I checked the schedule of Club Sona from
Club Sona , there was no schedule yesterday, that means it closed. But today hip hop room will open.
I am copying the introduction about Club Sona here so that you may know more and be ready before going there. (see below)
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Sona was Montreal's first legal afterhours club, opened in February of 1996. It was hugely popular then, and is hugely popular now, too. I've been to the club quite a bit, somewhere in the range of 20 - 25 times.
Sona is a club where people go to see and be seen. There is much prentiousness and even more attitude. People will check you out. The will pass judgement on you quickly. They will walk all over you if they so please.
The entrance to the club is in a back alley, and a wide semi-circle is cordoned off around it. People gather around the cordons, sometimes more than 5 deep, waiting to be picked from the crowd by the bouncers. Eventually (hopefully) you'll be picked. Then you pass through the metal detectors and you're in. It is not unusual to see a crowd of more than a hundred people freezing their asses off in the middle of winter as they stand around the cordons, waiting to be picked. If it is a busy night and you are a guy without a girl in your group, then you can expect to wait several hours. Girls are key to entry to Sona. A common sight is a group of scantily clad ladies waving at the bouncers from behind the hoards of people surrounding the cordons and having the bouncers clear a path so they can be let in with no wait. Life just isn't fair.
The club itself has three rooms: a hiphop lounge, a bar area, and a main room. The hiphop lounge has a small dancefloor and many couches at the sidelines which are always packed with people. The washrooms are nearby, and there is a bank of sinks next to them for people to fill up their water bottles at. The bar upstairs is another room with a larger dancefloor. It is open from 10pm until 3am. At 2am the upstairs main room opens, which for most is the feature of the club.
The main room is quite large, with many lights and an enourmous mirrorball that is always ill-used (often it's just put in a corner or out of the way, and it never spins). There is a VIP lounge in the back. The sound is by Turbosound (www.turbosound.com) and is pretty decent, although some nights the highs are far too piercing.
Altogether, the venue is pretty nice. It does become quite dirty and scummy over the course of the night, however. This doesn't particularly bother me. What does is the way the club-goers are treated by the people who run the place. The ceilings in the washrooms are slightly mirrored so that security guards can see into stalls. The hot water heaters in the main room are always on full blast, sometimes even in summer. The people who work there are usually quite rude. Sona security has a reputation for roughing up people flyering events not related to Sona. And you can often spot a Sona employee running around, picking up the water bottles people have put down while they dance. bah.
The crowd also ticks me off some. Expect drug dealers, gangsters, muscled out ginos, strippers, and prostitutes. There's always a pack of ravers on Friday nights to lighten up the mood, though. If you're going to see a big name at the club, expect the main dancefloor to be so horribly crowded that it is impossible to dance. On nights like these people don't dance, they sort of gyrate on the dancefloor, moving their shoulders up and down as that's about all they can do. What fun.
I do go to Sona when there's an act worth seeing there, though, and the place is much better when it's not so crowded.
FYI, the name of the club was originally meant to stand for Sounds Of North America, but the club has diversified far beyond what that implies.
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That is all.
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