Azure Ryder Makes History With New Music Video

Singer-songwriter Azure Ryder has become the first artist to release a music video filmed atop the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

The clip accompanies Ryder's rendition of Nina Simone's 1965 song Feeling Good, taken from the NSW Government's latest tourism campaign, Feel New.

The video was filmed across three days in Sydney and the Blue Mountains and includes scenes from the highest point on the Harbour Bridge's Southern Pylon, utilised for the first time in a music video.

The visuals track Ryder's path of self-discovery, from the Blue Mountains to the city of Sydney, from the natural awe-inspiring beauty of the Megalong Valley to the night-time energy of Mary's Underground at the Rocks. 

"The experience you will see through my music video is one that I grew up my entire life believing in. The importance of what our surroundings can teach us, show us how to feel, and ultimately teach us how to be human," Ryder states. 

"The soul that Nina embodies and speaks of in Feeling Good is the soul that is all around us if we just step out, open our eyes, and look up to the beauty and the story written along mountain tops and city pavements.

"We know how to exist but along the way I think we have forgotten how to live, so to share this journey with you around the special places I grew up in NSW was important to me. We are so lucky to have such magic on our doorstep it would be silly not to welcome it in."