I guess Sydney isn't so bad...

I just got back from the opening night of the Sydney Festival which is a month long festival of drama, music, art etc held all over Sydney. This year they took threw free parties in the city centre on the opening night with some of the acts that would be playing the festival.

I caught the last bit of Chromeo who were apparently really good, and saw the first bit of Spank Rock who sucked (though that was mostly due to the poor sound). Brian Wilson was playing at the domain, but that would have had 50 000 people at least, so i kept clear. They estimated there were going to be about 200 000 people on the streets in the city centre, which is quite a bit, because the city centre ain't so big (all the parties were in about a 3x3 block area). Anyway, it was pretty rad being at a huge open air concert among these huge buildings, and most of the crowd behaved (quite unusual for Sydney crowds) except for one naughty tortoise who got tackled by police. He had no shirt on and a glow stick in his hand so he probably deserved it.




Check out the uber-techno Plump DJ's being broadcast on the big screen...



And this rad star wars-style sculpture on the MLC building...



And this monstrosity (i don't even know what it is) looks retarded during the day but kind of cool lit up at night...



This was one of the small stages amidst the buildings...


Anyway, i'm off to bed, lots of travelling tomorrow...