ALWAYS LIVE, Crown and Frontier Touring present
ALWAYS LIVE An Intimate Audience with St. Vincent (USA)
Hosted by Sosefina Fuamoli
Crown Aviary, Melbourne
Woiwurrung Country
Ticket Information
Thu 28 Nov
This is an 18+ event
Set Times
6:30pm – 7:00pm
Q&A with Sosefina
8:00pm – 8:30pm
Performance
Nestled high amongst the stars, with sweeping views of Melbourne, Crown Aviary will play host to ALWAYS LIVE's most boutique offering: An Intimate Audience With three-time GRAMMY winning musical auteur St. Vincent.
Over the course of the exclusive evening, St. Vincent will discuss her impressive, prolific career and play some of her most well-loved songs in a stripped back, intimate performance.
Since her last visit to Australian shores in 2018, St Vincent has released Daddy's Home (2021) and most recently, All Born Screaming; a sonic invitation for listeners to test the limits of what's possible – and then keep going. Emblematic of an artist unwilling to be bound by anything except the confines of her own creativity, her seventh record is bold, dramatic and unapologetically forthright.
Alongside this once-in-a-lifetime chance to experience St. Vincent up close and personal, guests can expect the finest food and drink offerings from award winning restaurant staff, incredible views of the city and the Yarra River and state-of-the-art light and sound. Truly an evening not to be missed.
Tickets to this event will include a cocktail on arrival, selection of drinks and a 3-course exquisite meal curated by an award-winning Chef.
This event proudly supports Support Act, our charity partner. For every ticket sold, $1 will go directly to Support Act to help them provide crucial support to musicians, managers, crew, and music workers facing health issues, injury, or other crises. Your contribution helps keep the music community strong! Donate here
Artists
Annie Clark made her recorded debut as St. Vincent in 2007 with Marry Me, quickly becoming regarded as one of the most innovative and fascinating presences in modern music. Her subsequent albums would include Actor (2009), Strange Mercy (2011), her self-titled fourth album and winner of the 2014 GRAMMY for Best Alternative Album. In 2017, her fifth album MASSEDUCTION would break St. Vincent into the U.S. and UK top 10s and win two more GRAMMYs (Best Rock Song for its title track, and Best Recording Package). 2021’s Daddy’s Home found St. Vincent channeling the hungover glamor and gritty sepia-toned soundtrack of 1970s downtown NYC to an ecstatic reception, ultimately winning her a second Best Alternative Album GRAMMY. Following a 2021-2022 global tour that reaffirmed St. Vincent’s status as one of live music's preeminent forces with headline appearances at the likes of the Hollywood Bowl and Radio City Music Hall, Clark would begin work on album number seven: Her first fully self-produced album (having co-produced every one of her previous efforts), All Born Screaming is St. Vincent at her most primal. Featuring Clark leading “a curated group of rippers” through the brawny “Broken Man,” the mordant catwalk sashay through the deafening assault of self-loathing that is “Big Time Nothing,” the sublime, elegiac earworm “Sweetest Fruit," All Born Screaming is equal parts spiritual desolation and rapturous acceptance. “If you’re born screaming, that’s a great sign,” says Clark, “because it means you’re breathing. You’re alive. My god. It’s joyous. And then it’s also a protest. We’re all born in protest in a certain way. It’s terrifying to be alive, it’s ecstatic to be alive. It’s everything.”
St. Vincent (USA)
Sosefina Fuamoli is an award winning Samoan-Australian music journalist, broadcaster, and content producer.
Her work has frequently been featured across a broad range of titles including Rolling Stone AU/NZ, NME, The Australian, The Guardian, Junkee and more.
She is a two-time winner of the ‘Live Music Journalist’ award for the National Live Music Awards (2020, 2023).
She currently hosts two music shows on Radio Australia: in depth interview show On The Record, and Sista Sounds - a dedicated platform to highlight female music talent throughout the Oceanic region. Broadcasting into 12+ island nations and available to stream on demand via ABC Pacific/ABC Listen App, these shows have built bridges between the Oceanic region and diaspora communities in Australia and Aotearoa. She has also enjoyed guest host stints on Double J and triple j.
Sosefina’s work behind the scenes has seen her operate as a conference and genre consultant for both BIGSOUND and ARIA - the latter of which saw her assist in developing a new advisory board for the Hip Hop/Rap and R&B/Soul categories to encourage cultural and criteria change.
As an industry speaker and facilitator, Sosefina has appeared on and hosted keynote discussions at Australian events including Splendour in the Grass, Melbourne Music Week, CHANGES Festival, Melbourne Writers Festival, Melbourne International Film Festival and BIGSOUND, and internationally at BreakOut West (Calgary, Canada) and Going Global (Auckland, NZ).
Sosefina Fuamoli
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