Attention all foodies and winos! Perth is about to come alive with culinary delights. For the month of March, the finest drinking and dining venues across Perth, Northbridge, West Perth and East Perth are on display for sample and discovery.
Eat Drink Perth will feature free family events, food tours, specialty food and wine tasting, gourmet dinners and special lunch and dinner offers.
The 2012 Perth International Arts Festival had a perfect start to their tenth festival with a big turnout and stunning weather at Cottesloe Beach this morning.Perth Festival organisers were uncertain how many people would attend with the early start time of 7am but over 2500 people made their way to the beach for the free event.
Just after sunrise Indigenous Noongar elders and performers opened the Festival with Gina Williams performing a Welcome to Country that included traditional dance and storytelling.
Hundreds of local vocalists and musicians had sand between their toes as they performed on the beach with the Indian Ocean as their backdrop.
It's Artistic Director Jonathan Holloway's first Perth Festival this year after working on the Norfolk and Norwich Festival in the United Kingdom.
"There were very beautiful beaches in North Norfolk but not quite this close and not quite this beautiful and not with this weather," Mr Holloway said.
"You wouldn't find many hundreds of people just randomly wandering along a beach at 6am in Norfolk."
Mr Holloway says he wanted to utilise the natural amphitheatre of Cottesloe Beach for the opening of the 2012 Perth Festival.
"We're cheating really, let's be honest, we've come to the view and the space - then we're filling it rather than creating something."
The Cottesloe dawn event is part of the official opening called 'Dusk: Dawn' and will culminate in the Great Southern with a sunset event on the Albany foreshore for the launch of the tenth year of the Great Southern Festival.
Tonight sees the opening of Beautiful Burnout, an exhilarating piece of physical theatre exploring the thrill and beauty of boxing, being hosted here at the ABC in East Perth. Studio 61 has been transformed with a real boxing ring taking centre stage.
Perth Festival organisers estimate that the festival attracts about half a million people to free and paid events each year and are expecting to sell 220,000 tickets to performances this year.
For more information on upcoming Perth Festival events, visit the Perth Festival website.
The all new touring sensation Nitro Circus Live, having just performed its biggest ever show to a sell-out crowd at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, is set to embark on its ambitious 40 city tour of Europe, the USA and Australia in 2012. The great news for Australian fans is that the all new show which set 15 world firsts in Vegas, will kick start its world tour in Australia, in May next year.
The 5 capital cities of Australia will see the most star-studded action sports line-up ever to come to our shores. Apart from the hugely popular Nitro Crew, the tour will feature 20 times X Games medallist Bob Burnquist, BMX great Chad Kagy, Switzerland’s Red Bull X Fighters Champion Mat Rebeaud on his first trip to Australia, plus world number one FMX rider Nate Adams, and 35 of the world’s best “Big Air” action sports stars on some crazy new Nitro contraptions, all launched off the 50 foot high Nitro Gigant-A-Ramp.
The tour will follow the release of the new Nitro Circus Live TV series on MTV in October and the 3D Motion Picture, due for global release next March.
Stay tuned to nitrocircuslive.com for more info.
Don't miss the greatest live action sports show ever produced.
TOUR DATES*:
Fri 11 May - Brisbane Entertainment Centre
Sat 12 May - Brisbane Entertainment Centre
Fri 18 & Sat 19 May - Allphones Arena, Sydney
Fri 25 & Sat 26 May - Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne
Fri 1 Jun - Adelaide Entertainment Centre
Sat 9 Jun - Burswood Dome, Perth
*Ticketek is selling for the above venues only.
IT'S the only statistic missing from Mike Hussey's impressive cricket resume – and it doesn't bother him one bit.
The veteran Australian batsman is yet to post a one-day century at his beloved WACA Ground and Friday’s match against Sri Lanka could be his last chance to reach triple figures in front of his hometown fans.
Hussey, 36, is no certainty to play on next summer and will be keen to leave a lasting impression on the ground where he made his international debut in 2004 should it be his last major match in Perth.
A century similar to the one former WA teammate Adam Gilchrist scored in his final international appearance at the venue would be a dream come true for Hussey, but the crowd favourite won’t be losing any sleep if he doesn’t.
“Generally the position and time I come into bat makes it difficult to score a hundred, so for me to have to get a hundred generally means we’re in a bit of trouble and that’s not something I want,” said Hussey, who averages an impressive 76.25 from eight ODIs in Perth, including a highest score of 78.
“To come in with four of five overs to go and try and hit every ball for six would be definitely more the recipe for me.”
Hussey encouraged Perth fans to dress up during for the Friday’s game for a chance to win a trip to the Caribbean next month when Australia tours the West Indies.
“Hopefully the entertainment on the field is going to be very good, but you also get a bit of entertainment off the field as well,” he said.
“Seeing some of the different costumes and get-ups that people get into can make for a pretty humorous afternoon at the cricket.”
Cricket Australia is also offering a number of prizes on the day for the best-dressed fans.
Visit apps.facebook.com/best-dressed-comp for more details.
Lady Gaga is promising Australian fans fireworks when she returns for six shows as part of her Born This Way world tour. The pop megastar will play arena dates in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Perth in June and July with the singer hinting at adding dates.
'The Haus of Gaga and I have worked for months conceiving a spectacular stage,' Gaga said in a statement.
'The Born This Way Ball is an electro-metal pop-opera; the tale of the beginning, the genesis of the kingdom of Fame.
'How we were birthed and how we will die celebrating.'
The eccentric singer has been teasing fans on Twitter and Facebook with sketches of her stage design and posted a picture of the first official tour poster.
Coloured in a black and white palette with purple and green highlights, it shows the star's alien alter ego appearing in the cloudy night sky over a castle.
Renowned for her quirky art, Gaga brought her lavish stage show to Sydney last July for her one-off Monster Hall performance.
Promising fans she would be back, Australians will be among the first to see the world tour after dates in Asia and New Zealand.
Tickets go on sale on February 17 at livenation.com.au with advance tickets available to Visa card holders from 9am Monday morning.
July 7 - Perth, Burswood Dome
Cirque du Soleil returns to Australia with a spectacular new production for the whole family, presented under the blue-and-yellow Grand Chapiteau (Big Top).
With the continued and insatiable fan demand, the unstoppable phenomenon that is NKOTBSB will officially bring their show down under! In May, New Kids on the Block and Backstreet Boys will come to Australia for five shows only, stopping in Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane, Sydney and Perth.
