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Pyjama Protocol
33 Entries. 829 Views.
Tired of boring prints and old man flannel? Too ashamed to be seen once you have put on your pyjamas? Pyjama Protocol has the pyjamas for you. Check out their pyjama sets and nighties at http://www.pyjamaprotocol.com. We've got a couple of their PJs around the office. So if you're interested in updating your sleepwear tell us how daggy your current pyjamas are.
Competition Ran: 21 Feb - 15 May 2013
Winners:
Ariane Bowie
chutney chutney
The Death Of Peter Pan
9 Entries. 285 Views.
In collaboration with Fly-On-The-Wall Theatre, Chapel Off Chapel presents The Death of Peter Pan, Barry Lowe's acclaimed play. Set in the 1920s, The Death of Peter Pan follows Michael Llewelyn Davies, the son of Peter Pan playwright J. M. Barrie, and Rupert Buxton, a dangerous man of uninhibited debauchery and desire, and their journey together. Told through the perspective of J. M. Barrie, Lowe...
Competition Ran: 30 Apr - 14 May 2013
Winners: CaroBlume
We All Want To
2 Entries. 114 Views.
Brisbane indie-pop supergroup We All Want To continue to ride the wave of the success they enjoyed in 2012, their breakout year, by releasing the No Signs EP earlier this month. Hailed for their infectious grooves and sing-along pop melodies, the band bring their energetic live ensemble to Melbourne next week as part of their national tour. Catch their main show at 8pm at the Public Bar in North...
Competition Ran: 30 Apr - 10 May 2013
Winners: ricky1983
Snag Stand
10 Entries. 337 Views.
Our friends at Snag Stand, The home of heavenly haute dogs', are opening a brand new stand at Westfield Doncaster today. To celebrate in fine fashion we have 20 free snags to give away! Now all of us know that everyone loves haute dogs but we want to know, if you were a haute dog what type would you be? The best answers will receive a free snag!
Competition Ran: 8 Apr - 9 May 2013
Winners:
PatriceYee
sandy55
disentangled
rebakis
ashleigh
The Rubens
9 Entries. 276 Views.
The Rubens return home this month after playing headline shows in Europe and US, and have wasted no time in announcing a month long national tour. To celebrate their homecoming, the soulful, bluesy four-piece from Sydney have released a limited edition package of their self-titled debut album (released 2012, certified gold 2012). The album package features a previously unreleased track and seven...
Competition Ran: 30 Apr - 9 May 2013
Winners:
batwingduck
jimmyp11
Anneke Mae Demanuele
Hannah Larkin
Spring Breakers
17 Entries. 442 Views.
Prepare to be shocked and surprised in Spring Breakers, as Disney darlings Selena Gomez and Vanessa Hudgens turn up the heat in a vacation they will never forget. When a group of college girls on Spring break land themselves in jail, they are bailed out by a local arms dealer and shown the ropes of a life that requires no college education. Alien (James Franco) takes them under his wing,...
Competition Ran: 30 Apr - 9 May 2013
Winners:
Kim Summer
Sarah Fitt
spog777
Tara Lea
Tegan & Sara
19 Entries. 402 Views.
Canadian twin singer-songwriter duo Tegan & Sara return to Australia this May for the Groovin’ The Moo festival as well as their own headlining shows, bringing with them an arsenal of exciting new tunes off their new album, Heartthrob. Charmed by the extravagance of the festival (and everything else Australia) the twins make their sixth visit Down Under.   Tickets for their show at the...
Competition Ran: 23 Apr - 1 May 2013
Winners:
de-tec-tive
The tae tae
Mel Bedggood
Melbourne Ska Orchestra
10 Entries. 251 Views.
After a decade of celebrating and perfecting their dynamic big-band experience on-stage, Melbourne Ska Orchestra finally have a debut album. Fronted by Nicky Bomba (Bomba, John Butler Trio, Bustamento), the 30-plus-piece band consisting of Melbourne’s finest reggae musicians promise to bring a swerve of skankin’ ska music to Melbourne. Catch them at the Forum Theatre Saturday May 4 with special...
