I'm not really a big music festival fan, the conjugation of retards, really horrid toilet conditions, huge queues to get booze/food, hit and miss line ups means I'm pretty much a music festival noob.
Anyway, popped my music festival cherry over the Chinese New Year long weekend.
Pros:
1. Wicked Aura Batucada - Singapore based international Brasilian percussion group. They are WICKED! 6:30pm time slot, but had the crowd just as amped as J5 and the Beastie Boys.
2. Jurassic Five - Took them eons to get ready and actually come out (allusions to weed, coke and circle jerking were made whilst waiting), but once they did the crowd just went off, off my nut the whole time!
3. Beastie Boys - Final act for the night, bit of a weird first half of the set though. Quantity of extremely inebriated white men did sully the experience some what bloody body odour and misdirected belligerence.
4. Agrikulture - Contemporary Indonesian Kraftwerk? I was getting a drink during most of their set and so only caught the beginning and end... but I like :)
5. Dubwise and Guerilla crew for providing the dub and drum n bass support, hopefully next year they'll get a big DnB name into Singapore. *fingers crossed*
6. Photo op with the beautiful Denise Keller (German-Singaporean MTV Asia VJ). ^_^
Mehs:
1. Electrico - I'm not a fan of most types of Rock.
2. Cut Copy - I liked their set on FabricLive 29, live.. they were somewhat disappointing.
3. Other acts
4. A sausage fest of expat kids inappropriately shouting MILF at the female vocalist of Cicada without regard to the actual fact of whether she was a mother of not.
5. White male tourists. Thank god none of them were New Zealanders, us Kiwis... we're so well beahved. :)
Regrets:
1. Too Phat - Awesome Malaysian hip hop / RnB guys, they were supposed to come on before J5, but some screw up meant that they went to the other arena with the indie rock (and eventually trance) fags... I will see them before I leave Asia!!
Loltastic photographs below:
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
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