Club Dolce: come trasformare una community in una serata

In questo episodio parliamo con Vince, la mente dietro Club Dolce, la serata italiana nata a Melbourne e arrivata anche a Sydney, che sta facendo ballare e incontrare la community italiana in Australia. Insieme a Monica scopriamo com’è nata l’idea di creare un evento così sentito, dove musica e vibes italiane diventano un punto di ritrovo per tanti expat.

Vince ci racconta quanto il legame con la community sia stato fondamentale fin dall’inizio: non solo come pubblico, ma come vera ispirazione per dare vita a qualcosa che rispecchiasse il bisogno di connessione, appartenenza e condivisione. Tra retroscena, sfide e crescita, emerge la voglia di costruire una serata che vada oltre il semplice party: diventando un momento in cui sentirsi un po’ più vicini a casa, anche dall’altra parte del mondo.

Ovunque voi siate e qualsiasi cosa voi stiate facendo..mi raccomando tirate fuori lo spirito patriottico italiano :D

Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:29

Ciao, benvenuti ragazzi a un nuovo episodio di Italiana in Australia. Io sono Silvia e sono qua con Monica per un episodio speciale. Ciao Monica, come stai? Silvia, buon sabato!

SPEAKER_00 0:39

Finalmente ci troviamo di sabato e non di domenica, esatto, però volevo far notare: guarda che tempo c'è fuori, perché sempre via pioggia!

SPEAKER_01 0:48

Sì, perché dovete sapere che in tutti gli episodi che noi facciamo piove, esatto, ma questo perché non vogliamo rinunciare alla schiaggia, esatto. Quindi anche oggi che è sabato e abbiamo deciso di fare questo, stranamente, no, stranamente no, in realtà per piovere, ma speriamo di sì.

SPEAKER_00 1:04

Perché così ferma il par dei vicini che non ho voglia di sentire tutta notte. Esatto, sta pure tuonando.

SPEAKER_01 1:09

Comunque a proposito di party, visto che l'hai appena menzionato, di questi qua, sembrano degli scappati di casa, il real party invece lo portiamo noi. Esattamente perché il nostro ospite d'onore di oggi è Vince di Club Dolce. E per questo facciamo uno switch to English.

SPEAKER_00 1:27

Esatto. Quindi oggi la puntata sarà in inglese, che è anche un ottimo training per voi per ambientarvi con listening and altre cose. Quindi, presentiamo, presenti.

SPEAKER_01 1:37

Lasciate l'onore.

SPEAKER_00 1:39

Ciao Vince. Oh no, scusa.

SPEAKER_05 1:40

Hi Vince, hi, hi, how are you?

SPEAKER_00 1:44

We are doing great. We are doing great. Thank you for being our guest today. I know you are very busy the whole time, but we are here today to talk about your story and the idea that you actually created, which is very interesting, and it will be very interesting as well for all people that are listening to our podcast. So thank you for joining and welcome to the podcast Italian in Australia.

SPEAKER_05 2:09

Thank you so much for having me.

SPEAKER_01 2:11

No, that's a pleasure. And it always happened, I'd say, quite fast when we thought about it, and we literally pitched him the idea straight away at the concert. And it was at one of your party that we it was on a boat a few weeks ago, and and it was great. And to me, because I didn't know about your night. So your night is called La Serata Italiana, correct? And uh yeah, just talk about talk about your uh your night with us. Just um how did you get your first idea? Um, how did you start? How did you put it put into place?

SPEAKER_05 2:45

Yeah, for sure. So we we're called Club Dolce, we're Australia's biggest Italian event. Uh we do day parties and we also do nighttime parties. Um when I met you, it was on the uh the day party in Sydney uh a few weeks ago. It was on the on the boat that we did, which was which is really, really cool. That was our um that was our third instalment in Sydney. That was our third third party that we did in Sydney. The first one that we ever did was uh was a day party, but it was on the island. I don't know if you guys have heard of the island in Sydney.

SPEAKER_01 3:15

I've been to the island. The island is it's another boat, right? No, or the platform. It's a platform, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 3:21

It's different. You have to actually get a boat, um, a smaller boat to get to the island.

