EAT
The International Food Court will be operating 24 hours a day at
Meredith this year. All food stalls are located in the one general
area, just north of the amphitheatre. There are all kinds of inexpensive
healthy and unhealthy food, ranging from pizza to Asian delights
to Hare Krisna vegetarian delights to baked potatoes to hot chips
to bacon and egg breakfast rolls to Mongolian Barbecue.
You are most welcome to bring your own food and drink; however
you cannot bring glass of any kind, including wine and sauce bottles
- and cannot use gas cookers or BBQs to cook your own food, due
to fire risk.
There will be plenty of food stalls all day and night, queues will
be short, the food fresh and cheap, and the surrounds rather beautiful.
DRINK
The fabulous Pink Flamingo Bar will glow pink allnite and serve
cocktails within certain hours to certain people over 18 with certain
photo ID and certain manners and clean and tidy presentation.
We advocate the responsible consumption of alcohol at all times
at Meredith. If you are under 18, you wont be able to drink alcohol,
or enter any licensed areas. Simple as that.
The Pink Flamingo
The Pink Flamingo Bar is Meredith's cocktail bar. It sells two
cocktails - the Pink Flamingo (vodka, pink grapefruit, some other
stuff) and the Bloody Meredith (popular on Sunday - vodka, tomato
juice, celery, two eggs, roast chicken and lemon meringue pie).
The Pink Flamingo is for over 18's only. You will need to have photo
ID which will get you a wristband which will get you in.
The Pink Flamingo Bar has been taken over yet again, although it
is technically not under new management as the original owners have
come back to return it to the heady heights of its glorious past.
There will be no silly themes, costumes or decor. Plans for a theatre
restaurant with a horror movie theme called "AAAAHHH!! What The
Fuck Was That Noise???" have been shelved. It will simply glow pink
all night and serve excellent drinks. The Pink Flamingo's location
on this year's site is at the back of the amphitheatre, just next
to the International Food Court, on the fringe of the Top Paddock.
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Here's the history of The Pink Flamingo:
1998 first opened as The Pink Flamingo Yacht Club Bar, with hosts
Commodore Bahamas Lite and Commodore Pink Jazz (see photo at side of page)
1999 The Pink Flamingo Ski Lodge, with hosts Heidi and Klaus
2000 The Pink Flamingo RSL, with bingo and bowls. Run by committee.
2001 The Pink Flamingo Speakeasy and Cinema. Some of the films
really messed with some of the patrons minds.
2002 The Pink Flamingo Bar. Shady, quiet and comfortable. And pink.
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BE MERRY
One of the new attractions this year will be a 60 foot high Ferris
wheel, called The Meredith Eye. It will be positioned right up over
the back of the amphitheatre on the highest land of the site, called
the Top Paddock. The views will be quite, quite spectacular; from
the top carriage you will be able to see back in time, and find
your wallet that you lost in Year 9.
Rides will be about 10 minutes long and we think we will have to
charge you about $2 a ride. We were hoping to do it for free but
we couldn't find a sponsor. Still good value.
Last year's Sportsfield was a non-event
for two reasons. Firstly, the spot we had picked out to set up the
Sportsfield ended up being used as camping grounds because the usual
roads got bogged so we had to move things around a bit. Secondly,
ten minutes after we got about 20 sets of Totem Tennis going, one
small black dog called Limousine bit all the balls off the strings.
But we are going to give it another go this year, so you will find
the Sportsfield over the back of the amphitheatre, on the high ground
of the top Paddock. Totem tennis will be free.
T-shirts
Commemorative Twelfth Annual Meredith Music Festival T-shirts,
designed, made and printed specifically for this year's Meredith
Music Festival. The design is a joint effort by Noota, Beech and
Aunty Meredith. This year it comes in two styles:
- Beefy T style, with loose sleeves and looser fit, usually preferred
by blokes
- Bonds style, banded neck and sleeves, smaller fit, enjoyed
by both sexes.
Sizes are Small, Medium, Large, and Extra Large.
They rarely shrink unless you cook the crap out of them in the
dryer.
They all cost $25 including GST and are sold at the Gift Shoppe
at the festival.
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