We’re throwing together a mini-festival at Sydney‘s Metro Theatre on May 21, with A+ acts like Sophie Lowe, Collarbones & more helping us raise money for Youth Off The Streets. It’s gunna be a fucking great night, during that time of year where good nights are hard to come by, and you’re all invited. RSVP HERE to help us give back, with all donations made on the night going towards youth homelessness.
Sorry guys, but summer is officially no more and you’re going to have to start dealing with that.
Slipping a nip while throwing back in the sun is well behind us for another year, but there are plenty of ways you can still get your social on, y’know, fully clothed and with minimal sweat dripping down your sensitives.
Tbh it’s like Australia knows that you’re about to go all hermit crab on it, and schedules a whole bunch of A+ events to replace your weekend Netflix binge.
Here’s a round-up of everything ol’ mate society has got planned for you this month, ‘Straya-wide:
SYDNEY COMEDY FESTIVAL
Photo: Facebook / Sydney Comedy Festival.
If you love a good morally-bankrupt LOL than get to one of the many shows at Syd Comedy Festival this month. It’s already begun but there’s still a bunch of shows you can see over the next week – it’s worth the quickie transaction. Think Dave Hughes, Arj Barker, Ash Williams and Becky Lucas. Yep. Yep. Yep. Give us all the ROFLs.
PRICE: Cheap to reasonable.
DATE: Until May 15.
LOCATION: Around Sydney.
TICKETS: Buy HERE.
PEDESTRIAN HELP MINI-FESTIVAL
Digest some live music with the mini-festival we’re holding for y’all on May 21, to help raise funds for Youth Off The Streets. Having a banger of a night is that much better when it’s all for a good cause, so come party with us and a platter of A+ Aussie acts all night long (we’ve given #CasinoMike a big F-U for this one and’ll be kicking it til 3am). Side note: DZ Deathrays (DJ set) and GG Magree have just been added to the lineup.
LINEUP:
Amateur Dance
AUSTRALIA
Collarbones
DZ Deathrays (DJ set)
Gill Bates
GG Magree
Luen
Pearls
Polographia
ROOF
Sophie Lowe
Wax Witches
PRICE: FREE with RSVP (donation at entry warmly welcomed with all money raised on the night going to Youth Off The Streets).
DATE: May 21.
LOCATION: Metro Theatre, Sydney, NSW.
TICKETS: RSVP HERE.
Also, click HERE for more music mini-festivals under $50.
VIVID SYDNEY
Photo: Facebook / Vivid Sydney.
If you’re heading into Syd CBD from May 27-Jun 18, try not to double dunk beforehand. Not only does the Harbour Bridge, Opera House & basically everything you touch light up brighter than Whoville on Christmas, there’s also a bunch of A+ talks and music gigs that’ll keep you entertained. Think over 89 music events that’ll go down over the three-week period, from Vera Blue for $20, Kuka & Rachael Archibald for $15, KLP for $12 or even the BJÖRK DIGITAL Exhibition for FREEEEE.
PRICE:
From free to reasonable.
DATES: May 27-Jun 18.
LOCATIONS: Around Sydney.
TICKETS:
Buy HERE.
BASS IN THE GRASS
Photo: Facebook / Bass In The Grass.
Australia’s best musicians will be rolled into one delicious burrito for a different “in the grass” festival that you don’t have to spend a week’s wage on. First release for this rippin’ fest is already sold out, so you best get cracking.
LINEUP:
Angus & Julia Stone
Bliss & Esso
Boy & Bear
Drapft
Hermitude
Rüfüs
Tkay Maidza
Violent Soho
PRICE: From $100
DATE: May 21.
LOCATION: Darwin Amphitheatre, George Brown Botanical Gardens, NT.
TICKETS: Buy HERE.
AUSSIE WINE MONTH
Photo: HBO.
Whether you’re a “I’ll take your cheapest bottle plz” or love yourself some swanky Savvy B, there’s a whole month dedicated to getting drunk without really trying and looking like a semi-classy human while you’re at it.
PRICE: From $0.
DATE: All May.
LOCATION: Australia-wide.
TICKETS: More info on events near you HERE.
GOOD BEER WEEK
Photo: Facebook / Gabs Festival.
What? Thought wine was gonna get a whole month of lovin’ without a fight from its polar opposite? Get excited Melburnians, ’cause you’ve got a bloody beer week to froth over during May. If that’s not a good enough reason to get out of the house, than we don’t know what is.
PRICE: Y’know what they say – once you pop you can’t stop.
DATE: May 13-22.
LOCATION: Around Melbourne (+ Gabs Beer/Food/Cider festival in Sydney May 27-28).
TICKETS: More info on events near you HERE.
ONE DAY SUNDAYS
Photo: Facebook / One Day.
In Autumn it’s pretty normal to stay in all weekend, get so overwhelmed with your togetherness and consequently rage out of the house ready to mess shit up at the last minute. All hail the ultimate Sunday sesh.
LINEUP:
DJ Adit (Horrowshow)
DJ Nick Lupi (Spit Syndicate)
Klean Kicks
Dupa
Veeness
Paul Ray Charles
PRICE:
From $10.
DATE: May 29.
LOCATION:
Rousemount Hotel, Perth, WA.
TICKETS:
Buy HERE.
HEAD ON PHOTO FESTIVAL
Photo: Facebook / Toby Burrows / Head On Festival.
With everyone thinking they’re a bloody photographer these days (thanks IG), you’ve got to admit it would be refreshing to see the stuff in print every once in a while – made possible with “Australia’s most prestigious photography event/ one of the world’s leading photography festivals“. Head On Photo Festival is a diverse mix of photographers spanning multiple genres, including Luke Shadbolt (surf snapper& mastermind behind blogger Gary Pepper/Nicole Warne‘s aesthetic brilliance).
PRICE: Free and upwards
DATE: April 29- May 29.
LOCATION: NSW-wide.
TICKETS: See the schedule HERE.
SOFAR SOUNDS
Photo: Supplied / Livia Giacomini.
Sofar Sounds gigs have been home to major acts like Scarlett Johansson, Bastille, The Preatures and more across over 200 unique locations around the world. However, the lineup and specific location is hush-hush right up until you enter through the doors, so you don’t know what you’re gonna get until you’re getting it, basically.
PRICE:
FREE ($10 donations greatly appreciated).
DATES & LOCATIONS:
May 9
Secret location, Brisbane, QLD.
May 19
Secret location, Perth, WA.
May 24
Secret location, Brisbane, QLD.
May 26
Secret location, Surry Hills, NSW.
May 28
Secret location, Melbourne, VIC.
TICKETS:
Go into the ballot HERE.
ANYWHERE FESTIVAL
Photo: Facebook / Lia Stark.
This one sounds kind of wack but all kinds of amazing too, with a string of live performances that delve into current issues and topics of debate. Whether it’s a show about personal adjustments post-transgender surgery, psychotically wanting to push your mother-in-law down a well or a show that says “The clit is the pen and the pen is the sword“, prepare to get weird/cry if you’re wanting to hit this one up,
PRICE: Prices vary.
DATE: May 5-21.
LOCATION: QLD-wide.
TICKETS: See the event schedule HERE.
Photo: Facebook / Vivid Sydney.