SPEAKER_01 3:26

Yeah, right. No, I haven't been there. I love it.

SPEAKER_05 3:28

That that looks so that was our first one that we did last year. Um, and that was about three. We we packed out the venue. We um we sold all the tickets that we possibly could, but it was a smaller size, it was about 300. Um, and then as I said, that was our first introduction to Sydney. From there, we did a venue base, um, like on land, where we did uh noir, club noir, and then that went up to 450 around that. So each time we've been growing and growing the brand in Sydney, and um we got to a point where we said, Oh, we want to do another day party, but we had to find a bigger venue. So C Deck came about. Actually, before we did C Deck, we also did Aura, Aura Nightclub. Oh, okay, got it. Yeah, so we did Aura where we did a thousand, around a thousand people. That was last year.

SPEAKER_00 4:20

That's that's impressive.

SPEAKER_05 4:22

Yeah, thank you. That was last year in October on uh actually on Halloween night. Ah, all right, when we had A Clark and Vinnie from uh from Italy.

SPEAKER_01 4:31

Yeah, that that's that that's impressive, like because it's a short time, but it's not just about the time, it's also if you count the numbers of the nights or the events, there are not many, and you increase like from a 300 up to a thousand, like in such a short time. But because obviously uh it's called with an Italian name, business it's club dolce. Obviously, you are Italian, you are first generation or second generation?

SPEAKER_05 4:57

No, second generation.

SPEAKER_01 4:59

Second generation, what's your story?

SPEAKER_05 5:01

My story, so my nonni migrated from Italy, um, as did a lot of my as did a lot of people, uh like friends of like my nonni. Um, sorry, friends who had nonni, they migrated from Italy, um, and then either landed in in Australia or or America, and my nonni, um they came to Australia by boat, 30 days on the boat with one small valigia, one small suitcase. And uh every time I think of the story, like I get no I get um I get goosebumps, you know. Because imagine imagine being 18, 19, 20, leaving your country and going on a boat to somewhere completely new and then starting a completely new life, you know. But I always say I wouldn't have the life that I have if it wasn't for my nonni, you know. So that's um that's my background. My nonni came from Abruzzo, my mom's side, and uh my other nonni from Calabria. Yeah, metameta.

SPEAKER_01 5:56

So would you say do you feel okay? This question was not in the list, but I always come up with questions that are a bit random. Do you feel more Italian? Because obviously you've been raised by your you are half-half, you just said so because your mom is from Italy, or you feel more Australian? So, where is that that thin line in the middle? Your your happy place in which you find the balance to juggle between the two different yeah, that's a good question.

SPEAKER_05 6:27

I mean, durante l'estate mi sento più l'italiano because I feel I feel like I'm more obviously I was born in Australia, so I I I am Australian and like I'm I'm half half an Italian-Australian, but I like to say that I have a strong presence with my Italian heritage. Um you know, for example, if the soccer's playing, I like to uh I like to watch Italy play.

SPEAKER_01 7:01

Okay, hold on, stop one second. You said soccer. Well what's your team? Because here we can have a big discussion and forget about the business and talk about soccer.

SPEAKER_05 7:11

Uh my team in Italy or here? No, Italy. Italy. Look, I mean, to be honest with you, I don't follow it a lot. I like to I've been playing it all my life. Culture been playing all my life, but um AC Malone's always been my number one.

SPEAKER_00 7:26

Okay, okay, got it.

SPEAKER_01 7:28

I see Silvia has a weird face now. Suffering on the inside because I'm in the FC forever. My family, it's like mandatory, my family to be oh really, yeah, to be interfans. So I don't watch soccer, so um, excuse me.

SPEAKER_05 7:42

Uh which thing? Which thing?

SPEAKER_00 7:44

Uh I don't watch it. If I have to choose, my grandfather was very keen to give me that feelings with Juventus. So I've always been from Juventus. Um, but then I started like to stop watching it. I just watched the national team, uh, and that's what I look like world cap, European cap. I wake up even at 4 a.m.

