Posts Tagged ‘music’
Changing Lanes 2011
The MAPS/FBi 94.5FM Changing Lanes Festival landed in Surry Hills this year, expanding out from last year’s more cosy Newtown setting.
Bleeding Knees Club … my new favourite band.
More shenanigans. Installation by Jesse Willesee.
Another Jesse Willesee installation. Performance from Jack Mannix, of Circle Pit.
The SMAC Awards
The winners of the inaugural SMAC Awards (Sydney Music, Arts & Culture) were unveiled to the world on sunday night, at a party held down at the Sydney Opera House. The awards, presented by Timeout Sydney & FBi 94.5, were thought up as a way to honour Sydney’s cultural innovators with traditional categories such as “Best Music Performance” mixed in with other more unusual ones, such as the “Remix the City” Award, rewarding the person or team who have used the city’s space in the most creative way.
Fergus Linehan took out the SMAC of the Year Award, for his sterling work directing the lineup of the annual Sydney Festival for the last three years.
- SMAC OF THE YEAR AWARD – FERGUS LINEHAN
- SMAC REMIX THE CITY AWARD – BIENNALE AT COCKATOO ISLAND
- SMAC IN YOUR FACE AWARD – RAISE THE BAR
- BEST MUSIC EVENT – SYDNEY FESTIVAL BECKS BAR/SPIEGELTENT
- BEST MUSIC PERFORMANCE – DAPPLED CITIES
- RECORD OF THE YEAR – THE PRESETS Apocalypso
- BEST MUSIC NEWCOMER – CLOUD CONTROL
- BEST ARTS EVENT – UNDERBELLY PUBLIC ARTS LAB AND FESTIVAL
- BEST VISUAL ARTIST – KILL PIXIE
- BEST ACTOR/ PERFORMER – BRENDAN COWELL – Hamlet
- BEST ARTS NEWCOMER – GREEDY HEN
Bonde do Rolê
After a few musically-quiet weeks, I went to check out Brazilian baile-funk band Bonde do Rolê play last night at the Forum over at Fox Studios.
It was an awesome show. They’re a party band to the extreme, with frenetic on-stage action – I lost count of the number of times I had to dodge drinks (from both on and off-stage), inflatable penguins flying into the back of my head as they were tossed around in the crowd, as well as various members of the band leaping down into the photo pit to jump into the audience.
They’ll be in Sydney for the weekend, playing the We Love Sounds festival.
