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!

Gallery + Review :: John Grant & John Murry – Sydney Festival

A double-dose of brutal honesty, self-loathing and lyrical beauty came in the form of John Grant and John Murry, performing together at Paradiso at Town Hall.

Review :: Gudirr Gudirr – Sydney Festival

This reviewer can barely distinguish contemporary dance from twerking, but one woman show, Gudirr Gudirr, ensured that anybody present would be touched by the masterful combination of dance, acrobatics, comedy and oral history.

Review :: Forklift – Sydney Festival

Forklift tells the story of a warehouse forklift operator just going about her business – the banal and boring activity of just moving about brown boxes. As it happens, her forklift isn’t simply moving boxes, but dancers…

Review :: Am I – Sydney Festival

Sean Parker’s ‘Am I’ takes a very visceral journey through existential and evolutionary thought, beautifully choreographed in front of a wall of humming globes.

Review :: Band Of Magicians – Sydney Festival

Webster’s English Dictionary defines Band Of Magicians as ‘Word Not Found’. Well, let me tell you, the dictionary is not the only place from which this magic group have made things disappear.

Interview :: Amanda Palmer

Amanda Palmer is taking over the Spiegeltent and planning a hell of a show (or ten). The Flog caught up with this punk cabaret pioneer and spoke fans, feminism and Rebecca Black’s Friday.

ANZ Presents :: Free Gigs in The Domain

This year, ANZ present two huge nights of free entertainment in The Domain: queen of funk-soul Chaka Khan and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra with Bell Shakespeare Vox.

FBi Picks :: Sydney Festival 2014

Kurt Vile, Canyons and Tyondai Braxton (ex-Battles) audio-visual performances, Future Classic and Modular nights, our Icelandic friends Samaris, the one and only Donny Benet + SO much more!

FBi Presents :: Paradiso at Town Hall

Sydney Town Hall lets its hair down again as it transforms into everyone’s favourite Festival music destination. Taking the name and spirit of the legendary Amsterdam rock venue, Paradiso at Town Hall returns to the heart of the city for eight hot nights of music!

FBi Presents :: About An Hour

The festival within the Festival, About an Hour is back for another long weekend of 60-minute-ish morsels. More than 35 performances will pop up at Carriageworks, giving maximum bang for your Festival buck.