Competition Ran: 23 Apr - 1 May 2013
Winners: BiancaSkanker
The Kooks
28 Entries. 496 Views.
UK band the Kooks hit up Australia in May for Groovin' the Moo. The indie rockers from Brighton are in demand, with tickets for their Palais show on Friday May 3 selling out in ten minutes. Feeling the love from their Australian fans, The Kooks announced a second show at The Palais on Wednesday May 1 and we’ve got two double passes to give away.   Tell us what your favourite Kooks song is to...
Competition Ran: 23 Apr - 30 Apr 2013
Winners:
Naomi Atkinson
ultraman909
The Black Seeds
8 Entries. 305 Views.
Heralding from Wellington, the heavyweight reggae-soul band has been taking the world by storm with their fifth album Dust And Dirt. The eight-piece have been combining funk, rock, with Jamaican beats 1998, earning a respectable fan-base worldwide. Know for their intense shows, The Black Seeds are a band not to be missed. The Black Seeds will be performing at The Hi-Fi on Saturday April 27 and we...
Competition Ran: 9 Apr - 26 Apr 2013
Winners: Indi Tansey
Aerosmith
30 Entries. 476 Views.
Rock’n’roll hall-of-famers Aerosmith have announced that they will play a second Melbourne show at the iconic Sidney Myer Music Bowl on Sunday April 28. Flanked by a stellar lineup of Aussie bands, Wolfmother, The Dead Daisies, Grinspoon, Spiderbait, and Diva Demolition, it seems Aerosmith are making it up to their Australian fans: they haven’t played a show here in 24 years!    ...
Competition Ran: 23 Apr - 26 Apr 2013
Winners:
willhollonds
ultraman909
roller_72
Punching The Clown
7 Entries. 347 Views.
Written and starring Henry Phillips as a hapless troubadour touring hand-to-mouth across Flyover America, Punching the Clown combines road weary reality with a rags-to-riches mistaken identity twist on the forsaken fringes of the entertainment industry. Living out of his car, Henry writes satirical folk songs about unicellelar dinoflagellate algae and performs them to anyone who will listen. But...
Competition Ran: 27 Mar - 23 Apr 2013
Winners:
Matt The Craw
Daniel Devlin
lisawarren
James Pizzey
puna
Carolin
bertcolombi
Star Trek: Into Darkness 3D
20 Entries. 470 Views.
On Thursday May 9, pioneering director J.J. Abrams will deliver an explosive action thriller that takes Star Trek Into Darkness. When the crew of the Enterprise is called back home, they find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization has detonated the fleet and everything it stands for, leaving our world in a state of crisis. With a personal score to settle, Captain Kirk...
Competition Ran: 16 Apr - 23 Apr 2013
Winners:
Shit Lister
Brandt Dean
rick1983
grub
shayneadam
Evermore @ Trak
5 Entries. 213 Views.
This Thursday, April 16th, Trak throw a spanner in the works and bust out of the mould with very special guests Evermore, live and in the flesh. Evermore’s journey from three home-schooled brothers in country New Zealand to taking over the Australian charts with the debut album Dreams in 2004 is almost the stuff of indie-rock folklore. Since then the band’s anthems of youth, love and lament have...
Competition Ran: 16 Apr - 18 Apr 2013
Winners:
Kaitlyn Studley
kaylene
Ruby Sparks
18 Entries. 638 Views.
From the directors of Little Miss Sunshine, comes the charming and delightful comedy Ruby Sparks, starring Paul Dano and writer-actress Zoe Kazan. Struggling with writer’s block and a lacklustre love life, once-famous novelist Calvin (Dano) creates a beautiful fictitious character named Ruby (Kazan) who becomes his inspiration. But not only does this bring his work to life- it also brings Ruby to...
