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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Daisy Dumas

What? They’re doing raves in the morning now? With coffee? At a cafe?

Daisy Dumas (cup in the air) attends the Maple Social Club coffee rave  in Sydney.
Ready, set … rave. Daisy Dumas (cup in the air) attends the Maple Social Club coffee rave in Sydney in a warehouse space behind a cafe. Photograph: Lisa Maree Williams/The Guardian

The only ways I know to rave are festival-style or in the buzzed wee hours – the time between pubs shutting and trains starting. This means I’ve never walked into a cafe, fresh-faced and sober at 9am, with the intention of raving.

But this is 2025, not the late 1990s, and people are possibly more questioning of the cost of partying on their bodies than they once were. So, coffee raves have become a thing.

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