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Big Day Out In Review Sydney January 27th 2011

Sydney's Big Day Out was all it was expected to be.....hot, crazy and EPIC!


Here's a quick recount of my day :

Festival : BIG DAY OUT SUMMER 2011
Date: Thursday 27th January 2011
Location: Olympic Park, Sydney

Weather : Hot : 37 degrees Celcius

11am The Naked & Famous
Kiwis sounding fresh and jubilant.
Highlight : Young Blood
11.40am Operator Please
Fresh aussie kids, just getting better.
Hightlight : Leave it alone, Back and forth, Ping Pong (remix), Milkshake (Kelis cover)

12.20pm Little Red
A mix of rock, pop, disco electro.

Highlight: Rock It

1pm Kids of 88
More quality kiwi kicks.
2pm Washington

Think quirky aussie chick, same with the music.
2.30pm CSS
Only 15 minutes here for this awesome girl group, shame really 'cause they really rocked it!

3pm Lupe Fiasco

A crowd pleaser, definitely knew how to get the crowd going, good live act.

3.50pm Gyroscope

Killed it with both older hits and the fairly recent What Do I Know About Pain.

4pm to 5pm

Bits of the following :
Bliss N Eso
Plan B
Die Antwoord

5pm Angus & Julia Stone
Huge crowd, and Big Jet Plane was blissful

5.30pm
Birds of Tokyo ...Plans ..amazing
Crystal Castles

6.45pm
Bloody Beetroots
Bloody fantastic, Crowd was absolutely pussy whipped, Warp was insane!

Now for the major ones :

8pm SIA
Finally the sun was setting and the lightest of lightest shower was falling, making the atmosphere just blissful.
Sia was cute, and cheeky, playing a wonderful set including the huge older hit Breathe Me, and the wonderful Madonna cover Oh Father.
Highlight : Cloud, You've Changed, Clap Your Hands

9pm LCD Soundsystem
A little disappointing, but maybe because I missed Someone Great, and didn't know most tracks. But was nice to see them live!

10pm Tool
Just to see 'em before MIA was on. Interesting, and passionate hard rokcers!

10.45pm M.I.A
Huge build up, Illy girl went nuts, the crowd was loving it. SHE THREW OUT TO THE CROWD VICKI LEEKS CDS AND I GOT ONE DIRECT FROM MIA'S HANDS!!!
Highlight: Born Free, and the closer Paper Planes!



Thanks to Rachel Zoe for a fantastic day! :)

BDO = MIA & SIA= OMG!! need I say more!!!

Hey guys ..sorry been a lazy bugger, Big Day Out..and I'M GOING!!  Its the Thursday Gig...OMG..SIA & MIA!!!

More later ...including review and charts of the last 2 weeks :)

N.E.R.D, Chromeo, BoysNoize & Tinie Temper : LIVE Sydney 7 January 2011

Missed Tinie as we arrived around 9ish after a few red vodkas!


Chromeo performed their set with turntables perched atop a pair of hot, nude, plastic legs – it’s safe to say they tuned up the heat in the Hordern with their new tune; Night by Night. They churned out a few classics as well as some newbie’s, and the crowd took to them like bees to honey.  2 Step was undeniably the highlight and was damn awesome!
Chromeo have an undeniably good sound – smooth, upbeat and surreal all at once. Their 2007 album Fancy Footwork has been described as a frisky, sugary sophomore album, but in concert they come across as anything but sugary. A first-rate warm up dance act would be a safe summary of these boys.

Had Chromeo and BoyzNoize been placed in a 1-3am timeslot at the finale of an all-day dance festival, they probably would have sent the crowd into a considerable state of ecstasy. BoysNoizes’ electro drops and beats that he refers to as ‘acid-house fascinations’ are pretty much guaranteed to get your blood pumping. Using synthesisers and electro-pop tools, Alexander Ridha creates a sound that can get an entire audience moving in just a few beats.


N.E.R.D. however, created a monster. Pharrell Williams, the king of cool, has an on-stage presence that can be rivalled to few, and he knows it too. One over-zealous fan almost orgasmed when he was pulled on-stage to dance alongside the N.E.R.D troop. It’s clear the N.E.R.D. crew have a pretty strong following. But in complete honesty, I think you needed to be a fan to get a real kick out of their concert, but I'm not complaining a complementary ticket always is a winner, many thanks to Laura, luv ya babe!