Competition Ran: 12 Feb - 16 Apr 2013
Winners: Anonymous
G.I. Joe: Retaliation 3D
35 Entries. 533 Views.
One of the biggest blockbusters this year (it has Bruce Willis in it), G.I. Joe: Retaliation 3D is the sequel to the hit G.I. Joe film from 2009. Starring alongside old mate Brucey are Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson and Channing Tatum. The film follows the G.I. Joes who are not only fighting their mortal enemy Cobra; they are forced to deal with threats from within the government that jeopardise their...
Competition Ran: 19 Mar - 16 Apr 2013
Winners:
Kaz Reimann
David Ross
Nikki Nasa
Jimmy Tribbles
Sleepwalk With Me
7 Entries. 238 Views.
Sleepwalk With Me is a new comedy starring, written and directed by comedian Mike Birbiglia, and co-written and produced by Ira Glass of US radio program This American Life. When an aspiring stand-up fails to express his true feelings about his girlfriend and his stalled career, his anxiety comes out in increasingly funny and dangerous sleepwalking incidents. We have a few double passes to...
Competition Ran: 26 Mar - 15 Apr 2013
Winners:
sandy55
Nicole Ziebell
hfrancavilla
lexarocks
Jazvere
Supanova
32 Entries. 495 Views.
Supanova is a celebration of popular culture. Over 120,000 patrons attend Supanova annually to meet their favourite stars from film, TV, anime, comics and geek culture and to enjoy the atmosphere of the trading floor, where rare collectibles can be snapped up by buyers. Both kids and adults can also enjoy movie previews and screenings, gaming demonstrations, competitions, AWF Wrestling and more....
Competition Ran: 28 Mar - 11 Apr 2013
Winners: skyphos2
A Clockwork Orange
14 Entries. 324 Views.
Action To The Word will bring Droogs and the dystopian future to Australian shores announcing a national tour of their critically acclaimed theatrical adaptation Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange. The all male production is coming direct from the UK, where it garnered rave reviews in the 50th anniversary year of the book's original release. Both the book and Stanley Kubrick's 1971 film...
Competition Ran: 3 Apr - 11 Apr 2013
Winners:
shayneadam
Jesse Ting
Jason Goldstein
More Or Less Concrete
2 Entries. 132 Views.
More Or Less Concrete is Tim Darbyshire’s synaesthetic exploration of cyclical and audible movement. A collaborative and experimental project, More or Less Concrete exists in a realm of constant tension and continual movement, evoking evolutionary processes through its flexing, sculptural shifts in time and space. It’s on at North Melbourne Town Hall until Sunday March 24, and we have double...
Competition Ran: 19 Mar - 11 Apr 2013
Winners: Anonymous
Housos Vs Authority
10 Entries. 537 Views.
On the dole. Off their faces. On the road. Out of control. From the stooges who brought you Fat Pizza, Housos vs. Authority is based on the popular TV show of the same name. The film follows Shazza, who’s been having a tough time lately – her dad Wazza died “on the job”, she’s thrown a brick at the head of a skanky model parading up and down their street and now there’s worse news – her mum, whom...
Competition Ran: 26 Feb - 9 Apr 2013
Winners:
liam o'brien
Mark Turner
puna
Topolino
Taken 2
25 Entries. 467 Views.
A sequel to the highly successful first film, which follows Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson) as a CIA operative attempting to track down his daughter after she is kidnapped in France, Taken 2 is set in Istanbul where Mills and his wife are taken hostage by the father of a kidnapper Mills killed while rescuing his daughter in Taken. Directed by Olivier Megaton, Taken 2 was written by legendary filmmaker...
