Mistletone

Thursday, January 23 – Enmore Theatre. Tickets on sale October 28, info here. Doors open 8pm.

Kurt Vile will be one of the guest vocalists at Sydney Festival’s Australian exclusive performance of Big Star’s Third. Big Star’s imperfect masterpiece will be performed with its original string and wind orchestrations by Jody Stephens, Mike Mills (R.E.M.), Ken Stringfellow (The Posies), Mitch Easter (Let’s Active) and Chris Stamey (the dB’s) with guest vocalists Kurt Vile and more to be announced.

An all-star cast gather to perform one of the most iconic albums ever made, Big Star’s third album, Sister Lovers. Released in 1978, Sister Lovers was primarily the studio output of founding members Alex Chilton and Jody Stephens. Considered a cult classic, the record is adored by critics and artists alike, with The Replacements, Belle & Sebastian and The Flaming Lips all citing Big Star as an influence and R.E.M.’s Peter Buck describing the album as “a Rosetta Stone for a whole generation”.