Parklife 2007
30th September, 2007. Kippax Lake, Moore Park
30th September, 2007. Kippax Lake, Moore Park
Parklife. One of the many dance music festival to hit Australian shores this year featuring yet another line-up of quality acts. Well, that was the expectation anyway. Saturday night, had a quiet one in because after the result of me going out the night before the 'We Love Sounds' festival back in june, I learnt my lesson. So, it was up at a descent hour with a good amount of sleep the night before. Got ready and were ready to go. Its just that myself and Miss Trash had to wait for Sam to get to my house so we could leave.
Sam finally arrives. After Jagerbombs, we leave and meet Rachael at the station before heading in. We arrived at Parklife (after consuming a lot of alcohol on the way), met up with Karen so she could get her ticket off Sam, went through the gates and headed straight to the fire stage to see Gus Da Hoodrat and Jamie Doom do their thing. As usual, they were great. They got the crowd moving and in true Gussy style he was drinking his vodka straight from the bottle throughout the entire set.
Not long after, Sam and myself ventured off to gather some beverages as we were parched. While standing in line, Rachael and Miss Trash turned up as they had left the crushing crowd in front of the fire stage. Soon enough, we were sitting on an empty patch of grass to sip our drinks and enjoy the sounds of Muscles. Now, I think Sam summed up his performance the best "His songs are good on their own but play them all together and it all sounds excatly the sound".
Next up, a bit of Ajax. The other member of Bang Gang at Parklife doing his thing. It was good, he played the usually. Mixed well. Everyone went nuts for 'One More Time' by Daft Punk and he even dropped in the Futurama theme. At this stage we were a little drunk and dancing crazily (As you can see below)
After Ajax was Goose. They are a band from Belgium and were very Soulwax like. Highlight of the day. Very tight performance and a heap of energy. Very enjoyable.
Next up was MSTRKRFT but right before they came on we were dancing up the back. Now, I had enough of fucking idiots at 'We Love Sounds'. People just barging through while trying to dance without an excuse me or any sort of indication you are there. During Ajax we had 2 drinks spilt because of idiots like this treading on them while barging through. It started happening again and I wasn't gonna take it so after 3 people had barged through, a 4th tried to follow and I gave him quite a large shove in the back. He turned around and glared at me. Miss Trash wouldn't let me fight him.
Anyway, MSTRKRFT came on. One of the acts I had been most looking forward to. They turned out to be absolutely shithouse. Sure, they were doing a DJ set but when your own stuff is fantastic you don't play only 30sec of 2 of your own songs in the space of 30mins. Miss Trash and I ended up going to get food whilst Sam and Rachel went and caught the end of Yelle. Wish I went and saw all of Yelle to be honest.
After food it was time for Digitalism. We got not a bad spot, a bit off to the side of the main crowd. Yet another group that I had been looking forward to and yet another group that was a disappointment. Their sound was horrible (may have been the fault of the sound guy at the sound desk) but they were boring live. I could have gone home and put on the cd and it would have been excatly the same. Just will less energy. By this stage, Sam had left to go and get a good spot for Lyrics Born so Rachel, Miss Trash and I headed over in that general direction and found that the area was 1/2 empty so we just chilled on the grass 1/2 listening to Lyrics Born and 1/2 listening to Adam Freeland. Both of whom were quite good.
Soon enough, Sam was done and met up with us and we headed over to Justice. They were the main reason I went to Parklife. I havn't stopped raving about them to everyone since Big Day Out this year when I saw them. They were good. Sound quality was good. Crowd was ok. I went nuts a couple of times and I think I scared a few people around with my dancing. Not as good as their Big Day Out performance but still quality. Best was 'We are your friends' mashed up with Rammstein then mixed into 'Waters of nazareth'.
We finished the day with a walk back to central before getting the train home making jokes making inapporiate jokes all the way. When we got back to Campbelltown we reliased that because it was a public holiday there was close to no taxis around. Very very annoying. Luckily for us however, my dad was still awake and came down to pick us up.
The day overall... 6.5/10
Sam finally arrives. After Jagerbombs, we leave and meet Rachael at the station before heading in. We arrived at Parklife (after consuming a lot of alcohol on the way), met up with Karen so she could get her ticket off Sam, went through the gates and headed straight to the fire stage to see Gus Da Hoodrat and Jamie Doom do their thing. As usual, they were great. They got the crowd moving and in true Gussy style he was drinking his vodka straight from the bottle throughout the entire set.
Not long after, Sam and myself ventured off to gather some beverages as we were parched. While standing in line, Rachael and Miss Trash turned up as they had left the crushing crowd in front of the fire stage. Soon enough, we were sitting on an empty patch of grass to sip our drinks and enjoy the sounds of Muscles. Now, I think Sam summed up his performance the best "His songs are good on their own but play them all together and it all sounds excatly the sound".
Next up, a bit of Ajax. The other member of Bang Gang at Parklife doing his thing. It was good, he played the usually. Mixed well. Everyone went nuts for 'One More Time' by Daft Punk and he even dropped in the Futurama theme. At this stage we were a little drunk and dancing crazily (As you can see below)
After Ajax was Goose. They are a band from Belgium and were very Soulwax like. Highlight of the day. Very tight performance and a heap of energy. Very enjoyable.
Next up was MSTRKRFT but right before they came on we were dancing up the back. Now, I had enough of fucking idiots at 'We Love Sounds'. People just barging through while trying to dance without an excuse me or any sort of indication you are there. During Ajax we had 2 drinks spilt because of idiots like this treading on them while barging through. It started happening again and I wasn't gonna take it so after 3 people had barged through, a 4th tried to follow and I gave him quite a large shove in the back. He turned around and glared at me. Miss Trash wouldn't let me fight him.
Anyway, MSTRKRFT came on. One of the acts I had been most looking forward to. They turned out to be absolutely shithouse. Sure, they were doing a DJ set but when your own stuff is fantastic you don't play only 30sec of 2 of your own songs in the space of 30mins. Miss Trash and I ended up going to get food whilst Sam and Rachel went and caught the end of Yelle. Wish I went and saw all of Yelle to be honest.
After food it was time for Digitalism. We got not a bad spot, a bit off to the side of the main crowd. Yet another group that I had been looking forward to and yet another group that was a disappointment. Their sound was horrible (may have been the fault of the sound guy at the sound desk) but they were boring live. I could have gone home and put on the cd and it would have been excatly the same. Just will less energy. By this stage, Sam had left to go and get a good spot for Lyrics Born so Rachel, Miss Trash and I headed over in that general direction and found that the area was 1/2 empty so we just chilled on the grass 1/2 listening to Lyrics Born and 1/2 listening to Adam Freeland. Both of whom were quite good.
Soon enough, Sam was done and met up with us and we headed over to Justice. They were the main reason I went to Parklife. I havn't stopped raving about them to everyone since Big Day Out this year when I saw them. They were good. Sound quality was good. Crowd was ok. I went nuts a couple of times and I think I scared a few people around with my dancing. Not as good as their Big Day Out performance but still quality. Best was 'We are your friends' mashed up with Rammstein then mixed into 'Waters of nazareth'.
We finished the day with a walk back to central before getting the train home making jokes making inapporiate jokes all the way. When we got back to Campbelltown we reliased that because it was a public holiday there was close to no taxis around. Very very annoying. Luckily for us however, my dad was still awake and came down to pick us up.
The day overall... 6.5/10
