A touch of Hollywood glamour graced Byron Bay this weekend as the Byron Bay Film Festival once again rolled out the red carpet in the foyer of the Community Centre for its opening night extravaganza.
The festival will now be held at Belongil Fields and takes place over several days from the 6th to the 8th of August in Byron Bay and includes literary lunches, film screenings, theatre, book launches, interviews and panel discussions. This year’s festival will be held between the 6th & 8th of August 2010
Goodbye Crackernight at Mary Ryan’s Books, Byron Bay, from 10am Friday and Saturday 19 & 20th of March. (Woo-hoo.)
Mary Ryan’s Books is the main bookstore in Byron Bay and I’ll be privileged to be there, signing books, talking all about Goodbye Crackernight to store customers, legions of screaming fans, fainting girls, swooning mothers, grown men weeping – you get the picture.
I am going to become a twitter. It will take me a while to find my feet as a twit and I have heard there is a lot of garbage being tweeted, so I will keep the frequency of my tweets reasonable.
I can’t forget the joke I heard on the Tonight Show with Conan Obrian;
YouTube, Twitter and Facebook will merge to form one super time-wasting Web site called YouTwitFace.
We are proud to have Dave Hannan personally introduce his new film Coral Sea Dreaming in HD as a World Premiere on Saturday 2nd of May at Byron Bay’s Lounge Cinema – all part of the Saturday night Underwater Party at the Buddha Bar next door.
It is almost impossible to parody the New Age and alternative lifestylers in Byron Bay because our ordinary daily existence is frequently so "far out" (to coin a psychedelic phrase still popular in this territory), that it defies exaggerated mimicry.
Attempts to parody our local tribes only comes across as comic overkill; satire sounds stagey or superfluous, because, let's face it, we Byronites are already right at the esoteric and entertaining edge of unconventionality.
Following the overwhelming success of the inaugural reggae festival Raggamuffin, fans will be delighted to hear it’s happening all over again with Raggamuffin 2009.
Antiques & Collectables - Every few months Ross & Eva Heath of Heath’s Old Wares & Collectibles in Bangalow send me an updated list of the regions ‘old wares’ shops which they call Local Trail.
This is an excellent resource listing the addresses and phone numbers of about 40 shops… plus, if you’re interested you can subscribe to their mailing list and receive the updates.
