LOWDOWN ON SYDNEY AUSTRALIA
LOWDOWN ON SYDNEY AUSTRALIA
What can I see, its hot, its cultured and its where they filmed a lot of the matrix. The bridge in the centre of the city should be familiar to fans of the first film. Its where Trinity picks up Neo in the car in the rain. I could get even sadder, so I have left other matrix locations off the blog.
Café Culture
OK, confessions. In the two times I have been over to Sydney in 2003, I spent most of my time in three cafes, mostly because those cafes were excellent. The first is called is an a wonderful café and arts area called Glebe Its also close to Café Church (see Later about that). My favourite café is Well Connected. Its an excellent café, so good that we used some of the images for the moot website. Other good cafés include Satellite, originally set up by the same people as Well Connected. You will find Satellite Café round the back of New Town, near the 7-11 shop.
Arts & Performance
One thing I really like about Sydney is the amazing amount of things going on. There is an independent Radio Station, which a number of musicians I met were involved in. One of these guys is called Rick who produces his own dance music under the name Deep Child. Check out his music here or see the website for deepchild. To listen to the 2 Ser Radio Station Live click here or for the website click here.
Further into town are a number of performance venues. One of these called Club Acustica had a great acoustic cabaret on a week day night. I was pleased to see some one I know perform called Steve Bevis playing his stuff. He has a number of good albums, so check out the website.
Emerging Church & Spirituality
The best thing you could do while you are here, is to attend an event of Café Church, 37-47 St Johns Rd, Glebe, Sydney. It’s a great space, an ex-cinema with loads of chairs for lounging, chatting as well as thinking about spiritual things.Café Church is wonderful!! It does Sunday services, and off the wall explorations during the week. To give you a flavour, see the Windows Media Player Movie below. It is an evening service, where people have been given canvases to paint a picture to represent bits of a story about Jesus. These pictures are then lined up in front of everyone. Then each by one, the narrator reads a bit of the story, and then a jazz sax player and organist/keyboard player improvises to the story and picture, which is illuminated in the dark. Apologies for the darkness of the film, but it gives you a good idea of what went on.
Finally, I need to say a big thank you to Cathy & Andrew, who were involved in Café Church and have done talks with me at Greenbelt. They are an inspiration to be around, and I have now stayed in their house twice in the same year. So Thanks Andrew & Cathy. Here lounging in the Satellite Café.
