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Laneway 2014

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Excited. The clashes aren't ideal. King Krule or Lorde is hard. May have to go Lorde because Archy had a sideshow and Lorde is attractive. Mount Kimbie or Chvrches is also a dilemma.
 
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Excited. The clashes aren't ideal. King Krule or Lorde is hard. May have to go Lorde because Archy had a sideshow and Lorde is attractive. Mount Kimbie or Chvrches is also a dilemma.
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Go see Mount Kimbie.

Small crowd; plus you'll need a break at this point I reckon.
 
I mightn't have the luxury of knowing when I'm getting in. I have no idea who we'll pick over Chvrches and Mount Kimbie, Haim and Earl, while Lorde/Jamie xx/King Krule/Danny Brown is evil. I wish they'd staggered the day better because it's kind of barren for most of the day, and I've seen a heap of those acts before. I really want to see King Krule because I used to dream of seeing him live and I've followed him since Zoo Kid. I might not get to but hey.

I might just stay for Chvrches until Haim. I cannot be bothered drinking, nor can I afford it, so maybe that's my plan. Claim a good spot for Ribs – I can't believe I never gave her album a spin. One of the more lucid, aware, beautiful songs of 2013. I remember being 16 and thinking about mortality every day as well. I wish I was lucky enough to have this song at that age.

But no chance I'll stay for the last bands, I tried to for SBTRKT in Perth before and it was just way too sloppy and gross and drunk. Nice train home for me I think.
 

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How did people find it?

I won't complain too much considering I didn't pay, went at about 2pmbut I was slightly disappointed. The last time I went was Laneway 2012 – had a pretty memorable day seeing live music for the first time on a laughably unsuitable ID. Maybe the expectations were too high.

I thought Dick Diver were kind of shit. I used to enjoy their brand of slacker tunezzz and IGA name drops. But I have some gripes with the Melbourne music scene and how conceited, incestuous, and cliquey it really is. Maybe that informed my disdain, but they're just not interesting enough. The irony (haven't we passed that as a comedic tool by now?) of a bassist in speed dealer sunnies and an akubra felt a little smug and patronising. Their politics are well intentioned as well but I don't know – I've seen them four times in progressively larger arenas and this was the death knell..

Now, the holy trinity of Chvrches, Haim, and Lorde was a middling indie fans wet dream. But it seemed to be really miss a lot of the intensity it should've had. Firstly, jesus, the walk to the Dean Turner stage was a killer. The old Perth site was pretty much on the equivalent of Fed Square and there was almost no noise bleeding then. Why this stage was so far away is kind of beyond me. It was way too hot to be packed in a festival atmosphere like that but hey, you've gotta get in the crowds before you become one of the withered middle-agers bound to the grass banks.

Anyway, people got up for Chvrches bangers but I felt like they were really just a signal for Haim and Lorde too. Aside from having their equipment refuse to play ball, they just didn't have the songs to fill in a set between Lies and Gun and Recover and Mother. It was way too patchwork and people were just hanging out for the pop songs.

Haim the same. The middle section shows how bad they are as songwriters.

Lorde was alright but she basically does karaoke. I loved her monologue before going into Ribs. The closer was so apt as well. But playing to backing tracks and a bloke playing four-on-the-floor beats on an electric pad just isn't entertaining enough. She needs to add something.

I was happy I left as soon as Lorde finished because Four Tet apparently just played a DJ set. Lame.

I heard King Krule wanted to go back to England pretty much so I'm glad I didn't see him, despite the fact I've been tracking him since the Zoo Kid days. His music is more fit for albums and dark clubs at 1am than sunny parks at 4pm.

Also, I can see a weird cultural shift from Laneway. The dress sense has not changed. Beards and little round sunnies and floral shirts. Few more sarcastic bucket hats this year (me inclusive...) but honestly, the thing is, the look isn't changing, more people are just growing into it and trying it on. It's just another trend and you could really see it with the way the crowd went. I can't help but feel when it all dies in a summer or two, Laneway will go – it'll end up being another Livid or something. Not that it matters. Nothing lasts and I like things dying, it's a part of the timestamp. But I don't know.
 
So.

Chvrches synthesizer blew ten seconds into their first song. They tried to fix it for 30 mins.

They came out an played Mother twice... End of show.

To say I'm gutted would be a ****ing understatement.
 
Chvrches are fairly average though.

They have some nice little pop moments but they well and truly sound like an indie version of Aqua.
 
I wonder if the majority of the band this year will be remembered shortly.

I do like Youth Lagoon though.
 

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I reckon Youth Lagoon's alright.

Seems to have cottoned onto that popular post Halcyon Digest sound but lyrically he reminds me of Mountain Goats. I think the last LP from all reports was kind of average though. I didn't bother to listen.

Montana's very cool.

You wore a hoodless sweatshirt on your bed that night
With black leggings, I've never seen your face so white
Your honesty was killing me
The monsters in the room were all dancing to the music all around us

A door is always open if it isn't closed
And a plant is said to be dead if it doesn't grow

I'll grow
I will grow

There's a spirit in Montana and in your chest, a soul
Oh, what a soul
I tried to be the middle-man between you and this list
I couldn't move as the footsteps neared closer to me from the monsters that feed
I swore that I wouldn't bleed
I won't bleed

There's a spirit in Montana and in your chest
A note that rings like the bells of cathedrals rung by the village scapegoat

As I walked slowly down your driveway to my car
I looked back and turned into salt
A pillar with a hat
 

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