MUSIC Sky Ferreira ★★★★ Rising Festival, Forum, June 4 Bathed in a rainbow of coloured lights and wearing sunglasses til past midnight, indie pop star Sky Ferreira left everything on the stage of Melbourne’s Forum on Tuesday night. Many in the eager and encouraging crowd had been waiting to see her since her last Melbourne outing a decade ago. She left them wanting for nothing.
Sky Ferreira performs at Forum Melbourne on June 4, 2024. Credit: Brodie Lancaster She tore through tracks from her landmark 2013 debut, Night Time, My Time , along with some gems from her earlier catalogue and some select and affecting covers. The scorching Nobody Asked Me (If I Was Okay) finds its twin, later in the set, with a cover of Suzanne Vega’s Luka .
The songs are in conversation with one another, as are the 20-year-old MySpace star who wrote the former and the 31-year-old standing before us belting out, “I guess I’d like to be alone ...
just don’t ask me how I am”. Sky Ferreira’s 2022 performance at the 50th Roskilde Festival in Denmark. Credit: Rune Hellestad- Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images The headlines that surrounded her Sydney show earlier this week felt overblown – as did the claims of the TikTokers declaring walkouts when she arrived later than advertised.
So let me get the facts out of the way first: she stepped on stage of Melbourne’s Forum at 10.12pm – about half an hour past her scheduled set time. The final notes from her closing track, the propuls.
