It’s that time of year again when I go broke buying Sydney Festival tickets!
Here are my picks for January. Tickets go on sale on Monday and if you purchase in bulk you can access discounts, so let me know if you’d like to join me for any of these and I’m happy to bulk purchase and pass on the discounts. Please get back to me my Sunday afternoon (in the comments below or by email).
Sat 8 Jan
Festival First night (various venues) FREE
Mon 10 Jan
EmmyLou Harris and her Red Dirt Boys (State Theatre) $90
Country, bluegrass, folks, awesome.
Tue 11 Jan
My Bicycle Loves You (Sydney Theatre) $50
Legs on the Wall, vaudeville performance to found film footage from the 1900s
Wed 12 Jan
The John Spencer Blues Explosion (Becks Bar) $48
Thu 13 Jan
Mike Birbiglia: My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend (Seymour) $30
Regular contributor to This American Life, standup comedy
Fri 14 Jan (Midnight!)
Screening of Dracula with live score by Philip Glass (State Theatre) $60
This is going to be fabulous. Dress up as a vampire optional.
Sat 15 Jan
Los Lobos live in the Domain (FREE)
Bring a picnic and chill out to these Latin American groovers
Mon 17 Jan
John Malkovitch in Conversation (Town Hall) $45
The dude talks.
Tue 18 Jan
The Red Shoes (Seymour) $65
Acclaimed Kneehigh production based on the fairytale. Apparently lots of blood and full-on.
Wed 19 Jan
The Adventures of Alvin Sputnik: Deep Sea Explorer (Seymour) $30
Fri 21 Jan
Screening of The Boys with music from The Necks (Sydney Uni Quad) $25
Wed 26 Jan
Food Chain (Seymour) $30
New dance theatre work about animality, human nature, sex and power.
Thu 27 Jan
7pm Gotye ($45)
9.30pm Beach House ($50)
Both at Angel Place. This is where we had our moments with The National and Grizzly Bear in past years.
Fri 28 Jan
Sufjan Stevens (SOH) $75
Anyone who saw him in 2008’s festival will testify to his brilliance.
Sat 29 Jan
The Unthanks (Spiegeltent) $45
Folk blues girls.
UNDATED
Trocadero Dance Palace (either 19/20/22 Jan) $45
Awesome 50s jive dancing in the Town Hall – frock up!
cx
4 comments:
PS there are loads more, let me know if anything else takes your fancy too.
pls. put me down for 2 of Mike Birbiglia and 1 for Beach House.
Nick and I are also going to Eddie Perfect, Midnight Saturday 15 Jan, to hear him singing about licking Koala's vaginas. (etc)
How am I supposed to choose? This menu is too big! Can't you just tell me what to do?
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