Concrete Playground

art free Fashioning Now

Wednesday, 29th July - 3AM
@ UTS Gallery

The little black dress is dead, viva la little brown dress; it’s more dapper, younger cousin. Actually, it’s a project designed to curb textile consumption thanks to a garment re-styled and worn over an entire year.This is one of the many ideas featuring at Fashioning Now, an exhibition and symposium...

music Don McGlashan

Sunday, 19th July - 1PM
@ The Studio, Sydney Opera House

Our antipodean cousin is officially recognised as a foremost composer with a career spanning seminal post-pop-punk band Blam Blam Blam; art experimentalists The Front Lawn; platinum-selling pop-rockers The Mutton Birds; and several film soundtracks.McGlashan was recently a guest musician at Neil Finn’s 7 Worlds Collide project and he had some...

film $9.99

Friday, 18th September - 11AM
@ Various cinemas

The world begins behind your neighbour’s walls... Tatia Rosenthal’s film is a coarse series of vignettes about a group of characters who are linked predominantly by their apartment block. The characters include a lonely old man; a beggar turned angel; a model with a hairless sexual fetish and her obsessive...

film Beautiful Kate

Friday, 7th August - 11AM
@ Various cinemas

Beginning as a physical trek to the isolated Australian outback, Beautiful Kate is the first feature length film to be directed by Rachel Ward. Ned (Ben Mendelsohn) is a forty-something author who returns home after a long absence with his young trophy girlfriend, Toni (Maeve Dermody). He is there to...

music Sarah Blasko

Saturday, 10th October - 2PM
@ Enmore Theatre

Sarah Blasko’s live shows have proven to be precious gems, as she successfully offers unique and heartfelt folk pop songs combined with energetic theatricality.In October Blasko will perform at the Enmore Theatre where, with help from her touring band, she will introduce audiences to material from her newest album; and...

music Wolfmother

Sunday, 20th September - 12PM
@ Enmore Theatre

You might remember the excitement when Wolfmother set the main stage of Homebake 2005 on fire playing songs from the then newly released, debut self-titled record. Fast-forward to 2009 when two founding members have left the fold and creative whiz kid Andrew Stockdale played a low-key gig at Oxford Art...

free play Young Blood Designers Market

Saturday, 15th August - 4AM
@ Powerhouse Museum

Have you ever wondered how some lucky punters nab a designer’s wares before they become the next big thing? They could have supernatural powers enabling them to spot vanguards-in-the-making or they may just make the most of opportunities to buy things directly from new designers.The Young Blood Designers Market falls...

music Josh Pyke

Friday, 30th October - 7PM
@ Big Top, Luna Park

Josh Pyke made us all very happy when he steered a guitar-shaped boat around Sydney Harbour in his popular music video and YouTube favourite. In October he will embark on a different course with his shortest and most ambitious tour to date, playing four huge shows along the East Coast...

music Liam Finn + EJ Barnes

Saturday, 26th September - 1PM
@ The Gaelic Theatre

I remember seeing one of Liam Finn's first solo Australian gigs at the Crown Hotel a few years back. He was then fresh from his main songwriting duties in his band Betchadupa and was showcasing new pop tunes experimental but intensely personal. A performance on David Letterman would follow...

film The Young Victoria

Thursday, 27th August - 5PM
@ Various cinemas

Royalty sells – just ask Queen Elizabeth II. While her ancestor, Queen Victoria’s later years have been adapted into film and portrayed by the likes of Judi Dench et al, little attention has been devoted to her earlier years. Queen Victoria was a molly-coddled child governed by an overly...

music Tame Impala

Friday, 25th September - 5PM
@ Manning Bar

Perhaps Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon and Cream once got together for a big love-in jam, and Tame Impala were there like baby grasshoppers learning their craft from these musical masters. The Perth tio's debut self-titled EP, released last year, featured the track Desire Be Desire Go as well as Half...

music Whole Lotta Love- The 7th Annual Celebration Of Led Zeppelin

Friday, 25th September - 12PM
@ Enmore Theatre

For the majority of us who missed out on seeing Led Zeppelin perform live overseas or during their only visit to Australia in 1972, this tribute event promises a little more than the local RSL.“We are aiming to establish a community of people who appreciate the way we pay homage...

music Lior

Thursday, 10th September - 1PM
@ Sydney Theatre Company

Lior's sophomore album, Corner Of An Endless Road has been described as “Led Zeppelin meets Nick Drake at a teahouse in the Middle East sharing a hookah”. Elaborate melodies and fancy water pipes aside, he is also the man responsible for penning the wedding-favourite hit, This Old Love, from his...

music Gomez

Friday, 23rd October - 2PM
@ The Metro Theatre

Ambitious indie band Gomez and true global citizens of the world. Originally heralding from Southport, England, they now have members scattered over two continents from Brooklyn to Brighton. The boys have visited us so many times they’d qualify for honorary Aussie status, and Ben Ottewell (guitars/vocals) spread his musical wings...