A winters day in Melbourne
Exclusively Melbourne got sent a video from a viewer of the site. A visually beautiful vid, but it makes me appreciate the warmer weather to come. 
Enjoy!
Winters Day In Melbourne from O&M Films on Vimeo.
Red studio
The Oz Soul Collective brings their showcasing platform to Red Bennies with a live monthly studio audience launching the Oz Soul TV show "The Red Studio" sessions on Friday July the 22nd. Some of the most prominent and progressive names in Oz Soul/Urban music will perform, to cement Melbourne as the capital of Oz Soul/Urban music in Australia.
We are so thrilled to have our Australian original soul legend, Renée Geyer show her support for our movement by being our very special guest in an exclusive intimate Q & A on the night. She will be talking about the state of our industry in regard to the presence/acknowledgement for our genres and artists in what will be a revolutionary lively Q & A.
To also help us launch our live TV/radio webcast the following Oz Soul Collective artists will also perform for our first Red Studio session they include Ngaiire (NSW) Hiatus Koyote, KKS, Axolotl, Candice Monique & the Optics, RUNFORYOURLIFE, DJ Mz Rizk, DJ Billy Hoyle and many more.
The Oz Soul Collective is a music industry development initiative representing and supporting a staggering number of independent/unsigned soul/urban artists in Australia. Australian soul/urban music has no definitive genre or artist presence nationally or internationally.
EVENT: OZ SOUL COLLECTIVE - THE RED STUDIO DATE: 22ND JULY 2011 TIME: 8pm onwards VENUE: RED BENNIES Level 1, 373 Chapel St, South Yarra
Parklife 2011 Lineup Melbourne
Park Life is once again hitting Melbourne shores as one of the first festivals of the season.
Generally a hit or miss with the weather being so early in the year. But with Melbourne's weather, its any ones guess.
I have personally been to 3 parklife events, 2 were nice, 1 was a wash out. I am not sure if im going to this one.
It is set forSaturday 24th September - Melbourne at Sydney Myer Music Bowl , which I beleive is a new venue,
as the event is usually held near Birrung Mar, not so for this year.
Future Entertainemnt have run these events in the past, and usually always have VERY negative feedback.
- Generally consisting of - LONG lines due to not enough Staff, toilets, food outlets, drink outlets. (Future Ent running the event as cheap as possible)
- Headline acts clashing
- Poor information
- STUPID DRINK TICKETS
- overcrowding( Future Ent trying to squeeze evey last dollar out of the event)
Lets hope this year's event is better, but i HIGHLY dbout it. For the reasons above I will most likly not attent this year. But i am torn due to the lineup being quite good-
The line up consists of;
The Gossip
Lykke Li
Santigold
Death From Above 1979
Duck Sauce
Katy B
The Naked & Famous
Crystal Fighters
Example
Digitalism
Adrian Lux
The Streets
Simian Mobile Disco
Magnetic Man
Nero
SebastiAn
Diplo
Mstrkrft
Sebastien Tellier
Little Dragon
Gold Fields
Mylo
Wolfgang Gartner
Joker & MC Nomad
Feed Me
Tensnake
Kimbra
The Aston Shuffle
Flux Pavilion
Yacht Club DJs
Harvard Bass
And here lies the problem.... the lineup is epic. Soooo many good artists there. But how many will clash as per usuall?
Damn you Future Entertainment.... either make the event crap, or awesome...... not in the middle!
Parklife Melbourne 2011
You Planker!
So a new site has receintly popped up all to do with the new internet crazy of planking.
Its called You Planker!
Its a site where you can upload a photo of your plank and other users can view, vote and comment on the plank.
Anyone can use it and its so much fun. The lols dont stop.
Planking has hit the news laterly, but if kept safe, its a fun and entertaining to share peoples planks and good times.
You Planker!!
Shooting near Taylors Lakes Macdonalds.
So while the inofrmation is thin at the moment,
Exclusivly Melbourne has learned that there was some sort of shooting around 5am in Melbournes West, in or near Taylors Lakes area.
Police this morning were using the Macdonalds restraunt as operations base.
Given the severity of the event we can only assume somthing mayjor has gone down. We hope no one was injured but with shootings, expecially in Melbournes west, this is not the case.
We hope the Melbourne can continue to do a great job in the community and bring any perpetrators to justice.
-Exclusively Melbourne Blog.
