One Direction On the Road Again Australian tour 2015

Much to the excitement of teenage girls, the world's biggest boy band One Direction have announced they are heading back to Australia next year as part of their On the Road Again tour.

It's just seven months since Liam, Niall, Harry, Zayn and Louis toured Australia, but they are now lining up to play shows in Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth next year. The band sold all 190,000 tickets for 18 shows across Australia and New Zealand for the Take Me Home at the end of last year.

"Our Australian fans have been there for us since day one, and we always have such a great time there," Liam Payne said.

"We'll see you all in February next year!"

The band are currently travelling with their mammoth Where We Are Tour which has just visited South America and will hit Europe and the US this year. Sydney boy band 5 Seconds of Summer are supporting.

Since the band were put together by Simon Cowell in 2010, they have been an unstoppable force around the globe, amassing a $US100 million fortune along the way, according to estimates.

Get your tickets from the official Ticket master website: http://www.ticketmaster.com.au/One-Direction-tickets/artist/1645840

On the Road Again 2015 Australian tour dates:
February 7:   Sydney, Allianz Stadium
February 11: Brisbane, Suncorp Stadium
February 14: Melbourne, Etihad Stadium
February 17: Adelaide, AAMI Stadium
February 20: Perth, Patersons Stadium

Source: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/one-direction-heading-back-to-australia-for-2015-tour-20140519-zrgor.html



Need accommodation close to One Direction tour stadiums? 
Metro Hotels have hotels and serviced apartments in most major cities throughout Australia:


Sydney Hotels & Apartments (NSW):

• Metro Hotel Sydney Central
• Metro Hotel on Pitt
• Metro Apartments on Darling Harbour
• Aspire Hotel Sydney

Brisbane Hotels (QLD):

• Metro Hotel Tower Mill

Melbourne Apartments (VIC):

• Metro Apartments on Bank Place

Western Australia:

• Metro Hotel Perth

Perth festival 2015: from intimate to epic – and high on puppetry

The Giants by French theatre masters Royal de Luxe is set to be a highlight of the Perth international arts festival. Photograph: Pascal Victor

Perth will host Royal de Luxe’s giant marionnettes, the Australian premiere of Anthony Minghella’s last production Madama Butterfly and a phone in from Hilary Mantel.

From 30ft marionettes roaming the city’s streets to a teeny tiny love story played out on a miniature paper set, the Perth international arts festival is mixing up large and small in 2015.

In what will be his final program of a four-year tenure as artistic director, Jonathan Holloway says he hopes the festival will offer “experiences both intimate and epic”.

The Giants, by French street theatre masters Royal De Luxe, will tell the story of a girl in an Albany lighthouse who buoys the spirits of troops departing for Gallipoli. First seen in Liverpool, the marionettes almost didn’t make it into the Perth program but for a last-minute letter from Holloway to festival partners and a front page campaign by the West Australian newspaper that raised the final $5.4m from sponsors needed to fund the spectacle.

But it won’t be the only puppetry on show come February. The late Anthony Minghella’s final opera production, Madama Butterfly, gets its belated Australian premiere at His Majesty’s theatre, featuring the award-winning stagecraft of Blind Summit.

Anthony Minghella’s Madama Butterfly will receive its Australian premiere in Perth.Photograph: Robert Piwko

The Paper Architect, a tale of a model-maker whose designs come to life, will show in secret locations in Perth and Albany. And Handspring, the puppetry company behind the UK National Theatre’s international hit, War Horse, brings its South African story, Ubu and the Truth Commission, to the Heath Ledger theatre.

Also premiering at the State Theatre Centre will be The Rabbits, the long-awaited adaptation of John Marsden and Shaun Tan’s Australian picture book of the same name, adapted and directed by John Sheedy with a libretto by Lally Katz.

Meanwhile, Cut the Sky, by the Western Australian Marrugeku company, will weave the poetry of dream catcher Edwin Lee Mulligan and the music of Ngaiire and Nick Cave into a story about Indigenous land rights and our wider custodianship of nature.

Dance highlights include New York’s Mark Morris Dance Group whose Mozart Dances sets modern American choreography to the master composer’s music; Zip Zap Zoom from the West Australian Ballet at the Quarry amphitheatre; and Rising, showcasing emerging British talent Aakash Odedra, choreographed by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Russell Maliphant and his mentor Akram Khan, most recently at Brisbane festival.

