Do you remember the first time you heard your favourite song? How you couldn’t believe you hadn’t heard it before, because you knew you already loved it? The opening sequence of Kleber Mendonça Filho’s Aquarius manages to capture a little…
The official 2017 festival launch of Virgin Australia Melbourne Fashion Festival (VAMFF) was celebrated in style at the iconic Melbourne Museum. Members of the media, fashion, arts and creative industries vamped it up to celebrate the festival’s announcements of the premium designer…
It’s not every day that you get to be part of of what was the ultimate holy experience at St Kilda’s iconic Prince Bandroom. The occasion was Midnight Mass, a congregation of techno fans from across Melbourne led by local…
‘When all else fails, join the circus’. Those were the words of wisdom from seventeen-year-old Miranda Walker, the winner of the Jaw Dropping Tricks Award at the first Victorian Aerial Awards ceremony this December. Miranda, ‘That Circus Freak’ on Facebook, posts…
On arrival at Sharmini Kumar’s ‘Shakespeare in Therapy‘, a self-help group set in the afterlife, I was directed to write a nametag for myself. Then I took my seat in the circle of plastic chairs. Was I going to be…
$40 for a five-course degustation sounds too good to be true. A Fan’s Notes has proven otherwise with a degustation rivalling those of its more expensive competitors. The degustation menu is offered weekly on Friday and Saturday nights and alternates…
On a dark, damp night we descended below the streets of the CBD to enter a world of prisoners and biohazards. Trapt runs escape rooms packed with puzzles to challenge your brain and encourage cooperation. The escape rooms are interactive…
If you are a fan of being locked in a room with six of your nearest and dearest (or perhaps your enemies) and solving puzzles to escape an evil computer intent on destroying you then this is the escape room…
Here at The Plus Ones we pride ourselves on being across Australia’s festival scene. Adelaide has long been on our ‘to-do’ list. Its reputation for festivals is first-class, and I can’t believe it has taken us this long to get there! The…
There is much to like about a show that Ryan Coffey puts together for a festival run. With the combination of highly impressive loop pedal harmonies, witty rhymes, and engaging narrative within the content and presentation of his stand-up portions,…