Featuring over 250 local and international artists, throughout the ten days 110 dynamic events will be held morning, noon and night across 40 uniquely Melbourne locations. These include quirky music events in laneways, trams, power stations and elevators to experiential performances at iconic Melbourne institutions.
Each day of MMW 2014 will see their new hub – the Queen Victoria Market – transformed into a dynamic space of cutting-edge installations and programming. Some of the latest highlights just announced include Midnight Juggernauts performing the Melbourne premiere of their visual and musical installation Aerials, legendary Detroit techno collective Underground Resistance presenting a night of jazz and techno music with visionary founder Mad Mike, an evening of dance floor decadence with Glasgow’s finest party-starters Optimo and Germany’s Pachanga Boys, and other killer shows from the likes of Guerre, Milwaukee Banks, Banoffee, Oneohtrix Point Never, Robin Fox, DJ Spinn and Remi.
They join the QVM events that have already been announced, which include performances from Architecture In Helsinki, Total Giovanni, Rainbow Connection DJs, Cut Copy, Andras & Oscar, Roland Tings, No Zu, World’s End Press, Sleep D, Speed Painters, Nile Delta, Allday, L-Fresh The Lion, Baro, The DYE, Dusky and Ten Walls.
The most popular night of the program in recent years, the Live Music Safari, will once again awaken the city on Thursday November 20 with 14 venues opening their doors for a free night of local music (including two new venues, The Hi-Fi and Kelvin Club). The Live Music Safari will also see Section 8 and Ferdydurke take over the entirety of Tattersalls Lane for a sensory overload and audio-visual extravaganza.
Beyond the already fast-selling show at Melbourne Town Hall, German headliner Tangerine Dream will also present an exclusive interactive film event at ACMI, playing the live score to the 1977 American existential film, Sorcerer. This joins the Cinemix event at ACMI that was already announced, which will see The Church performing a live score specially curated by the band to Jean Cocteau’s avant-garde film Blood of a Poet.
Other highlights of the 2014 program include the return of the Self Made series (which will see a new program of innovative events popping up throughout the city), a series of unique one-off concerts and artistic collaborations with NGV, MPavilion, Rooftop Cinema, SWELL and Residency and much, much more.
