Plenty to savour as Sydney’s arts-filled summer beckons

The catholics are like friends you don’t see for a while, but with whom you instantly pick up where you left off. Now three decades young, the band is an institution, unfailingly delivering the tonic of pick-you-up music. Bassist Lloyd Swanton has steered the septet through numerous personnel changes and countless guests, without ever losing his grasp on the peculiar allure of resourceful improvisers playing over catchy world-beat grooves.

Sydney singer-songwriter Martha Marlow will perform with an all-star band and 17-piece chamber orchestra.Artifice is the obstacle lying between most performers and their art. Not Martha Marlow. She writes and sings her songs with such guileless candour as instantly enchants. Here she will present her debut album,, accompanied not just by the all-star band of Ben Hauptmann , Clayton Doley , Jonathan Zwartz and Hamish Stuart , but also a 17-piece chamber orchestra led by Veronique Serret.

Punk rock’s provocative Amy Taylor of Amyl & the Sniffers in Melbourne’s first post-lockdown event, Play On VictoriaAmyl & the Sniffers, Speakers Corner, corner of College Street & William Street, January 6 Music has been all but overlooked in recent years of the Sydney Festival but it looks like they’re making up for that this year. There may be no hotter live Australian act right now than Melbourne four-piece Amyl & the Sniffers, who have been itching to get out on the road to perform blistering new albumsince it came out in July.

With so many festivals having fallen off the musical calendar since even before the pandemic, it’s thrilling that there’ll be such a strong one making its mark on the Inner West over a weekend in January. Beloved Sydney label Elefant Traks kicks it all off on Friday with a feast of hip-hop headlined by couldn’t-be-more-local heroes, Camperdown crew Horrorshow.

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