Sat, 26 Mar, 2011
Francesca Martinez will tell you she’s wobbly. She started her career on the (only recently-cancelled) teen classic Grange Hill, has performed with QI favourite Jo Brand, and been on Extras and Spicks and Specks. She makes her living as a standup these days. She’s coming to Sydney, running her only local gig out of Parramatta’s monthly Laugh […]
Thu, 10 Mar, 2011
Red Rattler, Marrickville
A night of film at the Red Rattler mixing old films and new, where the evening's only rule is that any sound needs to be done live on the night.
Mon, 7 Mar - Sun, 8 May 2011
Rookwood General Cemetery, Rookwood
Hidden brings together over thirty artists in the grounds of Rookwood Cemetery, inviting the public to wander amongst the graves.
Wed, 9 Mar, 2011
Enmore Theatre, Newtown
Anarchic. Chaotic. Creative. Everything a sixties TV rockband was claimed to be, Os Mutantes was in real life.
Sat, 12 Mar, 2011
Riverside Theatres, Parramatta
This regular festivity is getting ready to break down the martini drinker's appeal into its constituent elements of glamour and sex appeal.
Thu, 3 Mar - Sat, 19 Feb 2011
Damien Minton Gallery, Redfern
Dean Manning, formerly of Leonardo’s Bride, and currently singing with Angie Hart in Holidays on Ice, has a big artistic side, with a style somewhere near early British colonial art and Sidney Nolan. Growing up around travelling side-shows, Manning very quickly learned to look at the downscale behind the small glamours of the carnivalesque. His new […]
Fri, 4 Mar - Sun, 20 Mar 2011
Good God Small Club, Sydney
Emerging this year as a bigger and better-funded incarnation of its former self, this festival of strange art, performance and general fringe activity is sure to inspire in its new SMAC award-winning home.
Sat, 26 Feb, 2011
Carriageworks, Eveleigh
Curated by sustainable rockers [i]Music For Trees[/i], this 5-hour session of live music will feature a stellar line-up of local talent throughout Carriagworks' cavernous foyer.
Sun, 3 Apr, 2011
Shady Pines Saloon, Darlinghurst
In bars, theatres and festivals around Sydney, one woman has been educating Sydneysiders in a new version of an old sound.
Thu, 24 Feb, 2011
LO-FI Collective, Surry Hills
When he moved to Paris, US street artist Above went from the literal to the figurative and started signing his name with an arrow. Having started his career tagging trains in California, he began sticking up pointed wooden mobiles instead. A few years ago, he checked out Latin America’s street art, where for a while […]
Fri, 11 Feb, 2011
Enmore Theatre, Newtown
Having shot to fame with the Commotions, ex-label rocker turned successful, self-produced artist is bringing his new band and album to our shores.
Sat, 19 Feb - Sat, 26 Feb 2011
Pine Street Creative Arts Centre, Chippendale
Kissing as a universal and all-around lovely experience is showcased as part of the International Day Against Homophobia and this year's Mardi Gras season.
Fri, 4 Feb - Sat, 12 Feb 2011
Australian Centre for Photography, Darlinghurst
Three new exhibitions embracing imaginative new worlds and remodeling reality have graced the walls of the Australian Centre for Photography.
Sun, 13 Feb, 2011
The MCA's Weekend Art Sessions invite you to let your artistic imagination run wild in the surrounds of a big-gallery space.
Thu, 6 Jan - Sun, 27 Feb 2011
Bicentennial Park Glebe
The 2011 Festival alternates between [i]A Midsummer Night's[/i] Dream and [i]Romeo and Juliet[/i], performed under the stars. A perfect way to spend a summer Sunday evening.
Fri, 28 Jan - Sun, 30 Jan 2011
The Famous Spiegeltent, Sydney
Lots of bands get accused of having an eclectic range of influences. The Unthanks, instead, get accused of being the eclectic influence. Their reach covers not only musos like Elvis Costello and Radiohead, but has also helped inspire a revival of lo-fi clog dancing. Part of a musical current unwraping live music from the electric, […]