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4 ½ Things To Consider When Choosing Your Next Venue

1. Do You Dance? Maybe your friends are too cool to dance. Maybe they’re too cool not to dance. Or because they’re so not cool it’s cool for them to dance in a ‘you’re not cool but you know it’ way. Whatever they may be, and however confusing that thought became,...

Queen Victoria Market – Winter Night Markets

Queen Victoria Market- Night Market Winter June 3 rd to August 26th 2015 2015 sees The Queen Victoria Winter Night Market return for its fourth year. This year will see an extended season, running from June 3 rd to August 26th on both Wednesday nights and Sunday days. Last year the winter market increased...

Melbourne Good Beer Week

Good Beer Week May 16th – 24th Good Beer Week is back. Starting this Friday 16th of May it’s one of the most anticipated and hyped beer festivals in the world. Multiple venues throughout Victoria play host to beer makers from The UK, Germany, Belgium, The USA and New Zealand...

Comedy Festival – Top 10 Shows

The Melbourne International Comedy Festival – Shows to see   By Charlie Ranger   So it’s that comedy month again. The Melbourne International Comedy Festival. But with 559 shows on, how could one possibly know what to see beyond the mega-famous comics? The problem is, if you just lucky dip...

Comedy Festival Recommended Show

A SUNBURNT HISTORY – NOT GALLIPOLI!     It's those two guys (back again). It's dozens of new characters (again). It’s historically accurate comedy that is controversial and on the edge (again). It’s Charlie and Spanky addressing the big questions, including Hitler (not again). It’s sweaty, naked (literally) and it mentions...

EASYGOING @ JIMMI JAMZ

Winter is setting in Escape with help from Jimmi By Rachel Furolo It's getting cold, we've been robbed of a true summer and now what do we do. We find places like Jimmi Jamz's to escape the cold and enjoy delicious food and drinks.    Going into East Brunswick’s Jimmi...

THE WORLD OF WHISKY & ALEMENT

THE ONE, THE ONLY  WHISKY & ALEMENT By Charlie Ranger   I wasn’t brought up around whisky, I’ve never had many friends that drink it and I only learnt that Scotch means whisky made in Scotland in the last year or two, which would suggest I’m no expert. But you don’t have...

Laughter is always the Best Medicine

The Comics Lounge Australia's only 6 night a week live comedy venue. The Comic's Lounge in North Melbourne has become the unofficial home of the best comedy our city has to offer year round. Both local and international acts of the highest quality grace the stage every week making this...

ARTICLE: Devilish Fun @ Bohemia Cabaret

Corsets. Cocktails. Appetising cuisine… Do we have your attention? These are what you will find and more should you dare to visit the new Bohemia Cabaret Club in Melbourne city’s South. A bar, restaurant, cabaret and burlesque venue led by four impressive and contributing partners, not to mention a French...

The Dreamer Examines His Pillow

by John Patrick Shanley Presented by Doppelganger Theatre Company     The writer of the cult classic "Moonstruck" and "Doubt". Set in the Bronx. A play about passion, betrayal and redemption. A visceral "from the gut" piece by one of today's most gifted playwrights. Tommy a would-be-artist drinks himself into...

Top 10 NYE Events 2012! Let’s Party…

like it’s 1999… Or that we survived the apocalypse!      

Yunyu’s Twisted Tales

A multi-artform collaboration “Yunyu hasn’t just created music, a movie, or something else, she is creating an experience.” – Brice Fallon, Critical mass Yunyu [a former triple j unearthed winner] has teamed up with New York Times #1 Best Selling Manga Artist Queenie Chan and leading animators to create a...

A [WEAR] Fashion Event

JUNE 6th   Put it in your diaries     Leave the labelling to the designers   Prahran Mission and Whitehouse Institute of Design are collaborating to host their annual fashion fundraising event, this year entitled A [WEAR]. Coordinated by third year styling students of Whitehouse Institute of Design, A...

Our Top 5 Melbourne CBD Laneway Bars

Melbourne: a city that prides itself on laneway culture. Many a night we Melbournians have hit the pavement of Melbourne’s CBD looking for that hidden hot spot yet to yield to the tried and true venues that we know…   Let [HPSS] give all little insight into our top 5...

10 Questions to ask when booking a Venue

So you’re having an event? You’ll need a venue in Melbourne to host it! The latter we can help with really quickly… 3 easy ways! 1). Check out our Unique Spaces list of venues.   2). Search via our Function Venues section   3). Email or Contact Us about your...

[HPSS]’s Top 3 Melbourne CBD Rooftop Bars

Finding a good rooftop bar is like finding $20 in an old pair of jeans.   You had no idea it was there .. and you’re going straight to the bar to use it.   So us here at [HPSS] thought we’d shed some light on our favourite rooftop bars...

The Best Function Venues Melbourne

Melbourne has some of the best function venues in Australia. From small birthday parties to large product launches you’ll find a secret space that can accommodate. The thing is that most people don’t know that you can exclusively hire most Bars and Restaurants for your function or event.   Here’s...

Melbourne International Comedy Fest. 2012

The 2012 Melbourne International Comedy Festival will take place place from Wednesday 28th March to Sunday 22 April with a huge program of performances from every corner of Australia and from overseas. Over 300 of the world’s best comedians including talent such as Dave Hughes, Adam Hills, Arj Barker, Ross...

Melbourne Food & Wine Festival 2012

With more than 250 events packed into 10 days right across Victoria, the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival spills through Melbourne restaurant doors, down narrow laneways, out into bustling foodie precincts and deep into picturesque wine and river country.   Melbourne Food and Wine Festival – Australia’s internationally acclaimed celebration...

NYE @ Transit Cocktail Lounge

Transit’s New Years Eve parties have become renowned as one of Australia’s most exclusive, stylish and fun spaces to bring in the new year. This year will feature a thrilling array of stage and roaming entertainers, all with the backdrop of Melbourne’s centre stage to the rivalling and truly breathtaking...

NYE @ Red Bennies

A night of Burlesque, Cabaret, Circus, Vaudeville & Live Gypsy Music with a Red Bennies all-star cast! New Year’s Eve at Red Bennies will be a true spectacular that will ensure your entry into 2012 starts off with an absolute bang! The dynamic duo – Fez Fannana & Mark Winmill...

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Have You Planned Your X-Mas Party Yet?!

The festive season is fast approaching and venues have already started booking key dates in their event calendars. So, if you haven’t book your venue already it’s time to put the kettle on grab a bicky, and look through all the amazing bars, restaurants, cafe’s, function venues and e

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We’re Uncovering Melbourne’s Best Hidden Bars!

Ever wonder if there’s more to Melbourne’s bar and restaurant scene? Something you might be missing? The answer is yes! The beauty of our city is that it is stacked with hidden gems – whether they’re through alleyways, up hidden elevators, or down secret staircases – and we’re peeling

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Treat Dad At These Melbourne Spots This Father’s Day

A celebration of perhaps the hardest-to-buy-for creature on the planet (Father’s Day) is coming up, and we’re feeling just as daunted as you are. So we’re doing dad’s day a little different this year, and we’ve scoured the bars and restaurants of Melbourne to compile the

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