If you have any information related to this story, please contact your local police,
or share with us at admin@exclusivelymelbourne.com.au
UPDATE -
Police helicopters were seen overhead around 5-6am this morning and local residents have had their properties searched. And streets were closed around the surounding area.
The suspected house in question was apparently "Very Very Very" close to the Melton Hwy Taylors Lakes Macdonalds.
We will give more information as it comes to hand
-EM
Woman killed crossing Tullamarine freeway
Yes its hard to beleive.
A woman crossing a mayjor freeway which connects the airport to the city, was struck and killed by a truck whilst crossing the freeway.
Tullamarine being a HIGH traffic freeway is used to connect Melbournes west and Melbourne Airport to the rest of the city. You can imagine how much traffic passes through this road on an average day.
Exclusivly Melbourne's condolences goes out to the womans family, but must ask, what was she thinking?
A mix of high traffic, and speeds of excess of 100 kph would be enough to turn anyone off crossing such a road.
Hopefully this incident is enough to stop anyone to attempt to cross a freeway in the future.
GBH is disgusting and its killing you
GHB is disgusting and its killing you. FACT.
Melbourne is fast becoming known for being the GBH captial of Austrlia. And it makes me sick in my stomache.
Why? GBH is extreamly dangeroius, extreamly addictive, and you can easily overdose on it. The difference of having a good time to overdosing and possibly killing yourself is a matter of a few ml. FACT.
GBH is made using photo developing chemicals and users drink this substance. I cant beleive so many young people in Melbourne are drawn to this drug. It makes me feel sick that I share the same city as you people.
Here is a link to a video which shows a young person oding on the side of the road in queen st Melbourne. It looks like the video is shot close to a popular nightclub called Tramp.
Keep off this poison guys, you really dont know what is in it, you dont know how close you are to oding , and its really not worth it!!
End rant
-Exclusively Melbourne.
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I LOVE Melbourne
Being such a beautiful weekend and day today, it has filled me with love for this city once again, and I thought I would share why.
So here are 5 Reasons. why I LOVE Melbourne.
1# Coffee.
Melbourne has the best coffee. Hands down! Lygon st, Bridge Rd, Swan St to Keilor Rd. Its alllll good. My Fav is at Cheeky Monkey, Swan st Richmond. A cup of hot joe from this place just makes me feel good.
2# Beaches.
The Beaches around Melbourne are awesome. St Kilda, Porsea, Dromana. On a beatuiful day, nothing can be beat. Here is a photo taken at Dromana yesteray.
#3 Food.
Melbourne has some great places to eat. A few will try their best to rip you off. These places generally are around the Crown Casino/ Southbank area from my experence. But head to Lygon St, Swan st, Johnston st (Jims Tavern) and you'll get a awesome meal at a reasonable price
#4 Nightclubs / Bars
Melbourne has some awesome nightclubs. Sorry Grandma, 161, Deluxe, Calton Club, Cookie the list goes on for weeks. There seems that for ever person in Melbourne, there are 5 bars / clubs that want you to drink at them. So we seem a bit spoilt for choice. Love that.
#People
The people around town are awesome. Laid back, friendly, polite. There are of corse some that are not, but I find that people around Melbourne are nice pleasant people and will generally help you out.
So there you have it.
5 hot resons to like this place we call home.
-Exclusivly Melbourne blog.
Melbourne carnival.
So walking down swan st tonight, there was to my surprise a carnival happening on liberator
Lonsdale st, between swan and russel.
FMF Melbourne set times
So here we go guys, here are the set times for Melbourne's Future Music Festival. As you can see there are massive clashing between the top artists.
Future Entertainment are notorious for pissing off fans for clashing the headline artists so as they are playing at the same time.
This is generally done so crowds are spread over the whole festival and not all in the one spot for the whole day.
This tends to annoy the patrons as set times are released AFTER they have bought their tickets, and will miss out on acts they have paid money to see due to clashing. Future Entertainment, PULL YOUR HEADS IN!
End Rant.
PS here is the set list.
Hope you guys have fun!
FMF Music melbourne set times
Melbourne Weekly forcast
Monday:
Mostly Sunny. Mild.
15 - 24
Tuesday:
Light Rain Early. Mostly Sunny. Cool.
13 - 19
Wednesday:
Mostly Sunny. Cool.
9 - 22