We’re throwing together a mini-festival at Sydney’s Metro Theatre on May 21, with A+ acts like Sophie Lowe, Polographia & more helping us raise money for Youth Off The Streets. It’s gunna be a fucking great night, with all donations on the night going towards youth homelessness, and you’re all invited. RSVP HERE to help us give back.
We get it – you missed out on Splendour this year and you’re probs crying yourself to sleep every night thinking of what could’ve been.
But – fuck – you’ve saved a lot of money in the process, an extra sick day for work and a whole lot of dignity that would’ve been lost balls deep in mud/shitty remnants.
That in itself is enough to raise your appropriately priced schooner to, especially when you can add a whole mix of affordable acts to be seen over the coming months to fill the void.
Enter the mini-festival – a coupla’ acts all rolled out in one destination for a fuck-off good time of live music and late-night hotline blings.
Here’s what’s coming to a venue near you, all under $50 dollary-doos:
PEDESTRIAN HELP
Close to our hearts is the mini festival we’re holding for y’all on May 21, to help raise funds for Youth Off The Streets. if you’re looking to give back, here’s your chance, and you can have a banger of a night while your at it by partying to over seven different A+ Aussie acts all night long. (Oh, we’ve given #CasinoMike a big F-U for this one and’ll be kicking it til 3am).
LINEUP:
Collarbones
DZ Deathrays (DJ set)
Gill Bates
GG Magree
LUEN
Wax Witches
Pearls
Polographia
ROOF
PRICE:
FREE (donations at entry warmly welcomed, all going to Youth Off The Streets).
DATE & LOCATION:
May 21
Metro Theatre, Sydney, NSW.
TICKETS:
RED BULL SOUND SELECT
Photo: Methyl Ethel / Facebook.
Add this to your calendar ASAP – ’cause it’s tomorrow friggin’ night and you’ll want to change your plans immediately to attend. The good guys at Red Bull throw together Australia’s fave emerging artists once a month for this spesh event, and this week’s a bloody doozy.
LINEUP:
Methyl Ethel
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever
FLOWERTRUCK
PRICE:
$3 with RSVP / $10 at door.
DATE & LOCATION:
April 29
Chippendale Hotel, Chippendale, NSW.
TICKETS:
RSVP HERE.
THE EQUINOX TOUR
Ya up for an all-Australia tour de force of home-grown heavy music? This will be the first time Northlane and In Hearts Wake have shared the stage since their appearance at UNIFY in 2015, and, with two extra acts on the lineup as well, you’ll surely have a severe headache from all the jerkin’ like an animate gherkin’ by the night’s end.
LINEUP:
Northlane + In Hearts Awake
Hands Like Houses
Ocean Grove
PRICE:
From $49.90.
DATES & LOCATIONS:
June 10
Metro City, Northbridge, WA.
June 11
Thebarton Theatre, Torrensville, SA.
June 12
Festival Hall, Melbourne, VIC.
June 17
The Tivoli, Brisbane, QLD.
June 18
Big Top Luna Park, Sydney, NSW.
TICKETS:
Buy HERE.
ONE DAY SUNDAYS
Photo: Facebook / One Day.
Y’know when you stay in Friday & Saturday night and get so overwhelmed with your togetherness that ya’ burst out of the house on Sunday ready to really mess shit up? Yeah. This one’s good for that.
LINEUP:
(SYDNEY)
DJ Adit (Horrowshow)
DJ Nick Lupi (Spit Syndicate)
DJ Tieklz
DJ Moto
Peter Gunz (Club Joint Allstars)
Franco (Halfway Crooks)
+ a live mural painting by Georgia Hill.
(PERTH)
DJ Nick Lupi (Spit Syndicate)
Klean Kicks
Dupa
Veeness
Paul Ray Charles
PRICE:
Sydney from $15 & Perth from $10.
DATES & LOCATIONS:
Factory Theatre, Marrickville, NSW.
May 29
Rousemount Hotel, Perth, WA.
TICKETS:
Sydney HERE & Perth HERE.
SOUNDSCAPE FEST
Photo: Facebook / Soundscape Fest.
The local scene’s best ~up and coming~ bands, DJs and producers come together for this baby to provide errythang from folk to techno at one of Sydney’s most frorthed-over venues. You can also kick on to The Vic around the corner beforehand/afterwards, so there’s that.
LINEUP:
Roland Tings
Sons of the East
World Champion
Winston Surfshirt
Borneo
The Kava Kings
Two Age
Mount Zamia
The Suins
Locus Cadre
The Realmers
Strange Associates
THIS DJs
Ando & Carbs
Mannx
Cripps
K-Rex
Louke
PRICE:
From $40.
DATE & LOCATION:
June 4
Factory Theatre, Marrickville, NSW.
TICKETS:
Buy
SOFAR SOUNDS
Photo: Supplied / Livia Giacomini.
Hosting gigs in 200 unique locations around the world, Sofar Sounds has welcomed to the stage major acts like Scarlett Johansson, Bastille, The Preatures and more. The only catch? The lineup and specific location is hush-hush right up until you enter through the doors, ’cause sometimes it’s not all about a headliner, y’know?
LINEUP:
Secret – TBA.
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.
VIVID MUSIC
Photo: Facebook / KLP.
What a time to be alive if you’re in Sydney from May 27-Jun 18. There’s over 89 music events that’ll go down over the three-week period, plenty of which are available at a millennial-friendly cost.
LINEUP:
Whether it’s Vera Blue for $20, Kuka & Rachael Archibald for $15, KLP for $12 or even the BJÖRK DIGITAL Exhibition for FREEEEE, you’re going to have get a music-filled bang for your buck that’ll make you wonder what that unsanitary Splendour nonsense is even about.
PRICE:
From free to reasonable.
DATES & LOCATIONS:
May 27-Jun 18
Sydney.
TICKETS:
Buy HERE.
Even if ‘ya went to all seven of the above, you still wouldn’t have spent as much as you would’ve at Splendour (that bites your money trubs) In The Ass.
RSVP for our ripper PEDESTRIAN HELP event on May 21 HERE.
Photo: Instagram / One Day.
