Sometimes words can't do justice to the beauty music can evoke. You have to experience it for yourself. At the very least, I don't consider myself a good enough writer to do so. Tonight at the Sydney Opera House brings me one such moment, where UK songstress Laura Marling embraced a sold out crowd performing her latest record A Creature I Don't Know in full (for the first time), and a second set of favourites from her first two records.

Pictured: Portugal. The Man.

Their positive band name goes hand-in-hand with the shiny and optimistic pop tunes they produce. The opening band of the evening was a duo known as Sures and they were joined by two additional members for the show. With their set-up, composition and music, some comparisons to Cloud Control seemed apt, if not inevitable.

Pictured: M83.

When you walk into the Opera House’s Concert Hall, the last thing you expect to hear is: "I have never seen so many middle-aged men in Hawaiian shirts!" But then, this was not your average Sunday afternoon of classical music programming at The House. Instead, it was a celebration of the timeless, Morning Of The Earth soundtrack, a thoroughly enjoyable trip down nostalgia lane to a simpler, sunburnt land of forty years ago.