Each major city in Australia holds New Year's Eve celebrations, usually accompanied by a fireworks display. The most prominent celebration in the country is Sydney Harbour New Year's Eve of two fireworks shows — the evening "Family Fireworks" at 9:00 p.m., and the main fireworks at midnight. Sydney Harbour Bridge is a focal point of the show, via pyrotechnics launched from the bridge, as well as lighting displays that illuminate it during the show. Fireworks are set off from multiple other pints along the middle of the harbour from barges. Local Sydney councils also hold firework displays. The northern hill at Sydney Park, 5 km south of the CBD, was a good vantage point, always crowded by thousands of people, to see many of them. Over the years, local councils have invaded these spontaneous public gatherings by moulding them into uncreative, organised events flattened by mind-numbing, doof-doof, washing-machine rumble. Commercial conformity killing community creativity for "consoomers" to herd in and graze. Musically, Sydney is a very uncreative place. It embraces the safe and commercial. The music scene is largely funded by gambling. For rock, doof-doof and rap audiences it's a race to get drugged or drunk to keep vital against swirling strident soundscapes dead-deafened by deludedly curatorial drones. [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPRpLw2Ktqg[/embed]

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In 1976, the Sydney Committee decided to repackage the failing Waratah Festival into the Festival of Sydney. They agreed that New Year's Eve should launch the new festival as a 'big bang affair'. This made New Year's Eve official in Sydney for the first time.

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Gloucester Park, a racecourse in central Perth, is the largest and most recognized display in the Western Australian city. In Brisbane events are held at Southbank. At night, 50,000 Australians gather at sites around the Brisbane River to watch a fireworks display. In Melbourne, hundreds of thousands of Australians come to the Central Business District to see the fireworks.  In the South Australian capital of Adelaide, events are held at both Rymill Park in the city, Semaphore and at Glenelg beach. Here's TV coverage of the Sydney New Year fireworks in 2021. TV coverage of the Sydney fireworks has two embarrassing traditions,

1. Struggling hosts (with the exception of Lawrence Mooney),
2. Cringey muzak smothering the exciting atmosphere of the fireworks going off and the cheering of millions.

Millions of dollars are spent on the fireworks. The talent and craft of the pyrotechnicians is extraordinary as you'll see in the clip. The insta-music soundtrack is like putting a butterfly decal over the Mona Lisa. "Here's the butterfly decal, everybody! Yay!" The video is best watched with the sound off... [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0OQ1LkLjIw[/embed]

