It's time for
Midsumma madness! I'm super excited about this year's festival - there's something in the air that makes me feel as if this will be the biggest
Midsumma ever. It's also the fact that all I've had on my marketing brain at
JOY 94.9 right now is completing the "weird and wonderful projects" at the station, which have involved making radio pinatas, paper cacti, pink elephants and tons and tons of glittter!
It's to make sure that we have some pretty blue and pink decorations at our stall and I'll give you a few sneak previews of what you can expect as I also tell you what's happening at
JOY 94.9 at
Midsumma Carnival this Sunday January 17.
Hear There Magazine - FREE!Who doesn't like a free gift? This is the latest
JOY magazine and this one will be your guide to all things queer this Summer. Also with the very attractive Eduardo the pinata on the cover... why wouldn't you want one?
Head on down to the
JOY stall next to the main stage this Sunday and talk to one of the friendly
JOY volunteers to get yours on the day.
Midsumma membership offerIf you struck the pinata and produced this prize you'd be over the moon I'd reckon. This one is certainly a biggy - give a new
JOY 94.9 membership to someone you love, including yourself, this
Midsumma and you'll go in to the draw to win not one, but two V.I.P. tickets to see
George Michael live in Melbourne! These babies are worth $400 each!
That's right, buy a new 6 month
JOY membership for a friend, family or even yourself and not only get the chance to enter all of the competitions you hear on
JOY, get invites to exclusive events and great
JOY member discounts you’ll also go in the draw. Of course, we can't thank our current members enough for their support and we thought a nice way to show it is to enter everyone into the draw as well.
If you're not a member yet, or know someone who isn’t - drop by the
JOY stall next at
Midsumma Carnival, call 1300 JOY 949 or online at
joy.org.au to be in the running. You'll have a great chance of winning, just "gotta have faith-a-faith-a-faith!"
Pink Elephant SaleSpeaking of faith... Our new marketing lass
Faith pointed out that in the country they call garage sales a "White Elephant Sale" so we should have a
Pink Elephant Sale! It's your chance to pick up a great CD or DVD bargain at
Midsumma Carnival this Sunday. Everything must go, so we're pushing them out the door at ridiculously cheap prices.
We've had a big clean out at
JOY and have loads of great pre-loved and brand new CD’s and DVD’s for sale, starting from only $1. While, it's been sad for
Conrad to let go of his much loved
Cliff Richards DVD (tee hee), he's put it in with a trunk full of amazing items like
Dappled Cities,
Queer As Folk seasons 1 and 2 and
Steven K Amos - there's something for everyone so you should walk away feeling deliriously happy. All money raised goes to Melbourne’s own gay GLBTIQ radio station, so it's a double hit on the warm and fuzzies!
JOY T-shirts for saleOptionally, if warm is not enough and you're looking for something hot... This is it! This is the latest in superhero stylin' as you’ll be seeing them on all the
JOY folks in 2010 and now you can own one for yourself. JOY will have a limited edition run of 50 t-shirts (made by design competition winner
Kate Leben) for sale this Sunday at
Midsumma Carnival for only $20 each. Sizes vary, so get in quick as they will sell out on the day - make sure you match the look of your favourite queer hero
Steve Toms (pictured).
Ross Watson raffleWhile on the topic of spandex... to celebrate Ross Watson’s latest
Midsumma exhibition titled ‘Celebrate our Heroes’,
JOY is giving you the chance to win a limited edition print featuring the delectable
Matthew Mitcham valued at $660. Tickets are limited to 400 so support this fantastic
JOY fundraiser and purchase a raffle ticket for only $10 each. Make sure you're in it to win it by visiting the
JOY stall next at
Midsumma Carnival or call 1300 JOY 949
.
Phew! Well as you can see, we've been busy beavers here at JOY and we're still in the middle of everything, so I'm going to get back to it. Please do come along this Sunday at Alexandra Gardens and visit us. Hang out and have fun - it's a good motto ain't it? Well, make sure you join us and do celebrate the beginning of what will be a brilliant festival!
Coming Up: Midsumma Carnival
Hey kids, for those of you who want an healthy dose of indie-queerness, tune in tonight to The Great Indie-cision... get it? Indie?
Yah, Jade Gulliver of Diff'rent Strokes fame, and me of The Fool and the Opera fortune will be joining forces to bring you an epic serving of Tokyo Blonde, Hockey, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Neon Indian, Jezabels, Passion Pit, Dappled Cities and much, much more. We'll also bring in usurper of the of indie-electro-pop throne Bobby The First to talk about his new album too. We're jam packed full of freebies too, so its definitely worth a listen to because there's going to be a lot of win on tonight's one-off special indie-xtravganza.
Jade will be taking me through the indie ropes and letting me know how I can go from opera dude to indie wannabe - how to dress, how to talk (I got the "epic" in, didn't I?), how to think. But it's not just going to be a one way road, I'm going to take her down the operatic path too, with a review of the latest offering from The Knife Tomorrow, In a Year an indie-opera album. Who would have thought, I can be hip and a fuddy duddy at the same time!
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