Dark Mofo 2021 will is set to descend on Tasmania for a seven-night celebration of dark magic in June.
The annual midwinter celebration, hosted by the Museum of Old and New Art, is back after cancelling the 2020 instalment amid the coronavirus pandemic. The eighth instalment of the festival will return for seven evenings from June 16–22, set to conjure up something malevolent with live music, art and pop-up bars.
Headlining the music program of Dark Mofo 2021 is Sonic Youth hero Thurston Moore. Moore is set to perform two shows; the first with experimental electronic artist Wobbly, the second with Aotearoa’s the Dead C.
Acclaimed rhythm trio from San Francisco OM will be performing for those that have a taste for the rumbling gloom of Doom Metal.
Hayley Fohr’s experimental folk project Circuit Des Yeux will be performing two shows, the second will be performed on deconstructed music boxes in collaboration with sound artists Shoeb Ahmad and Alex Albrecht.
If Gregorian chanting is your tipple of choice, we’re not judging. The All Saints Compline Choir is set to conjure up six hundred years of chanting and choral music at All Saints Church in South Hobart for a free performance.
Also joining the ranks is festival favourites Confidence Man alongside A Swayze & The Ghosts and King Stingray. Together, the troupe will perform a free lunchtime show at the Odeon Theatre.
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You can find all the music performances below.
Thurston Moore and the Dead C
Tickets
Wednesday 16 June, 8–10pm (doors 7pm)
Odeon Theatre, Liverpool Street
$129 + booking fee
Door sales $135 (subject to capacity)
18+
Thurston Moore and Wobbly
Tickets
Friday 18 June, 7–8.30pm (doors 6pm)
Odeon Theatre, Liverpool Street
$129 + booking fee
Door sales $135 (subject to capacity)
18+
OM
Tickets
Friday 18 June, 11pm–1am (doors 10pm)
Odeon Theatre, Liverpool Street
$99 + booking fee
Door sales $105 (subject to capacity)
18+
Circuit Des Yeux
Tickets
Saturday 19 June, 7–8pm (doors 6pm)
Federation Concert Hall, Davey Street
$49–$59 + booking fee
Door sales $55–$65 (subject to capacity)
Circuit Des Yeux: Music Box
Thursday 17 June, 6.30–9pm (doors 6pm)
Altar, Murray Street
Free (subject to capacity)
18+
The Dead C, Lucas Abela
Saturday 19 June, 6.30–9pm (doors 6pm)
Altar, Murray Street
Free (subject to capacity)
18+
Pope Alice Close, Encounters
Wednesday 16 June, 7–10pm
Thursday 17–Sunday 20 June, 5–10pm
X-Cathedra, Liverpool Street
Free (subject to capacity)
Screams from the Abyss: Growth, Pod People, Alter Defecation, The Amenta, Misery
Saturday 19 June, 8pm–1am (doors 7pm)
Odeon Theatre, Liverpool Street
$59 + booking fee
Door sales $65 (subject to capacity)
18+
Confidence Man, A. Swayze and The Ghosts, King Stingray
Saturday 19 June, 1–4pm (doors 12pm)
Odeon Theatre, Liverpool Street
Free (subject to capacity)
18+
Lo!, Injured Ninja, Threats, Drug Cult
Thursday 17 June, 8pm–midnight (doors 7pm)
Odeon Theatre, Liverpool Street
Free (subject to capacity)
18+
Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet: Gavin Bryars and Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra
Friday 18 June, 7–8pm (doors 6pm)
Federation Concert Hall, Davey Street
$49–$59 + booking fee
Door sales $55–$65 (subject to capacity)
A Hut In Toyama: Gavin Bryars and Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra
Thursday 17 June, 7–8pm (doors 6pm)
Federation Concert Hall, Davey Street
$49–$59 + booking fee
Door sales $55–$65 (subject to capacity)
Black Cab, Jeremy Gara, Slag Queens
Sunday 20 June, 8–11pm (doors 7pm)
Odeon Theatre, Liverpool Street
Free (subject to capacity)
18+
Grace Cummings
Sunday 20 June, 7–9pm (doors 6pm)
Altar, Murray Street
Free (subject to capacity)
18+
Towards A Great Silence: All Saints Compline Choir
Monday 21 June, 10pm–Tuesday 22 June, 6am
City Hall, Macquarie Street
Free
Visitors will be permitted entry at suitable times in the performance
