Yeah Yeah Yeahs
It’s only when you have finished a job like programming the Sydney Festival that you fully appreciate what a lucky bugger you were. You get paid to listen to albums, go to shows and exhibitions and then work with those artists you most admire. And you get paid for it.
Obviously it’s not without its strains – a friend of mine often cites the excruciating five-hour incomprehensible nonsense we sometimes have to work our way through and claims “I get paid to watch this crap so you don’t have to!”.
The truth is of course, somebody has to do it. We all want and need someone to trawl through the blizzard of choice and come up with combinations of plays and concerts that have been selected with us in mind. During my time in Sydney this was particularly apparent when it came to popular music.
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