On Saturday night police raided Club 77 in Darlinghurst. The next day, owner Matt Bicket posted about the raid on Facebook. “15 police and a sniffer dog arrived at club 77 last night, storming the venue, 0 arrests were made, 0 drugs were found.”

Bicket goes on to explain that the night’s headline DJ, who had flow up for the gig from Melbourne, was searched and barred from the club and so couldn’t play his set.

We got in touch with DJ Handsdown (who asked for his real name not to be used), who told Broadsheet that “I simply leant across a guy in the bathroom getting searched as I knew his partner worked at the venue, with the intention of asking if he’d like me to let her know what was happening. I was grabbed by the neck and thrown around by an officer. I was then searched out the front after a police dog showed interest in me, without them finding anything, obviously. [I was] then told by the same officer [from inside] that I wouldn’t be entering the building ‘because of my attitude and [because] I was mouthing off’. I was in Sydney for literally a few hours and definitely wasn’t abusive or uncooperative.” He also said nothing like this has happened to him before, in Sydney or elsewhere.