I have returned. I left my marbles at the festival so forgive any spelling/grammar mistakes, but here's my opinion on some of the artists I saw in between getting extremely fucking drunk, smoking weed, eating plain chips, applying and reapplying sunscreen, and trying to hit on girls.
Dum Dum Girls - pretty good. Not my thing though. Bass guitarist looked like she wanted to kill herself.
Gotye - awesome. Seriously talented dude. Band of 10-15 which made it even better. Highlights were the tracks I didn't really know... he didn't play Save Me, which was disappointing, Somebody I Used To Know was pretty cool. Got up on a mate's shoulders and belted out all the words. Mate threw a plush footy at his head and thought it was hilarious. I didn't quite see the same humour.
Grandmaster Flash - disappointing... as I was expecting a great old-school hip-hop show akin to Arrested Development last year. But a quick wikipedia search has revealed that he is just a DJ... The Furious Five were the rappers. He played a pretty sick set, heaps of hip-hop classics mixed with other tunes, and we were pretty drunk and jumping around everywhere so it was a lot of fun. I just set myself up for disappointment.
Ashton Shuffle - Australian house duo. Were awesome. Dropped Gabriel. Saddened I was the only one who seemed to know it.
Yuksek - fucking great. French DJ/producer. Their set reminded me a bit of LCD Soundsystem. I had to go by myself, and I was sober as a judge, but that made it all the more better somehow.
Scissor Sisters - Fucking loved them. Once I got over the disappointment of them being headliners I had a feeling they'd be great and they were. High energy set, some great beats. They did very well putting up with all the cans and shit being thrown at them and Don't Feel Like Dancing was an incredible amount of fun. I got thrown in the air during their set which was awesome.
Muscles - DJ set with fewer vocals would have been better. Some great beats obscured by pretty ordinary and uncharismatic singing. I left really disappointed after he decided to play Ice Cream on the piano with no other beats.
Successfully managed to avoid every single bit of Aussie hip-hop (save for hearing one set while I was wrestling with a few mates back at the campsite) which made me very happy. Lots of drinks (we managed to smuggle 32 bottles of straight alcohol plus a slab and a half of tinnies in two cars), lots of laughs, lots of fun.
Just makes me more depressed that he won't make his fucking solo album.
Please cheer a little bit extra for me.
He was not very good.
Scissor Sisters being billed above Gotye at this point is hilarious.
Yes.
^ The best part about that is the song is indistinguishable from a number of other pop songs these days
I said this when he posted it a couple of weeks ago.
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