Laneway 2013 @ RNA Showgrounds, Friday 1 February 2013 – Part 3
Jessie Ware is a quick in/out photo opportunity, less than a song and a half to rush back to the rest of Pond’s set. I only last that long as the lighting is rubbish and I wait until the second song to see if there’s any improvement. There’s only two of us in the photo […]
Laneway 2013 @ RNA Showgrounds, Friday 1 February 2013 – Part 2
The Rubens are easily the worst band of the day, a country mile out front, head and shoulders above everyone. In fact they’re the worst band I’ve seen in a long, long time. If you told me they were a high school band who had won a local competition to play at Laneway, I probably […]
Laneway 2013 @ RNA Showgrounds, Friday 1 February 2013 – Part 1
Laneway is usually one of the high points of the festival season (with the exception of last year’s rain affected shambles). It’s just about the only festival, if not the only festival, where you get to see some new bands and not the same-old, same-old festival fodder that all the other major festivals put on […]
Laneway 2013 @ RNA Showgrounds, 01.02.2013 – The Quick Round-Up
Little went right at last year’s Laneway in Brisbane. Heavy rain in the days leading up to the festival and on the day itself resulted in the main stage being moved inside one of the tin-roofed cattlesheds, the sound was awful at every stage, even the outdoor Car Park stage, and thanks to technical issues, […]