What we did

As you might expect, we were pretty busy over the holiday period, with Excel equipment in use at quite a few big events:

Magic Millions Barrier Draw

Click on the image to see some of the photos from the event on the Gold Coast recently.

Woodford Folk Festival

What must be the biggest folk music event in Australia took place over six days and included The Dreaming, Australia’s international indigenous festival. Festivalgoers this year were lucky to get great weather.

Blah Blah Blah Music Festival (infrastructure supplier)
This boutique music festival featuring underground music acts that you don’t get to see at the major festivals, celebrated its third event at South Bank in Brisbane on 28 December. Excel supplied all the event infrastructure. Read more at the Blah Blah Blah Festival website.

Foo Fighters
The Foo Fighters played to a packed Metricon stadium last month at the Gold Coast stadium’s very first music event. Read more about the gig on the Metricon stadium’s website. Excel supplied additional infrastructure for the gig, which also featured actor Jack Black and his band Tenacious D.

The Wiggles
A slightly younger audience were wowed at the RNA Showgrounds last month by The Wiggles. As their concert followed on from the Stereosonic Festival earlier, some Excel marquee and flooring equipment was on the bill at The Wiggles concert.

What’s happening in February

If you want to go iceskating in February, Queensland would probably not be the first place you’d go looking. But you’d be wrong of course, as Iceworld Acacia Ridge is an Olympic standard ice rink. So as not to disappoint their customers, Iceworld have set up a temporary icerink in their car park while the main rink is being refurbished for two months from January 23rd. And, you’ve guessed it, the 20m x 40m icerink will be housed in a large Excel marquee.

You may not notice a huge difference on our website – it hasn’t had a major redesign. Instead, this year we are focused on making it easier for you to find what you are looking for on the site.

Here are some of the changes:

Search Box

An improvement we have already introduced is a search function on every page – just tap in what you’re looking for and hey presto it pulls up all relevant pages. If you’re looking for particular information this is one of the best ways to find it.

New Pages – News & Events

We’ve added a News page which archives all the news stories and articles we’ve run in our newsletter and on the site over the past few years. We also now have an Events page which is to let you know about Excel’s own events, like the Brisbane Melbourne Cup event last year.

And there are more improvements coming – watch this space!

The first Brisbane based event of its kind, the inaugural Melbourne Cup Brisbane day was a stunning success (even though we say so ourselves!). (more…)

You may have read our previous report on the Fashion Festival which was on 20-26 August this year. Again we supported this event – the premier fashion event in Queensland – supplying our stunning 60m marquee which was set up by the side of the Brisbane River on Brisbane’s iconic South Bank. (more…)

Since we’ve been sending out our email newsletter Excel Xtra!, we’ve aimed to help you with advice and hints and tips on organising events – and we’ve had some great feedback on this.

However, all our hints and tips are buried in our news section, so we thought we’d pull them all together for you. (more…)

On Sunday 25th September the Australian Open Polo Final was held at the Channel Seven Doomben Polo Fields inside the Brisbane Racing Club’s racecourse. We were delighted to be involved with the supply and styling of the Bollinger Pavilion at the event, (more…)

We have recently added a few new items to our hire inventory of function accessories: (more…)

Melbourne Cup Day
We can’t believe it’s only 23 days to go until the Melbourne Cup, and our biggest event of the year, the Melbourne Cup Brisbane 2011. (more…)

Parklife
What can you say about an event that has 58,000 followers on Facebook – it’s big. This year the event tracked around (more…)

Preparations continue apace for the biggest event on the Brisbane social calendar this year – Melbourne Cup Brisbane 2011. (more…)