In case you missed it, the Red Bull Music Academy Weekender is coming to Sydney in September, promising a whole bunch of interesting music acts as well as art, visual performance and talks. It’s 40 artists and 11 shows over 4 days, and we’ve finally got the skinny on what’s actually going down.
We knew that Flight Facilities were doing a big show with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra – and we’re massively, massively keen on it – but there are some real nice surprises here too.
The Thursday night is looking to be a corker, with Night Slugs’ Bok Bok, Kilo Kish, Sydney’s Marcus Whale, Cliques, Low Ton, Kllo, Ku?ka and Lewis Cancut take over Oxford Art Factory in what will probably be insanely good and also promisingly sweaty.
Chicago house legend Larry Heard (a.k.a. Mr Fingers) is playing his first ever Aussie show at Carriageworks, and also doing a talk about his storied career on a floating stage in Sydney Harbour.
There’s a whole bunch of talks about music and music tech going all weekend for when the beat and techno has totally fried your brain. But lemme give you the whole lineup:
ANDRAS (Live)
BOK BOK
CLIQUES
DAN WHITE
DOPPLEREFFEKT
EARTHSHAKER
FLIGHT FACILITIES
FRANK BOOKER
GAPPY RANKS
GAUSSIAN CURVE
GIGI MASIN
HEARTICAL HI-FI (MELBOURNE)
INNER WEST REGGAE DISCO MACHINE
J-ROCC
KANO
KATALYST
KBI
KILO KISH
KLLO
KLOKE
KUCKA
LARRY HEARD
LEWIS CANCUT
LORNA CLARKSON
LOW TON
LUCY CLICHÉ
MACKY BANTON WORLD MC
MARCUS WHALE
MNDSGN
NOISE IN MY HEAD
PEANUT BUTTER WOLF
PHILE
SIMON CALDWELL
STRYKA D
SYDNEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
TAKO & JAMIE TILLER
TA-KU
XOSAR
Damn. See y’all in September.
Source: Supplied.
