Concrete Playground

Saturday, 31st July - 8PM
@ The Enmore Theatre

The cheekbones! That jawline! If faces could cut diamonds, Richard Ashcroft would be useful in Sierra Leone. On the back of a coveted spot at Splendour In The Grass, the Verve frontman's inaugural tour to Australia brings his latest crew, the United Nations of Sound — a slick new project...

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Sunday, 15th August - 7PM
@ Sydney Opera House

The recipe here is a dish of charanga; a festive Cuban ensemble style Mambo-esque marching group, that conjures visions of palm fronds and light Spanish breezes. This Cuban dance orchestra is sure to vividly melt the senses and sultrily infuse the mind with a castanet or two.

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Thursday, 19th August - 8PM
@ Metro Theatre

Well, well, well, Brand New Heavies you deliciously soulful things, it sure is about time we heard your jams again. The celebrated British masters of all things boogie, misfortune and mamma-lovin' midnight trunk-funk are finally heading to Australian shores, as their reformation gets hot and heavy in the August cool.With...

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Friday, 20th August - 8PM
@ The Forum

With new singles [i] The New Technology [/i] and [i] Vital Signs [/i] transporting the listener to some kind of musico-galactic tipi, the threesome have a revamped set, a revamped style and a revamped DIY ethos that has garnered international acclaim.

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Tuesday, 17th August - 8AM
@ The Metro

Go forth, children! Collide! Launching their highly anticipated second album after the success of 2008's The Long Now, tempered trio Children Collide are set to bring Sydney stages a little too close to the sun, with a fiery avalanche of sound, surrealism and flannelette sass ready to burn up unsuspecting...

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Saturday, 27th November - 12PM
@ Sydney Showground

I'm sorry, Splendour who? In the wake of the whirlwind wow that pervaded this year's uber-festival, Stereosonic is striking and strutting out, as Australia's annual electronic music festival amps up for its fourth summer beatfest. With a solid techno-heavy lineup with more day-glo and Berocca fizz than Gary Numan's walkman,...

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Saturday, 21st August - 6PM
@ Beach Road Hotel

When Bob Dylan decided that "songs can't save the world", he obviously hadn't met Oli Mistry. After an eyeopening brush with the streetchildren of Delhi in 2009, this Sydney-based UK ex-pat grabbed a beer, two friends and an idea to create change through the magic of song.

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Thursday, 2nd September - 8PM
@ Enmore Theatre

No-one will ever tire of trying to define the Klaxons. "Acid-rave sci-fi punk-funk", "Nascent indie", "Spartan rock" — these Mercury award-winning Londonians have seen every genre thrown their way since they jokingly coined the term 'New Rave' back in 2007 to describe their sound. But three years after spacejumping their...

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Wednesday, 1st September - 8PM
@ Oxford Art Factory

20,000 leagues oceanbound, the idea of a deep sea arcade is just too delightful. Blips and barnacles, Pacman and pufferfish, nautical gangs of amused teens surrounding pinball clams — now that’s a party worth the dive. With a killer new single, another hint of a forthcoming album, and a name...

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Friday, 10th December - Sunday, 12th December
@ Meredith Supernatural Amphitheatre, Nolan Farm

For 20 years in the festival business, Aunty Meredith is looking pretty damn spritely for her age. With ballots already overwhelmed, this year marks the 20th anniversary of the wonderfully maintained three-day Meredith Music Festival. Started in 1991 "as a party for about 200 friends to celebrate the end of...

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Wednesday, 8th September - 8PM
@ Oxford Art Factory

Collaboration is an art Melburnian musicians really manage to nail. Joining the likes of soulsters the Bamboos and the Ray Mann Three super group (two distinct words in an un-Jack-Whitian sense), talented trio Electric Empire got up offa that thang and made some damn fine music for show and tell....

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Friday, 10th September - Sunday, 26th September
@ Newtown

With 'curators' poring over the realms of cabaret, comedy, circus, dance, digital arts, literature, music, musical theatre, theatre and visual arts, the newly reborn Fringe is as handcrafted as collections come, with each of the 200+ events lovingly selected by some of Sydney's wiliest artistic minds. With ticket prices hardly breaching the $30 threshold, this in-demand series of events can only be described with satisfaction: baaadly overdue.Catch the banterous musical comedy of [i]A Czar is Born[/i], the theatrics of failure in [i]a tiny chorus[/i], the hybrid performative works of Applespiel's newest project [i]Appleloft[/i] and the reaches of improvised mind-bending musical funktrust Fuji Collective. Or perhaps question the sociability of eating and entertaining in a series of Silent Dinner Parties.

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Thursday, 11th November - Friday, 12th November
@ Sydney Entertainment Centre

In any other profession an avalanche of heart surgery, cocaine addictions, extramarital relations, divorce and alcoholism would be enough to warrant throwing in the towel and considering a serious life change. A stand-up comedian, however, couldn't ask for better material.Robin Williams is no stage spring chicken, with his prestigious presence...

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Saturday, 11th September - 10PM
@ Marrickville Bowling Club

Innovative underground crew Mad Racket are bringing their smoky, gritty cult-following-of-a-shindig back to Marrickville Bowling Club with one major kick.

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Friday, 10th September - 6PM
@ amBUSH Gallery

Sync, Rone, Reka, Wonderlust, Phibs, Meggs, Prizm, Makatron, The Tooth: somebody call Marvel and call for a mass retrenchment. Part street artists, part heroes of graffito, the underground collective known as Everfresh keep the streets of Melbourne colourful and free of aesthetic crimes, saving lacklustre walls one tag at a...

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Thursday, 9th September - 7PM
@ Luxe Studios

Like cake, pass-the-parcel and herpes, some things were just made to share. Lucky for borrowed boyfriend sweaters everywhere, Bonds is an understanding little go-between. With an awesomely slouchy and '90s-esque line of classic boy/girl pieces, the Aussie clothing crew's latest made2share range seeks to stretch the idea of the 'must-have'...

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Friday, 10th September - Monday, 4th October
@ Cockatoo Island

The first Artists in Residency Program is set to bring a host of new contemporary artists to this alluring heritage site, the island that successfully bore the wonderment of the 17th Biennale of Sydney earlier this year.

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Saturday, 27th November - 3PM
@ Bondi Pavilion

With all Australian content, this brilliant celebration of independent films blends high calibre filmmaking with an undeniably delicious indie aesthetic, screened metres away from the seaside. This year's showcase will find itself blissfully lapping up late-Spring ambiance with the addition of Bondi Pavilion's outdoor Amphitheatre, as the sell-out event aims to embrace the inexplicable sensation of balmy evening picture viewing. The 10th anniversary of this striking little festival is sure to prove a tasty menu, abound with local delicacies from 14 finalists chosen from 250 submissions. So be quick to reserve your place for Saturday's screening - tickets are selling fast.

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Thursday, 30th September - 6PM
@ Oxford Art Factory

As the first trade event of its kind for the creative industries, this inaugural event seeks to provide a playground for innovative artists and industry professionals to demonstrate that 'right place, right time' is as easily constructed as envisioned.

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Saturday, 26th March - 8PM
@ The Gaelic Theatre

Always surprising, always grin-inducing, sFj are ready to flash their explosive versatility all up in your mindtank, with their bold blend of swirling twangs, spiraling psych-soaring melodies and engulfingly contagious percussion.

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