27 DECEMBER PLAY LIST

Play List - The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney LISTEN ONLINECommunity Radio Network Show CRN #577
107.3 2SER Tuesday 27 December 2022 12:04 - 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) and Saturdays 5 - 5:55pm National Program 5UV Adelaide Monday 2:30 - 3:30am 5GTR Mt Gambier Monday 2:30 - 3:30am 3MBR Murrayville Monday 3 - 4am 4NAG Keppel FM Monday 3 - 4am 2MIA Griffith Monday 3 - 4am 2BAR Edge FM Bega Monday 3 - 4am 2BRW Braidwood Monday 3 - 4am 2YYY Young Monday 3 - 4am 3VKV Alpine Radio Monday 6 - 7pm 7MID Oatlands Monday 3am - 4 and 6 -7pm 2MCE Bathurst Wednesday 9 - 10am 1ART ArtsoundFM Canberra Friday 10 - 11am and Sunday 11pm Reading Radio (QLD) Friday 1am - 2 2RRR Ryde Friday 11am - 12 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 - 1pm 5LCM Lofty FM Adelaide Friday 1 - 2pm 6GME Radio Goolarri Broome Saturday 4am - 5am Denmark FM (West Australia) Saturday 10 – 11am Repeat: Wednesdays 10 – 11pm 7LTN Launceston Sunday 5 - 6am 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 - 6am 3BBR West Gippsland Sunday 5 - 6pm 2SEA Sapphire Coast Eden Sunday 9 - 10pm
Set 1	Count Basie 1960
One O'Clock Jump (theme) + Jingle Bells	Count Basie Orchestra	'Monitor' Birdland WNBC NBC NYC 31 Dec 1960
Alright, Okay, You Win	Count Basie Orchestra (voc) Joe Williams	'Monitor' Birdland WNBC NBC NYC 31 Dec 1960
Jumpin' at the Woodside	Count Basie Orchestra	'Monitor' Birdland WNBC NBC NYC 31 Dec 1960
One O'Clock Jump (extended theme)	Count Basie Orchestra	'Monitor' Birdland WNBC NBC NYC 31 Dec 1960
Set 2	Woody Herman 1954
Blue Flame + Third Herd	Woody Herman's Third Herd	'All-Star Parade of Bands' Blue Note WMAQ NBC Chicago 31 Dec 1954
Sleepy Serenade	Woody Herman's Third Herd	'All-Star Parade of Bands' Blue Note WMAQ NBC Chicago 31 Dec 1954
Get Outta Town	Woody Herman's Third Herd (voc) Leah Matthews	'All-Star Parade of Bands' Blue Note WMAQ NBC Chicago 31 Dec 1954
Apple Honey	Woody Herman's Third Herd	'All-Star Parade of Bands' Blue Note WMAQ NBC Chicago 31 Dec 1954
Set 3	Dorsey Brothers 1954
I'm Getting Sentimental Over You (theme) + Lover	Dorsey Brothers Orchestra	'All-Star Parade of Bands' Cafe Rouge Hotel Statler WRCA NBC NYC 31 Dec 1954
Do it Yourself	Dorsey Brothers Orchestra	'All-Star Parade of Bands' Cafe Rouge Hotel Statler WRCA NBC NYC 31 Dec 1954
Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight + Happy Days Are Here Again + Well Get It	Dorsey Brothers Orchestra (d) Buddy Rich	'All-Star Parade of Bands' Cafe Rouge Hotel Statler WRCA NBC NYC 1 Jan 1955
It Happens to Be Me + Stomping Down Broadway	Dorsey Brothers Orchestra (voc) Lynn Roberts	'All-Star Parade of Bands' Cafe Rouge Hotel Statler WRCA NBC NYC 1 Jan 1955
Set 4	Sy Oliver & Earl 'Fatha' Hines
Theme + Rumble	Sy Oliver Orchestra	'All-Star Parade of Bands' The Riverboat WNBC NBC NYC 1 Jan 1971
Deep Forest (theme) + Dippermouth Blues	Earl 'Fatha' Hines	'New Year's Dancing Party' Club Hangover KCBS CBS San Francisco 1 Jan 1957
When the Saints Go Marching In	Earl 'Fatha' Hines	'New Year's Dancing Party' Club Hangover KCBS CBS San Francisco 1 Jan 1957
Tiger Rag	Earl 'Fatha' Hines	'New Year's Dancing Party' Club Hangover KCBS CBS San Francisco 1 Jan 1957
Set 5	New Years Eve 1945
Robin Hood	Louis Prima Orchestra (voc) LP	'New Year's Dancing Party' Salt Lake City AFRS Hollywood 31 Dec 1945
Gotta Be This or That	Benny Goodman Orchestra with Red Norvo & Slam Stewart	'New Year's Dancing Party' Boston AFRS Hollywood 31 Dec 1945
Let the Zoomers' Drool	Duke Ellington Orchestra	'New Year's Dancing Party' Evansville IN AFRS Hollywood 31 Dec 1945
Auld Lang Syne	Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians	'New Year's Dancing Party' Gril Room Hotel Roosevelt NYC AFRS Hollywood 31 Dec 1945
Set 6	Gene Krupa
Open + Flying Home	Gene Krupa Quartet	'All-Star Parade of Bands' Metropole Cafe WNBC NBC NYC 31 Dec 1965
Dark Eyes	Gene Krupa Quartet	'All-Star Parade of Bands' Metropole Cafe WNBC NBC NYC 31 Dec 1965
Set 7	Dorsey Brothers
Green Eyes	Dorsey Brothers Orchestra (voc) Jilla Webb & Tommy Mercer	Meadowbrook Ballroom Cedar Grove NJ WCBS CBS NY 1 Jan 1956
Flagler's Drive	Dorsey Brothers Orchestra	Meadowbrook Ballroom Cedar Grove NJ WCBS CBS NY 1 Jan 1956
Your Daddy's Got the Gleeks	Dorsey Brothers Orchestra (voc) Charlie Shavers	Meadowbrook Ballroom Cedar Grove NJ WCBS CBS NY 1 Jan 1956
Stomping Down Broadway	Dorsey Brothers Orchestra	Meadowbrook Ballroom Cedar Grove NJ WCBS CBS NY 1 Jan 1956
Set 8	Charlie Parker
Jumping with Symphony Sid (theme) + Be Bop	Charlie Parker	Royal Roost WMCA NYC 1 Jan 1949
Slow Boat to China	Charlie Parker	Royal Roost WMCA NYC 1 Jan 1949
Ornithology	Charlie Parker	Royal Roost WMCA NYC 1 Jan 1949