New Festival In Melbourne’s CBD
News posted Thursday, March 17 2011 at 10:00 AM.
Related: Two Bright Lakes, Sugar Mountain.
Undeterred by Laneway 2009, the inaugural Sugar Mountain Festival will take place over multiple locations in Melbourne’s city centre, including The Forum Theatre, No Vacancy Gallery at Federation Square and The Atrium.
Curated by Melbourne indie Two Bright Lakes and touring company Egadamia, the festival aims to “celebrate the diverse creative forms of music and visual art, with a focus on the natural meeting points between”. It will feature performances by enigmatic US house duo Virgo Four; Brooklyn’s Aa (Big A little a); Austin art-pop two-piece Yellowfever; Perth’s Canyons; Qua (aka Cornel Wilczek); Two Bright Lakes signings Collarbones, Oscar + Martin (pictured) and Otouto; and Rat Vs Possum, The Twerps, No Zu and Brous (led by classically trained chanteuse Sophia Brous), all from Melbourne.
There will also be a visual arts program curated by Sugar Mountain’s creative director Pete Keen, with support from No Vacancy Gallery; a live painting performance from Californian artist Thomas Campbell; a live, band-responsive visual and light show; a reenactment of the “Dream Operator” scene from David Byrne's 1986 film True Stories starring Jane Badler; and a re-imagined adventure through the landscape of 1970s Australian cinema.
The event will take place on April 30, with more acts to be announced. Early bird tickets ($55 plus booking fees) on sale now via Ticketmaster. More info here.
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WOW, Virgo!
i had no idea virgo were on the cards for this. tig, whoever, holy shit. you're amazing.
Does ''classically trained'' just mean ''trained''?
yes
Good vocalist.
No, it means ''dead white blokes approved''.
Collarbones aren't from Melbourne. At least one of them is from Adelaide (like actual living here and all)
I LUV LIVE PAINTING!
first person to be hit by car/tram on the corner of flinders and russell st wins a prize.
dogvscats, it doesn't say they are from melbourne - i think you might have missed a semicolon in there
Aa: terrible name
they're pretty much called 'big a little a' anyway
pretty incredible live when i saw em a few years ago
Oh oops!
Busy night in Melbourne
thomas campbell is pretty spesh.
this has been noted in the diary.
looking forward to this so much
Yellow Fever!
Great pop band. Can't wait to see them again.
wow. this sounds great.
and this.
VIRGO!
Early bird tickets finish Wednesday with the second announcement!
What do the normal tickets cost?
65$