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Byron Bay - Splendour In the Grass 2005 - REVIEWS - Belongil Fields

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if u like festivals, arts and culture, definately check out the global carnival (world music) in bellingen late september. oh my god is it good.
 
^Trying to gather a possie this year

Loved last years (StangeFruit were great)

back on splendour!! is there a biker club party this time??
 
for anyone that is there on friday...

Today Today - (triple j arvo show) and going live from 3pm till 5:30 at Byron Bay Bowlers, i think it is free, but it would be a get in early, because i was there last year for Adam Spencer and Dr. Karl and it is pretty fuckin small, so hopefully, i will be all set up and at the bowlers for a lunch drink up :D

WOOOOO

not long now, this wont be my last post, but yeah!
 
woooot i sooo cant wait its going to another great splendour bender weekender

it would be a lot of fun to meet you guys, i rarely post on the boards but read them religiousley and i think it would be great to meet some new people with similar interests to me,

we've been planning to get there for today today for a while but that all depends on the speed of our driving and our determination to get up come friday mornin ( were trying for 3 in the morn, wish us luck) so hopefully we will see you there oficer chops, i will pm you my details itd be cool to meet up


ooooh i so cant wait hilltop and down diggy syde here we come
 
yeah my plans are still looking good...

leave thursday morning about 6am, get to newcastle do 10 mins work (get paid a full day) and keep on going, i think we are going to have a 30 min stop every 2 hours, just to be on the safe side, since it is only me and my girl driving now!

If anyone wants my details... that dont have them already... PM me... as i will only be online for another day...

If not, i will hopefully see ya's at 2 on saturday!

For all doing the road trip, be safe!
 
PLEASE NOTE

There is going to be extra security and police presence for ticket scalping, fence jumping... GETTING IN UN-LIGITMENTALLY!!!

If you are coming from Byron Town and catching the shuttle bus... you will need to show you entry ticket before you get on the bus, if you wish to park next to belongil fields.. you will need to show your entry ticket, for YOU and YOUR 4 mates in the car. If you dont have a ticket, they wont let you in the bus, or into the car park...

SO yeah... just a word of advice, if you know anyone that is planning on jumping, buying a ticket, just be careful... as you are being watched...

This may be my last post before i leave, due to me not having access...

So AGAIN... everyone have a safe eventful weekend, Hope to see some of you on saturday!
 
banners for summer of 69?

we're heading off to port macquarie tomorrow, byron friday. why o why am i not even slightly excited... :(


fuck, where is my ticket. i should find it tonight.


we stayed at some artsy camping ground last year a few mins out of byron. they have a fire in the common room, and i was quite amazed at how huge the congregation was of people planning a fence jumping crusade.
 
So anyone know what the weather will be like?

My pants were damp as last year from sitting on the wet grass. Not to mention the mud under my shoes

Yeah, hopefully will make the 2pm meet up. Drive will be a bit of a bitch come to think of it. Should have taken this friday off..

Fuck

Anyhoo, hope to see you guys soon, looks like we got some new faces too!
I'll see ya Saturday Chops!
 
Ticket

Hi all, bit of a last minute message I know, but a mate has had to bail out at the last minute due to family things, and so

I have a spare ticket

if anyone has missed out so far.

He doesn't want to scalp it so he's asking the original price, $130. If anyone's interested, I'll be around town (Brisbane) today, and down at Byron by 11pm tonight (thanks work).



See you all there! :)

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Thanks a lot starfalls :) I managed to sell the ticket to a mate so all's well that ends well.

Well, what a weekend! Hope everyone else had a good time.

My favourite acts of the weekend were, in order of performance:

Kid Confucious - For those who don't know, an Aussie funk / hip hop-ish / groove group. As far as I can remember, they had eight dudes on stage - the lead vocalist, two guitarists (one of which also sang), keyboard, soprano and alto sax (I think; two horns in any case), bass and drums. The drummer in particular was awesome, really tight funk grooves, and the bass player was down the back getting stuck into it as well. They played an awesome set, and had the crowd totally into it before 2pm.

The Beautiful Girls - This was probably my favourite set of the weekend. They played a nice mix of tracks, starting with The Biggest Lie I Ever Told after an ambient lead-in. I love good live drums, and these guys delivered. Some call it folk, but imo it's closer to reggae in some ways. I can't remember ever hearing more awesome harmonica playing than in that set either. Such a nice laid back mellow sound, punctuated by the odd well-placed rimshot. Aaaah, bliss.

Bloc Party - I've been really getting into these guys lately, and seeing them live was really interesting. They pulled off all the fast and tricky stuff from their album really nicely. One cool thing I hadn't realised before is that the opening guitar riff of Banquet is played by both guitarists; each one takes it in turns to strum two chords, and that's how they get that cool effect. That was really cool to watch.

