(photo: Kristy Milliken)
Last weekend marked the 21st anniversary of Meredith Music Festival and the start of another summer festival run. Headliner Total Lunar Eclipse did a no-show due to a cloud cover, but the cosmos aligned in other ways; Barbarion threw some flames, Grinderman bid us adieu and Big Freedia… brought the ass (everywhere). Meredith organisers have been good to the people for over two decades and the weekend delivered.
Good on yr Aunty M.
DAY 1.
With Mike Larkin’s grim prediction of torrential rain forecasted for the weekend, Aussie Disposals survived a mass pillage on Thursday as punters prepared for a rerun of Meredith Mudbath ’08. Contrary to the shitty forecast, Friday was all sun. Apart from having our windscreen smeared with some 40+ orange butterflies we hit somewhere past Geelong, it was a cruisy traipse down the Princes Hwy until we poked the line. A large mass of punters seem to have bypassed the ‘no dickhead policy’. Fools who overtook the long line of fair queuers, got bad karma and runs from the Hare Krishna tent on the weekend. Eco tyrants who also scampered past the queue on fixie bikes also provided comedic entertainment, after said fixies encountered punctured wheels on gravelly terrain.
Meredith minions parading around with yellow tees were strategically placed around our welcome path as ushers, but all were useless at giving directions. One of my mates wrangled a free ticket for three hours of handing out ‘snakes and redbull’. Order seems unnecessary when you have vibemen.
On the topic of vibemen, the main stage was packed to see King Gizzard and The Wizard Lizard open the proceedings. Perched on the edge of the stage, the rowdy 7 piece wasted no time on introductions. The driving beat of ‘Lunch Meat’, anthemic ‘Willoughby’s Beach’ and the rest of those whooops, theremin and fezzy swamp stuff caused a minor dust storm in the front left of stage. A cover of the (more…)
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