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Music at MelbourneInternational Arts Festival

Tue 13th Jul, 2010 in Local News

The 25th Melbourne Festival International Arts Festival has announced a dynamic lineup of musical treats.

Festival highlights this year include “Tomorrow, in a year” featuring the music of electro-pop masters The Knife; performances from Sinead O’Connor, Meshell Ndegeocello,Rickie Lee Jones, Gurrumul Yunupingu and The Black Arm Band; a one-off live performance by John Cale of his Paris 1919 album; and the amazing lineup of the Beck’s Festival Bar at the Forum theatre.

The Festival Bar transforms the iconic Forum Theatre in to a hub of amazing music during the festival with some very impressive acts on the lineup including the long awaited return of Japan’s Boredoms; the psychedelic rock of Dead Meadow; hip hop guru Sage Francis; Sri Lankan extreme metal ensemble Stigmata; the psychedelic pop sounds of Cambodia’s Dengue Fever Chinese indie crew P.K.14; the subtle beauty of indie legends Low; and the closing night headliners – Mariachi El Bronx.

A wealth of local talent rounds out the program, including The Drones, The Break, Pikelet, Eagle & The Worm, Dexter, Kes Band, The Ukeladies, Bum Creek, Blarke Bayer / Black Widow, Horrorshow, Johnnie and The Johnnie Johnnies, The Twerps and Ponzu Island.

Beck’s Festival Bar schedule:

Saturday 9 October – Boredoms (Japan), Kes Band (Australia), Bum Creek (Australia)
Thursday 14 October – Dead Meadow (USA), Stigmata (Sri Lanka), Blarke Bayer / Black Widow (Australia)
Friday 15 October – Sage Francis with special guest B. Dolan (USA), Dexter (Australia), Horrorshow (Australia)
Saturday 16 October – Dengue Fever (Cambodia / USA), The Break (Australia), Johnnie and The Johnnie Johnnies (Australia)
Thursday 21 October – Low (USA), Pikelet (Australia), Ponzu Island (Australia)
Friday 22 October – The Drones (Australia), P.K.14 (China), The Twerps (Australia)
Saturday 23 October – Mariachi El Bronx (USA), Eagle & The Worm (Australia), The Ukeladies (Australia)

Festival Bar gigs are just $20!

The Melbourne International Arts Festival runs over 16 days, from 8 to 23 October.

Check out all the highlights of last years festival

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brownie-ll

brownie-ll said on the 13th Jul, 2010

Wow. So so good.

MorningAfterboy

MorningAfterboy said on the 13th Jul, 2010

Holy arsefucking shit.

grattan

grattan said on the 13th Jul, 2010

Too much good to fit in one news piece. This sounds amazing:

Seven Songs To Leave Behind

Sinead O’Connor, John Cale, Meshell Ndegeocello, Rickie Lee Jones, Gurrumul Yunupingu, The Black Arm Band’s Leah Flanagan, Shellie Morris, Dan Sultan and Ursula Yovich and more to farewell the Festival with the international musical collaboration of the year.

In a format of entwined concerts, over more than three hours, these artists each share highly personal musical essays of seven classic songs that hold special meaning to them. They will sing their first song – the song that switched them on to being a musician, one from master poet and songwriter Leonard Cohen, a song to share with another, a song that they covet – the one above all others that they wished they had written, two songs of their own and one for the end of days – a song to leave behind.

Same night as the Bronx though...

MorningAfterboy

MorningAfterboy said on the 13th Jul, 2010

Oh. My. God. That sounds fucking incredible.

Is any of this going to happen in Sydney? Like, is Sinead going to do a show at the SOH or maybe the State?

Napoleon Solo

Napoleon Solo said on the 13th Jul, 2010

Low.
Well that's another pair of perfectly good pants ruined.

Copernicus

Copernicus said on the 13th Jul, 2010

Holy fucking shit. Yessss, this makes up for vivid being sydney only.

iNegro

iNegro said on the 13th Jul, 2010

Boredoms sideshow pleace.

