st. jerome's laneway festival '10 #30

so i went to the laneway fest today
it was pretty good
though it could have been so much better if it wasn't so hot
and the food wasn't so expensive
and if we managed to get a good spot for florence + the machine
but still pretty good nonetheless
i'll recap the people i saw
which weren't as many as i thought i would
but cos of the heat we decided to chill in the shade
than to go see bands in the heat

- black gold
i quite liked them, they played some songs which i recognised because i heard them on their website. i stayed there for a little but because in the beginning being very enthusiastic, i kinda wanted to see as many as i could

- oh mercy
they were ok, to be honest i preferred black gold better, but i think oh mercy drew a bigger crowd. they sang songs about liking your cousin, and having an affair with older women. lol

- panel of judges
i watched them for about one song, didn't like them or their sound so i went somewhere else

- hockey
i really liked them. definitely a band that i'll start listening to now, they're rock but also with beats so its dance-y. i liked a lot :)



- bridezilla
i do like some songs from bridezilla (as in before i even saw them), but some of the other ones are a bit drone-y so i only saw them for a bit and changed

- whitley
so me & jacky have seen him before, as he was the support for lior last year. he was ok, but honestly i prefered him in the more mellow setting rather than the outdoor rock setting, the mellow setting seemed to give his songs more feeling and mood.

- sarah blasko
sarah was so good, she has a super strong voice. i didn't expect it to be that good, like her voice sounded like it could have just been the recorded, except with huge breaths in between. i honestly didn't expect it to be that good, because i guess on the cd you can't tell its THAT strong. yes, i loved her. but she only really played stuff from her new album, which was ok but i prefer the older albums


- the xx
one of the other bands i was excited about (the other two being florence and sarah) but since sarah blasko and the xx were on at the same time i went half and half, so 20 mins watching sarah blasko and 20 mins watching the xx, which also meant i got the the venue later so i got a bad spot and couldn't see them properly, they were ok. would've been better if it wasn't so hot and we could see them. but they're currently one of the bands that i LOVE. i recommend: 'basic space', 'islands', and 'teardrops' (which is sort of a cover) :)

- dappled cities
they were ok, a typical rock band i thought. but they did come dressed in matching gold leotards :) which was definitely interesting. and a funny thing was that when they played most people were sitting and lounging on the lawn with only a few people at the front standing up. but then they invited sarah blasko to sing with them for one song and everyone stood up. then they went back to singing by themselves and most people sat back down (though there was more people standing up than previous) anyway, in an attempt to get a good spot for florence + the machine we left early to the other stage

- florence + the machine
attempt was kind of a failure, we should have just watched the band before florence and stood in the front so that we would be in the front for florence, but we didn't :( so came the desperate attempt to go near the front. and let me just mention this would have been about 40 mins BEFORE she came out. people seriously climbed trees and sat on fences to get a good spot for florence, and so though it was night time heat was a major problem. see in the day, it was the sun that made us hot, but for florence it was body to body heat. ekk. but i guess we ended up with an ok spot, i could sort of see her exceot when people infront of me decided to raise their arms. but it was damn hot. but florence + the machine was AMAZING :) i loved her, she was so good. definitely my favourite favourite act. and she played every song on her album (and the bonus track) the only one she missed was 'Girl with One Eye' which i didn't like that much anyway. but i ABSOLUTELY love pretty much every other song on that album (also learning her songs on guitar). so yes. i loveloveloved her.
oh also another funny thing that happened, so i mentioned how people climb on trees, well there were these people that climb on a roof (i have no idea how they got there, the roof was really high, think the roof of a big storage place or factory) and someone came out and told florence, and florence went unless the people get down from the roof, the police will make me stop playing. so the people got down. but yes she was awesome :) sigh.

so yes, that was my day.
also, today footscray was totally 10 times cooler than wherever you were :)
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