Brisbane Music: The Del Sonics play The Music Kafe, West End, Sat July 12th 2009
Brisbane surf-rock band The Del Sonics play The Music Kafe, West End at 8pm this Sunday, July 12 2009. The Music Kafe is at 185 Boundary St, West End (click here for a Google Map).
You can listen to 11 free songs and watch five videos if you visit The Del Sonics MySpace page – I really liked “Dawn Swell”, it’s the song that made me want to write about them.
Brisbane Coffee and Chocolate Markets and Festival at Portside Markets, Hamilton, Sun July 12
There’s a “Coffee and Chocolate Affair” happening on Sunday July 12 2009, at the Portside Wharf, Hamilton (click here for a Google Map). It’s basically a big coffee and chocolate festival and market with some interesting free events.
There’s a competition to find the best home barista, apparently you can win up to six grand’s worth of home coffee machines if you win the competition. There are also free masterclasses with Lindt and Sprüngli Australia chocolatier Thomas Schnetzler, and Dean Merlo of Merlo Coffee, and there’s a competition for professional baristas that you can watch. I’m afraid the website doesn’t say what time these events are on, but you can call the Portside Wharf office on (07) 3868 5111 and ask them (+617 3868 5111 from outside Australia).
The event’s website lists 21 different stallholders so far, including Seatonfire Chili Chocolate, the Coffee Education Network, Import Tea, Eumundi Fudge and other upmarket coffee and chocolate sellers, so that sounds like an interesting, if potentially expensive, day of browsing and buying. There’s also going to be blues and jazz bands playing. It’s free to go and browse, see the free classes or listen to the music. If you’re on Facebook, you can check the details of the event here.
If you’re driving, you can park at the Portside Wharf. If you are using public transport, your best option is to either catch a ferry to the Brett’s Wharf ferry terminal at Hamilton or the 300 bus to Racecourse Rd, Hamilton, just after it turns off Kingsford Smith Drive onto Racecourse Rd, near the Hamilton Hotel. Click here for a Google Map showing all this locations.
CREATIVE COMMONS: The photo in this article is called “briagdeiro” and it’s by flickr user rodrigo senna – he has licenced it under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 licence which means you can use the photo for any purpose, including commercial uses, as long as you credit him.
New to Twitter in Brisbane? Come to a @btub meet up TONIGHT, Friday July 3, @greystonebar, Southbank
Laura from Greystone Bar
So, you’ve just signed up to Twitter recently and you’re still wondering what the point of it all is? Well, one of the things Twitter people in Brisbane do is have a big meet-up once a month. It’s called #btub (which stands for Brisbane Twitter Underground Brigade) and it’s at Greystone Bar in Southbank, in between Grey St and Little Stanley St, opposite the Imax Cinema on Grey St (click here for a Google Map).
This month’s #btub meetup is on Friday July 3, and starts at Greystone Bar at 6pm and will go through as long as people hang around (last month people were there till about 2am).
One of the great things about #btub is that there are no official leaders. People run smaller btub events as well, and if you think there should be an event, just announce it. If people are interested, they’ll turn up, and you’ve got a #btub.
If you want to keep track of what btub events are on, you can either:
Join the BTUB group on Facebook
Follow @btub on Twitter
Follow the #btub hashtag on Twitter (what on earth is a hashtag? Click here for more info)
There are also plenty of photos from btub events on flickr – you can see the btub group photos here or search for photos tagged with btub here.
I won’t be there tomorrow night until quite late, as I have to work until midnight :( But turn up, say hi, introduce yourselves and meet some friendly new people.
Some friendly btubbers
This is me at a btub.