THE SINGAPORE ARTS FESTIVAL VILLAGE
Despite not being officially opened, the village was already a bustling hive of activity. There were horses trotting about, performers (both kids and adults) going through rehearsals, crew testing lighting, sound and projection and F&B staff setting up the food booths, Festival cafe and bar. The area is coming alive and it’s going to get [...]
Dimensions Playground Festival Bali
WHILE YOU STILL HAVE TIME TO BOOK FLIGHTS!!! Dimensions Playground Festival “Time to Change” Wednesday, May 9, 2012 Garuda Wisnu Kencana (GWK Cultural Park), Jl. Raya Uluwatu, Ungasan, Bali, Indonesia 5PM onwards Main Arena Lotus Pond featuring: Gorillaz Soundsystem Kelis James Zabiela George Fitzgerald Marc Roberts The Silent Disco DJs Area 2 featuring: Mikey Moran, [...]
Review: Future Music Festival Asia 2012
(aerial photo courtesy of isaactan.net —dude, it’s amazing how you got to this height) This review is waaaaaaaaay overdue, but it’s never too late to thank the Future Music Festival people of Sepang for having us!!!!! WOOOHOOOOOOOOOO! Since we have a thing for catching tail ends of concerts (due to unforeseen circumstances, as usual), the [...]
Singapore Arts Festival 2012 Tickets On Sale Now
From 18 May to 2 June 2012, the Singapore Arts Festival will present 14 ticketed and 66 non-ticketed productions presented by more than 500 artists and groups from Singapore and across the globe. The Festival will showcase local and international acts, collaborations and projects that take audiences into exciting new venues, pushing the boundaries of [...]
The Festival Survival Guide
BASIC SURVIVAL TOOLS WATER BOTTLES You need to get hydrated from all that moshing, jumping, and walking around. Hipsters who prefer to stand still and nod their heads half-consciously need not apply. BOOZE You need to get boozed up to tolerate hipsters who prefer to stand still and nod their heads half-consciously. Also, to help [...]
Music Conference Asia 2012
The highly anticipated music event of the year – Music Conference ASIA 2012 is ready to unveil its full line-up. This 28 April, Music Conference ASIA 2012 will take over Sepang International Circuit with energetic vibe, superior sound and first-class acts that will leave you wanting for more. —That part was quite a hard sell [...]
5 Must-Watch Films, South East Asian Film Festival @ SAM
Singapore’s second Southeast Asian Film Festival kicks off this month, featuring 20 works by the region’s filmmakers from Myanmar to Indonesia. The festival covers subjects as diverse as Cambodia’s Pol Pot regime, Myanmar’s controlled media landscape and a surreal tragicomedy about a Filipino couple that has a fish as a son. The people behind the event say [...]
PICTOPLASMA Festival 2012
The world’s leading and largest Festival of contemporary character culture returns to Berlin, with a dense, one-week program of inspiring artist presentations, conference lectures, animation festival, workshops, installations, numerous character walk exhibitions, performances, VJ battles and of course, loads of character! The unique mix of screenings, personal artist presentations, numerous exhibitions delivers tons of inspiring [...]
Future Film Festival 2012
Venezia, September 5th, 2011. The 14th edition of Future Film Festival will be held in Bologna, Italy, from March 27th to April 1st 2012. After this year’s good experiment, the Festival confirms the Spring date. Future Film Festival 2012 main focus will be “the end of the world”, according to the prophecies that look at [...]
SXSW 2012
The 26th edition of SXSW will arrive with a lot of momentum carried over from our Silver Anniversary in 2011. Expect to see expansion of last year’s new initiatives, such as the combined SXSW Trade Show for the Creative Industries, which draws from all the events – Interactive, Film and Music. SXSW.COM is the most [...]
i Light Marina Bay Festival Returns
Last year’s inaugural i Light Marina Bay Festival was a fresh and welcome highlight in the Singapore art calendar. Public, free and easily accessible, it checked all the right boxes for us. We particularly appreciated that it was held in the heart of downtown attracting crowds from a good cross-section of Singapore’s populace; art aficionados, nightlife punters, [...]
Offset 2012
Originally an initiative of The Small Print when it begun in early 2009, OFFSET has quickly grown into an strong entity in itself. Run by Peter O’Dwyer, Bren Byrne and Richard Seabrooke (all creatives living and working in Dublin) it has become Dublin’s premier creative festival attracting speakers and visitors from all over the world. [...]
