Byron Bay

INA DE DANCE REGGAE NIGHT
DJs Krazy Dave > Lennox Dread > Ranking Yoni (Melbourne) > Basmati (Brisbane)
Sweet reggae music ina dancehall stylee. This month the Rub a Dub DJs are joined by interstate guests from Melbourne and Brisbane -
Ranking Yoni and Basmati.
$5
This week at PLAY> kicks off with UK style drum n bass from respected producer Calyx. Reggae takes over for Thursday and then the house builds over the weekend. Next week Koma & Bones bring UK tech funk to PLAY>

Investing in Real Estate and a Real Estate Course
By studying from a real estate course you will learn the cycles, timing and predictable factors in the property market. If you study property with a real estate course you would know that the property cycles could be anticipated with confidence. Inevitably the property cycle will turn and there will be a slowing in the market, just as market trends also boom. From studying a real estate course, you would also learn that the long-term real estate investor would take a strategic position on interest rates. Your real estate course would also point out that low interest rates provides the opportunity for the long term real estate investor to build up [...]

ROC RAIDA (Grandmaster DMC Champion)
DJ’s Roc Raida > Noodles > E-Murda > DJ Name Roc Raida’s status as a Grandmaster and DMC champion is obvious when witnessing his incredible deck skills. Catch the master in action at PLAY, showcasing his jaw dropping skills in an intimate club venue (with a live camera feed to a giant screen), a spectacle nobody should miss!
He skillfully creates a fantasy mix-show with a tongue-in-cheek look at the hip hop world. Raida is a stadium style erformer, playing super-clubs and MTV broadcasts around the world, the gig at PLAY is a rare chance to see the incredible talent up close. As a founding member of the New York-based crew the X-Men [...]

STICK UNSTUCK KAPUT
‘I’m fuckin’ sick of it.’ was the word from THE BASS PLAYER in the reggae outfit Stick. ‘Food platters, everyone pushing drugs down my throat… Oh, and don’t get me started on the threesomes.’ The usually shy and retiring BASS PLAYER has come out and set the record straight on life touring with perhaps the most infamous unknown ensemble ever to do the one-drop. ‘It’s the other guys’ he confides, ‘They are absolute pricks of human beings. You won’t print that though, will you?’
With little or no understand- ing of the media mechanism at work, he continued to deni- grate every facet of music, art, expression, freedom until the editor pulled the plug fearing a murder of lawyers [...]

April PRESS RELEASES
Pocket Rocket Takes Off!
The Byron Youth Activities Centre is set to take off with the biggest battle of the bands in Byron Bay - Pocket Rocket 2006.
Byron Shire Council Gets Back to BASIX
Byron Shire Council, in conjunction with Planning NSW, will present a free information session at the Byron Shire Council Chambers
Byron Shire to make water savings with new community water grants
Significant water savings will be made in Byron Shire with the success of Council’s applications for seven Australian Government Community Water Grants.
Summarised from the Council website.
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WIZO, the international Jewish women’s organisation, has widened its reach to Byron Bay, becoming the first major Zionist group to establish itself in the northern NSW coastal town. At its first meeting two weeks ago, around 20 members signed up, according to Anita Bejerano, the Melbourne-based founder of the Byron WIZO group.
Summarized from an article by: LORIN BLUMENTHAL.
Sourced from: The Australian Jewish News.
Link: http://www.ajn.com.au

While you’re in Byron, learn to surf with the legend: Former U.S.A. Champion Rusty Miller. (Byron’s original instructor (since 1973) Rusty shows you his special approach in a two hour session of standing up and riding waves. Learn about the spirit, culture, and surfing lifestyle. Rusty is the editor and publisher of the Byron Bay Guide. Married with two daughters, Rusty is an activist in local affairs concerning our physical and social environment, a former president of Surfrider Foundation Australia, Byron Bay and a stoked Hobie catamaran sailor.

Byron Bay’s ugly image has returned with a violent night of fighting on Friday. The town’s streets resembled a war zone on Friday night with over 300 drunken youths brawling along Jonson Street and in Apex Park. Byron Bay police had to call for back-up after 300 youths from Byron Bay, Lismore, Ballina, Yamba, Ocean Shores and Mullumbimby gathered in Apex Park, Byron Bay around 9.30pm. “A series of text messages were used inviting youth to meet in Byron Bay in relation to a ‘big brawl’.” Eight people were arrested on the night, police said, and numerous move on orders given, but there were no police injuries recorded.
Summarized from an article by: MEGAN KINNINMENT and JANE GARDNER
Sourced from: [...]