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?”
1st – 31st October
Sydney International Food Festival
siff.com.au
Well Sydneysiders I hope you’re ready to step up your exercise regime because you just may need it this October! The Sydney International Food Festival takes over town as part of Crave Sydney and the feast on offer is sure to satisfy our insatiable hunger for good food. The festival sees the return of old favourites like the Night Noodle Markets and Hats off Dinners and newbies like the World Chef Showcase and an exploration into Slow Food with founder Carlo Petrini. So … are you hungry?
The Rosemount Sydney Fashion Festival (RSFF) struts through the city this week with a busy schedule of events to tug at the purse strings of Sydneysiders. It’s probably no coincidence that the festival is held the week after half the city’s monthly payday but I’m more than grateful that it is!
I’ll let you in on a secret – if you put me on a stage something comes over me. Not an immense fear or the urge to run screaming like most. Instead, all of a sudden I’m standing taller, breathing from my diaphragm and I’m merely seconds away from bursting into a Shakespearean sonnet or soliloquy (or at the very least a bad Ron Burgundy impression). So you can imagine my jealousy when I read about My Mutation – the opportunity for one lucky dancer to perform live at the Sydney Opera House. The Sydney Opera House!!
Sydney sparkled this weekend with gorgeous Winter weather and for 120,000 Sydneysiders there was no better place to be than The Rocks for this year’s Aroma Festival.
With stalls lining the historic streets that surround the Harbour, festival drinkers buzzed from the Latin Quarter to the Orient, from the Continent to the Oasis, sampling coffee, tea, chocolate and spices under blue, blue skies.
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