SPEAKER_04 8:08

to watch it.

SPEAKER_00 8:09

It's not a big idea to wake up lately because we never qualify, but let's see what happens.

SPEAKER_05 8:16

Yeah, of course. We'll see now for the World Cup.

SPEAKER_00 8:18

If we can make it, if we can make it.

SPEAKER_05 8:20

So I mean look, look, going back to your question, I um it's a funny one because I was brought up with Manonni. When my parents were at work, I was raised by Manonni, I was at their house, you know. So I've I I feel like you know, they would always speak to me in Italian. Yeah, of course, dialect, Italian, Abruzzese, Calabrese, like that's why I I've picked up on all the the language.

SPEAKER_01 8:44

Of course.

SPEAKER_05 8:44

Um yeah.

SPEAKER_01 8:46

Are there any little things that would not because I mean for us, though obviously we migrated here. We have our own little quirks, let's say, like that. Our little things that define us, that define us Italian as Italian. Of course. Do you have some of these little things? For example, I don't know, like um having a coffee in the mocha, or um, I don't know, like wait one second, one second, and I'll show you.

SPEAKER_05 9:16

Wait there.

SPEAKER_01 9:16

Okay, now moving back and forth from the room.

SPEAKER_00 9:21

Our guests doing a lot of activity because we we care about fitness as well, right?

SPEAKER_05 9:28

Of course.

SPEAKER_00 9:32

The job that I'm doing, uh, it's necessary.

SPEAKER_01 9:34

Well hold on. I've I've got I I've got a lapsus. What's the name in English of the Cornet?

SPEAKER_05 9:42

Yeah, yeah, that's what we call. I mean, I call it the Corno, but yeah, that's all that nowadays. I don't even know the English name, I just call it Corno. Yeah, that's it.

SPEAKER_00 9:50

It's a lucky charno.

SPEAKER_05 9:52

Yeah, that's it.

SPEAKER_00 9:53

So Vince, about like your Italian background heritage, and everything else, and my husband just got me these, so just to make cheers with you. Um, now how did the idea of club dolce start it? Like what happened in your mind? Like, how did you actually came up with the idea?

SPEAKER_05 10:16

Yeah, so my background of um, as I was saying before, off-air, we run uh a weekly club nights called Alumbra. So I've been in the industry, in the club industry, for just under 10 years almost. Um, I actually started off as an MC, a vocalist. Uh, and I still do that to this day, as you would have seen at Club Dolce. Anyway, fast forward, you know, um seven years from that, it was about 2023. And uh a close mate of mine and myself, we've known each other since we went to school, both Italian, same heritage, his nonny came from Italy the same. And um, we said, you know, there's no real Italian night that's happening for our culture. You've got your your um your Bosnian, Bosnian night, your your Serbian night.

SPEAKER_00 11:05

Bosnian night?

SPEAKER_05 11:06

Yeah, Bosnian Serbian night, um, you've got your Greek night. But what's like for us, what's happening? There wasn't really much, you know, and I me being so passionate about my heritage, you know, as I said, you know, being brought up with my nonni. Um I go to Italy once a year. Um, I I I really wanted to give back to uh like our our our culture, our our um our community, our Italian community and and create something where we can all come together um and and sing under one roof, pretty much, you know.

SPEAKER_01 11:39

Yeah, so I mean this sorry to interrupt you, but this is like listening to him that is actually saying that it's so good because for us Italians, like it's such a thing because uh being us and our culture, and it's so strong. And your idea, your your concept, and you wanted to give back to the community literally the way that we are is just amazing because every time that there is an Italian song, we all feel we all feel you know how yeah I I see it, I see it.

