Festivals & Events

LETTER FROM AUSTRALIA: Quiet side to beer culture

Date: March 10th, 2005 | No Comments

This would be a good year for Yarra Valley wines, and spirits are high at the annual grape grazing festival, traditionally held on the third weekend of February. The spirit flows on for winegrowers in Victoria, which with South Australia and New South Wales, is at the forefront of the Australian wine industry. Wine [read more]

Christmas cheer without the beer

Date: November 19th, 2004 | No Comments

No alcohol will be allowed during the annual backpacker Christmas Day party on Australia’s Bondi Beach, which attracts 40,000 people, after hundreds of often drunken revelers had to be rescued from the surf last year.
From Christmas cheer without the beer
I understand where they are coming from, but what is Christmas at Bondi without some [read more]

Jelly Wrestling, Stripteasing & the infinite Gender Debate

Date: September 17th, 2004 | No Comments

How could this NOT draw my attention? Tonight at Avid Reader bookshop, West End, I’ll be attending this.
Firstly, I LOATHED, DESPISED, how you say, HATED The Bride Stripped Bare, primarily because I has no empathy whatsoever for the writer/primary character. I’ve not read Mark D’Arbanville’s right of reply The Naked Husband, but it appears to [read more]

Bridge to Brisbane

Date: July 26th, 2004 | 6 comments

On Sunday morning I will be joining thousands of other people jamming one lane of Brisbane’s Gateway Bridge as we make our way to New Farm Park.
No, it’s not protest march lamenting the demise of Friends. It’s the annual Bridge to Brisbane charity run for the benefit (this year) of the Guide Dogs for the [read more]

Illawarra Folk Festival

Date: June 16th, 2004 | No Comments

The 20th “biggest little folk festival in the world” kicks off in Jamberoo in New South Wales in September. Illawarra is a region approximately 100 kms south of Sydney and on the coast. Wollongong is the biggest city in the area.
A friend of BootsnAll’s from Bali is involved with the project and she tells me [read more]

An extreme Christmas Holiday - the infamous Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race

Date: November 21st, 2004 | No Comments

This Christmas, Global Yacht Racing is providing ordinary people with a passion for adventure travel the opportunity to experience the ultimate challenge in adventure holidays � ocean yacht racing. Global Yacht Racing�s next major race package is a gruelling 630nm ocean race starting in Sydney and racing to Hobart, Tasmania starting on the 13th December [read more]

In 100 Words or Less? You’ve got to be kidding…

Date: September 17th, 2004 | No Comments

This is Ging-Ms Vebose-Bangpants we’re talkin’ ’bout here; how on EARTH am I to be THAT succint. However, that was my assignment for last night’s sassy acoustic gig from a performer I’ve been waiting about 18 months to FINALLY see in BrisVegas…
I first stumbled upon Ms Blackman when I heard the tres groovy, beautiful-people-slagging track, [read more]

Brisbane River Festival 2004

Date: August 27th, 2004 | 4 comments

If you’re wandering down by the Brisbane River this Sunday afternoon towards West End you’ll no doubt see the more than 20,000 rubber duckies battling it out for victory as part of the Great Brisbane Duck Race. The winner earns the owner a brand new car, and some poor bastard will have to fish the [read more]

State of Origin III

Date: July 7th, 2004 | 3 comments

The third and deciding game of the State of Origon series kicks off tonight and it has all the makings of a classic. The Blues coach (who every QLD’er loves to hate) is stepping down after the series (although he’s said that before too) and one of their key players who made a comeback for [read more]

State of Origin I

Date: May 27th, 2004 | No Comments

Why can’t we just all get along?
Game one is done and dusted and if you’re from south of the border, you’re a happy chappy. If you’re a Queenslander (or have militant QLD’er friends, like Paul does), you’re wondering why the hell we’re not allowed to have a drawn game in a best of three series.

The [read more]