iTunes Live: ARIA Awards Concert

the ‘iTunes Live: ARIA Awards Concert Series 2010,’ which runs from Monday November 1 to Friday November 5, will see headline acts including John Butler, Washington, Guy Sebastian, Sia and Angus & Julia Stone, take to the stage for a series of intimate performances at the sydney botanic gardens.  this is such a great initiative by iTunes to hold a series of FREE concerts for music lovers.  the only way to get tickets is to win them from a draw.  don't worry, you win 2 tickets at a time so you won't be going alone.

if you're in sydney, I would try your luck winning tickets for the last two performances here.  on the mtv website, it says the competition is closed but try and fill out the form at the bottom anyway.  you never know what can happen!

 

the schedule of the awesome Australian artist are above.  for those of us who are not lucky enough to be in Sydney, we can what the full performances broadcasted exclusively on MTV (ch 124) and MTV Hits (ch 808) @ 8pm (AEDT) .  

so why am i so excited that iTunes Live has arrived in Australia?  when i was in london last year, i was looking for a few gigs to go watch and i came across this concert series called iTunes Live London.  the iTunes Live concerts took place in a small venue (keeping to the intimate venue theme) called the roundhouse in camden town.  iTunes s Live London have been running for a few years and there are some big names who agree to play.  the concept is the same as the iTunes Live Aria Awards Concerts - so you have to go into a draw to get tickets  we won tickets to see 2 shows: mr hudson & calvin harris.  

i absolutely loved the mr hudson concert.  i admit i didn't really know who mr hudson was previous to the gig but we had read that 1. kanye west was in london 2. mr hudson is kanye's protege 3. kid cudi was also kanye's protege and was also in london.  now mr hudson is best known for being featured in jay-z's 'young forever'.  

there was a lot of buzz about this show as there were rumours that kanye and kid cudi would make special appearances to support their friend.  when my friends and i realised that these rumours were actually true, we could not contain our excitement.  neither could the rest of the crowd.  the venue was electrifying when kid cudi came out and played 'day and night'.  i don't think i can ever forget the buzz when bass just drops in that song. it's giving me goosebumps still one year later on.  as for mr hudson, he had gained a new fan.

mr hudson and kid cudi doing 'day and night' - it went off

mr hudson and kanye west doing 'supernova'