Mooseheads car park party marks end of a Canberra nightlife era

Every good nightlife institution needs an unofficial extension. A place where the partying and the drunken merriment spill out the front doors and into the world outside.

While you wouldn't take a second look at the car park directly outside of Mooseheads during the day, after dark, it turns into the place where couples hook up, breakups go down, and many greasy kebabs have been consumed while watching the sun come up, after yet another massive night out.

You may have sent regrettable drunken messages and made misleading declarations of never drinking again from this car park. And you've almost certainly been picked up in an Uber from this car park or used it as a meeting point.

It is a location ( officially known as Theatre Lane Car Park) that has just as many memories - or, let's