WINTER LIGHT, PARRAMATTA

Are you totally bummed that winter 2012 in the west side has been more like summer in the sahara desert (may have slighty exaggerated that)? CAUSE WE AREN'T!! WEG live for summer and usually hibernate come freezing cold winter time but anyway.......there was no keeping us from Parramatta's WinterLight Festival!!!!!!!!

It's a visual feast and a delightfully odd change of the scenery of Church St Mall which usually features that one random drunk hobo that picks fights with the the chill hobos who sleep near the flower beds.

Ice skating rink is great cause if you dont particularly want to skate you can still be entertained by watching the skaters fall which is sometimes funny.....only sometimes.......

Locals of the west kickin back with the live entertainment

Most amazingly festive food stall run by Robert and his wife of October Fest Hut

Their Bavarian Bratwurst is seriously grilled to absolute perfection so if you don't like winter or lights, you must visit the west's WinterLight for the bratwurst, seriously.

Vivid lighting

WinterLight

30/6/2012 - 15/6/1012

Parramatta Town Hall

www.parracity.nsw.gov.au

COOLIBAH 2.0, MERRYLANDS

After a 5 second treck in the freezing cold from our less freezing cold crib in the West, we finally reached the Coolibah Hotel of slightly-more-merry Merrylands!!

Just in time for happy hr! Woohoo!!!

before 9 pm cocktails are $6

after that only $10!

Talk about a bargain!

The bar at the Coolibah is seriously one of the greatest things to hit the West End

so next time you feel like kicking back with the locals of the West in a slightly more East end manner, head to the Coolibah, brah!

THE ELIMINATOR
the name says it all.
but just incase it hasn't said enough, take a sip from one of these babies and youll never wanna leave the West!

 The Japanese Slipper Cocktail ^^^

THIS IS THE BEST DRINK EVER ^^^ THE TOBLERONE COCKTAIL!

VERY DELICIOUS TASTES JUST LIKE AN EXCELLENT ICE CHOCOLATE!

 This is what $72 of cocktails looks like ^^^
The V friendly/hospitable staff of the Coolibah supplied us with complimentary cheese & crackers on plastic disposable pl8s! So very chic!

The Coolibah Bar,

hit this shit up

HARVEST FESTIVAL, PARRAMATTA

HARVEST FESTIVAL IS BACK TO PARRAMATTA IN 2012 WOHHOO!

You may have heard triple j announce the line up of this indie music/arts festival which includes the likes of Sigur Ros, Beirut, Santigold etc etc etc 

(check out the full line up at harvestfestival.com.au)

Harvest Festival hit Parra Park last yr for the first time on Nov 13, featuring The Flaming Lips, Portishead, Bright Eyes,  The National among a tonne of other bands 

The WEG team were there and here we are now, 7 months later, reporting that THIS FESTIVAL WAS THE GREATEST THANG EVERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

enjoy the visual evidence and brief recap of our night in the west last yr: 

hike through the park to enter Harvest in a VIP manner

(note: this festival goes from am to pm we just arrived late so its not dark/creepy the entire festival through)

 enter festival just in time for........

 THE FLAMING LIPS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 FLAMING LIPS CONFETTI EXPLOSION WOOT WOOT

chill tent 

o.j for rehydration 

 creepy clown booth

 burlesque performance

the secret garden  (incase you missed the sign ya know)

stoners dancing

free clothes

the end

PARRAMATTA PARK
Address

Cnr Pitt & Macquarie Sts

Parramatta 2150

MOON FESTIVAL, CABRAMATTA

THIS IS THE SICKEST FESTIVAL EVA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

To back up this claim, we have provided some visual evidence + captions giving reason to the sickness of Cabramatta's Moon Festival, courtesy of WEG:

^^^ cherry blossom trees + lanterns + beautiful lighting = sick

^^^ moon festival dragon parade = S.I.C.K.

^^^ shrines in every corner of every corner store = sick

^^^ dragon heads on sidewalk = sicker

^^^ headless dragons = sick

^^^ moon festival parade memorabilia + kimonos = pretty damn sickk

 

^^^^ frozen sugar ice cream balls that are only sold at paddys markets and chinese new years stalls =  so sickkkk

^^^ communal dining + magical lanterns = slightly sick

^^^ embellished pop up temples = sick

^^^ floral arrangements at pop up embellished temples = sick

^^^ beautiful colourful printed rubbish in the gutters = $$$1ck

^^^ festive rubbish (NOTE: the chop sticks/lanterns) = sorta sick

^^^ real life anime royalty = SICKCKKCKCKCCKKCCKKCKCKCKCKC

^^^ asian pagent runner up circa 2008 = so sick i almost vomited at this point from the sickness of this fully sick six sick festival

and thus concludes this memoir, of the epiphany in which we had succombed to i.e that that this festival is................................................................................................................................................................................................sick

(thus also concludes our use of the word sick for, like, the next decade, or lifetime or so)