Famous+venues

Sidney Myer Music Bowl.
The Sidney Myer Music Bowl is an outdoor music venue located in Kings Domain park. On February the 12th, 1959 it was unveiled by the Prime Minister at the time Robert Menzies in front of a crowd of 30,000 people. Since its opening a number of well known international superstars and local musicians have played there. Some of these include; ABBA, AC/DC, Blondie, Metallica, Daft Punk, Neil Diamond, Bon Jovi, Red Hot Chilli peppers and many more. Sidney Myer Music Bowl is the largest Victorian outdoors music venue and is listed under heritage. The Sidney Myer Music Bowl annually holds carols by candlelight, before the 1959 when the music bowl was finished carols b candlelight was spent in the park around the same places as the music bowl sits today.



Palace theater.

Also known as the Palace, this theater was established in 1860 for large musicals, now a days its home to a vast number of acts. These acts range from huge international bands to small Melbourne based ones. The Palace is located at the top of Bourke St, just across from Victoria's State Parliament. The Palace Theater is said to be haunted by the ghost of Louis Borsalino the acrobat that fell to his death. Borsalino was performing his signature move, the nose dive when he slipped and fell to his death. Stage hands working at the Palace claim to have seen a man hanging from the rafters swinging back and forth.



Forum theater.
The Forum theater, formerly known as the State theater had the largest seating capacity in Australia when established, holding 3371 people. In 1963 the Forum theater was converted into two cinemas, Forum 1 and Forum 2. Forum 1 only holds 540 as opposed to Forum 2 seating capacity of 2300. It was heritage listed in 1978 and renovated in 1981. A few years later the Forum was bought by a Christian organization and fell into disrepair later to be bought yet again by stage developments Melbourne who redeveloped it for use as a Melbourne film and concert venue. The Forum theater is home to some of the Worlds leading acts such as Oasis, Ozzy Osbourne, Katy Perry and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.



Festival Hall
Festival hall is one of the larger music venues in Melbourne, built in 1915 as a boxing and wrestling venue. Festival Hall was decimated by fire in 1953 but rebuilt for the 1955 Olympics. Festival Hall is known as the original house or rock n roll. Some of the major musicians to play there are Alice Cooper, AC/DC, Arctic monkeys, The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Bruno Mars, Elton John, Foo Fighters, Green Day, Iron Maiden, Jackson 5, Kings of Leon, Lady Gaga, Metallica, Midnight oil, Pink Floyd, Tenacious D, The living end, Wolfmother and ZZ top. As you can see Festival hall is home to some of the biggest names in the world.



Hamer Hall
Hamer Hall, formerly known as the Melbourne Concert hall is located inside the Arts Centre on St. Kilda road. Hamer Hall is used for orchestras and musicals. Melbourne Concert hall was opened in 1982 and was renamed in 2004 to Hamer Hall after Sir Rupert Hamer. Sir Ruper Hamer was the 39th Premier of Victoria. Hamer was chairman of the Victorian State Opera from 1982 to 1995. Hamer Hall is the largest complex inside the Victorian Arts Centre seating a total of 2,661 people. Hamer Hall went under major redevelopment in 2010 costing an estimate of $128.5 million Dollars. The renovations include; Larger corridors, expanded seating spaces, expanded stages and lighting and state of the art sound systems.