Holler if you had a good time

Venue: Way cool, like you had to be in the know to get where you were going, so basically very very hard to find if you forgot the instructions. Goods Lift - crypticaly adorned stairwell lead to a Glass box on top a stormy city roof-top.

Catering: Top top selection from the Lion Nathan stable, sprits (it was TOO EARLY for triple Inner Circles in retrospect, i realise now) wine and champagnes. Plates upon plates of canapes, the Duck was awesome.

Crowd: Great selection of pasionate digital types, fun and friendly agency folk and our favourite beer providing clients. Way-too-tight underpants and lycra were the costumes du jour.

Conversation: Plans, alliances and future secret projects were conjured up over Rums...and good times

Special Bonus points: for the branded ice scuplture.

Special hangover feature: Saturday was possibly the illest and most unnatural I have felt in some time. Really really ill. So based on that I asumme i had a reall really good time.

The night the Christmas parties went to the dogs

IANA Party @ 3Di Offices

Crowd: Trashy - due to the bar people putting spirits into the champagne

Entertainment: Mediocre House DJ that played the '05 Ministry of Sound Annual on loop, Crazy asian chick that did the rounds in hand-molestation.

Highlights: Photos with the hot german blonde from PostClick

Lowlights: The long complex journey to the bathroom - what a mission! it was like a maze straight out of pacman - although heaps of dark corners for making out

Adknowledge Party @ Royal Hotel Paddington

EPIC FAIL

Crowd: What crowd?

Entertainment: Arrived there at 10pm only to be entertained by dead silence and a tumbleweed passing by in the background.

Highlights: Free food left untouched

Lowlights: The food was cold

Employee in focus: Pria

Endurance: Emerging as a superior talent in her rookie year. Has hit more spots than the rest of the team, takes a great pic, and still manages to show up for work at 10. Nice work.

Party Pashes: Non caught on film (so far), but we are sure there are plenty of eligible bachelors waiting in the wings for her to drop her guard

Trips to bar: Infrequent/None. Pria is the princess she will be brought drinks, and if a White Horse or elephant is around that will do nicely too

Massmedia X-Mas Celebrity Bash

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Crowd: Striclty A-List as evidenced by the Paparazzi shooting pictures on the red carpet. The only difference here the paps were being paid to take the pictures, not for the pictures...a noteworthy distinction

Entertainment: Someones ipod rattled beats around the larger then required venue. And Napoleon Dynamite talked up 'a dance' but failed to deliver on the promise

Highlights: Arnold Schwarzenegger's guest appearace and maximum points go to the man who braved red lyrcra and impressed as the flash

Lowlights: A lack of tomato sauce for the hot dogs and party pies, but enough canapes to out last the bar tab....

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Ear Benders: All potential shop talk quashed by sudden breaks to bar for a refill

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All in all a wholesome night without even a hint of scandal for the tabloids

MediaSmart the pictures

Movember sure paid off for some

Going for that just jumped out of a plane look

What a rabble...featuring Mr Crazy eyes

Sinful, the DJ at cargo was served
Dancefloor moves

Later

Later still.....

.....Fin

Media Smart - Chicago

Weather: The perfect storm it could have been, but the party hard crew weathered early unsettled conditions, lightning and strong winds to emerge unscathed. That said a few hair do's suffered.

Crowd: It would not be a fanciful claim to asert that the Media Smart vessel was the best dressed boat on the harbour last night. The ladies shimmered, and shivered on the upper deck, whilst the men looked on and smugly and did not offer their jackets.

Bar Tab: Beer, Bubbles and Wine. Personal view here, but I usually hate Crown Lager to he point of sobriety (as if that was going to happen) but, given how much less like shit I feel than expected today I am overall very pleased with that choice. Three cheers.

Goodie Bag: No goodie bags, but Media Smart did offer a delicious buffet and a wedding-esque table setting, located next to an appropriately empty dance floor.

Entertainment: Our favourite sexually ambiguous Asian friend (now known to be a from Mediacom) tore up the dance floor to a collection of RnB and Hip-Hop classics perhaps best left in the crate on the side of a road where they were surely found.

