Palace Announce ‘Painting With Light’ ft. Roland Tings | Dro Carey | Kato + more

Always a hot ticket on the Newcastle circuit, party maestros Palace have delivered one finely-tuned house and tech event after another from their Family Hotel homebase, having hosted huge nights featuring Luke Million, Motorik Vibe Council, Jensen Interceptor and more. More recently, they’ve stretched their party wings in Sydney, vis a vis shows with Francis Xavier and Horowitz at the Jam Gallery and Cassius Select at Civic Underground.

Today, Palace are excited to announce one of their biggest undertakings yet – Painting With Light, an out-of-the-ordinary experience showcasing the power of light. Following the first instalment of Painting With Light (Saturday June 10 at the Imperial – where Cosmo’s Midnight will head up an evening of light, video, and dance curated by Sounds Like a Nice Time – details here), The Imperial Hotel will once again be transformed thanks to the prowess of Sydney light artists Underground Arts, who will work their unique brand of aesthetic-driven magic on the location’s dual spaces. Utilising state-of-the-art-technology; including powerful projection mapping, head-turning holograms, UV/blacklight work, infinity boxes, and atmospheric fog effects, they will create a visual spectacular at The Imperial Hotel.

Headlining a brilliantly illuminated basement stage will be one of the Australian music scene’s most pioneering live electronic artists at present, producer ROLAND TINGS. Of late Tings has been riding high on the success of his impressive Each Moment A Diamond EP; a diverse, au courant offering; spanning a diverse range of styles from euphoric techno, to infectious pop, and hypnotising synthscapes. Tings delivers flawless, hugely danceable performances, and his recent shows have seen him evolve his dazzling club sets into a two-piece with a new live drummer. Tings joins us at Painting With Light perfectly primed from sold-out shows on his national headline EP tour, performances on the Laneway Festival stage, and supports for RUFUS and Chrome Sparks.

Another eclectic producer joining Palace’s Painting With Light line-up comes by way of one of our country’s finest purveyors of underground dance music, Sydney-based producer DRO CAREY. He brings one of his signature shape-shifting sets to the Imperial basement; expect bass, grime, hip hop, R&B, and juke, all brought together into his own unique style. Dro Carey’s got a stack of forward-thinking club constructions to his name under an impressive array of club labels (including his latest releases featuring of-the-moment vocalists Jess Kent and Kucka) all of which he’s sure to deliver on the night.

Sydney selector KATO is a stalwart of the Australian club scene, having played nearly every iconic club night, festival and party out there; having supported everyone from Daft Punk to Fatboy Slim. He’s a tastemaker at FBi Radio, where his weekly show features new sounds from Australia and around the world, and as half of electronic duo wordlife, he’s put out winning originals and remixes on Modular, Motorik, Dim Mak, and more. Kato can serve any kind of party with a dance floor experience like no other – Kato will be making bodies move at Painting With Light, bringing house, hip hop, world music, techno, disco and funk, to the dancefloor (and always plenty of swag).

A toast to the Central Coast, ELIJAH SOMETHING’s made his mark on the Sydney scene across the past few years; He’s lent his talent in support of some of the world’s biggest house and techno acts and his versatile DJ sets are always a favourite at local club nights, as are those of CABAL DJs and JUN WAN, who round out what’s sure to be an epic night of light and dance in the basement.

Upstairs – OWT Disco feat. OWT DJs, Nine Yards, Comfort Club & Russel Feathers

OWT. DJs have the reigns to the Imperial’s upstairs, where they’ll be creating an intimate disco experience– OWT Disco – amongst the lighting spectacular, with the help of friends Nine Yards and Russel Feathers. OWT have quickly gained a reputation for their hugely fun disco house DJ sets Sydney and Canberra, having hosted Jensen Interceptor, Made In Paris, PoolClvb, Ben Fester, Adi Toohey and more, and played with Lo’99, Cut Snake and Set Mo.

Painting With Light – a VIVID X|Celerate Event

Vivid Music presents a cutting-edge contemporary music program featuring collaborations and performances from local and international acts at venues across Sydney. Vivid Music is presented as part of Vivid Sydney, the world’s largest festival of light, music and ideas. Vivid Sydney is owned, managed and produced by Destination NSW, the NSW Government’s tourism and major events agency, and runs from 26 May to 17 June 2017. For more information head to Vivid’s website here.

VIVID Music – Painting With Light 2 Palace ft. Roland Tings | Dro Carey | Kato | Elijah Something

Saturday June 17th, Doors 8pm

The Imperial, 35 Erskineville Road, Sydney

This is an 18+ event

First release tickets $20 + BF, onsale now Moshtix or Oztix

RSVP on Facebook | Palace on Facebook

This Vivid Sydney event is part of the X|Celerate music program and proudly presented in partnership with the City of Sydney.

AMNPLIFY – BS