http://www.thepunch.com.au/author-bios/declan-fay/ I write for the Big Issue. I wrote for Rove for four years. I’ve been fired from three different radio stations. I give motivational talks at high schools and have never been pelted with fruit, but a disgruntled girl once a hit me with a meatball, in the groin, from the back of the room. en Copyright 2012 The Punch penberthyd@newsltd.com.au penberthyd@newsltd.com.au Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:40 +0000 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:40 +0000 Politics, opinion, world news, sports news, latest news, views, Barack Obama, Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard, Nathan Rees, Malcolm Turnbull, Peter Garrett, Barnaby Joyce, Australian, federal politics, opinion polls, election, The Punch, thepunch, punch ExpressionEngine 1.6.7 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 15 http://www.thepunch.com.au/images/punch-logo-rss.png http://www.thepunch.com.au/ 144 70 Politics, political opinion, world news, sports news and the latest news and views updated live, daily on The Punch - Australia's best conversation. Search The Punch keywords http://www.thepunch.com.au/search/ http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/the-great-harvest-line-up-and-we-dont-mean-the-music/ Dear Harvest Festival, You have no idea how excited we were about you. What music fan wouldn’t be excited about a brand new musical festival, in the backyard of the Werribee mansion, with some of the best bands of the last 20 years? For weeks everyone was talking about your line up, but by the end of the night the only thing anyone was talking about was lining up. We should have seen the warning signs early on, when one of our friends headed off to buy everyone a beer and then didn’t come back for two hours. It took her an hour to get the tokens to buy the beer the beer and then another hour to exchange the tickets for the actual drinks. Seriously, the Gillard government could not have created a system this bad.  Obviously queues are a part of any public event, but your queues were not normal. All across Werribee Park, lines of people stretched out longer than a Led Zeppelin guitar solo. At one stage the crowd outside the bar was bigger than the entire crowd waiting to watch Mogwai, who were one of the headline acts. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Declan Fay) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/the-great-harvest-line-up-and-we-dont-mean-the-music/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/the-great-harvest-line-up-and-we-dont-mean-the-music/#item7154 Tue, 15 Nov 2011 19:35:15 +0000 Declan Fay | Author bios | The Punch