Competition Ran: 5 Mar - 8 Apr 2013
Winners:
Sharon Revell
rusty barnacles
Amanda Casalanguida
Narelle Rock
Kaz Reimann
Smokescreen Music Festival Prize Pack
4 Entries. 183 Views.
The Smokescreen Music Festival is the hot topic on most people's lips!  Set to hit Australia later this year, it is being touted as "the most dangerous festival with all the killer acts you've been dying to see."  We're got three Smokescreen Music Festival t-shirt and trucker cap packs for give away.
Competition Ran: 3 Apr - 8 Apr 2013
Winners:
The_Hunter
markrees
Adam Bowers
The Go-Devils
3 Entries. 140 Views.
The Go-Devils are a fiesty bad-girl good-time garage band. They're also set to receive the Girl Manga Wrestling Championships title, which they'll be accepting from the whip-wielding Mistress Yu Nami and her accompanying GoGo Boys 'The Mod Gods' when they play at The LuWow this Friday April 5. We have some double passes to giveaway.
Competition Ran: 3 Apr - 5 Apr 2013
Winners:
trope
Rene Bok
Shut Up And Play The Hits
16 Entries. 493 Views.
Last year LCD Soundsystem announced their retirement. In celebration, and as a tribute to their fans, they performed one last show at Madison Square Gardens in New York and filmed it. Shut Up and Play the Hits became this performance. Consisting of a concert film and documentary that explores the man behind the band, James Murphy, Shut Up and Play the Hitsis a must see for any...
Competition Ran: 13 Mar - 2 Apr 2013
Winners:
Kaz Reimann
Carolyn Wrigley
Michelle Span
ThomasP
Endless Boogie
4 Entries. 174 Views.
We couldn't just bestow them with our album of the week this week. We had to give you a lil' something too. Rock'n'roll legends Endless Boogie are playing The Tote on Friday March 29 and we are giving away a double pass. Do you like to boogie?
Competition Ran: 26 Mar - 28 Mar 2013
Winners: karmaone27@yahoo.com
Shaking The Tree & Bronwyn Calcutt
0 Entries. 102 Views.
Led by professional performer Bronwyn Calcutt, the 30-voice strong Shaking The Tree choir sings her unique arrangements of gypsy, gospel, funk, and world music with a strong commitment to themes of social justice and freedom. The group is accompanied by skilled musicians on accordion, guitar, tsouras, whistle, ukelele and percussion. They perform at the Brunswick Uniting Church as part of the...
Competition Ran: 20 Mar - 22 Mar 2013
Winners: Anonymous
Dance Massive Sunday double bill - Future Perfect & More Or Less Concrete
4 Entries. 339 Views.
  The third biennial and aptly named Dance Massive festival has returned to Melbourne’s most dynamic theatre houses this month. In association with Ausdance Victoria, a group of producers and directors from across the board have again come together to collaborate and pool their resources with the collective purpose of bringing two weeks of Australia’s most exciting and diverse contemporary...
Competition Ran: 19 Mar - 22 Mar 2013
Winners:
Ed Bergemann
Lx
Trybe
3 Entries. 148 Views.
Trybe is a unique and visceral experience that challenges the boundaries of dance, art, music and film. Faced with creating his final masterpiece, the nameless artist finds himself suffocated by isolation and doubt. Courageously he leaps into the abyss of his imagination, where he is met by the primal power and wonderment of colour itself. In a vortex of movement, music and light, Trybe...
Competition Ran: 13 Mar - 21 Mar 2013
Winners:
Carolin
rubberman
William Elliott Whitmore
6 Entries. 282 Views.
Hailing from a farm along the banks of the mighty Mississippi River, William Elliott Whitmore has developed an intense love and spiritual understanding of the land, which he flawlessly conveys through all of his records. With lauded live performances and albums full of songs from the heart and the heartland, you'd be a fool to miss him when he plays The Corner Hotel on Tuesday March 26. We're...
Competition Ran: 26 Feb - 21 Mar 2013
Winners:
rmorley7
Nicki Hay
JohannaMW
calcore