The East Coast Blues & Roots Music Festival Byron Bay – BluesFest

March 22, 2008 admin

The East Coast Blues & Roots Music Festival Byron Bay (or BluesFest) is held at the Belongil Fields, Ewingsdale Road in Byron Bay over the Easter long weekend (20th March – 24 March 2008). A line up of international and national blues, folk, hip hop, reggae, roots, soul, rock, and world musicians have been put together to perform and includes the amazing Sinead O’Connor, KT Tunstall, Patty Griffin, Clare Bowditch, Xavier Rudd, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Keith Urban, John Butler Trio, Lior and many, many more!

More Photos Here…

The Byron Bay Blues festival is truly an event and shouldn’t be missed! The new venue is roomy and the event is massive!! Along with the fantastic musical lineup, roaming entertainment and food stalls that sell really good food, I have too tip my hat too the organisers… the complete setup is run with precision. Transport, security, service, sanity, schedule, direction… everything was organised, ensuring that the average punter had an memorable experience!

The opening night saw Jeff Martin, Xavier Rudd, Keith Urban and John Butler whipping the crowd into musical bliss. Wilco rocked! and Buddy Guy delivered a mind-blowing gritty set of blues…

Link: Official Bluesfest Website
Related: http://www.byron-bay.com/
Photos: lifemusicmedia flickr photoset

Concert, Festival, Music

Fraser Island – Queensland, Australia – 15 March 2008

March 16, 2008 admin

Fraser Island – The worlds largest sand island is a paradise of immense beauty and wonder. Lush rainforests, crystal clear lakes, giant trees, enormous sandblows, shipwreck, wildlife, beaches and more…

I was fortunate to have a day of four-wheel driving through this wonderland and discovered an amazing array of contrasting landscapes (eg. forests that surrond huge sandblows). A day will only afford you visits to a small number of attractions (given the size of the island and the slowish pace required to navigate the sand tracks) and entice you back to see more. The Maheno shipwreck was definitely a hightlight as was the rain forest around “Central Station” – originally used as a logging station (what were people thinkin!). Also managed Wabby Lake and Lake mcKenzie (and when “they” say crystal clear – they really mean crystal clear).

This truly is a special place!

Links: Fraser Island Information – Wikipedia
Photos: LifeMusicMedia flickr photoset

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4C Arts Collective – Art Party – 7 March 2008

March 9, 2008 admin

4C say “4C is an arts collective devoted to utilising and promoting the strengths and talents of artists in a myriad fields to create events that positively contribute to the community”.

Friday night saw just such a commitment fullfilled with a massive arts party @ The Valley Studios – Brisbane. Offering live bands (Black Mustang, Villains of Wilhelm, The Black Arts, My Fiction), DJ’s (Beat and Blue, DJ Charlie Hustle), burlesque performers (Lena Marlene, Dangergirl), artwork exibits (Clarissa Bones and more), Breakdancers and Circus Performers, the night was ever moving and entertaining. Crowd participation was inspired with an art wall that attracted many a budding artist.

Links: 4C Arts Collective
Photos: flickr photoset

Brisbane, Concert, Music, Review

WOW Brisbane Broncos Fan Day

March 6, 2008 admin

**** Click here for the Brisbane Broncos 2009 Fan Day details ****

In the lead up to the NRL season, the WOW Brisbane Broncos held their annual Fan Day at Roma Street Parklands. The day saw the entire Broncos first grade squad meet their fans for autographs, photographs and a game or two of touch footy.