OPINION — Aussie music festivals are so again.
Simply over every week in the past, Victorian pageant Past The Valley launched top-of-the-line lineups Australia has seen previously 12 months.
The subsequent day, New South Wales pageant Misplaced Paradise launched an virtually an identical lineup, with tickets already greater than 90 per cent bought out.
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Now, we’re not the place we had been a couple of years in the past. The Australian music trade is not fairly thriving the best way it was pre-COVID, however issues are trying 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 secure 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 similar 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 trying grim.
We had been being fed lineups with fewer large names, however nonetheless being requested to pay the identical worth.
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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 discovered the important thing ingredient to offering Aussies with the sort of lineup we have been dying to see with out elevating the costs.
The most important Aussie festivals might 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 assume they’d be competing with one another to supply the higher lineup.
Simply take a look at their 2022 occasions – Misplaced introduced in Arctic Monkeys, Lil Nas X and Peggy Gou as headliners and BTV had Flight Amenities, Diplo and Denzel Curry.
However this 12 months, all three music festivals have an virtually an identical lineup, bar a couple of variations similar to BTV having Natasha Bedingfield and Ice Spice, Misplaced bringing over Flight Amenities, and Wildlands surprising 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 big worldwide headliners.
When every pageant was giving us a distinct lineup, we needed to make the choice of the place to go.
Can we hope on a flight and journey interstate, forking out tons of 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 virtually an identical 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 a number of the large 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 idea with the very fact Wildlands is affording to deliver RL Grime to the Southern Hemisphere solo, they are not.
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 Ladies 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 would possibly simply need to ship a couple of 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 a couple of 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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