All three on Sunday.

At first when Moby started playing I wasn't really into his set. It seemed to me that they were just taking songs from the CD's, and playing them with a session drummer attacking the skins (I've never liked the CD's all that much. Nothing against them though). But then he mentioned how much he liked Australians, and things got interesting. I really enjoyed the rest of the set after that. =D
 
whoa....... just got back, what a fun weekend, this will be breif as i am buggered from the drive but the weekend is sumed up nicely with some lyrics from my fav act of the week "the left hand side, the right hand side, people make noise its down diggy syde"
 
^^ So True!!

well the little 87 barina made there and back no problems Phew! Shame I missed the meetup I had a few possies I knew up there allready and that was enough work trying not to loose them/ look after them.

I was lucky enought to be staying in a house in town meaning I got hot showers each night, a roof over my head and a bed.

Highlights

Saturday..

Downsyde: I was quiet impressed as I don't have thier CD just heard bits on JJJ

Cut copy: OMFG!!! this was so good I now own the CD! right up my alley this was and boy oh boy did I dance like a moefoe!

Dexters 1st set: As allways he drops the craziest shit that works on a diverse crowd.

Scribe: I almost went home and skiped this HAHHA glad I din't man this guy just rocks out and holy shit he got that crowd throwing thier fists in the air(like EVERYONE!!!)


I saw lots of everything else but they were the ones that blew me away.

Sunday..
after coffee bacon and fruit for breakfast not to count out the empty gas bottle on the BBQ. I was so amped by midday to go running around the house "Lets go lets go lets go !!"

Got there earlyish for P-money gotta love his scratch skillz ie the under the leg in the corner pocket ect ect.

then lunch / strong coffee whilest siting watching beautiful girls. followed by a boogie with the crazies at the Teepee.

then went to the portable pub at the gates(my name for it) found the crew and went to see butter fingers finaly after like ages of sound checks and an absoulute rocker of and anthemish set by archie. Hilltops played and it SUCKED so we ditched that. Back to general wandering around and looking at stuff. then it was dark to the portable pub found everyone there went to Pnau

Pnau: HOLY FUCKING SHIT OH MY GOD THEY WERE INCREDABLE!!! I have not danced like that crazy in YEARS AND YEARS. So I ask WHY HAS NO ONE TOLD ME OF PNAU!!! they made my head explode collapse and rebuild it self into a dancing maniac!

Hilltop hoodz beep crap!

went on to watch 10 or so minutes of moby and decided I need more stomping so I caught the only psytrance for the day at the TeePee where launch pad was playing.. missed some of the set but i was fun to hear psy again on a PA after years. Quiet proggy stuff too. to then be cut short by half an hour at 10 leaving me very disapointed..

I then found my possie went and blessed the gates on my knees and walked home up the spooky bike track.

yesterday

quick breaky at bangalow and then hit the road.. seroiusly every 2nd car was full of splendorites on the highway.. quiet funny actualy.

now I'm home not at uni going to work tonight..

BTW who's going next year!!!!!?
 
I'm definately going next year. Fo shizzle :D

Highlight for me was definately Cut Copy Unfuckingbelievable! =D

The Tipi's fucking rocked! Loved that shit. Had a great bounce on Sunday night in some kind of attempt to completely drain myself physically as well as mentally.

QOTSA were awesome :D Love the Homme! And I was a little off chops at the time ;)

Also caught The futureheads, Bloc Party and The beautiful girls who were all kick arse

I forgot all about Pnau! :( Fuck it all. And I missed Gerling too coz I was loving the Tipi's so much

Did anyone see the local band PUSS? I saw the last 2 songs of their set and thought they were great :D

As for meeting BLers 8( Lets just say my stoned navigation skills are not all that fantastic. That and RG and 0fficer chops seemed to insist on calling me rather than texting me. I couldn't hear a thing you were saying peoples!!!

My mouth is still really sore :( I bit my lip and my tongue so many times over the weekend. Thats fiending for ya I guess :\

Fucking awesome weather all weekend. Fantastic atmosphere. Lots of fiending and related shennanigans.
Definately going again next year
 
nickyj said:
I'm definately going next year. Fo shizzle :D
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I shall be getting my arse into gear and joining you all next year too. Sounds like it was a fab weekend!

How was the weather up there?
 
nickyj said:

Fucking awesome weather all weekend.
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;)


But to be more specific, beautiful sunny days. Fuckin freezing at night but nothing this North QLDer couldn't handle so it couldn't have been too bad :D ;)

I might have a vague memory of a couple of little drops of rain at one point on Sunday but who knows, I might be imagining things.


Would love to see you there Kat :D And bring that slack arse Mel with you too ;)
 
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