Perth has also announced a killer musical program headlined by London Grammar and featuring multi Aria-award nominated Chet Faker among an international lineup that includes Sinead O‘Connor, First Aid Kit, Mogwai, Neneh Cherry and Charlie Musselwhite.

The key draw at the Perth writers’ festival, Hilary Mantel, will appear by video link from London alongside Eat Pray Love author Elizabeth Gilbert.

• Perth festival 2015 runs from 13 February to 7 March – see the full program here: https://2015.perthfestival.com.au/

KFC Big Bash 2014-2015 Twenty20 Cricket

Ticketing information:

General public tickets for all BBL|04 home-and-away matches will go on sale at 9am (local time) on Tuesday 28 October 2014.

Memberships for clubs will be on sale in October, so fans can secure the best seats in the house and other benefits for the entire season.

Games information:

Round 1 to 4 -

Round 5 to 8 -

For more details, visit T20 official website: http://www.bigbash.com.au/match-centre/fixture


Feature Team:
The Melbourne Renegades represent modern Melbourne – vibrant, diverse and progressive. They have a healthy streak of anti-establishment and will play out of a non-traditional cricket venue, Etihad Stadium. The Renegades will deliver entertaining, bold cricket in this world-class facility, where the rafters will shake with the noise and passion of the fans. T20 was made for the Renegades.


Need accommodation close to T20 games? 
Metro Hotels have hotels and serviced apartments in most major cities throughout Australia:


Sydney Hotels & Apartments (NSW):

• Metro Hotel Sydney Central
• Metro Hotel on Pitt
• Metro Apartments on Darling Harbour
• Aspire Hotel Sydney

Melbourne Apartments (VIC):

• Metro Apartments on Bank Place

Brisbane Hotels (QLD):

• Metro Hotel Tower Mill

Western Australia:

• Metro Hotel Perth

Cooper and Oxley Wins Metro Hotel Contract

The Owner of South Perth’s Metro Hotel is going ahead with a 53-room expansion, despite a softening in demand for Perth hotel rooms, with Cooper and Oxley signed to carry out construction.

The expansion was initially flagged in April last year, but a dip in the performance of the South Perth hotel due to a reduction in resources sector-related demand forced the Metro Hospitality Group to put the works on the backburner

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Cooper and Oxley Wins Metro Hotel Contract

The Owner of South Perth’s Metro Hotel is going ahead with a 53-room expansion, despite a softening in demand for Perth hotel rooms, with Cooper and Oxley signed to carry out construction.

The expansion was initially flagged in April last year, but a dip in the performance of the South Perth hotel due to a reduction in resources sector-related demand forced the Metro Hospitality Group to put the works on the backburner

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Tourism Set to Cash In On Big Summer For International Sport

An unprecedented summer of international sport is set to boost Canberra's tourist numbers after a major decline in business stays and spending in the past year.

With seven Asian Cup football games including a quarter final, three cricket World Cup games and an extra one day International in November, Canberra's tourism boss expected locals to be joined by a mass of regional and international visitors for the sporting feast.

VisitCanberra director Ian Hill said it would be the strongest summer of sport the city had enjoyed. 

"Two absolutely world class events, and I certainly know tickets for those cricket World Cup games have been selling really well."

The National Visitor Survey released last month showed visitor nights were down 790,000 in the domestic business sector for the year to June, a drop of 37.5 per cent. Overall domestic nights were down 16.4 per cent and expenditure down 11.4 per cent, or $14 million. 

International visitor nights also fell 12 per cent, or 570,000 nights, in the same period, with expenditure down 6 per cent.

Mr Hill said the tourism authority was working closely with hoteliers and organisations elsewhere to help them package and promote events.  

"One of those [Asian Cup] games is a China [vs] Korea game; China don't play in Sydney and there's a big group of Chinese background people who live in Sydney, so we're working with some of the multicultural media in Sydney," he said. 

The tourism chief said the key to maximising the windfall for Canberra was ensuring visitors saw other attractions  during their stay, and a rejuvenated cultural and hotel scene would help.

"Places like Braddon are important, Lonsdale Street Roasters is an important place, New Acton, and with new hotels like Hotel Hotel, Peppers has just rebranded, we've seen QT do a fit out at Rydges, the Kurrajong is about to reopen after being refitted – a great location for visitors in the Parliamentary Triangle. I think visitors are seeing a new side of Canberra," Mr Hill said. 

