Sydney is a city of festivals. I feel like Sydney has a festival for everything. Tropfest, Field day umm the Sydney Festival and it's great, it's almost at a point where at any time of the year there will be some kind of festival on to keep bored Uni students and cultural sydney siders occupied. After attending the Livid festival of light in the City I couldn't help but feel that the festival facade was a temporary cultural expression that imposes itself intermittantly on Sydney's architectural foundations like the Rocks and Circular Quay and any number of venues across Sydney. This may seem a little negative but I feel like Sydney lack's a cultural soul. Cultural events come by, impose there creative world views then leave Sydney as an empty cultural shell waiting for the next pearl to arrive (nice mixed metaphor gus man)
The good part of it is that Sydney is incredibly dynamic and flexible. The venue which entertained tween's with the wiggles can transform at night to a haven of filthy electro heads. Many of the biggest bars and clubs fail to attract a regular crowd and are forced to rely on promoters and the acts they can book. Tank night club which I feel is a great venue and as Sydney as it gets, relies on club nights like the RnB super club and One love to fill it's floors rather than having a crowd for the venues sake. One love could move and Tank would be empty.
Anyway Here's an awesome song for those that like to kick it oldschool
Run DMC- My Adidas (pilot priest remix)
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