SPEAKER_05 12:12

Every time I go to Italy, it's it's it's like a big community almost. It's uh it's you only know if you know, if that makes sense, you know. So that's how it started. And it started, I think it was yeah, it was 20 2023 was our first event. Um and how was it like it was um I wasn't sure what to expect. So, to be honest, when we first started organizing the event, it was myself and my uh my other two business partners. We're really, really close friends, we've known each other for a long time, went to school together, as I said. We didn't know what to expect because uh in Australia, in Melbourne, I would say Australia in general, us Italians aren't as patriot as what the Greeks are, as what the Serbians are, you know, Greeks, they go to Greek school, they learn the language, you know. Uh, by the time they're 12, 13 years old, they're speaking fluent Greek. Whereas us Italians, not a lot of us go to Italian school. We don't really know how to speak the language too well. So I wanted to close that gap as much as possible to bring everybody into one, you know, one area, at least to listen to the music and have a really good time together. Um, so that's that's how it started. Um, when we first organized our first event, we had locked in a venue for 280 people. That's as many people as it could hold. Because we thought, first event, we'll start small and then we'll work our way up. But when we released tickets and we started doing our promotion and and all this sort of stuff, um, we just found that the hype was just the so demanding that we had to actually go to a bigger venue. So we had to move from a 280-person venue to uh a bigger venue. We actually went to a thousand packs venue, which was our first venue was at Miss Collins, and we still do that um at that venue to this day. So we went from organizing 280 people and we ended up doing a thousand people in our first event. Wow, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 14:11

Congratulations, first of all.

SPEAKER_01 14:13

Yeah, almost bumps because that's that's thank you. That's amazing. Um, because I have a question, it's more on the the the music side because um if you go back to the when we were on the boat, obviously the the selection that was was quite different because you sort of mix a bit of songs from the past, so there is there was a little bit of nostalgia, but they were sort of reworked in a modern way, so they were all remixes, and I personally really love those, they were amazing. Um, but then obviously you mixed it with something a bit more for everyone, let's say. Um, is there a choice because you want to make um your events more international, let's say, or just it's personal taste, or what's the reason behind the selection?

SPEAKER_05 15:04

It's a really, really good question. And the main reason, the main answer for that is going back to what I was saying before, that not in a bad way, but where us Italians don't really, we're not as passionate as what the Greeks are for as an example, right? They listen to Greek music in the car, they go, they um, they they know more about say, if we talk about music than what us Italians would, you know. I'm not saying there's no Italians out there or English Italians that don't that don't know that. There are 100%, but the majority, they only really would know the classics, which is the older stuff, Albano, Erosama, Ramazzotti, all those sort, um, all those things. So we have to make sure that we we add, I mean, that's just the way we we we run our knowledge, that's what we're known for. We we bring you on a journey from old to new, you know. So we start off with the classics, we go through all those um those big songs that everybody knows, and then we um we we bring in all those some modern tracks from that are coming directly from Italy, um, as long as as well as remixes as well. So it goes back to helping to also educate people when they come to our event. Um, but that obviously takes time, but you have to be smart with the way that you organize organize the music, you know. So bringing having those classics there is something that we know everybody knows. You go to a wedding, an Italian wedding, and they play all those Italian songs there, you know.

SPEAKER_01 16:31

Yes, I do have a question because it brings me a lot of questions. You always have questions, yeah. I know because I love that. Um, no, bring it back to the the variety of the songs from a person that is at your your event, and that's what you just said, because we knew 80% of the songs, even almost every song, because it was we don't usually listen all because they are more stereotyped, but I could see uh the fact that obviously whoever was uh a second generation Italian, yeah, most of the modern tracks because you put some stuff there were like I think boom boom but you know those uh Tread the Palma, and they did the more our generation, yeah. Sort of and it was so refreshing to me. Yeah, I love it. It was the best, but the second generation's Italian, they know more everything that came before, yes, because that's what it goes overseas. I don't know how to explain it, yeah. No, but I got it completely. Ramazzotti, Laura Pausi, all these guys they would migrate here, but all these modern ones they wouldn't, and that's exactly what being said, like educating, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 17:40

It's a mix, it it's it's a mix, um, and it works, in my opinion. Like it really works because you can have something that is for everyone, and everyone who goes to that specific night will find their own little corner where they'll find their own happiness in singing that specific song, which is amazing. Obviously, we grew up in Italy, so we knew nearly all of them, except maybe for one that you don't really know the whole words, but yeah, you get it all, and then the second generation instead, between like 18 to 70, really can find their corner of happiness with that specific song, and it's good because it's not just Italian, but you actually mix a bit of international as well, as you said, yeah, and that's as well something that breaks it up a little bit, and then goes back to Italian and I love these aspects, yeah, because it sort of brings it back on what you said about the community of being part of our culture and uh and our tradition, and it's such a strong uh motivation to like to create an event around that to preserve who we are and get the people outside to get to know us for the way that we are, which I think is probably one of the best things.

