Radio Gorgeous

Sarah Tucker takes a trip down under to Sydney’s winter and the annual drama that is the Vivid Festival.    Sydney becomes a living firework for three weeks during the Vivid Festival  www.vividsydney.com. due to celebrate its 12th anniversary in 2020.   Known for the best New Year fireworks in the world over Sydney bridge, the festival makes the most of its iconic Opera House and harbour to shower the skies and waters with light and music during the Autumn months of May and June, which is still usually brighter, warmer and dryer than the English early summer.    The opera house ‘sails’ are lit by Andrew Thomas Huang and ‘choreographed’ the wonderfully named Toogie Barcelo, where images and colours merge into others, trees become dragons, stars become street dancers all set on a large scale with the backdrop of the bridge on one side and tropical gardens on the other. The overall effect is like looking at something out of Bladerunner. Concerts boast performances as diverse as Herbie Hancock and The Cure to Und