OPINION — Aussie music festivals are so again.
Simply over every week in the past, Victorian competition Past The Valley launched among the finest lineups Australia has seen prior to now 12 months.
The following day, New South Wales competition Misplaced Paradise launched an nearly similar 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 business 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 competition 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 competition lovers reminiscent of 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 competition scene was trying 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 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 foremost 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 assume 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 Amenities, Diplo and Denzel Curry.
However this 12 months, all three music festivals have an nearly similar lineup, bar a couple of variations reminiscent of BTV having Natasha Bedingfield and Ice Spice, Misplaced bringing over Flight Amenities, 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 competition was giving us a unique lineup, we needed to make the choice of the place to go.
Can we hope on a flight and journey interstate, forking out a whole bunch extra? Possibly a roadtrip of 12+ hours to see the lineup we wish? Or possibly we simply settle with what’s in our state?
Now, they’ve taken the choice out of it for us.
With every competition in a unique state with an nearly similar 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 idea with the actual fact Wildlands is affording to convey RL Grime to the Southern Hemisphere solo, they don’t seem to be.
RL Grime can be taking to the stage at New Zealand competition 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 must ship a couple of further prayers that he makes it in time from his Qld Wildland’s set that very same day.
Sadly, pretty much 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 competition tickets once more.
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