Vivid festival 2014
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Brendan Hickey drowning inquest finds Vivid festival risk assessment 'flawed'
Coroner says festival didn’t identify the risk posed by the open waters’ edge at Darling Harbour and said permanent fencing would reduce risk of drowning
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Pet Shop Boys review – tightrope walking between pop and artAustralia culture blog
Vivid Sydney: a festival for the Instagram generationAustralia culture blog
Goodgod Tin Pan Alley review – a star is rebornAustralia culture blog
The Heritage Orchestra: the Music of Moroder review – Vivid hits peak disco
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James Vincent McMorrow review – a warm sonic blanketArmed with a dramatic light show and a piercing falsetto, the Irishman deslivers a gig that is sonically and visually compelling, writes Jack Phillips
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Penny Penny: back in currencyAustralia culture blog
Giorgio Moroder: 10 groundbreaking tunesAustralia culture blog
Giorgio Moroder: disco pioneer rides againAustralia culture blog
Anna Calvi review – a thrilling night of musical drama
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Lauryn Hill review – 16 years on, she's still got that thingPlaying songs from her classic debut live, Hill gives the audience a taste of what we've missed in the many years she's been absent, writes Oliver Laughland
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Phuture: pioneers of acid houseTwo young Chicago musicians were messing about with a synthesizer when they hit on a world-changing sound. Now they're back – and being sampled by Kanye West. By Jim Poe
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Kate Miller-Heidke review: a baroque talent gaudily displayedA trained soprano who happens to sing pop music, the Brisbane native put on a spectacular show taking in opera, Talking Heads and an avant garde tiara, writes Alex Needham
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Anna Calvi: 'I learned from the classics'Having worked with David Byrne, toured with Nick Cave and covered David
Bowie, the multi-instrumentalist is aiming to join the artistic
heavyweights. By Helen Davidson
Timeline: Australian Chamber Orchestra and the Presets review – a cosmic calendar
An an attempt to squeeze 40,000 years of music into two hours is surprisingly successful – even though Cold Chisel is left out, writes Alex McClintock
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St Vincent review: a freak-pop funhouseIn a highly theatrical performance, Annie Clark and her band interrogate the conventions of the pop show before gleefully tearing them down, writes Chris Martin
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Vivid festival lights up Sydney - timelapse videoWatch a timelapse video of Sydney's famous landmarks as they transform into a giant canvas for the opening of Vivid festival 2014
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Nils Frahm: music for piano and toilet brushAn experimental musician poised between classical, jazz and pop, Frahm is as happy playing in pubs as the Sydney Opera House for Vivid Live, writes Heidi Maier
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RIP Society's fifth birthday review – outsiders risk being fossilisedWhat happens when you put a night of underground music on in one of the world's most ostentatious venues? Shaun Prescott found out
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Since I Left You review – a joyful, live recreation of a classic recordA recreation of the Avalanches' album by an 18-piece band more than did justice to the kaleidoscopic original, writes Alex McClintock
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