Guinness to host the Largest St. Patrick's Celebration in Asia!

Guinness to host the Largest St. Patrick’s Celebration in Asia!

By Michael Yip | February, 28, 2012 | 0 comments

The word is out! Guinness marked the start of a month filled with fun, laughter and friends with the launch of it’s Guinness St. Patrick’s Celebration at Malone’s in Pavilion KL recently. With an attendance of approximately 250 guests including members of the media, trade partners and Guest of Honour, Shane Stevens, Deputy Head of Mission from the Embassy of Ireland, it was all fun and laughter from the word GO!

For the 6th year running, Malaysia will be looking at 2012 to host the largest Guinness St. Patrick’s Celebration in Asia! “Guinness and St. Patrick’s Day have always gone hand-in-hand as globally-recognized icons of Ireland. As this is the 6th year, we are hosting this internationally renowned celebration, consumer can expect an even grander and more remarkable St. Patrick’s experience.” said Ms. Yap Swee Leng, Marketing Director of GAB, at the launch party.

The emcee for the night at Malone’s was Serena C of Mix.FM and she made sure everyone’s having a blast from getting the Guests to go crazy in front of the camera to giving out party packs (as long as they played the games). She was totally in her element! Of course, we have to do our customary poses together. (we need to figure out a new pose after this!)

Central to the theme of this year’s celebrations – ‘Celebrate the laughter side of life’, Guinness will be hosting a weekend of St. Patrick’s Fun at Changkat Bukit Bintang starting on the 16th of March from 6pm to 12am with fun loving buskers, entertaining games and hilaroius comedy tours by some of the most hysterically funny people in the local stand-up scene. March 17 will see Changkat Bukit Bintang be turned into an iconic St. Party from 6pm onwards til late too!

This year, Guinness is also rallying hundreds and thousands of friends and fans from Malaysia and around the world to help make this year’s St. Patrick’s the biggest, best and most enjoyable St. Patrick’s celebration with an attempt at a new Guinness World Record for the ‘Friendliest Day of the Year’ by getting 1 Million people worldwide to pledge online at facebook.com/GuinnessMalaysia and StPatricks.com.my.

The St. Patrick’s Day party will not only be in KL but also in Ipoh, Penang, Melaka, Johor, Pahang and East Malaysia! From the 2nd of March onwards, there’s 13 St. Patrick’s Day parties being hosted throughout the Klang Valley. The venues are Beer Factory, Sunway Giza on the 2nd March, Jarrod & Rawlins, Damansara Heights and Malones at KL Sentral on the 8th March, Royal Oak in Solaris Mont Kiara on the 9th March, 10th March will be at Sid’s Pub in Damansara Heights, Delaney’s in Bukit Bintang on the 15th March and Souled Out Sri Hartamas is having a long stretch of parties on the 8th, 15th, 22nd and 29th of March.

Bulldog in Sri Hartamas on the 16th at the same time with the party at Changkat Bukit Bintang, great for those who dont’ want to get into the massive traffic expected in KL, The Social in Bangsar on the 22nd and the Backyard Sri Hartamas on the 29th. 10 venues, 13 Parties and it’s the celebration of the Funnest (… Funnest???) month of the year! Well,… that’s until we kick off the celebration for Arthur’s Day and then Merry Guinness….