This weekend, thousands of fake tanned, waxed and barely clothed boys and girls (Yes! Boys AND girls) will compare selfies while popping pills and checking out each others’ muscle tone. That’s right! It’s Stereosonic!
Music festivals are really fun. Nightclubs are really fun. So why compare the two, right? Why not just celebrate the fact that both are rousing fiery biscuits of adrenalin fuelled enjoyment. Â Well, they are both fun but for different reasons and in different ways. The atmosphere, opportunities and dynamics are different and whether you like it or not each have their advantages.
It’s lucky for us Aussies that we like the water, because Australia is obviously surrounded by it. And where else do tons of Aussies flock to during summer besides the beach? Music festivals! So whoever created the Apollo Bay Music Festival was a smart cookie for putting these two awesome pastimes together to unite peeps for sun and tunes.
Though the name might give off a ’70s vibe, Boogie 7 is anything but a gig for those wanting to relive the days of disco and perms. It is in fact a folksy music festival happening in the small Victorian town of Tallarook, just over 100km from Melbourne.
I had high hopes for Big Day Out this year for two reasons: the Red Hot Chili Peppers were headlining and it had been seven friggin’ years since my last BDO in 2006. The better part of a decade has gone by since that show, and since I enjoyed the previous one so much, you can imagine how angsty I was to go back.
Though it sounds like something out of Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Sugar Mountain is actually an awesome boutique, music and arts festival in Melbourne rather than deary old England. Though the festival is more for the artsy crowd who’ll go for the many beautiful visual art works, we here at Bars and Nightclubs are about the music!
Indie music seems to be everywhere these days. It used to be obscure music only hipsters listened to, but now it’s crept into the mainstream in a big way (which kinda contradicts how it’s supposed to be independent, or “indie”).
Though tix for the glorious Homebake Music, Film, Comedy and Arts Festival has been on sale since August, believe it or not there’s still tickets left! Crazy, right?! It’s even more weird it hasn’t completely sold out considering this year Homebake has a “global edition” lineup rather than purely an Australasian lineup of skippy and kiwi musos.
The seventh annual Golden Plains festival out in the bush (i.e. just outside the town of Meridith) will soon be happening again, and have just announced their 2013 lineup. With all the festivals happening on the Labor Day long weekend in March, Golden Plains is unique is that it’s completely about the music, as there is no corporate sponsorship whatsoever and
Being an island state, Tasmanians have copped so many incest jokes over the years from the rest of Australia that it’s not funny (well, actually, it’s piss funny). But now the Tassies are having the last laugh as they are the only ones who get to party at Breath Of Life with a top line up to make the main land envious.