Stefan Beck

Stefan Beck said on the 13th Jul, 2010

I just spat my drink out.

Arts Festivals bring the goods.

BTIazza

BTIazza said on the 14th Jul, 2010

Damn you Melbourne.

sarahanne

sarahanne said on the 14th Jul, 2010

This is amazing. $20 for Mariachi El Bronx - yeeeeeeeeees.

samthewoman said on the 14th Jul, 2010

fuck it, another road trip. mariachi el bronx mofo!

billzbub

billzbub said on the 14th Jul, 2010

OK. Now i REALLY want to move to Melbourne!

emmawheatley

emmawheatley said on the 14th Jul, 2010

Boom!

Sounds like a roadtrip, then!

Spicy McHaggis

Spicy McHaggis said on the 14th Jul, 2010

Low->Drones->Mariachi El Bronx

Thats amazing!

samthewoman said on the 14th Jul, 2010

agreed with the level of amazing

lanesra23

lanesra23 said on the 14th Jul, 2010

Fuck yeah, was planning a trip for The Knife thing, Low fits perfectly with my proposed schedule. Now to coax someone into coming with...

humanracin

humanracin said on the 14th Jul, 2010

Yes, this festival rules!

2nd row seats owned for Sinead, Cale, Meshell and Gurrumul :)

lllllluke

lllllluke said on the 14th Jul, 2010

not as good as sydney festival....... *ducks*

grattan

grattan said on the 14th Jul, 2010

Yeah - Al Green, Joanna Newsom's annual appearance and a few gigs pinched from Laneway/BDO is good... but gonna go with Melb as the better lineup.

kabukiboy

kabukiboy said on the 15th Jul, 2010

P.K.14 supporting the Drones - check out P.K.14's latest album at last.fm

humanracin

humanracin said on the 15th Jul, 2010

Drones gig, added bonus!
Still hoping for extra Sinead O'Connor gigs too.

Spicy McHaggis

Spicy McHaggis said on the 15th Jul, 2010

Drones gig, added bonus!
Still hoping for extra Sinead O'Connor gigs too.

If only PiL were playing.

demonofthefall said on the 16th Jul, 2010

Saw this lineup two days ago and I'm still at the "HOLY FUCKING SHIT" stage. Hope they have season tickets to the Becks bar like last year.

grattan

grattan said on the 16th Jul, 2010

Don't know about season pass, but:

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demonofthefall said on the 16th Jul, 2010

Yeah I noticed that, will probably be a good option for me.

humanracin

humanracin said on the 16th Jul, 2010

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIyXJxPFVz4

jettimon

jettimon said on the 16th Jul, 2010

BoREEEEEDOOOOMMMMSSS

grattan

grattan said on the 30th Jul, 2010

Boredoms doing a Sydney show at the Metro - Mon 11th Oct

Lucan

Lucan said on the 9th Aug, 2010

Grabbed my tix for The Drones and Mariachi El Bronx. :D

jettimon

jettimon said on the 9th Aug, 2010

holy fuck, I remember seeing them there eons ago

kabukiboy

kabukiboy said on the 9th Aug, 2010

hopefully you remember the madness of the mu-mesons big band that night, lucas abela getting kicked out then shaving all his hair off so security wouldn't recognise him as he walked right back in!

jettimon

jettimon said on the 10th Aug, 2010

I sure do, it was a memorable night.

Lucan

Lucan said on the 22nd Oct, 2010

The Drones are due on stage at 11:45 tonight. Will cenrtainly be heading in earlier for PK14.
Mariachi El Bronk are scheduled for 12:20am Sunday morn'. Farkin'.

Man, I'm feelin' old.

grattan

grattan said on the 29th Jun, 2011

2011 lineup coming at 7pm on the 12th of July.

demonofthefall said on the 29th Jun, 2011

Last year was great, here's hoping for something along the same lines!

MorningAfterboy

MorningAfterboy said on the 29th Jun, 2011

It's gonna take a freaking humdinger to top this one.