Future Music Festival
Fresh from a record breaking series of sold out Australian festivals, Future Music Festival spreads its wings to Asia in March 2012, taking along all the endless fun, energy and forward thinking sounds that Australian music fans have come to know and love. The destination of choice for its debut is, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia! We [...]
Ramen Festival In Tokyo
A Ramen Festival in Yoyogi Park in Tokyo featuring over 20 different Japanese ramen restaurants. This even took place in February of 2012. Interesting fact about this video: this video is featured under Tokyo Fashion News. Check out the SOURCE!
Philippines: Malasimbo Music and Arts Festival 2012
Malasimbo Music & Arts Festival March 2-4, 2012 The Malasimbo Music & Arts Festival is truly one of the world’s most enchanting of it’s kind; set in the lush rolling tropical paradise of the Philippines, flanked by coconut trees and verdant hills, it’s hard to imagine a place so naturally spectacular as the Puerto Galera [...]
15 Mar 2012: 4th Putrajaya International Hot Air Balloon Fiesta 2012 @ Putrajaya
15 Mar 2012: 4th Putrajaya International Hot Air Balloon Fiesta 2012 @ Putrajaya 15th to 18th March 2012, 7.00am to 9.00pm @ Putrajaya The Putrajaya International Hot Air Balloon Fiesta is back for its 4th year and it promises to be as exciting and enjoyable as it has been for the past 3 years with [...]
Laneway Festival, Singapore: M83
Known for their loud instrumentals and whispery vocals, tunes from M83′s latest album Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming will wrap up the fest. Frontman Anthony Gonzalez chats about their music and performing at Laneway. How is the latest release different from previous ones? It is our first album recorded outside of France and Europe, we wanted [...]
Laneway Festival, Singapore: CULTS Release “You Know What I Mean” Video
Just in time for St. Jerome’s Laneway Festival this Sunday, Cults has just released a video to ‘You Know What I Mean’ off their self-titled debut. The narrative-focused music video is a paean to forbidden carnival love where lovelorn Madeline Follin ogles at devil-may-care Brian Oblivion as her ringleader dad sabotages his stunts. With distinctively ’60s [...]
Laneway Festival, Singapore: LAURA MARLING
It’s as though LAURA MARLING was born in the wrong decade. Wrong century even. Preternaturally wise beyond her 21 years, Marling inhabits an analogue world where she makes literate, timeless folk music. Previous albums Alas, I Cannot Swim and I Speak Because I Can were both nominated for the Mercury Prize (the latter earning her [...]
Laneway Festival, Singapore: THE HORRORS
East London via Southend-On-Sea band THE HORRORS have come a long way since 2005, when they graced the cover of the NME with eye-linered eyes, big hair, an eff-you attitude and barely a single (the spiky ‘Sheena Is A Parasite’) to their name. Their live shows were a riot – often literally – but did [...]
Laneway Festival, Singapore: CULTS
Young NYC-by-way-of-San Diego pop duo CULTS burst onto the scene early last year with the irresistible ‘Go Outside’, a short, sharp burst of hazy bedroom pop steeped in classic girl-group harmonies and Spector-esque production. Little was known about the twosome of Brian Oblivion and Madeline Follin, whose almost ungoogleable name and refusal to give interviews [...]
Laneway Festival, Singapore: THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART
It’s not hard to get your head around the appeal of THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART. It’s classic indie pop: jangly guitars, sun-soaked melodies, themes of heartbreak, redemption and so on. It’s like they sat down and wrote an album specifically for the Australian summer. Produced by genii Alan Moulder (My Bloody Valentine, [...]
Laneway Festival, Singapore : GLASSER
‘Easy to like’ says Pitchfork of GLASSER, the one-woman orchestra of Cameron Mesirow; ‘easy to love’ say we. On Ring, the L.A. native’s universally praised debut lp, ethereal vocals swirl above an intoxicating mix of tribal percussion, lush electronics and orchestral flourishes. It’s mystical, yes, but without any of the put-on eccentricity or pretension those [...]
Laneway Festival, Singapore : TWIN SHADOW
George Lewis Jnr aka TWIN SHADOW’s debut album is as intriguing as his upbringing. The troubled son of a hairdresser and a teacher ‘who lived many lives’ (semi-pro footballer, massage therapist, film maker and other things we’ll tell you about when you’re older), Lewis Jnr was born in the Dominican Republic and grew up in [...]
