I'm here at When Pigs Fly festival in Collingwood and the music really sucks.
Every act except Surprise Chef and Cosmo Murphy were terrible. I mean really really bad. Paying $10 for a beer plus $100 entry. Not at all happy.
Tell me about your crap NYE experiences.
Cheapest event is in my lounge room with a beer watching boring fireworks.
worked out $2.40 per stubby at home, $3 glass of wine, not cask wine.
Free beer, wine and spirits at Crown. Nice views of the harbour too.
The festival name was a warning. lol
I thought the location was warning enough.
your crap NYE experiences.
Does reading about someone complaining about a When Pigs Fly festival count?
At Defected in Sydney - it's going off :D
Going to jump a plane to Dallas at 4am and continue on to Lights All Night for a second NYE!
At home, sittin on the internets. I'm too old for NYE these days…
In SA, waiting for 12am so I can go to bed
Update: Just watched the Sydney fireworks on TV, time for bed :P
Happy New Year :)
I didn't even think of new year. I sat down to play a PS3 game. Just as I was about to start a dangerous storm came so I gave up, powered everything off and went to bed.
It was a good night's sleep!
how old is too old?
I'm 35 :P
You will have another crappy Nye next year and then on repeat forever.
At home with COVID.
Enjoy your shit music.
Get well soon
Thank you. I'm on the upswing now I think - first time!
COVID is so 2020. Did you go back in time?
No, but having dodged it for 4 years in Victoria without a single WFH day, I think I've done well.
how bad was it out of 10
@fredblogs: Not that bad really. I didn't feel great and had time off work as a consequence.
My main symptoms, extreme headache, fatigue, sweats, fever, aches & pains.
I'm about 8 days after first symptoms and feel normal-ish today. Some fatigue, and breathing is definitely still a problem but I feel it'll improve quite quickly if I take it easy (which I will be doing).
Well, Happy New Year anyway!
May you go to better concerts this year.
Paying $10 for a beer
Rookie….
You should have snuck-in a bottle of straight alcohol in your panties, and BYO mixer of some sort (Coke, Sprite etc) - This way you could have provided drinks for a small group of people and saved everyone $10+ per bottle and got equally (if not more) drunk.
Hand back your OzBargain Membership now
Hahaha I used to smuggle in booze to festivals. I once put a 4 litre goon bag inside my jacket and made it look like I had a beer gut. Now I've got a real beer gut there
$100 entry?
(that's 10 beers).
I watched the abc coverage for free, had a fire, bit of booze and slow cooked lamb that I cooked all day. Wasn’t bad but it was a tad too quiet haha
Had pizza, drinks, mates and channel 9 live coverage and had an awesome time at home and spent $70 on 2 bottles of vodka so overall good night
Paying $10 for a beer plus $100 entry.
That's pretty much what I pay to see the Swans lose the first half of the season.
Doesnt the music get better the more beers you drink?…
Usually yes, but not in this case it was just too bad
Meh, I had fun on my own.
Merry New Year everyone.
User name checks out!
I had a great new years eve. Sorry
Sydney New Year's Eve fireworks are becoming more and more underwhelming.
Weren't they sponsored by Pfizer this year?
I think fireworks in general get increasingly underwhelming as you get older.
They're cool when you're a kid, but after a while they get pretty old.
I think you also have learnt to appreciate the cost of things more as you get older (and not necessarily just the monetary cost).
I watched the fireworks on TV thinking about the total material and labour cost ($ + time) for a few minutes of pretty explosions purely because it's the last/first minute of the old/new year…
Also the ecological cost (albeit temporary…): that smoke was thicc.
Or maybe it is that I'm getting old/er… 🤷♂️
Indeed. Every year they bang on about it being the biggest ever, but to me it seems no different to when I first experienced it in the 90s.
I watched last years fireworks on YouTube at 9pm then went to bed. This years looks identical.
You need new or more extreme experiences.
Extreme like doing a bridge climb while the fireworks are going off?
Yep, or riding a rocket into a fireworks factory
Could have watched this years kids fireworks - 9pm (Sydney time).
Maybe your tastes have changed
Couldn’t even have a glass of champagne without the reflux coming in hard and keeping me up in the night.
No fireworks where I live, there usually are…
Sydney’s tv performance on ABC felt like it was cobbled together last minute with not very good music.
$220 a head dinner with my wife. It was incredibly average, didn’t include drinks, and had a 10% Sunday surcharge on top.
I’m all for paying staff award on a big night for them (I was chatting to one of our servers and they had been there since 11am) but that was definitely one of the biggest piss away of money I can remember. Never again, lesson learned; either do NYE with friends at a house party, or go to a park and have a picnic.
