Exploring Melbourne Museum’s Summer Plaza Series: three weekends of music adventure Jordan Dennis
Words by August Billy
Across three weekends in January, Melbourne Museum will come to life with parties and live music.
The new year is here, but Melbourne Music Week – Extended is far from over. Thankfully, the event program largely comprises artists from or based in Melbourne and surrounds, meaning it’s full steam ahead with the final two months of gigs.
As is typical of Melbourne Music Week, the events are taking place in many of the city’s most revered locations. This includes the Melbourne Museum, which will play host to six nights of outdoor performances across the month of January. Here are three shows not to miss.
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“Melbourne is pretty much the party capital of Australia”: Late Nite Tuff Guy knows where it’s at Late Nite Tuff Guy performing at Glastonbury.
Words By Greta Brereton
We chat to the revered DJ and producer before he makes his debut at Piknic Électronik.
After spending much of 2020 in hibernation, Melbourne’s events calendar is steadily coming back to life. Amongst the gigs, COVID-safe gatherings and gallery exhibits cropping up is the revamped Melbourne Music Week, whose program extends across three months to make up for lost time during lockdown.
A host of exciting events have been taking place under the MMW – Extended banner since early December, and they’ll be rolling on through until the end of February. There’s something for music lovers of every genre, and one upcoming show is a must for those with a penchant for house and techno.
Eight unmissable gigs to see at Live at the Bowl this January
Words by Eva Marchingo
The outdoor summer concert series is reinvigorating Melbourne’s live entertainment scene.
From January, Melbourne’s beloved Sidney Myer Music Bowl will be transformed into a hotspot (the good kind) of the best live acts in Australia.
A joint initiative by Arts Centre Melbourne and the Victorian government, Live at the Bowl will play host to a series of Australian events and performances held over several weeks.
This season of celebration will help us rediscover the joy of live music and shared experiences, this time in a COVID-Safe environment. Expect to see social distancing, an abundance of hand sanitiser, QR codes for mobile phone registration, and regular cleaning, all to keep punters safe.
MPavilion announces trailblazing, adaptive takeover of Parkade Carpark
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.- The Naomi Milgrom Foundation, in collaboration with the City of Melbourne and Creative Victoria announced that from 8 January 2021 MPavilionAustralia s most loved architecture and design eventwill take residency at the architecturally significant Parkade Carpark designed by Melbourne architect Peter McIntyre AO at 34 Little Collins Street, Melbourne. As an extraordinary contribution to the City of Melbournes recovery strategy, MPavilion Parkade, will be a highly-accessible cultural destination, hosting events, workshops, and performances designed to stimulate, entertain, and engage the public, 7-days-a-week.
In a timely example of adaptive re-usethe process of reusing an existing building for a purpose other than that for which it was designedMPavilion will use the Parkade car park as a new home for its unique, multi-faceted program of public
Words by Arielle Richards
We went along to Melbourne Music Week’s Techno Bingo night and this is how it went down.
The words “techno” and “bingo” couldn’t imply more different ideas. But what happens when you put the two together?
As I found out on Thursday, it’s a rollicking great time.
Melbourne Music Week has valiantly pushed forth amidst COVID’s capacity limits, spacing restraints and the now-infamous seated table mandate.
And so, we’ve seen the conjuring of some intriguingly-creative solutions to the party problem. Techno Bingo at Colour Club was the most outrageous of the lot.