OPINION — Aussie music festivals are so again.
Simply over per week in the past, Victorian pageant Past The Valley launched among the best lineups Australia has seen previously 12 months.
The subsequent day, New South Wales pageant Misplaced Paradise launched an nearly equivalent lineup, with tickets already greater than 90 per cent bought out.
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Now, we’re not the place we had been just a few years in the past. The Australian music trade is not fairly thriving the way in which it was pre-COVID, however issues are wanting up.
It isn’t simply Misplaced and BTV offering the products. Single-day pageant Wildlands additionally launched a killer lineup, once more just like each three-day occasions however with the noteable addition of US DJ, RL Grime.
With the passion across the lineups and the promising variety of tickets already bought for Misplaced (neither BTV or Wildlands have gone on sale but), it appears these festivals could also be protected from the destiny so many others have suffered this 12 months – cancellation.
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5 months in the past, I wrote an article explaining why music pageant lovers equivalent to myself weren’t shopping for tickets anymore.
After Splendour In The Grass was cancelled – following within the footsteps of Groovin’ the Moo and Falls Competition – the destiny of the Aussie music pageant scene was wanting grim.
We had been being fed lineups with fewer massive names, however nonetheless being requested to pay the identical value.
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Then, on July 26 when Spilt Milk introduced its 2024 occasion wasn’t going forward after teasing followers with the lineup for months, it appeared all hope was misplaced.
Now, it appears Misplaced, BTV, and Wildlands have found out the important thing ingredient to offering Aussies with the type of lineup we have been dying to see with out elevating the costs.
The most important Aussie festivals could even be in cahoots.
As a result of Misplaced and BTV are held over the very same dates, with Wildands’ QLD occasion additionally overlapping, you’d suppose they’d be competing with one another to provide the higher lineup.
Simply have a look at their 2022 occasions – Misplaced introduced in Arctic Monkeys, Lil Nas X and Peggy Gou as headliners and BTV had Flight Services, Diplo and Denzel Curry.
However this 12 months, all three music festivals have an nearly equivalent lineup, bar just a few variations equivalent to BTV having Natasha Bedingfield and Ice Spice, Misplaced bringing over Flight Services, and Wildlands stunning everybody with RL Grime.
What appears to have occurred is the three occasions have coordinated and labored collectively to separate the price of bringing in some large worldwide headliners.
When every pageant was giving us a distinct lineup, we needed to make the choice of the place to go.
Will we hope on a flight and journey interstate, forking out a whole bunch extra? Perhaps a roadtrip of 12+ hours to see the lineup we would like? Or possibly we simply settle with what’s in our state?
Now, they’ve taken the choice out of it for us.
With every pageant in a distinct state with an nearly equivalent lineup, if you cannot afford to spend the additional cash to journey, you do not really feel pressured too.
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This 12 months, all three occasions are sharing Fisher, Tinashe, Royel Otis, Sammy Virji, Marlin Hoffstadt and Confidence Man, simply to call among the massive acts.
BTV and Wildlands are sister occasions each run by Untitled Group, so they have much more in widespread with Chase & Standing, Horsegiirl and Pleasure (Nameless) taking the stage at each occasions.
And if you are going to attempt to poke holes in my principle with the very fact Wildlands is affording to convey RL Grime to the Southern Hemisphere solo, they don’t seem to be.
RL Grime can also be taking to the stage at New Zealand pageant Rhythm and Vines, in addition to a number of different crossover acts together with Ice Spice, Sammy Virji, Pleasure (Nameless) and Women Do not Sync.
Now, the logistics of this all are a bit past me, however I am trusting that these organisers have coordinated it to a T.
These ready for Fisher to do the New 12 months’s drop at BTV may simply should ship just a few additional prayers that he makes it in time from his Qld Wildland’s set that very same day.
Sadly, nearly as good as these lineups are, many would argue they’re nonetheless not fairly the identical calibre we had been seeing just a few years again.
However, whether or not it has one thing to do with desperation or not, the answer appears to be working – Aussies are lastly shopping for pageant tickets once more.
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