ugh that always ends badly! mongrels, spring '09

Blimey, you guys have your ears to the ground.

90% new material live set, hence not really appropriate for old sk00l reunion (yet - check in again next year, ha). What's the 10% that's not new material? Do I have to tell you?

lol

can i just add some late-weekend appresh for the cat video

aw, now I really do want to go

(cattits)

90% new material live set

Codeword for new adult contemporary sounding gear.

Yes, happy hardcore covers of Journey etc

finally, the slap bass unleashed

yesssssss

srsly why add 20-odd acts AFTER you've already sold out the entire festival, added a second day, then sold THAT out too?!??! none of the punters will care if these acts don't play - you will have fewer clashes and enhance everyone's experience! (then you can use the money saved to fly all mongrels to seattlefap for private cat and rodent show)

lol that beenie man has been dropped from lineup and stalinized from historical record of announcement though. wonder if they still have to pay him not to play? presumably.

beenie man was on the bill?!

beenie man any jamaican artist who's not shaggy or a marley was on the bill?!

fixed

The BDO is 2 days long now? Fuck, what rock have I been under.

Beenie Man no longer playing? Awww.

there will be men in beanies if that makes up for it

And I just read he was dropped because of a history of homophobic lyrics? That changes things a little for me. That and the good news there will be men in beanies.

any jamaican artist who's not shaggy or a marley was on the bill?!

Lady Saw was on two years ago

The BDO is 2 days long now? Fuck, what rock have I been under.

they did it in 2004 as well

That's only in Sydney right? Because after all Sydney is our one truly big city.

Yeah seems to only be syd.

Anyone know if Devendra is doing side shows? Not that I want to see him, but I have a friend who I know would.

yes, lesser cities to the south obviously can't support that level of culture

if by culture you mean germs in a petri dish

zing zang!

Come on, in 2010 they’ve managed to sign POWDERFINGER to HEADLINE. If that’s not ascending the top of the cultural pinnacle after 18 years, what is?

bdo providing the powderfingerbang

I think the BDO is one of Sydney's greater gifts to the larger population centres around Australia, the small cities if you will, especially as those large towns become increasingly sophisticated and cosmopolitan, discovering the world of international culture to which only Sydney has really been privy for so long.

*sbigh*

moley you cad. Have at you.

Sorry

So you should be, Melbourne will always be #1 dammit *shakes fist*

well i appreciated you sharing your vision, it's hard to see the bigger picture when you're stuck in a provincial backwater.

Ha!

I take it none of you will be coming? I find large festival events disorienting myself. All that noise coming from every direction, all those people, the heat etc...

yeah nah, i'm way too old for festivals and the like

went out on friday evening and felt like going home after 20 minutes, couldn't handle all the youth

Yeah same here - even if more than a few bands I loved were playing I'd be hard pressed to justify it, esp if they still have it in that shadeless dustbowl its been held at recently. I cant be out in the sun, I get sunstroke very easily.

Also, I am old.

Sideshows, moley!

Sorry moley, I couldn't pay $100+ for an event headlined by Powderfinger and look at myself in the mirror ever again.

I am willing to help out if you need a dude to insult random indie kids who wander the wrong way, through.

No sideshows, sadly.

It's very much an under 25's thing isn't it? The rest of us have lives, wives, hives etc.

Yes, Im starting to think so. Which is why havening a 25 year old bloke is a little problematic for me, ha.

Young men are your weakness. You just like the sweetness.

I take it none of you will be coming?

see previous comments about unavailability of tickets before you even being added! could totally make a decent arvo of Mastodon, I&S, Dexter's 10-piece live thingy and mostly hanging out in the Silent Disco or Lilypad inbetween

but Muse, Powderfinger, Grinspoon and Eskimo Joe as four of the top six headliners on initial lineup would only inspire scum, teenagers, and teenage scum to have bought tickets already

I'm under 25 and I'm already too old for it!!

Besides, I really can't stand people.

Especially people who enjoy Muse.

^is this why you are rarely on last.fm

musanthrope

highly amusing

you musn't do that to me

oh god i'm going back to music trivia at the townie someone please school me on shitty 90s australian indie

Jim's yer man there.

(lol sorry)