The Festival Ladies, minus Mrs Pop who is currently lost to the Seattle grunge movement, attended Homebake on the weekend. The much loved Aussie / NZ festival once again this year did not disappoint. With Futurama tattoos, vodka infused slurpees, the revival of the epic 90s band Tumbleweed, interpretive dancing, vodka smuggled in via Ribena squeezies and yet another moshpit injury… it had it all. Read on for a blow by blow account of the day brought to you by Gemdilem, Ambascamba, Carlsberg, Poleski.
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The Festival Ladies don’t tend to travel outside the greater Sydney metropolitan area for festivals terribly often, but the line up for Sounds of Spring was too good to miss. Gemdilem managed to win a ticket, and that’s all that was needed for Ambascamba to commit to the trip northwards.
Brisvegas did not disappoint.
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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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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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Poleski takes on the mud puddles of Byron Bay… solo.
So I don’t know if you’ve heard… it may have popped up on your radar… just… but Splendour In The Grass was on the other week and it was awesome. amazing. fantastical. And I’ll go as far as saying… SPLENDID. Yes, I know. You don’t care. You don’t want to hear about it anymore. It was 2 music festivals, and 4 modular nights ago anyway. Nobody cares. Well my apologies in prolonging your frustration, but I missed my flight and had to walk back to Sydney, thus the delay in review. I’m not even going to go into the organic donut withdrawals I’ve been dealing with. I promise this is the last you’ll hear of SITG until 2010.
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The Festival Ladies take on the cool indie kids, dagwood dogs and dodgem cars at the Saturday edition of Come Together.
Gemdilem: We arrived at Luna Park just before midday and were greeted with the beautiful smiling face. What a great way to start the day!
Ambascamba: Vodka – check. Paper and pen – check. Attire suitable for both rides and cutting loose on the dancefloor – check. Super early, super organised. Bring it on, Luna Park.
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On Saturday May 30th I (Gemdilem) braved the rain and the cold and went to the One Night stand in Sale, Victoria.
When Triple J announced the line up for the One Night Stand I was far from impressed. I’ve never been a big fan of Eskimo Joe or Butterfly Effect and I had seen both the Hilltop Hoods and Children Collide recently. The only part of the line up that got me even a little bit excited about going was Miami Horror, because I had never seen them perform live before and I quite like their EP.
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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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