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Imperial Open Sept 4
Erskineville’s iconic Imperial Hotel will open its doors to the public on Saturday, September 4 following a gala night for industry guests the night before.
Owner Shadd Danesi said patrons could expect everything they loved about the old Imperial, only bigger and better.
“We’ll have the normal drag queens and the shows people have come to expect from the Imperial,” Danesi said. “And it will be run pretty much along the same format as it’s ever been run.
“But the quality of the new sound and building works are superior to what they have ever been in the past.”
Danesi said the public bar would open as normal and, when things settle, he’ll open the cabaret bar at 10pm, and cellar bar at 11pm Fridays and Saturdays.
“But when it comes to closing times, a lot of that will be up to the public,” Danesi said. “We’re licensed 24 hours, so as long as there’s a good atmosphere where people are enjoying themselves, we’ll continue trading.
“I think there’s a lot of anticipation about the re-opening. The feedback we’ve been getting has been terrific, so I’m anticipating we’ll be well patronised.”
The Imperial has been closed for more than three years while undergoing a multi-million dollar refurbishment.
It has been the subject of multiple Land and Environment court appeals and ongoing negotiations with the City of Sydney. Danesi has racked up more than $500,000 in legal expenses in getting the building to a firm opening date.
For a taste of something a bit different, from September 10 to 26 the Imperial will host events as part of the inaugural Sydney Fringe festival.
Sydney Fringe events will be held in the hotel’s cabaret bar on weeknights and Sundays, with the public bar being open and normal on those days.
Acts include Hobo Bordeaux, who are described as having a ‘Cuban swamp blues spaghetti soul western tango’ sound, and Sydney dance outfit YEN, who will launch a new EP. In an event called Sonic Canvas, the Imperial’s interior will be transformed into a thee-dimensional canvas of projected words, images and light to music from some of Australia’s most progressive composers.
info: Visit www.theimperialhotel.com.au
Andrew M Potts
Capt: Mini Cooper, Tora Hymen and Charisma Belle star in the Going GaGa show playing at the Imperial Hotel as part of this year’s Sydney Fringe Festival. Photo: Ann-Marie Calilhanna
Sydney Star Observer, Wednesday, 25 August 2010
Teen idol still feels the Love at 60
FOR a man who has felt like a teen idol for most of his life, it must be a shock to turn 60.
However notching up this milestone certainly hasn’t slowed down living legend John Paul Young, who will be performing solo at Hornsby RSL Club next Friday night.
“I turned 40 and 50 and it wasn’t a problem,” Young said. “But 60 is like, gee, it’s starting to have an effect on me.”
The effect being that Young certainly doesn’t feel his age and confesses to being “just as knocked around after performing as I always did”.
It certainly has been an amazing career, which the man himself admits has come as a surprise.
“It’s bloody unbelievable,” he said.
“It never entered my mind I’d still be going this long.”
JPY discovered he had a determined streak when his manager quit in the 1980s, declaring the popstar’s time was over.
Young went on to establish a name for himself on radio and television before the release of the film which would change his life - Strictly Ballroom.
When his song Love is in the Air was re-released, it reignited Young’s career and he has never looked back.
“In this business, like any other, if you haven’t made it by 40, if you’re not near the top or not comfortable then something’s wrong,” Young said.
“You should be entrenched in what you’re doing.”
However Young does express frustration that artists over a certain age do not get a lot of support and points to legendary artists from Tom Jones to The Rolling Stones whose new music is often ignored.
“I do think we are lacking something to foster that population who have been left behind by mainstream media,” Young said of Baby Boomers.
“We’re left floundering.”
In the meantime Young is once again reinventing himself, this time by returning to the stage to play a washed-up rockstar now running a caravan park in the Sydney Fringe Festival production of Van Park (for details, visit sydneyfringe.org.au).
“It’s pretty close to the bone,” he laughs.
“It’s good for people to see the other side of me. I became a teen idol at 19 and have spent the rest of my life with that image.”
Steve Graham
Priscilla's pub to join the fringe dwellers
Sydney's landmark gay venue the Imperial Hotel could host two resurrections when it reopens later this year.
The Erskineville pub, which closed three years ago, is expected to begin serving drinks as early as September pending council approval, and is in talks to host the revamped Sydney Fringe Festival when it opens.
It would not only mean the famous drag venue - made famous in the film Priscilla Queen of the Desert - was active again, but it would provide a home for the festival which folded in 2002.
Josephine Tovey
Sydney Fringe Festival get Marrickville Council support
SYDNEY’S first ever fringe festival will be staged in the Inner West this September thanks to a $40,000 handshake from Marrickville Council.
Ratepayers have help the Newtown Entertainment Precinct Association (NEPA) put on the 17-day festival, which is slated to run from September 10 to 26 with up to 80 events.
NEPA is a conglomeration of local entertainment venues including Aerialize, Enmore Theatre, Factory Theatre, Carriage Works, New Theatre, Seymour Centre, and Sidetrack Theatre.
Local venues to host the Sydney Fringe Festival events will include Red Rattler, Cad Factory, St Stephen’s Church, and Newtown School of Arts.
The group also asked the council for free use of the Petersham Town Hall and Enmore Park.
NEPA committee member Mark Cleary described the festival as “exciting and dynamic”.
The festival is expected to bring about $3.5 million to local businesses.
A call out for performers closed last week and more than 300 submissions were made.
About a third came from artists and performers living in the Marrickville municipality, Mr Cleary said.
Organisers expect 20,000 people to attend this year, increasing by 25 per cent in 2011.
NEPA has already received $65,000 from Sydney Council and an offer of $20,000 from Events NSW for the festival.
It has also employed Kris Stewart as festival director.
Marrickville councillors voted unanimously for the $40,000 one-off contribution and free use of two venues.
Cr Laura Wright said the festival would help promote areas other than Newtown and Enmore as entertainment destinations.
Cr Peter Olive said it was the “‘right time and right location”.
“Newtown is a cultural epicentre of Sydney and it will work,” he said.
Cr Dimitrios Thanos welcomed the new event but remained cautious of spending ratepayers money on entertainment.
“There is no doubt this will be an exceptional festival but we’ve got to be careful.”
Lana Lam
Newtown gets a cutting-edge fringe
Edgy and downtown … the Sydney Fringe Festival director, Kris Stewart, will bring new works to Newtown.
Photo: Peter Rae
December 18, 2009
CALL it a tale of two tribes: Bondi's wheatgrass-juice drinkers versus Newtown's black-clad fringe dwellers. Can what fizzled by the beach take off in the inner-west? Organisers of a new Sydney Fringe Festival are convinced it can.
The inner-west has the venues, the vibe and the audiences, according to the festival's newly appointed director, Kris Stewart.
''Newtown and the inner-west feels like the right place for a cutting-edge festival,'' he said.
The festival will be modelled on the edgy fringes of Dublin and New York, with a downtown aesthetic, rather than Adelaide and Edinburgh. ''Initially the idea was simply to create a festival that embodied the spirit of the inner-west,'' he said. But it soon became apparent that what he had on his hands was a fringe festival.
The two-week event, to be held in September, will use venues in Newtown, Marrickville and Enmore to showcase new work, including music, visual art, performance, visual and digital arts.
Adelaide-born Stewart, 35, is back in Australia after five years as founding director of the New York Musical Theatre Festival.
The Bondi-based festival folded in 2002 after nearly a decade.
Applications to perform at the festival will open in January.
Joyce Morgan
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