Lost Sundays Announces 10-Hour Festival Takeover of ivy Sydney
Lost Sundays returns to ivy Sydney with its most ambitious edition to date, announcing a four-stage, ten-hour Block Party that pushes the venue deeper into full-scale festival territory.
What began as a forward-facing Sunday session has evolved into one of the city’s most consistent platforms for contemporary electronic music. Past Lost Sundays seasons have seen ivy’s open-air spaces reshaped into immersive environments pairing international innovators with the selectors defining Sydney’s underground pulse. Each instalment has tightened its grip on the city’s weekend rhythm, building a reputation for programming that moves fluidly across house, techno, trance and bass without losing coherence.
This latest chapter stretches that formula across four distinct arenas inside ivy Sydney. The sunlit Courtyard anchors the daytime energy before momentum shifts into the Rooftop’s open-air expanse, the Darkroom’s sweat-soaked intensity and the Cave’s low-end immersion. It is less a club event than a roaming, multi-room journey engineered to evolve from afternoon lift-off to late-night pressure.
At the top of the bill, Vladimir Dubyshkin brings his warped, high-impact techno constructions, while Special Request channels UK rave lineage with break-fuelled urgency. Kyle Starkey leans into euphoric hard house, progressive and trance hybrids, contrasted by Benwal’s high-velocity club selections and Sally C’s punchy blend of vintage house, hip house and acid.
Further across the lineup, Dr Dubplate injects bass-weighted garage and breakbeat pressure, while Faster Horses moves between trance, techno and psychedelia with relentless drive. Miami’s Bitter Babe delivers percussive, Latin-leaning propulsion, and London duo The Trip supply peak-time house built for collective lift. Alongside C.FRIM, Loods and Fukhed, the full 25-artist roster is structured to shift tone and tempo across the ten-hour stretch.
The summer season has already reinforced ivy’s standing as a cornerstone of Sydney nightlife. For nearly two decades, the precinct has hosted global heavyweights including Prince, Carl Cox, Black Coffee, Peggy Gou and Michael Bibi, while also providing a launchpad for Australian exports such as Fisher, Flume and Dom Dolla. Its open-air architecture and d&b Audiotechnik system have consistently allowed promoters to think beyond the limitations of a single room.
Lost Sundays taps directly into that infrastructure. The Block Party format reframes ivy not simply as a club, but as a contained festival environment where global names and local operators intersect under one roof. Over ten hours, the intent is clear: compress the scale of an outdoor festival into the heart of the city, without diluting the underground edge that built the series in the first place.
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