This New Year’s Eve put on your dancing shoes as Kelly Landry, Blair McDonough and Shura Taft take you live to the heart of Melbourne’s festivities to welcome in 2009 with New Year’s Eve Fireworks from 11.30pm on Wednesday, December 31.
Shura Taft has exclusive behind-the-scenes access to Melbourne’s biggest ever dance party, Sensation at Telstra Dome, Docklands. With an expected crowd of 40,000, Nine will be front and centre as the party pumps into the night with circus performers, fireworks, light shows and some of the world’s best DJs.
Sensation started in Amsterdam in 2000 and has gained a reputation as the world’s biggest and best dance event. With the crowd requested by organisers to dress in all-white it has become a worldwide phenomenon, selling out venues across Europe, the UK, South America, Spain and now Melbourne.
Across the city, Kelly Landry and Blair McDonough will be at the Victorian Arts Centre where thousands of people will gather for a spectacular fireworks display guaranteed to light up Melbourne’s skyline. The City of Melbourne will stage two incredible New Year’s Eve fireworks shows which will be visible from thousands of vantage points around town, with Nine’s cameras capturing all the explosive colour.
Viewers at home are in for a treat as well. At 6.00pm Nine News will cover all the hotspots and advise NYE partygoers on the best ways to get in and around the city on the night, with live crosses to reporters on location. At 7.30pm Michael Usher looks back on 2008 with The Year That Was. At 8.30pm Bert Newton dusts off his tux for 20 To 1: Aussie Parties and Pastimes. And at 9.30pm Richard Wilkins and Lizzie Lovette get the party going with hot music on Nine’s New Year’s Eve Party Zone.
So whether you’re out and about or celebrating at home the Nine Network will have New Year’s Eve covered, including a full wrap-up of celebrations from around Australia and across the world in Today and Nine News bulletins on New Year’s Day.