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NEW YEAR’S EVE 2010 – What’s On!

Here are a few of the hottest New Year’s events around to kick off 2011 with a bang!

QUEENSLAND


Claude Von Stroke
– Bar Soma 		 
STAFFORD BROTHERS
– The Met 		 
Tommy Trash LIVE
– Family Nightclub 		 
Summer Night @
– The Cliffs Cafe

NEW SOUTH WALES


Pacha NYE Party
– Ivy 		 
Pontoon New Years Eve
– Pontoon Bar 		 
Harbour Party NYE 2010
– Luna Park 		 
The Vasco Era with
The Fumes

VICTORIA


NEW YEARS EVE at RIVA
– Riva 		 
GLOBAL SOUND FESTIVAL
– Shed 4		  
Trust Us – NYE
– Brown Alley 		 
BASS JUMP NYD 2011
– Prince Bandroom

Sydney


Space Ibiza Festival
– Entertainment Quarter 		 
NYE on The Harbour
– Cargo Bar


Tommy Trash LIVE
– Family Nightclub

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Brisbane Events Quick List for February, March 2009


Related:
February Festival List 2009 Australia
Festival List March, April & May 2009 Australia

Brisbane, Concert, event, Music

Woodford Folk Festival

The Woodford Folk Festival is almost beyond words. A festival fantasy land that will fill all of your senses. From it’s humble beginnings in 1987, known then as the Maleny Folk Festival, this yearly event has grown into one of the largest ‘folk’ festivals in the world.

Kate Miller-Heidke - Caloundra Music Festival 2008

Set in the picturesque countryside of Woodford and offering six days and nights of concerts, dances, workshops, circus acts, forums, street theatre, writers’ panels, film festival, comedy sessions, acoustic jams, social dialogue and debate, an entire children’s festival, art and craft workshops, late night cabarets and special events including a spectacular fire event.

The Herd @ Quicksilver Pro-Show

A total of 23 different venues will host 580 separate acts and 1600 events over the week. Continue reading Woodford Folk Festival →

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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – ATP 2009

For the inaugural Australian series All Tomorrow’s Parties (ATP) have announced that arguably the most significant Australian export of the last twenty years Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, are to make their curating debut. The Bad Seeds intimate knowledge of all things Australian (music and otherwise) coupled with their innate sense of the weird and wonderful will – we are sure – make for a series of very unique events.

Performers already chosen to appear at All Tomorrow’s Parties 2009 include seminal Australian punk band, The Saints – featuring original members Ed Kuepper, Chris Bailey and Ivor Hay performing their first Australian shows (outside Brisbane) since 1977; British transcendentalists, Spiritualized; avant-blues artist, James Blood Ulmer (US); krautrock supergroup, Harmonia (Germany); electro-terrorists, Fuck Buttons (UK); pioneering synth-minimalists, Silver Apples (UK); psychotic space rockers, Afrirampo (Japan); Ex-Swan M. Gira (USA), the jazz-noir stylings of the Laughing Clowns (Aust), former Go-Between Robert Forster (Aust), the synth-punk of Primitive Calculators: former Birthday Party guitarist, Rowland S. Howard (Aust), post-grunge/noise devotees, The Stabs (Aust), classical-rock teenagers Bridezilla (Aust) & the sublime ambience of The Necks (Aust)

Continue reading Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – ATP 2009 →

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Brisbane EKKA – Butterfingers & Avalon Drive – 8 August 2008

Last night we saw Butterfingers and Avalon Drive in the first of the Nova Live and Loud @ Ekka series of concerts at the Brisbane Ekka.  These concerts are perfect in combination with an amazing array of activities and events that make the Brisbane Ekka such a magical experience. 
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DON’T FORGET!!
Tonight (Saturday 9 August 2008) it’s Regurgitator with Yves Klein Blue from 7pm 
Since releasing their first self titled EP in late 2004, Regurgitator has received national and international success touring the all over the world with particular success in Europe and Asia. Regurgitator has recorded their albums all over the world with their sixth and latest album Love and Paranoia recorded in Brazil. Indie Punk band Yves Klein Blue was the product of the four members love of Led Zeppelin forged in high school. Their current album Yves Klein Blue Draw Attention to Themselves was recorded in Brisbane and Byron Bay and was released in April this year.

Brisbane Ekka

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