SPEAKER_01 18:57

Um, when you started, um were you expecting this sort of success for your night, for your for your event?

SPEAKER_00 19:06

You can see from that's mine, right?

SPEAKER_05 19:10

One thing with me, one thing with me, I'm I'm content, but I'm never satisfied. No matter how good something looks, no matter how good it might look from you know an outsider perspective. Um, you know, we you come to our events and it looks amazing, and I'm I'm content, I'm happy, but you know, I'm still trying to, how can I be better? What can I do next? What can I perfect on? Going back to like what you were saying, um I don't feel I feel like it's successful, but I'm not 100% satisfied, not in a bad way, but if I become content and I stay satisfied, then someone's gonna come and eat me up, you know. So that's the way that my my brain works.

SPEAKER_01 19:50

And it was just so like being being humble because we always try to be better, like you never want to say something, oh yes, that's the best thing I've ever done. Because you but if you deserve it, yeah, if you deserve it, but you you're always striving like to get to get better and get it.

SPEAKER_00 20:09

Of course, you always aim for something better, but you can say that what you're doing is great, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 20:14

At the end of the day, no, no, no, I know he's not convinced.

SPEAKER_01 20:18

I feel like he wants to say what's going on.

SPEAKER_05 20:20

Look, we we we have amazing feedback, and I uh everybody loves our night, and it's fantastic. And um, you know, I thank everybody for the support and the community that we build, and it's amazing, you know. Just to see smiles on people's faces when they come to something that we've created for them. It that's that's what makes me happy, you know. Yeah, I couldn't care, I couldn't care less about anything else. You know, come there, have a laugh, have a drink, bring your family, bring your Iku Gini, Zia, Iku Mare, it's got him, bring your dog if you want. I don't care.

SPEAKER_01 20:48

I'm gonna bring my dog next time then. So that's a big one to be.

SPEAKER_05 20:52

I know I know in Italy they bring the dog everywhere, so why not?

SPEAKER_00 20:55

Not to the night club though.

SPEAKER_01 20:56

Yeah, see if I I can't I can't actually take it later that you're not.

SPEAKER_00 21:01

Um Sir, I got a question actually. Sylvia, I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_01 21:05

Now it's I I was prompting for another question already. Thank god you you interrupted me.

SPEAKER_00 21:10

First of all, I want to know what's the craziest or most memorable night that you have at Clef Dolce.

SPEAKER_05 21:19

Yeah, um, it definitely would have been last year when we toured A Clark and Vinnie from Sicily and we bought them over from Sicily to Australia. I love it. Yeah, so um we did a we did uh an event in Melbourne, right? And then we did an event uh in Sydney, which was the aura, that one that I was talking about. Um and we also did a day party as well here in Melbourne. And the way that we set it up in uh Melbourne, I think I sent you the video, it was a 360 boiler room, that's what we call it. 360 boiler room setup where the DJ is in the middle of the dance floor and everybody's standing around it.

SPEAKER_04 22:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 22:00

That that was the first Italian style 360 boiler room that anyone has ever done. So we were the first to do that. Um, and to have the international DJs there, and then we had the fireworks go off all around the building. It was um very special moment. It was it was very good, it was very cool.

SPEAKER_00 22:17

Next time we want to be there, so you need to let us know.

SPEAKER_05 22:20

We have a very special surprise happening for our next event in Melbourne, and something that has never been done before, we've never done it before, and no other nightclub has ever been has ever done it before either.

SPEAKER_01 22:32

Are you gonna say this? It's a spoiler off online or offline.

