This year’s festival features more than 70 artists. We’ve narrowed it down for you.
Vivid Sydney has developed a reputation for bringing class acts to the city – in the past, the 23-day festival has featured The Cure, Bon Iver, Anohni, St Vincent and Lou Reed. This year is no different, with more than 70 top-tier local and overseas musicians on the bill. Here’s our pick of where to spend your money.
After wowing the crowd in a 2022 performance with Paul Kelly at the Opera House, Gamilaraay singer-songwriter Thelma Plum is back for her first-ever headline show at the iconic venue. With a reputation as a formidable live performer, Plum has had two esteemed Pauls – Kelly and McCartney – contribute to the same song on her debut album, 2019’s Gold-selling. Although it’s yet to be officially announced, expect to hear a preview of songs from Plum’s highly anticipated second album.
From acclaimed electronic duo The Knife to solo project Fever Ray, Sweden’s Karin Dreijer straddles the fine line between pop pleasure and challenging listeners’ comfort zones. Last year’s critically acclaimed third LP,may be Dreijer’s best work to date, a daring collection of songs exploring identity, sexuality and desire that featured production work from Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross.
This unmissable free show is an album launch party for First Nations hip-hop supergroup 3%, a freshly formed trio comprising Yuin MC Nooky, Noongar rapper and MC Dallas Woods and Gumbaynggirr singer-songwriter Angus Field. The trio’s debut album, out August 9, will go down as one of this year’s best, a potent Molotov cocktail of party jams, heart-on-sleeve emotional outpouring and righteous anger at the plight of Australia’s Indigenous population.
There’s a moment in the music video for the recent Pond single Neon River when the band’s lead singer, Nick Allbrook, flying kicks a bunch of grapes out of someone’s hand. It sums up the Pond live experience perfectly: extreme physicality and a healthy dose of absurdity.
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