Well, what can I say, St Jerome’s Laneway Festival is coming back, and they’re about to out-do themselves, bringing some of the world’s most fashion-forward music to our shores this summer…
Well, what can I say, St Jerome’s Laneway Festival is coming back, and they’re about to out-do themselves, bringing some of the world’s most fashion-forward music to our shores this summer.
For 2012 Laneway New Zealand will be based at the revamped waterfront site of Silo Park with three stages down at the waterfront.
Silo Park provides Laneway with its first water’s edge location, spectacular views to Auckland Harbour Bridge and the towering restored silos to pinpoint this landmark location.
I had an absolute blast last time around
(read our 2010 Laneway review on Thread here)
with the likes of Foals, Ariel Pink, Beach House, Yeasayer and Deerhunter all blowing my mind in equal proportions.
It seems that is highly likely to happen again this January 2012, with a line up showcasing some of the most important artists of the year.
Feist
The Horrors
Gotye
Laura Marling
Pajama Club
SBTRKT (Live)
Shayne P Carter
Washed Out
Twin Shadow
Anna Calvi
M83
Cults
Girls
Ema
Yuck
Toro y Moi
Wu Lyf
Glasser
Opossom
The Pains of Being Pure At Heart
Austra
Transistors
Having listened to (and reviewed) a number of the above artists, I can happily say that we are in for a good time.
Assuming no clashes (an unlikely scenario), chill-wavers M83, Toro y Moi, Twin Shadow and Washed Out will send us all into rapturous oblivion with their dreamy creations; surf-poppers Girls will get us all dancing with their happy-get-lucky vibe; Wu Lyf will get all rowdy on stage; and SBTRKT will wake up half of Auckland, bringing an entire backing band along with him.
Pajama Club will introduce their middle-aged Crowded House fan-base to ‘modern indie’; The Horrors will get us all momentarily melancholic with their 80s post-punk despondence; Gotye will have the entire audience singing along to “Someone That I Used To Know”; and the ever-lovely Feist will make all the boys (and probably most of the girls) in the crowd fall in love with her.
Enough! – The line up is too dense with goodness to fully describe here; suffice to say it is one epic billing, and one I will be keenly amping myself up for.
Summer is so close I can smell it!
Written by Theo Sangster, 19 October 2011
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