SPEAKER_05 22:36

I I can't say it because can you say it offline to us?

SPEAKER_00 22:40

Sylvia, you need to be patient, you'll need to know it after if you let Monica ask more questions, then maybe. Ah, you see, thank you, Vince. I appreciate that. Because I have I need to talk about so many questions, but I cannot ask you questions anymore because okay, you go for the other question. I have a question actually, always about the events, obviously. Um, what's the feedback that you hear from people that attend your events? Like, for example, uh, apart from maybe reviews if you have them, but do they ever text you to say something in particular, like DM on Instagram, or do they ever approach you after the event like as a first-time attendees? Me personally, or uh to Club Dolce, obviously.

SPEAKER_05 23:26

Uh like, do you say are you do you mean like do they send us a message to say it was like I don't know, do they have any feedback somehow?

SPEAKER_00 23:34

Like, are they interacting?

SPEAKER_05 23:35

Oh, yeah. So at the so um when we run our events, um, obviously people come down Club Dolce's profile on Instagram, it's public, so anybody can tag it, right? So at the end of the event, the next day, I go through everyone who's tagged the event, and my don't know I'm there for hours just reposting all the videos from the night before, you know, which is which is amazing. And we have sometimes when I repost them, the other person can see, and they'll message back and say, Oh my god, it's such an amazing event. Thank you so much for for putting it on. So it's uh it's my it's my pleasure to do so. But I can't take all the credit, you know, it's myself and my business partners that my other two business partners, but um, but yeah, we do. We have a lot of feedback, it's it's fantastic.

SPEAKER_00 24:20

Beautiful, beautiful. And um I don't know. Do you have your last questions? Because I think we are running out.

SPEAKER_01 24:28

We are running uh, I don't know. Maybe this episode it's deserve more time. No, I've got I've got yes, few. I think yes, as you as Monica said, we are in the final part of the episode. I have a few roulette questions. Ah, you wanna do the roulette? I I thought that was the last thing left to me to do. Okay, you do left already. You do. Okay, are you ready?

SPEAKER_00 24:49

We are gonna like just show you a few questions. Question set, uh, just to give our listeners and followers a bit of an understanding of what you like as a person, and to test you if you are a real Italian or not.

SPEAKER_01 25:08

Will you preserve the Burgundy color passport or you don't? That's the whole point.

SPEAKER_00 25:16

Okay, so best Italian song ever.

SPEAKER_01 25:19

Oh, and don't say maybe, you have to say what lasciatemi cantare, lasciatemi cantare fantastic.

SPEAKER_00 25:32

I like it. No, I can't I can't choose really or Gloria between the two. I love Gloria. I've been to see Umberto Tozzi here in Sydney actually. I was it was myself, Martina, my best friend, and 278 years old women and men, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I actually touched him, and Martina was like, Are you excited? Because you touched Umberto Tozzi's end.

SPEAKER_02 25:58

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, why not?

SPEAKER_00 26:02

I'm going to see who as well in I have very old soul. Uh, let's just say that Spotify this year in the role. Um, what's that? The final summary, uh, got me 74 years old.

SPEAKER_01 26:19

I would say I was I was 23.

SPEAKER_05 26:24

It's all right because you don't look a day over 20, so it's fine.

SPEAKER_01 26:27

Thank you. I love that. It's it's so another question for you ask me my song, so I'm sorry. Do you have left on the side? What's your song? I'm for Team Medusa Forever, guys. Ah, but that's DJ, it doesn't matter, they are Italian, so I can so the second question is: espresso or cappuccino, cappuccino for me, cappuccino.

SPEAKER_05 26:52

Me or con la palla sopra con panna sopra o gin sen buono.

SPEAKER_01 26:59

Però non dopo le 10 della mattina, no, primo, in Australia.

SPEAKER_05 27:09

We have it here at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, 4 o'clock in the afternoon, cappuccino.

SPEAKER_00 27:13

Non con la pizza, però at least.

