Public Address | Cafe | Hard News: Friday Music: Laneway 2013, Chilling in the Sun

Russell Brown

Sun, 03 Feb 2013 13:09:05 +1300

It looked like this! And sounded like “wompwompwompwomp”

I think you mean "wompwompwomp-warble-CRUNCH".

JacksonP

Sat, 02 Feb 2013 21:43:35 +1300

The underlying pics here are rather large because I’m having to post straight from my, er, smartphone.
Um, how did you do that exactly? The ‘Choose File’ is not available to me. I’m on iOS5, still.

Nora Leggs

Sat, 02 Feb 2013 21:17:11 +1300

It looked like this!

Nice, looks like a school of fish! : )

Sacha

Sat, 02 Feb 2013 19:39:33 +1300

Ambivalent – more useful phone just on my personal wishlist. Don't think everyone needs them.

Geoff Lealand

Sat, 02 Feb 2013 15:06:17 +1300

Hmm, I guess you had to be there but the vocals on that cover of 'Pink Frost' are rather piss-weak.

Geoff Lealand

Sat, 02 Feb 2013 15:01:15 +1300

How do you feel about someone who has no mobile of any kind?

Ana Simkiss

Sat, 02 Feb 2013 14:29:06 +1300

It looked like this! And sounded like "wompwompwompwomp"

Russell Brown

Sat, 02 Feb 2013 12:34:34 +1300

One more, then.

Russell Brown

Sat, 02 Feb 2013 11:19:02 +1300

So I went to Pretty Lights last night and I’m fairly sure I was the oldest person in the building. But it was great! I wish he’d played a few more of his remixes (only Pink Floyd’s ‘Time’, from memory) and there was a spell in the two-hour set where…

BenWilson

Sat, 02 Feb 2013 10:42:00 +1300

We'd chuckle kindly last year when Media3's researcher would take out her battered Nokia ...

My 2 year old one is still considered a boss device at University. They're not cheap, after all.

Chukkkker

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 22:19:12 +1300

Nora I second you on The Men, they were my highlight of the afternoon, the difference between cd and live was ace -and they clearly loved playing their rock in the sun, plus Pink Frost sent (ahem) chills down my spine. But kids with phones.... There I was leaving AltJ…

Jackie Clark

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 19:30:07 +1300

How rude! I feel your pain and join you in our phone penury situation

Sacha

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 19:19:14 +1300

feel sympathy for people who don't have a smartphone

that sounds about right #sniff

Russell Brown

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 19:01:14 +1300

It's beyond that now. As Thomas Beagle pointed out on Twitter, the more common response is feel sympathy for people who don't have a smartphone. We'd chuckle kindly last year when Media3's researcher would take out her battered Nokia ...

Russell Brown

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 17:16:42 +1300

Can I start a movement that says it is OK to grab the smart phone of anyone who holds it up at a concert and throw it as far as you can across the room. Just pay attention to the music and appreciate it instead of trying to get a…

BenWilson

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 16:58:25 +1300

Heard this one last night:
Q: How do you know when someone has a smartphone? A: They show it to you

Luke Williamson

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 15:28:18 +1300

Ana Simkiss

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 14:31:24 +1300

Aaand for those who missed the majestic bailterspace at Laneway (like me) they are at the Kings Arms on 5 February.

Russell Brown

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 14:25:43 +1300

Sweet. Email me using the email link under the post (or the one next to my name here) and I’ll sort that out for you.

Ana Simkiss

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 14:15:03 +1300

I'm first? sweet I'd love to go!

Russell Brown

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 14:08:52 +1300

It is! Do you want to go?

Ana Simkiss

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 14:05:27 +1300

ooooh it's Etta James in the sample right?

bob daktari

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 13:04:32 +1300

Was a great day, I managed from Kings Of Convenience (nice they were too) through to the end of Jaar – usually tired legs and crowd boredom would see me home much earlier

Enjoyed the rocky acts the most – a style of music that suits these big affairs, Cloud…

Nora Leggs

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 12:03:29 +1300

The Men were probably my highlight, fresh, energetic… kept calling the The Boys by mistake.

Nora Leggs

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 12:01:35 +1300

Flume wasn't my thing, but here's a whole lot of people who felt differently....

Russell Brown

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 11:52:32 +1300

Thanks for that review Russ. Flume and Nicolas Jaar would’ve been my must-see acts of that lineup.

I can pretty confidently say you'd have loved them both. I've been thrashing the Flume album since. It's great that this sort of thing is hit material.

peter mclennan

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 11:44:38 +1300

Laneway was reported last year in the media as signing up to the waterfront site for another three years.

Peter Darlington

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 11:43:53 +1300

Thanks for that review Russ. Flume and Nicolas Jaar would've been my must-see acts of that lineup.

Public Address

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 11:43:52 +1300

Discussion from blog post.