Side note: the music at the Cargo bar last night was a total train wreck. Think those Friday afternoon mix tapes people create of all their favourite eighties and nineties tunes randomlystrung together with out any thought for beat mixing, tempo and certainly no consideration of the audience...only worse, because at least some of those songs are actually Ok. Excerpt from horrible play list- Billy Ocean became Return of the Mac became Ace of Base... WTF?!?

Ear Benders: Actually loads: Take note people, don't talk shop, repeat, don't talk shop at Christmas parties.

Business Spectator 1st Birthday/Xmas Party

So it was that the Great Reeveso and Solomon Granberg The Wise embarked on an important mission Tuesday the 25th of November, in the year 2008 of our Queen Elizabeth, to drink as much of Business Spectator's fine wine as humanly possible in celebration of their first birthday.

The formal part of the night consisted of speeches from the KGB (Kohler, Gotti and Bartholomeusz) and former power-mane net-evangelist and seller-of-the-first-banner-in-Australia Tony Faure. Following on from this formal part of the evening was a good solid session of red red wine and being grilled by various publishers, journos and salesmen. All together a rather odd experience.

The summary:

Crowd: Men in business suits. Sexually ambiguous Asian (currently in the running for the LNCP Hard Play award) and 1 x power mane in the lobby.

Bar Tab: Waiting staff kept the wine glasses close to full all day.

Goodie Bag: None. Not even a cheeky stock-tip.

Entertainment: talk about real estate, BlackBerries and (other people's) Brazilian girlfriends.

Ear Benders: does being interrogated by Eric Beecher count? Nah, it was all good.

Love-Ins: None. It was strictly business.

Client in Focus: Julian lai

Endurance: Menergy powered Jules is known to often out last his big drinkling media buddies, with the one notable exception Steve Neville

Party pashes: Frequent and indiscriminate

Trips to bar: Infrequent. He is the client afterall

CBS the pics

Surprising this one was omitted from 'Sydney Confidential' over the weekend, but we bet they wish it had remained confidential
No, the mic is definitely off.....you kinda had to be there, but a lack of power was not stopping this Sing Star

When they say 'you just need to do whatever it takes'....just ahead and do it, December is a slow month afterall. ahhh rep love

The irony here is that is was only about 7:30PM

The BOYZ harden up with a chaser of Chardonnay - thats how to roll...

CBS Interactive

Crowd: The usual mix of media buyers, clients who dont get out much, loose anonymous blow-ins and sales reps eager to lend you a smoke and discuss the current Economic crisis.

Bar Tab: Top marks. Japanese, Italian and and Dutch domestics served in snazzy beer coolers. Bubbles for the girls, and the tab kept on keeping on until about 10...

Goodie Bag: An odd collection of curiosities. HP branded tea, underarm sweat absorbent patches, Menergy drinks and a sweet CBS lanyard

Entertainment: Hats off to the jolly, sexually ambiguous Asian gentleman who hogged the lime light with his perfectly synchronised high school musical performance...

Ear Benders: None. yay

Love-Ins: A few hugs, back slaps and semi-sentimental moments toward the latter part of the night, but no tears or 'I love you's....'

CBS official party pics are available here

nGen Halloween Party - 30/10/2008

Yeah I know this is a Christmas party blog but we needed some content to start the blog off in the first place so fuck you!


Crowd: "Under 25 or <5 years in the industry" = young media whippersnappers let loose without their managers to keep an eye on them or be ordered back from that lunch to do a 3pm Friday post report.


Entertainment: The crowd.. Spider Girl, Wonder Woman, painted people, a human sized sperm, Googlers with backpacks (sorry Richard North).


Bar Tab: insufficient, considering Gen Y's insatiable appetite for hedonistic pursuits. Tooheys Extra Dry was the only beer I could buy after 10pm and made me feel like I was at an underage Powderfinger concert with my gay uncle


Goodie Bag: depends on what your definition of goodie bag is...


Ear Benders: "friends of a mate of a friend just arrived from the UK thing" started to get a bit irritating but geezers are more fun than most E-suburbs tools.


Love-Ins: no visible sexxxing or the deluded, yet anticipated, media version of Girls Gone Wild.