Bondi Beach’s Shore Thing festival should be turning eight this year, but the event may not reach its next birthday. The famous New Year’s festival –which attracts headline acts such as Fat Boy Slim, David Guetta and Snoop Dogg – was first introduced as part of the Waverley Council’s Summer Initiative
The famous Big Day Out festival will now be offered exclusively in Australia. The last show to be held in Auckland, New Zealand will be this coming Friday, according to organisers. A Twitter post was released that stated “This year will be New Zealand’s last Big Day Out. Come party with us this Friday. It’s been an amazing 18 years here in Auckland.”
If your looking for a massive Australia Day without having to run the gauntlet of public transport to get to the city, then Parra’s premiere nightspot, The Roxy, has you covered with 8 hours of audio mayhem, pumping the best in House, Hi NRG, RnB, Hip Hop and Mashups.
Taking over the cocktail bar and bringing with it a love of the ultimate in house and tech is an army of talent set to rock the Greenwood Hotel Saturday the 11th of February, 2012 including house magician and all-round legend of the genre, Mr John Digweed.
One of the world’s hottest DJ’s Laidback Luke will be hitting up Sydney’s The Ivy on Australia Day eve. The Dutch DJ has been all over the world from Brazil to New York and is set for Sydney this month. His recent smash hits and ‘Show Me Love’ and ‘Natural Disaster’ with Example have the 34-year-old in popular demand.
The cats are out to play in Melbourne and Sydney. DJ and siren songstress Miss Kittin will accompany her return to Australia for her Big Day Out debut this January by playing two intimate sideshows in Melbourne and Sydney. The French DJ will appear at Sydney’s Oxford Art Factory on January 27 and at Melbourne’s SuperDisco
Trance fans from around Sydney will be flocking to the Oxford Art Factory Friday the 30th of March 2012 for what is set to be an epic night of Classic and Hard Trance + Anthems in one of Sydney’s most well known and much loved venues on Oxford Street.
Gregg Gills, otherwise known as Girl Talk, is set to hit Australian shores in just a few short weeks. The mash-up maestro will bring his notorious, glad-wrap-covered laptop to both Sydney and Melbourne in a bout to blast a mix of house, rock and hip hop into the ears of Big Day Out sideshow attendees.
If spending Australia Day at one of Sydney most famed and prestigious nightclubs sounds like a master plan, then you’ll be delighted to know that The Ivy Courtyard will play host to a world class lineup including Nadastrom, Bombs Away, Yolanda Be Cool and Starfuckers.
NRG fans, the inevitable argument of where to spend Australia Day Eve is settled, with Ultimate NRG Australia in conjunction with the Sunset Brothers putting on an NRG event of colossal proportions at Gypsy Nightclub on Oxford Street.