A Masterclass in Club Culture: 1tbsp’s dotnights at The Night Cat

1tbsp’s dotnights at The Night Cat was a masterclass in club culture — hot, sweaty, and high energy. The crowd was locked in from start to finish, reminding us how a well-curated lineup can take you completely out of your head and into your body.

Opening the night was Gadigal Land’s finest, Headaches, whose set hovered between indie, alt-electronic and dreamlike pop. Her soft, floaty vocals eased the crowd into the pure euphoria to come, setting a spacious, intimate tone that you could feel across the room.

Then came LA-based Soltera — the project of Colombian/US artist Tania Ordoñez, taking the night into deeper terrain, delivering a run of ethereal, synth-heavy club tracks with a captivating performance that had the audience starry-eyed. Hypnotic and assured, her set sharpened the atmosphere, even getting a few of the top movers and shakers on stage at one point which lifted the community energy and hype to 100.

By the time 1tbsp stepped in, the room was primed. His genre-blurring club music is designed to take people out of their heads and into their bodies. Deeply infectious, with an intuitive feel for pacing and release, he transformed The Night Cat into a shared, sweat-soaked moment, underscoring dotnights’ place as a defining fixture of Australian nightlife.