Party With The Story Of The Year Lads
Story Of The Year’s Official After Party will be held in Melbourne at Trash Nightclub on Friday June 11 and you betcha the band will be there. This is your chance to party with your favourite band at what has fast become the
leading alternative nightclub of its kind, Trash, Casey's 660a Glenferrie Rd, Hawthorn. For your chance to win one of two double passes to the Official After Party, tell us in the comments box below what's your story (in 25 years of less) of the year.
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Discussion
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The UV Race Support SLAM 2 Feb 2012 @ 12:44pm
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Beat's Top Ten 25 weeks 1 day ago
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Lachlan 3,099 views 10 comments
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Das Racist 20 weeks 5 days ago
Das Racist have grown on me over the past year. I'm feeling that they could be primed for a tilt at crossover success. The vid for Michael Jackson is pretty much the greatest.
I'm tipping a Big...
Lachlan 1,447 views 2 comments
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Autoluminescent 3 Feb 2012 @ 1:56pm
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Ke$ha. Just joshing. Probably Green Day for the simple fact they introduced me to music and my...
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Givers & Portugal The Man 2 Feb 2012 @ 9:38am
Definitely GIVERS. They hail from Lousiana - where cajun and zydeco music were born. And we all...
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A Chorus Line 1 Feb 2012 @ 4:25pm
show business is special - its like no other. It not only makes the crowed happy but the the actors...
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"I'm just blown away by this article on Liberian women in power trying to save the country http://t.co/stbjG05z @guardiannews" Follow! Follow!
"@mistletone Summertones '09 at The Espy was pretty special. Dan Deacon getting the entire crowd into the car park was a feat of magic." Follow! Follow!
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BEAT'S TOP TEN SONGS ABOUT LANEWAYS, STREETS AND AVENUES
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My story is that i have just recently moved down here to Melbourne about 6 months ago from ST LOUIS MO! where these guys are from.. ive been listening to them play since like day one and have only seen them once live and yeah was rad, so yeah this is really a story of the year BUT if i won then i would have a story for the year ..??? hahah
John
Dumped arsehole boyfriend, got real sick, had time off work, ditched bitchy friend, felt like world coming to end - just the beginning of my story!