

This system is a restoration based project, restoring old dissused and mistreated speakers.

The subs were pieced together from the ashes of hindley street clubs now gone, drivers tested and flexed, boxes de-sugar drinked, rewired and reintentioned, grills cut down to size. They now serve us stinky basslines and punchy kickdrums to our hearts content.

This system is even more spectacular when flown, but this is a costly option to go for!

Hire fee for this system starts at $500 ($600 for 4 subs). To hire, copy this form into an email, fill it out and send it to us rugclub@nook.quest, with HIRE:(your project) as the subject.

RugClubHireForm.txt
Unnamed 2nd DIY Build - Hifi focus

In construction !! Keep your ears peeled

flyable 12" and horns!?!?! Maybe a compact subwoofer design too???? Crazy