Two of the Festival Ladies veterans, Carlsberg and Gemdilem, along with a new addition, Ambascamba, travelled up to the rural playground of Maitland for the Groovin the Moo festival.
Our journey from southern Sydney to Maitland was long, boring and fairly uneventful. The highlight was seeing a guy peeing on the median strip on the F3. He had his back turned to the oncoming traffic, ensuring they could not see his willy. Unfortunately he failed to take into account traffic from the opposite direction which meant that we had full view of him peeing. Priceless.
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On the 3rd April 2009 the Festival Ladies (Poleski, Carlsberg and Gemdilem) went to the Metro in Sydney for the biggest punk rock event of 2009 – Frenzal Rhomb and Nancy Vandal in their comeback tour “The Boys Are Back in Brown”.
Gemdilem: Carlsberg and I went to loads of Frenzal Rhomb u18s gigs at Sutherland Entertainment Centre while growing up in the Shire. We couldn’t wait to see the boys again. We’d been counting down to this day for weeks now. Punk rock is not dead!
Carlsberg: Due to growing up in the second world, Poleski had never seen Frenzal Rhomb live. It was time she was educated Poleski on the wonderful world of Frenzal.
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Emos, punks, Jimmy Pop, inappropriate piercings, Dagwood Dogs and gin.
The Festival Ladies this time are at Soundwave in Eastern Creek, Sydney. They are at the festival first and foremost for Mrs Pop. It is the day she has been waiting for all her life. The day she will see Jimmy Pop (lead singer of Bloodhound Gang) for the first time in real life.
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Gemdilem, Poleski and Carlsberg, take on the youth of Australia at the 2009 Big Day Out in Sydney!
Gemdilem: It is hot. It is humid. I think I have lost 5kg in sweat and I’m not even at Homebush yet. Lets face it just getting to the BDO in Sydney is a mission. Thanks to the retardness of the Sydney public transport system. A journey that takes 0.5hr by car takes 1.5 hrs by public transport. Awesome. Thanks shity-rail.
Poleski: As I wait at central station I am bemused by all the youths clinging with hope that the 2006 Modular-started trend on Fluro might still live on. Hot pink cut offs. Why?
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The afterglow. The comedown.
Gemdilem: I was woken up at 11am by someone in a tent nearby yells very loudly “it’s stopped raining”. There was a loud cheer and car horns beeped (many people slept in their cars because their tents did not survive the crazy weather on Saturday).
Poleski: After having our Dorito and chocolate breakfast we packed all our muddy gear and said goodbye to Meredith. As we walked by the muddy hill we saw many people still going from the night before. Lots of face planting was witnessed. Katatonic was grateful she didn’t stack it once – gotta love a mind blank.
Gemdilem: It had stopped raining. Just in time for us to pack up our tents. It was time to head back to civilisation. It was time to say goodbye to ponchos and gumboots, compost toilets and mud.
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More rain, more mud and musical performances from Tame Impala, The Mountain Goats, The Bronx, Saul Williams, Architecture In Helsinki, Little Red, The Datsuns, MGMT and Muscles.
Gemdilem: And now the rain has been replaced with rain AND wind. It was hard enough to get the tent to stay put being pegged into the wet, soggy ground. Now with the extra challenge of the wind it was impossible. Tents got airborne. Walking around the camp ground was like walking around a tent graveyard.
Mrs Pop: We are going to get mould in all sorts of places.
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Do you like mystery, adventure and stories about compost toilets? Well, you came to the right place!
Back in December Gemdilem, Poleski and Mrs Pop headed down to the mystic land of Victoria to attend the Meredith Music Festival.
Lots of rain, lots of mud and musical performances from Violent Soho, Beaches, Ten East, Regurgitator, Man Man and Holy Fuck.
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