LANE
WAY
LOTS AT
LANEWAY
It’s the cool little festival that always
seems to pack a punch much bigger than
you expect, and this year looks to be no
different for The Laneway Festival 2014.
To begin with, it’s already miles ahead over
last year’s because the organisers have
been able to secure a curfew extension to
midnight for the January 31st event at RNA
Showgrounds in Fortitude Valley. That means
most of the bands will now perform after
5pm, avoiding much of the ol’ sunsquintitus
syndrome that can ruin a solid set.
Acts include Lorde, Time’s Teenager of the
Year, Vance Joy, Danny Brown, CHVRCHES,
The Jezabels, Cloud Control and Adalita, who
the oldies will have seen sweating it out over
the years as frontwoman for Magic Dirt, and
released quite a cool melodic rock album
in September called All Day Venus through
Liberation Music.
We could tell you about this track and
those grunge references and that chordal
progression, but it’s probably best if you hear
Adalita’s personal take on it really … “This
record is really about so many things but
mainly I think it’s about growing up. I think I
came to a point as an adult where I realised a
lot of new things about myself mainly through
the transformative nature of romantic love
gone wrong. In tandem with this theme I
was also very drawn to beautiful images
of the female form, flowers, fountains and
waterways presided over by a female figure,
sometimes young and innocent, sometimes a
dark, powerful huntress. For me this relates to
the mystery of the feminine and the sacred
nature of beauty.”
Yep, no way we could have come up with
that!
Festival tickets are $126 including booking fee,
and available at http://www.moshtix.com.
au/v2/event/st-jeromes-laneway-festivalbrisbane/68271
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