SPEAKER_05 27:19

I remember mi ricordo che ormai quando stavo in Italia. Hai ordinato un cappuccino. Menino that era, non so, the luna. Penso che era luna. Guardate quella faccia così. Sei sei un po' fuori orario. Ma che stai dicendo un cappuccino?

SPEAKER_01 27:35

Sei fuori orario, cavolo. Dai, vai.

SPEAKER_05 27:38

I love Italy, I love Italy. It's the best.

SPEAKER_00 27:41

So, uh Milan, Rome, Venice or Napoli, nightlife.

SPEAKER_05 27:48

Oh, you know what's funny? I actually have I've done the nightlife in Italy, but not enough to actually give you a proper answer. Um, I remember going to Music on the Rocks, the clubs, it's what it's called Music on the Rocks in Positano.

SPEAKER_00 28:03

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 28:04

There was a nightclub in Positano. Um, but I and then I've been to another one in Sicily, uh Koala.

SPEAKER_00 28:10

Okay, yeah, I've heard of it.

SPEAKER_05 28:12

Yeah, but I've only been to those two. That's it. Because every time I go to Italy, I want to be by the beach. I don't want to be by the nightclub.

SPEAKER_00 28:18

I know, I know. That makes sense. That makes sense. And um one Italian word that describes clef dolce.

SPEAKER_05 28:29

Um one Italian word. Umziga. I like that with that accent, right? Yeah, that's right. Yeah, we have the signs that we hold up. I don't know if you saw it, Alvent, but we have the signs. One actually says a mitziga on it. Yeah, yeah. And we we did some photos. If you flip it, it says Kecazzo.

SPEAKER_01 28:57

Was it the one that Martina was holding? Because we took some pictures with a big sign. Yes, that one.

SPEAKER_00 29:04

Regia said yes. And uh when are we going back to Italy? Like, are you planning to visit Italy soon?

SPEAKER_05 29:11

Yeah, so I've got a lot of family in Italy. I've got family in Piemonte, I've got family in Liguria, La Spezia, I've got family in Calabria, um, I've got family in Abruzzo, so I like to go every single year. I just didn't I didn't go last year. Um, but if we're able to travel this year with you know everything that's happening, I'm I'll I'll be going this year, definitely.

SPEAKER_01 29:35

Uh, we are going. No, nothing is gonna stop us in July, August. We're going.

SPEAKER_00 29:40

I'm there August, September. So if you happen to be there, we need to organize something.

SPEAKER_05 29:45

That's that's the time that I usually go. I always go end of July, end of July until September.

SPEAKER_00 29:51

Yeah, that's it. So we need to plan something, we need to take you to see something.

SPEAKER_05 29:56

Yeah, where are you guys from?

SPEAKER_01 29:58

Uh, near Milano.

SPEAKER_00 30:00

And I'm from Veneto.

SPEAKER_05 30:01

Ah, Veneto, okay.

SPEAKER_00 30:03

Yeah, nice. Near the Lake of Garden Venice, I'm halfway through. It's a medieval. I think we can actually organize something, yeah. Yeah, like a baccaratour in Venice. Oh, yeah. Do you know that? Yeah, no, it's not right.

SPEAKER_05 30:18

So what's that?

SPEAKER_00 30:19

Baccaro Tour. Your baccaro tour in Venice is when you go around these small baccary because Venice can be seen in two different ways. Touristy. So this is where you basically find the expensive side of Venice. Tourists, mess, you can't walk, you can't do anything, or you can see it from a local point of view. Venice has a lot of little places called baccaru. Uh are basically this little tiny bar, let's say, where you can choose some tapas to eat, and they give you a glass of wine for two euro, three euro, and you can eat like those local specialities, which may be some fried meatballs, uh, baccalamantecato, air sour, uh, so you basically stop in everyone.

SPEAKER_05 31:11

So you do the drinking tour of Venice, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 31:16

But the funny thing is that they took me to do this baccaro tour two years ago, and we got in Venice, it was about 11 in the morning or something like that. The right time to start. Like we we got to Piazza San Marco, but in conditions, I mean, I was in conditions uh you don't go there to visit the place, you go there to taste the place, yeah. But you need a big training. So if we'll organize something, you gotta train yourself up because I died before, I couldn't make it at you, Sylvia.