Went to a local restaurants with my wife, food was excellent and it came to $91 for both of us, including drinks, and the Sunday surcharge. I thought $91 was a bit expensive, but it sounds like I got a bargain.
Sage advice
I’m all for paying staff award on a big night for them
My suspicion is that the staff will see only a small piece of these extra charges, if any at all. But the owners.
They’ll get their penalty rates won’t they? Why would they get a cut of the surcharges?
My wife and I were going to do ‘8 at trinity’ but at $300 a ticket plus surcharge and drinks, we decided to put the money towards a holiday.
Saw the mariners beat Perth 4-2 in a fiery game, it finished at 9pm and watched the fireworks over Brisbane Water from the Stadium. 15K people. $35.70 (gold). It was great.
The let downs….
1. $9.90 for a can of Six Strings Pale Ale (oh, okay that wasn't too bad)
2. They ran out of food before half time (only could get limited hot chips)
3. No extra buses to get home (had to walk hilly 2km)
Do they still have the sauce bottles?
nor about qld footy venues but in melbourne they do the little plastic sauce single serves, they argue its for hygiene reasons not that it’s more profitable, and you pay for extra sachets ….
Sitting in the dark listening to our generator after having no power for 6 days after our house got smashed by a tornado on Christmas Day. Power came back on at 2am though, so we (and all our neighbours) were all cheering then.
You out maudsland way?
Oxenford. My parents are in Maudsland just around the corner and their power came back at the same time as ours did.
Ah, didn't know Oxenford was still out. We have relatives in maudsland as well, they had just bought in big generators apparently. You get much damage?
@brendanm: Our estate is right up the back of Oxenford bordering Maudsland. We were very lucky not to have too much damage. Our son’s trampoline ended up in our neighbours yard, our back fence fell down and the front of our house flooded but we managed to contain the water to the tiled areas and the garage. Since the power came back on we have been watching our security camera videos and it was pretty wild. We are getting hammered again today by rain and flooding but at least we have power back now.
@BLDM: Yeah it's been belting down since midnight, we will possibly be flooded in here soon. Hope your cleanup goes well 👍
I was meant to be pig hunting this weekend but had surgery just before Christmas and now can’t do anything overly physical until Feb.
Went to a local restaurant, home by 19:00, chilling with the wife listening to dark synth for a few hours, asleep by 22:30. Pretty damn good night considering.
Spending NYE in Gaza. All I can say it was a BLAST.
dont cry about it everywhere pls
Forgot all about it until someone let off illegal fireworks up the road last night.
Just another night to me.
"Remember that New Year's Eve party at Lenny's? He didn't even have a clock!"
Spent 10 mins in Parramatta Park for fireworks at 9 PM, grabbed mandi from Guildford for myself and wife ($38) and then chocolate soft serve at mcdonalds. $40 NYE night for me!
I was watching Naruto as I thought Sydney fireworks were atrocious. Lucky I didn't drive in for it.
I drank some whiskey but I couldn't find my shot glass so I just eyeballed my pours, ended up drinking 2/3 a bottle over just a few hours. Threw up later and felt like death.
Spent NYE at Budapest. Enjoyed some strong beer after dinner and went to bed at 10pm (with NC-earplugs to block out the fireworks and revellers sounds).
It's morning and I'm stuck inside drinking more beer because it's raining cold outside.
Jeezus, what was Jessica Mauboy thinking wearing that?
I guess 'trying to be a better person' wasn't on your new years resolution list..
If that means not having an opinion and being a mindless sheep I guess it never will be on my NYE resolution list.
I think some people like that shape.
You've been downvoted 3 times, clearly there are people who disagree but are just too scared to say lol.
I think my downvotes are because ppl assume I’m objectifying her.
She is a performer. I am objectifying her performance and her shape is part of that performance.
I am not dumping on her shape. Just the opposite really.
At home with wife and kids. Turned in at 10pm. Feels good man.
That sucks I ended up having a great one myself; went to a work friend’s farm after my shift ate Argentinian style bbq drank some rare whisky went home for an hour sleep then drove up to Sunny Coast (from Brisbane) to photograph new year sunrise.
ABC's coverage of Sydney's NYE celebration
Theres too much pressure to have a good night on NYE so it always falls below expectations. Small events or no events are the most fun
I watched the Sydney fireworks on my phone in a tent. Not recommended…
I am not looking forward to new year at all………………..
I'm not saying it's right, but that's actually cheap for a NYE event. haha