Year: 2013

Sydney Festival to launch tomorrow with Day One: An Opening in Three Acts

What was once known as “Sydney Festival First Night” will tomorrow be rebranded as “Day One” – a day long event that runs throughout the city of Sydney. This morning at Sydney’s Town Hall, the artistic director of the festival, Lieven Bertels, walked media through tomorrow’s festivities that ends in a concert in the Domain…

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The OzFest India Diaries: Part Ten – The final two BBQs and a farewell.

Having had a fair dose of laughter thanks to the Melbourne International Comedy Festival travelling roadshow, I headed to Shroom in New Delhi for the Second Aussie BBQ, which was part of a very jam packed final two days of my time in India. The show, in the futuristic surrounds of the venue – where…

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13 Sydney Festival shows you can't miss for 2013

It’s that time of year again: the world famous Sydney Festival is arriving this weekend – Saturday the 5th of January to be exact – and as usual there’s so many choices, so much great music and theatre and art to see, that making a decision on what to see and what to miss is…

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Best of 2012 Countdown: Top 40 Songs – Part 1: 40-31

As we all start making our decisions for the tracks that will make up our votes for the Hottest 100, we had our contributors tell us their favourite tracks of 2012. Each contributor gave us their top 10 and the resulting 40 tracks are the highest rated from those lists! As usual, it’s a fairly…

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