{"id":601,"date":"2008-01-03T17:50:56","date_gmt":"2008-01-03T06:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fatplanet.com.au\/blog\/2008\/01\/03\/sydney-festival-first-night-uber-lingua-angel-place\/"},"modified":"2021-01-31T05:15:02","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T05:15:02","slug":"sydney-festival-first-night-uber-lingua-angel-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/2008\/01\/03\/sydney-festival-first-night-uber-lingua-angel-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Sydney Festival First Night &#8211; Uber Lingua at Angel Place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Saturday, Sydney kills it: the <strong>Sydney Festival<\/strong> has been getting better and more relevant each year, and in 2008 they might well have nailed it. It kicks off with a free, multi-location street party this weekend with performances from none other than the original bee-atch boy <strong>Brian Wilson<\/strong>, plus <strong>Spank Rock, Lost Valentinos, Chromeo, Ajax, Plump DJs<\/strong> and much more.<br \/>\nAnd then there&#8217;s the <strong>Uber Lingua<\/strong> crew, sweet talked by Sydney Festival into throwing up a two-stage laneway bash in Angel Place (&#8216;tween Pitt &amp; Geroge) &#8211; twenty-one of us (count &#8217;em), live performances, MCs, VJs and DJs including <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fatplanet.com.au\/blog\/2007\/07\/28\/wayahudi-family-tanzania\/\">Morganics<\/a><\/strong> (Wilcannia Mob \/ M.I.A. re-production etc), <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fatplanet.com.au\/blog\/2007\/11\/23\/the-didgeribone-charlie-mcmahon-tjupurru-australia\/\">Charlie McMahon<\/a>, Gypsy Dub Sound System, Wire MC<\/strong> and more. Check the full line-up and set-times at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sydneyfestival.org.au\/events\/festival_first_night\/festival_first_night_angel_p.htm?id=86&amp;nav=firstNight&amp;series=0&amp;evid=102\">Sydney Festival web site<\/a> &#8211; I&#8217;ll be dropping two sets at around 8 and 10pm. Viva la Festivale!<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>UPDATE<\/strong><\/span>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/uberlingua\/albums\/72157603729487858\/page1\">Check out the great photo set from the night via Uber Lingua on Flickr.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Saturday, Sydney kills it: the Sydney Festival has been getting better and more relevant each year, and in 2008 they might well have nailed it. It kicks off with a free, multi-location street party this weekend with performances from none other than the original bee-atch boy Brian Wilson, plus Spank Rock, Lost Valentinos, Chromeo, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[724,445,1404,1497],"class_list":["post-601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fat-planet","tag-dj-dates","tag-fat-planet-blog","tag-sydney-festival","tag-uber-lingua","missing-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15793,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions\/15793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}