The Festival Ladies

Meredith Music Festival… set in the beautiful Supernatural Amplitheatre where life is happy and tranquil. It’s also kind of muddy and wet at times. But who doesn’t love gumboots and ponchos? I haven’t met such a person.

The line up for this year’s festival already consists of some old school favs like Animal Collective, Jarvis Cocker and Tumbleweed. Today it was announced, further proving that the 90s are well and truly back, that The Fauves will be joining the line up.

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On Saturday 12th September 2009 we travelled to Gosford for the Coaster Festival. It was an epic event. For the very first time in the history of festival-ing all FIVE of the FESTIVAL LADIES attended a festival TOGETHER!

Antics, mullets, fake tan, ballet dancing, Southern Cross tattoos and Mr Smirnoff… this festival had it all.

You’ve read the live updates from the festival, now read the review to find out just how we managed to meet Matt from the Bronx, how Gemdilem got KO-ed, and much much more.

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Today it was announced that The Grates will be headlining the Purple Sneakers NYE House Party. The Grates back from the States! YAY… the stalking continues!

Joining The Grates at the House Party will be three international acts – The Boxer Rebellion (UK), Ponytail (US) and Baddies (UK). The other Australian acts announced today were Philadelphia Grand Jury, Red Riders, DZ, Chaingang, The Trivs, Young Heretics, and Deep Sea Arcade.

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Falls Festival second line up landed today and it features one of the Festival Ladies party favourites – Datarock! Matching red tracksuits, star jumps, lovely hair, a little choreography here and there, delightful accents, running man… Datarock have it all and we can’t wait to bring in the New Year with them!

Also announced today for Lorne were Wolfmother (argh), Dappled Cities (FLY), Little Red, Jamie T, Amanda Blank, The Inspector Cluzo, Washington, Bertie Blackman, Miami Horror, Wagons, Oh Mercy, Jordie Lane, Kid Sam, and The Beards.

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This Saturday Coaster Festival is happening in Gosford and it’s going to be HUGE. Not just because of the bands playing (The Bronx, Does It Offend You Yeah?) but also because for the very first time in the history of festival-ing all FIVE of the FESTIVAL LADIES will be attending the festival TOGETHER! Watch out Gosford!

To commemorate this monumentus occasion – each of the festival ladies will not only be getting Festival Lady Southern Cross tattoos (!!). Boom. They will also be doing LIVE UPDATES from the festival via TWITTER. Double boom.

The tweets will be compiled onto THIS PAGE making it easier for YOU to get all the action from the festival in a concise, pocket-size bundle. As an extra special bonus – live PHOTOS will also be flowing in via the amazing world of Flickr.

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On Saturday 29 August I, along with Jonny_YesYes (aka Mr Polaroids of Androids), went to Flip Out Festival at Manning Bar in Sydney.

I arrived right on 2pm, as the doors opened, so I was one of the lucky punters to score a free cd featuring rare and exclusive tracks from all the artists at the festival.

Zond

As I walked into Manning Bar, Zond were already playing. I can’t tell you that much about them as I was:

• reminishing about my Sydney Uni days at Manning Bar – “I was standing right there (*pointing*) when I saw The Avalanches perform. A week later they broke and they were HUGE.”
• distracted by the pretty colours of my new free cd… pretty
• deciding what beer to drink (James Squire Golden Ale on tap – winner!)

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Flip Out festival is on THIS SATURDAY at Manning Bar in Sydney. As previously reported it features a pretty cool and interesting line up and should be a pretty fun day / night.

Playing times:

14:15 – Zond
15:20 – Royal Headache
16:00 – Slug Guts

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Coaster Festival is happening on Saturday 12th September at Gosford Showgrounds.

The festival boasts a killer line up featuring awesome internationals like Does It Offend You Yeah?, The Bronx, GZA / Genius from the Wu Tang Clan, and The Airbourne Toxic Effect.

Today the set times were announced…

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The first line up announcement for Pyramid Rock festival (yep, another New Years festival) was released today.

Overall it’s a fairly boring announcement… Empire Of The Sun, The Cat Empire, The Butterfly Effect, Architecture In Helsinki, Faker, The Beautiful Girls, Blue King Brown thrown together with a few internationals like Ugly Duckling (US), LCD Soundsystem (DJ Set), Baddies (UK), and The Boxer Rebellion (UK).

My heart skipped a beat when I saw LCD Soundsystem… and then I saw DJ set. FAIL. Although this is only the first announcement and there are more acts to be added. Maybe LCD Soundsystem (non-DJ set)?! Maybe?! Fingers crossed for some non-DJ set sideshows.

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You too could get messy at Falls Festival this year like these dudes…

So as you are all probably aware… the line up for Falls Festival got leaked last week as a result of some awesome detective work and a sloppy web developer (fired yet?).

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