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Laneway Festival Melbourne Recap
You’ve probably already read a crapload of Laneway Festival reviews, and seeing as I’m slow on the uptake on this, let’s just race through it.
You know when you’re in that situation where you’re so excited about something that’s gonna happen, but it’s still a while away? Like a wedding, a baby, a milestone birthday, that kind of thing? Well, none of my friends are grown up enough to be getting married, have babies or think about how much older we’re getting, but we have our equivalents of playing those waiting games: ebay auctions, project deployments, the last day of exams so we can get trashed for a whole summer and not feel bad about it…. you know. Another is sitting online from 9am, waiting for the year’s biggest events and most anticipated tickets to go on sale. I know right? I promise, we DO lead interesting lives.
The days leading up to the festival were ominous: Melbourne had been hit by flash floods, the forecast was for showers and temperatures in the low 20s. In our mad rush to prepare, we, like many other festival goers, hit the disposal stores for gumboots and ponchos. As it turns out, we didn’t need them because even though it wasn’t an excruciatingly sunny 40deg like last year’s event, it didn’t rain at all. Lucky, coz I would’ve been angry…but well prepared.
Music-wise, the day started off badly with Rat vs Possum’s cancellation and no word at all as to why. From then, we pretty much ran/mosied/wandered between stages, food tents and bars, discovering music we’d kinda heard of, but not really. Like World’s End Press – the psychedelic electro-disco freaks were pretty rad (and bounced around a lot) and possibly one of the big discoveries of the day. High on their super smooth pure pop beats, we then moved onto Cloud Control (oh-so-fun), The Antlers (not my style), Menoma (as we ate Argentinan bbq), a bit of WarPaint (lovely), Two Door Cinema Club (crowd favourite, my favourite, everyone’s favourite), Yeasayer (great live act), Deerhunter which we ditched for Holy Fck (supercool) then ending with a glorious bang at Chk Chk Chk.
When I look back on it, I may have chosen poorly during some parts of the day, but overall, it was still an enjoyable day of bands, beats, booze, bbq and Beatbox burgers. And really…what else could one ask for?
