Tag: "Beer"

Great Australian Beer Festival 2013 Announced
0 Comments. 615 Views. Posted 7 Jan 2013 @ 12:52pm.
The fine city of Geelong is gearing up to put on its first ever beer festival, showcasing the best of Australia's craft beers with a focus on great brews from Victoria's southwest. Complementing the great beers on offer at Great Australian Beer Festival will be a tasty serving of music. The full lineup features Bob Evans, The Vaudeville Smash, Ashleigh Mannix and Adam Hynes providing a sweet... Read More
Q&A: Will And The People
0 Comments. 919 Views. Posted 29 Feb 2012 @ 5:28pm.
  Name/Band: Will And The People   Define your genre in five words or less: heavy chilled pop grunge reggae.   So, someone is walking past as you guys are playing, they then go get a beer and tell their friend about you... what do they say? "I just heard a great band on a street corner, bought their CD... Let's change these beers for a bottle of wine and go dance at yours."... Read More
WBYK
0 Comments. 1,455 Views. Posted 28 Nov 2011 @ 8:35am.
"WBYK began in 2006 making screen printed band posters. It was something we both worked on at night after we finished our day jobs. Now it is our day job. We have other things we do at night now." Sonny Day and Biddy Maroney are living the dream. So many people wish that their hobby could be a self-sustaining career move, but so few realise that dream. The Newtown, Sydney based duo started out in... Read More
The Skinny Dog Hotel
0 Comments. 1,570 Views. Posted 22 Nov 2011 @ 10:39am.
A slightly unusual name for a pub, especially one that emphasises its food as a major attraction. A bit of a strange vibe as we entered as well, a gastronomic pub that was next to empty at 1pm on a Saturday arvo, it was slightly unsettling. However, over the course of the next two hours, it filled up nicely, improving the atmosphere of this pretty classy pub in the leafy eastern suburbs. Maybe... Read More
Q&A: Katie Weston
0 Comments. 1,671 Views. Posted 29 Sep 2011 @ 9:29am.
Define your sound in five words or less: Hot melodic alternative pop-rock     Someone is walking past as you’re playing, they get a beer and tell their friend about you... what do they say? I’ll have what she’s having…     And how do they dance? Like Mike Patton.     How long have you been gigging and writing? Been maturing as a writer since age 13. Been gigging the... Read More
Prost mate!
0 Comments. 2,102 Views. Posted 28 Sep 2011 @ 9:57am.
Germany’s Oktoberfest combines a hefty dose of Bavarian culture with an even heftier dose of beer, and because of its celebration of the amber ale Oktoberfest has come to mean a lot to Australians. Prahan drinking hole Lucky Coq is putting the final touches on its best Oktoberfest celebration that’s happening from September 29 to October 9 with five German beers, live music and a free German... Read More
Q & A With Nikko
0 Comments. 781 Views. Posted 26 Aug 2011 @ 9:33am.
What's the deal with the band's name? It doesn't mean anything, just a label for whatever we're playing. Define your sound in five words or less.   Electric, dynamic, cosmic, tragic.   Someone is walking past as you're playing, they get a beer and tell their friend about you... what do they say?   These guys remind me of a dream where I was surrounded by demons. They were... Read More
Spotlight : Tyranny of Distance
0 Comments. 2,058 Views. Posted 11 Aug 2011 @ 8:41am.
The 'tyranny of distance' we feel living on the edges of a geographically remote and vast country is often the thing attributed to making Australia, and particularly Melbourne, so culturally and creatively rich. We rely on ourselves and work almost independently in a different season, time zone and hemisphere than most of the developed world, so it makes sense that we've managed to cultivate a... Read More
Calling All B-boys 'n' Fly Girls
0 Comments. 2,609 Views. Posted 14 Jul 2011 @ 7:28pm.
The Push is looking for young battle MCs, poppers and lockers and 4 on 4 breakin’ and jerkin’ crews (aged up to 25 years) to compete in the Our Backyard Qualifiers. Contestants will be judged on footwork, variety, technique, musicality, style, power, freshness, originality, performance, vocabulary and more.   All events are all ages, fully supervised, drug, alcohol and smoke-free.... Read More
Hops To It
0 Comments. 1,628 Views. Posted 21 Jun 2011 @ 10:44am.
It’s no secret that Australians love their beer. But gone are the days where indiscriminate lager-swilling had practically become our national pastime – during which our voting public felt comfortable in electing prime ministers on their pint-skolling capability alone. The last decade has accommodated a veritable revolution within our collective palate, thanks to the overwhelming explosion of the... Read More
Dinner Review : The Rochester Castle Hotel
2 Comments. 2,753 Views. Posted 8 Jun 2011 @ 11:30am.
You’ve no doubt found yourself over the years slumped over in a booth at The Rochy without quite knowing how you got there or which friend shaved off your right eyebrow. The semi-grungy Fitzroy pub is a bit of an institution in the North, thought to primarily cater for university students wanting to indulge in a little (as lifted from the bathroom room wall) ‘Mack on Wednesdays’. In stark... Read More
Mountain Goat Beer
0 Comments. 2,504 Views. Posted 25 May 2011 @ 3:38pm.
Like Mountain Goat Beer, lots of great Melbourne bands start their life in a backshed before trying to garner support from their local scene. Sitting in the Richmond brewery dedicated to the creation of top local ales, Mountain Goat Beer, co-founder and former band booker Cam told Beat he always considered the brewery as he would a band. He and "label mate" Dave wanted to get a local following,... Read More
Mountain Goat Beer
0 Comments. 2,193 Views. Posted 10 May 2011 @ 10:33am.
Like Mountain Goat Beer, lots of great Melbourne bands start their life in a backshed before trying to garner support from their local scene. Sitting in the Richmond brewery dedicated to the creation of top local ales, Mountain Goat Beer, co-founder and former band booker Cam told Beat he always considered the brewery as he would a band. He and “label mate” Dave wanted to get a local following,... Read More
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