Sparks for your eyes and stars for your ears

Wednesday 30 December 2009, 9.26 AM
By The Team | Posted in Events

New Year’s Eve in the City: City Rooftops Fireworks Spectacular

As if the city’s annual New Year’s Eve fireworks display wasn’t spectacular enough already, this year’s display will be accompanied by some of the most power-packed, sparkling stars Melbourne has ever seen.

All kinds of dancing going on
As our city’s rooftops erupt with their amazing displays of colour and light, the accompanying soundtrack will feature big hits from artists including Kylie, the Black Eyed Peas, Pink and Guy Sebastian. So it won’t just be the fireworks dancing across the city this Thursday night!

If you’re watching the show and you’re not at one of the city’s four entertainment sites, tune your radio to 99.7FM for the full audio-visual experience.

The full fireworks soundtrack list includes:

• Can You Feel It: The Jacksons
• Celebration: Kylie
• Like it Like That: Guy Sebastian
• Good Times: Latch Key Kid
• I Gotta Feelin’: Black Eyed Peas
• Everybodys Free: Rozalla
• Get The Party Started: Pink
• Get Down Tonight: KC and the Sunshine Band
• Halo / Walking On Sunshine: Glee cast
• Auld Lang Syne: Red Hot Chili Pipers

And if music’s your thing, make sure you check out the live band and DJ line-ups at each of the city’s entertainment sites.

Pyrotechnicians – so hot right now
The terms ‘giant silver Chrysanthemum’, ‘rooftop Tourbillion’ and ‘multiple barrages of Golden Kamuro’ might not sound too exciting written down here, but these are actually the names of some of our most striking and memorable fireworks.

We’ve got an internationally acclaimed pyrotechnician team in town to create our most spectacular New Year’s Eve display yet. And just quietly, we’re not sure why so many Romeos (or Juliets) like to pretend they are astronauts or architects to impress their ‘intendeds’. Pyrotechnicians are surely much hotter!

The city’s midnight fireworks display will see around 1,400 fireworks shot off a series of building rooftops, plus 3,000 aerial shells fired off a barge in Victoria Harbour at Docklands and 6,000 large aerial shells launched from ground sites.

So yes, it’s going to be big.

Where to see the show
Remember, this year’s fireworks will not be at the Yarra River. Instead the fireworks will burst from the top of city buildings from the central city to Docklands. You’ll see the magic anywhere you can see the city skyline.

So at the strike of midnight plug in your headphones or switch on your radio (even those at home can listen), turn the dial to 99.7FM, pump up the volume and look to Melbourne’s skyline.

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