The Tote is having a party... kind of. It’s actually more like a months worth of gigs to celebrate their 30th birthday as a venue. The lineup for this particular event was a quieter one with acoustic sets by Ben Salter, Tendrils and Gareth Liddiard.

Ben Salter opened up proceedings playing to a mostly empty band room. Donning only an acoustic guitar he rushed through a set of typical folky love songs.

Gareth Liddiard delivers the second film clip for the title track off his debut solo album Strange Tourist.

Filmed at the singers homestead in Havilah, produced and directed by Jasmin Tarasin (Pure Pictures) who has also created clips for Gareth before as well as The Drones, Augie March, Little Red, Mia Dyson and more.

The Australian Music Prize (AMP) recently announced the nine shortlisted acts in the running for the $30,000 prize money courtesy of principal partner PPCA. To celebrate, The AMP is having a party and everyone is invited! Featuring several of the shortlisted acts including RICHARD IN YOUR MIND, PIKELET and Red Bull Award winners THE HOLIDAYS, ‘AMP Alive’ will take place on Wednesday, March 2nd at the Annandale Hotel.

Limited tickets will be available for purchase from The Annandale Hotel.

The 6th Australian Music Prize (The Amp) continues to reward excellence in home grown talent with the
announcement of the shortlist. Nine standout artists have been chosen by a judging panel of media,
artists and retail staff to vie for the title.

In the running for the $30,000 prize money courtesy of principal partner PPCA, the following shortlisted

Gareth Liddiard
Strange Tour
With Special Guest Dan Kelly
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If Lady Gaga makes you gag and you find the bells and whistles that fembot artists Britney, Pink, Christina, et al. employ leave you with a bad taste in your mouth, then LIVE may be the thing for you. Part of Sydney Festival, the event promises an intimate video study into the art of performing.

Sydney Festival continued rolling out the hits last night as the anticipated LIVE video installation opened up at the Lower Town Hall. We'll have some contributors heading along to the installation over the weekend who will fill you in properly, but let me just say that it's a fabulous feature of the festival.

LIVE is an intimate video study of the art of performing. It captures more than 20 of the world's best singers and musicians performing a song of their choice in stark simplicity on film and is presented as a large-scale video installation in the Lower Town Hall.