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3 days ago
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No Joke, The Lights Went Out At The Sydney Opera House During Vivid
The Sydney Opera House had an ironic incident in the Concert Hall last night (June 3rd) for its final night of Vivid LIVE for 2025. While the venue itself was lit up from the outside, the stage lights inside went out during Japanese Breakfast's set around 9:45pm during a performance of the song 'Slide Tackle'. What was originally believed to be an intentional part of the lighting design was quickly revealed to be legitimate, with a technician from the back of the room yelling that they were 'working with the House to get the lights back on' as the band played on for another two songs. After playing 'Picture Window' with only the overhead lights and a prop lantern, the band – who were making their Sydney Opera House debut – were escorted off stage for an unplanned intermission, which lasted 15 minutes. Unfortunately, when the band returned to continue with the show, the lighting issue had not been resolved. 'The whole system is down,' said frontwoman Michelle Zauner to the sold-out audience following 'Men In Bars'. Two songs later, however, the entire lighting system came back online midway through the band's performance of 'Kokomo, IN'. 'That's live music, baby!' Zauner remarked following a rapturous applause from the audience at the song's conclusion. At the time of writing, neither the Sydney Opera House nor Japanese Breakfast have publicly commented on the technical snafu. The band's performance wrapped up a busy two weeks for the Opera House, which saw Sigur Rós bring their orchestral tour to the Concert Hall with three sold-out shows with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and the final Australian performances from Anohni & The Johnsons, as well as Beth Gibbons, Miss Kaninna, Surprise Chef and Emily Wurramara. Vivid Sydney will continue on until next weekend (June 14th) across various other venues in the city. This includes the Oxford Art Factory, where septuagenarian UK rap duo Pete & Bas are set to perform tomorrow night, as well as the City Recital Hall in Angel Place, where Soccer Mommy will perform next Thursday night. The full remaining program can be found at Love Letter To A Record: YoWo Music's Pearl Harnath On Japanese Breakfast's 'Psychopomp' Open Season 2025: Kamasi Washington, The Preatures, DIIV + More Sigur Rós Review – A Calming Serenity Comes to Fortitude Valley The post No Joke, The Lights Went Out At The Sydney Opera House During Vivid appeared first on Music Feeds.
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21-03-2025
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Japanese Breakfast Play Tug of War With Time in ‘Picture Window' Video
Michelle Zauner turned a lifelong rumination on loss into a cinematic capsule in Japanese Breakfast's 'Picture Window' music video. 'I wanted this video to feel like a short film,' the musician shared about the visual, which stars Omega from Balming Tiger and Gyuri Kim. Filmed while Zauner, who directed the video, was living in Seoul last year, 'Picture Window' follows the pair as they play tug of war with the passage of time. 'Ever since I was a young girl I've dealt with intrusive thoughts of loved ones dying horrible deaths,' Zauner said in a statement. 'When someone is running late or they've neglected a text or even if they're just looking over a balcony, my mind has a tendency to run to the worst case scenario, a reflex only exacerbated by my experience of many real deaths. It can be both a relief and a struggle to love someone who doesn't share this same proclivity for anxiety. Picture Window explores that dynamic.' More from Rolling Stone Japanese Breakfast: Not Sad, Just Brilliant Japanese Breakfast's Michelle Zauner Says Her Film Went 'Down the Drain' After Director Pulled Out Japanese Breakfast Drop Sublime New Single 'Mega Circuit' - and Ride Around on ATVs The video cuts between scenes that are soaked in cold blue hues and others that are hyper-realistic, where the couple runs through city streets and frolic through parks. Zauner was drawn to Omega's energy and charm when casting him in the role, but it was Kim's 'melancholy and uncertainty,' she says, that made them a perfect match. 'Watching it back, it's bittersweet to look back on my year abroad—the wonderful people I met, the neighborhoods I loved and lived in,' Zauner said. 'The constant tracking from left to right is a reminder of how time continues to pass no matter how forcefully you struggle to beat it back or rush to get ahead of it. I watch out the window as the scenery passes, visualizing all my unlived lives swishing past.' 'Picture Window' appears on the recently-released Japanese Breakfast album For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women), their first since 2021's Jubilee. Best of Rolling Stone The 50 Greatest Eminem Songs All 274 of Taylor Swift's Songs, Ranked The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time
