Vivid Hot Hotel Deals at Metro Hotels

Vivid Sydney will be illuminating the city from May 22nd to June 8th.









Experience this creative and interactive festival with Metro Hotels' Vivid Brilliance Hot Deals.



Stay at Aspire Hotel Sydney, Metro Hotel on Pitt, Metro Hotel Sydney Central or Metro Apartments on Darling Harbour, with Vivid Sydney accommodation packages starting as low as just 144 dollars a night!







Vivid Brilliance Hot Deal at Aspire Hotel Sydney



To get you into the spirit of Vivid Sydney, Aspire Hotel Sydney are offering this Vivid Brilliance Hot Deal



Vivid Family Package at Metro Hotel Sydney Central



To celebrate Vivid Sydney, Metro Hotel Sydney Central is offering this Vivid Family Package



Vivid Sydney Hot Deal at Metro Hotel on Pitt



To celebrate Vivid Sydney, Metro Hotel on Pitt is offering this Vivid Hot Deal



Vivid Brilliance Hot Deal at Metro Apartments on Darling Harbour



To get you into the spirit of Vivid Sydney, Metro Apartments on Darling Harbour are offering this Vivid Brilliance Hot Deal



Experience Vivid with Metro Hotels.



Visit www.MetroHotels.com.au or call 1300 518 179 for more details.



*Deals subject to availability.

Pyrmont Festival - Wind Food Art - 15 to 24 May 2015

Pyrmont Festival returns for its fifth year

10 Days of wine, food and art bringing together Pyrmont and the Mudgee Region in Sydney’s premier dining precinct

Five years after first hitting the Pyrmont Precinct, Pyrmont Festival returns with a giant 10 day program to showcase the best of the Mudgee Region and Pyrmont.

Guests have the chance to experience both the country charm of the Mudgee Region, coupled with the best of the city, including a plethora of wine dinners and tastings, photographic exhibitions and art displays.

Mudgee Wineries include Burrundulla Wines, Robert Stein Vineyard, Lowe Wines, and Huntington Estate. Pyrmont eateries including Blue Eye Dragon, Café Morso, Flying Fish and the new LuMi bar & dining will showcase the best of their dining experiences with Mudgee wines to match at lunches, dinners and tastings across the 10 days.

The highlight of the festival will be in the form of a two-day free headliner event at Pirrama Park on Saturday 16^th and Sunday 17^th May (11am – 5pm). An event designed for the whole family, with live music, local artists, rides and children’s’ entertainment and approximately 100 stalls where guests can meet wine-makers, participate in tastings and sample a broad range of fine foods.

Pyrmont Festival is a product of industry collaboration with Mudgee Region Tourism, Mid Western Regional Council and Mudgee Wine Grape Growers Inc, presented by Pyrmont Ultimo Chamber of Commerce with the City of Sydney. It is a unique opportunity for Pyrmont, just two kilometres from the CBD, to demonstrate its position as one of Sydney’s fastest growing tourist, creative, cultural and dining precincts.

The Mudgee Region is a 3.5-hour drive from Sydney in Central NSW, and is one of the state’s first established wine regions. It is renowned for its food and wine with more than 40 family-run boutique wineries, as well as excellent art, music, nature and history experiences.

Major corporate sponsors of the event are The Star, IGA, LJ Hooker and Subaru.

Event details

When: Friday 15^th – Sunday 24^th May 2015.

What: Pyrmont Festival 2015

A 10-day festival showcasing more than 50 restaurants, wine bars, hotels, winemakers and artists from Pyrmont and the Mudgee Region.

Where: Pyrmont Festival dining precinct, with the two-day headliner event on Saturday 16^th and Sunday 17^th May.

Spandau Ballet - Soul Boys of The Western World Australian Tour 2015

One of the most successful and influential British bands of the 1980s, Spandau Ballet, will bring their ‘Soul Boys of the Western World Live’ Tour to Australia in May next year. Kicking off in Brisbane on Wednesday 13 May and playing shows in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth.

All five original band members of Spandau Ballet, Tony Hadley, John Keeble, Gary Kemp, Martin Kemp and Steve Norman will come together to perform their smash-hit anthems for Australian audiences for the first time since their 2010 Reformation World Tour which saw the band reunited.

Having sold over 25 million records worldwide, scored numerous multi-platinum albums and amassed 23 hit singles across the globe including Gold and True, which have endured for more than three decades.

Spandau Ballet's debut single "To Cut a Long Story Short", which reached No. 5 in the UK in 1980, was the first of ten UK Top 10 hits, including a No. 1 single in 1983 with the song "True", a No. 2 single "Gold" and a No. 3 single "Only When You Leave". The band has had eight UK Top 10 albums, including three "greatest hits" compilations and an album of re-recorded material.

Tickets and Official VIP Packages on sale: http://www.ticketmaster.com.au/Spandau-Ballet-tickets/artist/1400100

• Sydney, NSW:

Qantas Credit Union Arena, Haymarket

• Brisbane, QLD:

Brisbane Entertainment Centre, Boondall

• Melbourne, VIC:

Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne

• Perth, WA:

Perth Arena, Perth

Vivid Sydney 2015: Modulations Adds Grace Jones to the Bill

Vivid Sydney 2015: Modulations Adds Grace Jones to the Bill (Photo: Kristian Sibast)

Veteran music and fashion icon, Grace Jones, heads the line-up for Modulations, doing much to redress the lack of female talent on the wider Vivid program.



Modulations, which is staged at Carriageworks from May 31 to June 7, comes under the Vivid umbrella.



"Her ideas around art, music, creativity and light mean she fits the DNA of Modulations," said its creative director, Stephen Pavlovic.



"She has a strong history and she's a strong woman too, and there has been a lack of them in the Vivid program so the opportunity to work with her was a no-brainer.



"Her live sets are duly renowned as nothing short of incredible, moving from disco to funk, from pop to punk, all presented within a visual spectacular as stunning as the musical artistry.



"You can expect lasers, a lot of costume changes and a thumping show with a great band."



Jones was last in Sydney in 2011. She headlined the Sydney Festival bill in 2009 and is now 66.



The fashionable pairing of music and food is again given an offbeat twist at Modulations, with the Italo Dining and Disco Club, which will be held on each day of the festival.



It features music from veteran Italian club DJ Beppe Loda, who pioneered a sound known as "cosmic Afro". Several top Sydney restaurants will cater, including Icebergs Dining Room & Bar, Da Orazio Pizza + Porchetta, Fratelli Paradiso and 10 William Street.



The other previously announced highlights include jazz legend, saxophonist Pharoah Sanders (June 5-6) and Bill Drummond (June 6) of provocative English 1980s pop group the KLF.



Grace Jones plays on May 31 and June 1 at Carriageworks and Modulations runs from May 31 to June 7. For more information go to vividsydney.com and to book tickets visit carriageworks.com.au

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