Laneway festival!
"St Jerome's provides a unique atmosphere and sound environment, with inventive re-imaginings of typically disused urban spaces." - Wikipedia
Well it was actually in the uni SA courtyard which I think is technically not a laneway it was still a pretty awesome festival.

Firstly I saw the Holidays. A sydney band with everything it takes to make it big. The looks, the well crafted pop songs and catchy lyrics. The fact that they appear to like the Libertines is evened out by their healthy use of angular guitar fuzz.



Next was Bridezilla. They are visually striking and their music is clever. 4 girls and 1 guy utilise guitars, saxaphone and violin to create dense and claustrophobic music.
























Lady Strangelove played a face melting set of experimental, psychedelic rock.


















Stars make delicate electronic pop songs. Delightfully cute vocals about the ennui and angst of everyday life. However the music was not amplified enough and very difficult to appreciate the subtleties of the music.





















note the reflection of the keyboard in one eye and the crowd in the other!



Broken Social Scene were very "broken Social Scene-y" they produced their signature ambient soundscapes. Sometimes beautiful sometime exhilaratingly always pleasant. However, with most of Broken Social Scene's females either going solo or forming equally successful side projects it only leaves the boys as the core members. This means their is a lot less of their signiture ethereal female vocals contributing to compelling and inventive indie pop.


















Various member of Star appeared on stage spontaneously










Feist appeared to for 4/7 (shoreline) which was perfection. Although somewhat bittersweet that the whole performance was not up to this standard.






























Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! were better than I expected. When listening to their second album their were many moments when I was offended by the mediocrity of it, However, their were few moments like this during their tight performance.






























I love Feist. Her music is beautiful, she is effortlessly chic and is very charismatic. 1234 for was the highlight in an excellent performance. The lack of mushaboom was puzzling though.















Goyte was weird. I have noticed that Australians have a tendency to really like eccentric musicians. From what i heard it appeared to be a sound collage of pop songs, frantic drumming and a self indulgent ballad on piano.












The Presets were an excellent way to close the night. I was a bit ambivalent about them because i felt I was a little over them. However they had a sort of "nite version" to their normal songs. The started off with a metallic voice repeating the chorus "machine, machine" for down down down. they also just mashed themselves into Daft Punk's Da Funk which was pretty awesome.


















Comments and kudos?