SPEAKER_05 31:46

I don't need no training, just let's go.

SPEAKER_00 31:49

Just pass go.

SPEAKER_05 31:51

That's right.

SPEAKER_00 31:51

Oh well, okay. So we will do this little uh baccarot tour when Vince will be in Italy. Uh, no podcast that day, guys. So don't expect us to record anything, it will be just pure fun and eat and drinking.

SPEAKER_01 32:07

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 32:08

Now, Sylvia, I like the conclusion here.

SPEAKER_01 32:10

Yeah, because we talk about other stuff that was not relevant to the episode. Um, so everyone knows. What are the future plans for Club Dolce? So what's what's up next?

SPEAKER_05 32:23

Yeah, so um, as I was saying before, we have a very special surprise for our big Melbourne event, which is um happening very soon. Um, and that's gonna be in April. So April the April the 5th, so Easter night.

SPEAKER_04 32:38

Yep.

SPEAKER_05 32:39

Easter night here in Melbourne at Miss Collins. Um, and then after that, we're coming, we're coming to Sydney um for uh another big event, which is gonna be on land this time at Aura Nightclub, and that's on Friday, 24th of April.

SPEAKER_01 32:55

Yeah, um, we'll be there. Yeah, we we definitely will be there. Um where can where can we find the tickets so our listeners can go there and get their own A's up?

SPEAKER_05 33:06

Yeah, so Bigetti, you can find them um on our Club Dolce Instagram, just on the profile there. You just click the link and it'll take you to Eventbrite, Sikiama Eventbrite. Yeah, um yeah, pretty much just on our on our socials. We always post the links.

SPEAKER_00 33:20

So okay, fantastic. So, guys, we'll uh share these podcasts, obviously, and the link and everything else, so you can just click and book. Um, and if you guys are coming, we'll see you there.

SPEAKER_05 33:35

Yeah, I'll give you a um I'll give you a discount code that your listeners can can use as well.

SPEAKER_00 33:40

Oh, no, that's amazing.

SPEAKER_01 33:42

So kind of you.

SPEAKER_05 33:43

You're welcome. All good.

SPEAKER_01 33:44

Oh um, okay. So if you guys have some questions that you want to ask us or you want to ask Vince, you can write us an email at italiani.podcast at gmail.com. Um or you can write in DM to Club Dolce and follow Vince on Instagram. Uh you'll find all the highlights of the of their events, um, Italian songs and and a bit of everything, and they can find also all the updates.

SPEAKER_00 34:13

Exactly. So we can celebrate a little bit together.

SPEAKER_01 34:17

Yeah, that's good. Um, I just want to say again uh to Vince, thank you so much for being our guest today. Um, it was literally amazing to see the concept behind behind this big project and um the sense of community and the culture sort of uh of a way to bring everyone everyone together. I don't think that a lot of events have this strong concept in the world. And uh and it's beautiful to see that even far away from home, there is always a place in which we can feel at home, actually. Because when when you guys played a few songs, I felt like I was in a club in Italy at summer drinking my cocktail. Yeah, absolutely!

SPEAKER_05 35:00

Grazie a voi.

SPEAKER_01 35:01

No, è stato un piacere switching back to Italy.

SPEAKER_00 35:05

No, salutiamo tutti, grazie di averci seguito un'altra volta. Grazie Silvia per avermi ospitato per questa puntata che ho trovato fantastica. Sono stata molto contenta di partecipare un po' alla Pericast, anch'io, perché se no sono sempre in divisa. È vero, e tu sempre pushi per fare puntate un pochino più casual. Inatto, ce l'ho fatta la fine ragazzi.

SPEAKER_01 35:26

Abbiamo messo tuo marito in regia per l'opera, panchina. Ciao regia. Va bene, grazie a tutti. Buona fortuna per stasera. Mi raccomando, spacca i culi a tutti, e noi ci vediamo il 24.

SPEAKER_03 35:49

Poi è tornato per la stagione della nonna o della parmigiana.