Sneaky Sound System are bidding Hugo's Lounge in Sydney's Kings Cross adieu after 13-years of Sneaky Sundays - the longest-running DJ residency in Australian club history. A "clash of ideas" between the group and Hugo's' Dave Evans is believed to be behind the move to rival nightspot, Santa Barbara.
"The reality is the Cross is just a tough place for everyone and we found that we couldn't really come to an agreement with Dave about where things were headed," one half of the duo, Angus McDonald said yesterday.
"We have certain ideas about what we like and what works for us and unfortunately Dave had different ideas. But there's no bad blood there. We just decided to move elsewhere and it happened to work out that I have a good relationship with the guys at Santa Barbara so it's worked out really well, actually."
Santa Barbara is a new bar from Drink-N-Dine hospitality group, which made headlines recently after one of its co-owners James Miller died of an accidental drug overdose. Both McDonald and his girlfriend and band member Connie Mitchell attended the publican's funeral in Sydney last month.
"It was just such a tragic thing," said McDonald
Sneaky Sound System will launch their new Sunday residency at Santa Barbara on February 24th. The band are also scheduled to perform at today's one-day international at the SCG and tomorrow's match in Melbourne
Via The Daily Telegraph.