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  • Sunset Sounds 2011 @ Brisbane River Stage & Botanic Gardens (The AuReview version)

    Jan 10 2011, 0h20 por MaxFactor81

    Wed 5 Jan – Sunset Sounds 2011

    Day 1 - Wednesday 5 January

    The first post-New Year's festival to hit Brisbane, Sunset Sounds (AKA the two-day northern Falls minus the camping) brings together musical talent both young and well-established as well as throngs of revellers flock to the Gardens. Previously sunny, the weather is already cloudy by the time we make it to the Goodwill Bridge entrance to pick up our wristbands. We also manage to hear the end of local Triple J Unearthed crop Ball Park Music – who today, boosted by the River Stage's massive PA, sound bigger and better ever, cheery indie-pop hooks resonating around.

    Next, hotly-hyped New Yorkers Sleigh Bells are a girl in tights who can't really sing, an anorak-wearing dude with a 'metal' guitar who clearly didn't get the humidity memo and a tinny backing track. Perhaps unsurprisingly, they're terrible. My friend christens them “Slurp Balls” and the nickname immediately sticks. In short, both The Kills and The Ting Tings do this kind of thing better.
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  • Sunset Sounds 2011, day 2 @ Brisbane Botanic Gardens

    Jan 9 2011, 0h34 por NiteShok

    Wed 5 Jan – Sunset Sounds 2011

    We left the first day of this two-day festival wondering how they were going to remedy the state of the grounds. The answer, it appears, is sand. Within 15 minutes of the gates opening, a fine layer of topsoil is already being ground into mush by the hordes venturing up and down the hill, thereby rendering the groundskeepers’ hasty decisions fairly moot. By the time gates shut tonight, pretty much every square inch of grass within the venue is gone. Woodchips were in short supply? Beforehand, we’d checked BOM’s weather radar online; when your city is surrounded by a violent swirl of greens, blues and yellows, it’s generally not a good sign. Even worse if you’re going to be spending all day outside. At least today, we know what to expect. Yesterday’s prolonged downpour caught most people off guard. Poncho sales rose 5000%. As soon as I’m on site, taking in the sand-into-mud routine, I’m kicking myself for choosing shitty old joggers over gumboots. …
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  • Sunset Sounds 2011 @ Brisbane River Stage & Botanical Gardens

    Jan 7 2011, 7h41 por MaxFactor81

    Wed 5 Jan – Sunset Sounds 2011

    The bands I reviewed for Rave's collective opus:

    Wed Jan 5

    LA indie-rockers Cold War Kids are undoubtedly an afternoon highlight at the River Stage, playing to an audience of not one but a couple thousand – louder than ever. Rather ironically, the downpour starts just before they air Hang Me Up To Dry, but still fails to ruin celebratory sing-alongs Hospital Beds and We Used To Vacation.

    Gold Coast party-starters-come-mariachi-funtime-band Tijuana Cartel are busy keeping the increasingly muddy feet shuffling at the Hibiscus Stage while Kiwi pop-rockers Ladyhawke entertain the Garden Stage crowd with hits like Back Of The Van, Paris Is Burning and My Delirium.

    Thu Jan 6

    '80s hitmakers Joan Jett & The Blackhearts treat the River Stage to a dead-set classic rock show. Ripping straight into Bad Reputation and Cherry Bomb, the legendary frontwoman proves she still loves rock & roll more than we do.

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  • Sunset Sounds 2011, day 1 @ Brisbane Botanic Gardens

    Jan 6 2011, 22h38 por NiteShok

    Wed 5 Jan – Sunset Sounds 2011

    Queensland's version of The Falls Festival, Sunset Sounds, runs for two days. Both events share similar line-ups, but here, the curfew is 10pm and there's no camping. Held at Brisbane’s Botanical Gardens, three stages run concurrently in a space roughly half the size of the Parklife Festival held in September.

    I arrive as gates open at 3pm, and there's a few hundred metres-long queue snaking toward the main entrance. I'm about to detour to the second entrance when, amid dozens of people streaming through the gardens’ gates, I'm stopped by a man in his mid-20s, wearing board shorts and looking not too unlike the typical festivalgoer. I immediately expect him to either sell me drugs, or ask me if I'm selling any. Turns out he's an undercover cop; the same one who stopped me outside Parklife last year, I think. He asks if I'm carrying any drugs. At this particular moment, I'm carrying a couple of sushi rolls, so it's a bit awkward when they ask me to empty my pockets. …
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