Described as ‘ridiculous – in the best way possible’ by Pitchfork and having been carried on a whirlwind of hype off the back of their single Living In America through an intense series of SXSW shows, the band rocking out for the likes of Pitchfork, SPIN, Fader Fort, Urban Outfitters, Vice and Mess With Texas,
Last week Sydney street press The Brag Magazine changed their name to The Swag as a nod to Sydney’s Vivid Festival and the most talked about band at the moment, Odd Future. The hip hop collective, also known as OFWGKTA, tweet under the name The Swag. “In a unique marketing masterstroke, Sydney street press magazine
Both performances of Reflections by The Cure as part of Vivid Festival have sold out in less than 5 mins today. Seeing The Cure play in a venue like the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall would be a wet dream for most cure fans, add to that the band have planned to play their first
Award-winning video artist Chris Cunningham has announced a second show to go on sale today as part of the line up for the Vivid Festival. Cunningham has already sold out his first show at the Sydney Opera House which has promised to be “an audio-visual onslaught of cut-up film and music featuring remixed, unreleased and
Selling out all three of their forthcoming Vivid performances in 20mins, OFWGKTA aka Odd Future have announced two extra shows in Australia in Melbourne and Brisbane as part of their June tour. If you’ve been in a coma or living in the middle of the jungle for the last year, Odd Future have fast become
As was confirmed a few days ago, The Cure have been announced on the Vivid LIVE line up. But another surprise will be that the band are playing their first 3 albums Three Imaginary Boys (1979), Seventeen Seconds (1980), Faith (1981) in full live on May 31st with a repeated show on June 1st. This
Last week we reported rumours that The Cure would play the 2011 Vivid Live Festival. Now Music Feeds can confirm this is true! Another Vivid Artist, Azari & III have announced that The Cure will be playing the festival. This may be considered a leak, but it’s definitely a confirmation. Rumours were running wild this
Update: The Cure are on the Vivid LIVE line up, they’ll play their first 3 albums in full – It’s been rumoured that The Cure will be joining the mega Vivid Festival line up. Curated this year by Stephen Pavlovic of Modular the Vivid Festival have already confirmed Spiritulized, Bat For Lashes, Cut Copy and
Vivid Creative Sydney will be held at the Sydney Opera House and Museum of Contemporary Art (30 May – 12 June) with two weeks of talks, music, debates and forums.
Manchester band WU LYF (World Unite/Lucifer Youth Foundation) have released a song off their new album Go Tell Fire To The Mountain due to be released independently (declining offers from record labels) on 13th June. The band have been getting a lot of hype in the UK recently, and are due to play the upcoming
The Line-up for Vivid Live 2011 has been officially revealed this morning after the line-up was accidentally leaked yesterday afternoon. As was seen in the leak yesterday. Odd future (OFWGKTA) will be coming to Australia after many tour rumours and Bat For Lashes will be making their first Australian appearance along with Kids TV show
Update: Line-up has been officially announced. The line up for Vivid Live Festival has been leaked via the Opera House website. Whoops! Rumours about Odd Future heading to Australia have been confirmed along with Bat For Lashes (for their first Australian Tour) and Kids TV show Yo Gabba Gabba are on the line up as
Following from previous years which saw luminaries like Brian Eno and Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson curate the festival, next year’s Vivid Festival will be curated by none other than Modular People founder Stephen “Pav” Pavlovic. In an announcement released today by Sydney Opera House Head of Contemporary Music, Fergus Linehan, we were told that
