Cue the drum roll and loud gasps here, as I’m about to do the unthinkable and compare two of the most opposite music festivals in Australia. You may ask how I came to this predicament? Well, I was just thinking about the fact that the lineup for Soundwave is going to be revealed soon, and how excited I am to find out which bands will be rocking the stages next year.
Most would think of going to a trip to the local grocery store during the week as a tiresome bore and going to bars on weekends as the highlight of said dull week. But new kid on the Melbourne bar scene General Store And Co. have combined the two worlds that should be foreign to one another, but with the fun of the latter winning.
I’m not a big techno fan by any stretch of the imagination, I’m definitely more of a rock guy. I went to the Royal Melbourne Hotel‘s Bang! night two weeks earlier, with a cover band playing the likes of Green Day and Blink 182, so when I went to see techno DJ Max Cooper strut his stuff on the turntable, I knew I might as well have been in a whole other nightclub.
Sold out seasons 2012 & 2013! Winner of 2012 Best Newcomer Melbourne International Comedy Festival! Find out why Ronny Chieng is the talk of the town. The year 2012 was an epic journey for Malaysian Ronny Chieng LLB BCom (Melb) GradDip in Legal Practice (ANU).
Keeping with the current ‘resurrection’ trend infamous hotbed of “entry level clubbers” (WINK WINK), Warehouse celebrates its 2nd birthday this Saturday.
Party, party times.
If you thought sitting in front of the TV watching the Good Friday Appeal with a bag of hot cross buns was the best way to spend Good Friday, you are wrong.
Masters at the craft of day and night parties Friday night heavyweights Lady Luck at Circus Bar are bringing Easter treats again this year for their 5th annual Good Friday Bash.
Whiskey is one of those drinks that has its own subculture, where its enthusiasts are ones able to take the drink’s stiffness and know the finer points of what separates the good stuff from the cheap rubbish. Melbourne whiskey drinkers can now revel in all things whiskey at Whiskey And Alement, a brand new whiskey bar on Russell Street.
HAPPY BURFDAI CODE RED.
You will be two years old this Saturday, which is pretty good because that’s about 70 in club years and if you’ve been kicking around for that long you’ve seen a lot.
The folks at Alumbra sure do love their RnB with all the Soul Sessions they’ve had. Coming up in mid-April, this session of soul will be hosted by Lloyd, a young buck with plenty of tunes in his discography to get y’all moving and grooving.
I’m not usually one to offer myself up as the ‘deso’ driver. But after realising I was rostered on at work for 9am Sunday morning, and subsequently mentally drafting up a pros and cons list of whether it was even worth going out or not, like any respectable Uni student I got bored of using my brain and reluctantly decided to get my responsibility on.