Mr Hill said stories on last week's OECD finding that Canberra was the world's best city to live in,  trumpeted in the New York Times and elsewhere, helped spread the word. 

The Australian Hotels Association ACT recently told ABC TV that occupancy rates were at about 65 per cent, down from the same time last year, but investment was strong, with another 500-600 hotel rooms available by mid-next year. 

Mariah Carey "The Elusive Chanteuse” Tour

On the heels of the most critically acclaimed album of her career, ‘Me. I am Mariah… The Elusive Chanteuse,’ the best-selling female artist of all time, MARIAH CAREY, has confirmed Australian dates, extending her previously announced “The Elusive Chanteuse Show” world tour.

Live Nation are thrilled to announce that Nathaniel will be the support act on the Australian leg of Mariah Carey’s “The Elusive Chanteuse Show” world tour.

Mariah Carey will tour Australia in just over a month.

The five-time Grammy Award-winning songstress has extended her The Elusive Chanteuse Show world tour to include a national tour Down Under - her first in more than 15 years.

Fans in Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney will have a chance to see Carey perform live, while she'll also do winery shows at A Day on the Green in the Yarra Valley and Mount Cotton, near Brisbane.

Carey’s set list will be an exciting mix of her biggest hits, fan-favourite album cuts, never-before-performed selections from her #1 R&B Album “Me. I am Mariah… The Elusive Chanteuse” and many more surprises! 

“I want to experience the spontaneity and emotion that I put into this album on stage with my fans,” says Carey. “I can’t stop writing songs so don’t be surprised if you hear a brand new song that I just wrote the night before the show in your city!”

Carey last visited Australia for three east coast shows in January 2013.

But the highest-selling female artist of all time hasn't performed a national tour since her Butterfly world tour in 1998.

Last year, the 44-year-old was joined in Australia by her toddler twins Monroe and Moroccan and her actor and comedian husband Nick Cannon.

The couple, who married in 2008, recently split.

Carey will kick off her world tour in Japan on October 4. No further dates have been announced after the Australian leg.

"I want to experience the spontaneity and emotion that I put into this album on stage with my fans," Carey said of the tour in a statement released on Thursday.

"I can't stop writing songs so don't be surprised if you hear a brand new song that I just wrote the night before the show in your city."

Carey's latest album Me. I Am Mariah ... The Elusive Chanteuse has been a critical success, but sales since its release in May have been unspectacular.

Tickets for all shows go on sale on September 26 at 9am (AEST).

MARIAH CAREY AUSTRALIAN TOUR DATES:

November 2 - Sandalford Estate, Perth

November 5 - Entertainment Centre, Adelaide

November 7 - Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne

November 8 - Rochford Wines, Yarra Valley (A Day on the Green)

November 10 - Qantas Credit Union Arena, Sydney

November 16 - Sirromet Wines, Mount Cotton, Brisbane (A Day on the Green)

Mariah Carey is a true music icon and the best-selling female artist of all time, with more than 220 million albums sold to date and 18 Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 singles (17 self-penned), including 'Fantasy', 'Always Be My Baby', 'Hero', 'Touch My Body', 'One Sweet Day', and 'We Belong Together' - more than any solo artist in history.

With her distinct five-octave vocal range, prolific songwriting, and producing talent, Mariah has redefined the modern pop performance. As a singer/songwriter/producer, she has been recognized with multiple Grammy Awards, 21 American Music Awards, Billboard's “Artist of the Decade” Award, the World Music Award for “World's Best Selling Female Artist of the Millennium,” and BMI's “Icon Award” for her outstanding achievements in songwriting, to name a

Mariah Carey's ongoing impact transcends the music industry to leave an indelible imprint upon the world at large. She has made substantial marks in film with critically acclaimed roles in Precious (2009) and also in Lee Daniel’s The Butler (2013).

A Congressional Award recipient, Mariah has generously donated her time and energy to a range of philanthropic causes near to her heart including Save the Music, the Make-A-Wish Foundation, World Hunger Relief, and the Elton John AIDS Foundation, among many others.

A tremendous supporter of children’s charities, both domestic and international, Mariah founded Camp Mariah in partnership with the Fresh Air Fund, a retreat for inner city children to explore career development.

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