Category: events

Best Upcoming Events – April 2015

Melbourne in April is all about the Comedy Festival however we scoured 1,000 events occurring in April to find 5 that we can’t wait to get to! Comedy Festival (25 March to April 19) – We pored through 500 Melbourne Comedy Festival shows…

Melbourne Comedy Fest Review: Avenue Q

Have You Entered Our Comedy Fest Giveaway? – 13x double passes, one very lucky winner!  I am a lover of musicals, a sucker for well-controlled lewd comedy, and have fond memories of mupperty from my childhood. To have all of these aspects…

Melbourne Comedy Fest Review: Em Rusciano

Have You Entered Our Comedy Fest Giveaway? – 13x double passes, one very lucky winner!  Em Rusciano is an all-singing, all-dancing sequin covered comedy spouting babe. The Motherload is intended to take the audience back to their childhood selves, with John Farnham…

Melbourne Comedy Fest review: Calypso Nights

WIN 13 double passes in The Plus Ones’ Ultimate Comedy Festival Giveaway! Tuxedo Cat. 9:45pm on a Wednesday. Opening night of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. My +1 and I enter the mayhem of one of the busiest venues at…

Smart Bar – Poison To Pestilence

Melbourne Museum’s Smart Bar series has been a feature of my event calendar for several years now. The concept brings the after work crowd to the museum and gets people learning whilst having a tipple or two – a bit like university. I…

‘Do You Speak Chinese’ at the Malthouse Theatre

I wandered into ‘Do You Speak Chinese’ with no assumptions about what I was going to experience. I knew it was a piece about identity and heritage, and I’d made some predictions about dance styles that I might witness… What…

Eat With Me’s Yellow Picnic

Meeting up with people to eat food — that’s the idea behind Eat With Me, a website devoted to turning strangers into friends. Sounds simple. But of course, I like making things a little more complicated. So I came up with a…

Tomato Battle Melbourne

Last weekend was Melbourne’s first Tomato Battle. Held in the similar spirit to festivals across Europe, the intention was to throw tomatoes, listen to music and have a few beers of an afternoon. Now the first thing you notice when…

Our favourite events of February

The last official month of summer (noooo!) saw us running all over town hitting up events left and right. Melbourne never seems to slow down, and neither do we. Here were some of our favourite events from February. Dumbo Feather issue…

Best Upcoming Events – March 2015

White Night, a New Orleans Mardi Gras Festival, jazz parties — February was great! Here’s what we’re excited about in March. Melbourne Food & Wine Festival – Sifting through the MFWF events is a herculean task, but we’ve narrowed it down to the…