We headed down to Clarke Quay to meet our friends Kiran and Tracy, for some dinner and to check out the Music festival that was on down there, Music Matters Live.
Shiraz – 3A River
Valley Road (Clarke Quay)
We met Kiran and Tracy at Shiraz, which is a Persian
restaurant in the very middle of Clarke Quay.
The place was crowded, as it was a Saturday night and the music festival
was on. So between the Persian music and
the live stage that was 100m away it was extremely loud, but the dinner was
really nice, and as you’d expect from a Persian restaurant it was a meat
fest! We were lucky enough to be there
during the dinner entertainment of an Asian belly dancer, which was good for a
laugh, until she kept coming out every 15 minutes with her dancing lasting
about 10 minutes, and every time you thought the music was going to stop...it
started back up again. If you’re into a
delicious meat fest and some funny entertainment, head down to Shiraz.
Shuffle Bar –
Clarke Quay
After checking out a band on the live stage in the centre
of the Clarke Quay and realising that heavy metal NZ band wasn’t really
floating our boats, Kiran mentioned that he’d seen a Singaporean blues guy on
the opening night, who was based in Melbourne now and he was quite good. So we thought we’d go and check him out. His name was Charlie Lim, and he was playing
at the Shuffle Bar (quite aptly named for James), so we headed up to the packed
bar. After finally getting in to the
standing room only bar, we had to wait 15 mins until Charlie came on, so we
ordered some ciders and settled in.
Whilst there, we came across the towers of beer. Yep that’s right, as seen in the photo,
instead of jugs here; they have towers of beer/cider. These ones were in the form of the Eiffel
Tower, of which we saw one topple over whilst being carried through the crowd,
which was quite funny. So Charlie Lim
comes on, and he as Kiran said was really good, so if anyone from Melbs hears
of him playing, definitely check him out.
After Charlie finished, we headed back to the main stage, saw five
minutes of another "band", and then headed home.
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