ANZ & FBi do Sydney Festival 2014

Once again, it’s that wonderful time of year when Sydney Festival floods the city with a host of world class theatre, art and live music.

To help you keep up to date with it all, FBi will be bringing you our Sydney Festival Wrap Up, each morning from 8:45 on Up For It, thanks to ANZ.

Tune in to hear what’s been going on, what’s coming up and what we’ll be giving away tickets to!

Review :: Sinkane (Sydney Festival)

Sinkane blew the minds of all those in the Spiegeltent, their songs were as loose as the genre and the joints of those hearing them.

Guestbook :: Tyondai Braxton on Monday Arvo

Tyondai Braxton joined Rowe in the studio to talk about his current work HIVE, which will hit the Opera House on January 21 as part of the Sydney Festival.

Guestbook :: Kurt Vile on Wednesday Morning

We got pretty vile in the studio on Wednesday morning when Kurt Vile dropped in to chat with Stephen ahead of his Sydney Festival performances.

Review :: The Shadow King – Sydney Festival

To take a Shakespearean tragedy and transform it into a contemporary story about indigenous Australia is a pretty big feat, but one that co-creators Tom E. Lewis and Michael Kantor have nailed.

Gallery :: Kurt Vile & The Violators at Paradiso Town Hall

Kurt Vile & The Violators brought Paradiso to life with melodic slack-rock. South Coast dreamers Shining Bird took to the stage in support.

Review :: Matmos

‘Weird’ isn’t a satisfactory term to describe the Sydney Festival performance of electronic duo Matmos. Backed with over twenty years of pure experimentation, even a party balloon was a fair game as an instrument.

Review :: Ockham’s Razor – Sydney Festival

Brute strength and men in morphsuits aside, Ockham’s Razor explores the vulnerability, trust and reliance that is at the core of both aerial acrobatics and human relationships.

Listen: Samaris interview on Lunch with Beth Dalgleish

All the way from Iceland, electronic group Samaris joined Beth in the studio ahead of their Sydney Festival Performance on January 16.

Gallery: HIVE + 100 Million Nights at Sydney Opera House

Tyondai Braxton’s HIVE and 100 Million Nights, a collaboration between Canyons and visual artist Daniel Boyd, took the audience on a incandescent […]

Guestbook :: Canyons on Tuesday Morning

Declan Byrne chats to Ryan and Leo of Canyons about their audio-visual collaborative extranvaganza for Sydney Festival, ‘100 Million Nights’.