Guest post by Cat Douglas
Or did we? I’m not sure you’d really classify the Open Air Cinema at Mrs Macquaries Chair in the normal order of cinemas. It’s kind of like the rolls royce of cinematic viewing – every seat in the house has a million dollar view.
It was billed as one of the major performances of the 2010 Sydney Festival. The brainchild of actor Johnny Depp and Pirates of the Caribbean director Gore Verbinski, Rogue’s Gallery was to be a night of pirate ballads, sea songs and shanties perormed by local and international artists in the forecourt of Sydney’s famed Opera House. Even Mother Nature got in on the act, setting the scene with a summer storm that cleared as the performers took the stage.
The anticipation before Sydney Festival First Night starts long before the crowd trickles in to the Domain. From the initial announcement in November to the anxious days before the festival spent refreshing the BOM page for the weather forecast, Sydney knows that First Night has the potential to be the epitome of everything we love about our city. And what better way could you celebrate summer than under a clear sky to the smooth sounds of Al Green?
Happy New Year! Check out these TwitPics from fellow Sydneysiders celebrating the end of 2009!
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Wish you were here?
Summer in Sydney means only one thing to music fans – it’s festival season! Local and international artists have begun to descend on our fair city for months of festival fun and to celebrate we’re sending 20 lucky Sydneysiders to Homebake to bounce into the summer groove!
A content crowd sings along with Homebake 08 headliners Crowded House
Guest post by Sydneysidette Louisa Percy
Preceding perhaps the biggest, and certainly the most iconic breakfast of my life on Sydney Harbour Bridge with a full day swanning around the tents at The Australian Beer Festival might not have been my wisest move. But I should get full marks for forward planning – swallowing two aspirin and umpteen gulps of water before crashing is one of my favourite tricks. Plus I was determined as it’s not often you get your mitts on a ticket to make history, and a free one at that. Lord knows I was actually among the 190,000 people who registered for tickets for Sydney’s first ever Breakfast on the Bridge and were disappointed, until my boyfriend found out he was among the favoured few (well 6,000 is a few in the light of the unlucky 190,000 – right?). And so it was that we had five tickets to Breakfast on the Bridge and we were not, even on the dirtiest of hangovers, going to waste them!
So a grasshopper walks into a bar and the bartender says “Hey we’ve got a drink named after you!” and the grasshopper replies “Really? You’ve got a drink named Steve?”
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