Big Day Out
The sniffer dogs are out, the shirts are off, the skirts are short… and the media is using the phrase “festivalgoers”, which apparently is a term people use to describe people.
Oh, and the music is loud. Music festival season is revving up, with Homebake, a mainstay, held at the weekend.
But sadly, for many Australians, their days of being “festivalgoers” are but a distant, sweaty memory. And, tragically, that is often because they are old.
So today, we’re presenting a guide to this season’s festivals that is not just for the Mad Dogs pinging under the sun to dubstep music this summer - but for everybody, featuring helpful festival alternatives for those who don’t plan to crowdsurf again anytime soon.
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According to the letter of the law, the hottest act on this year’s Big Day Out roadshow is a criminal.
The remix demigod Girl Talk, whose output comprises nothing but densely layered cuts of other people’s music, is in flagrant breach of current copyright law every time he puts out an album.
The Jackson 5, Queen, Nine Inch Nails, Public Enemy and Kelly Clarkson are just five of the hundreds of artists sampled and blended with one another on his latest record, 2008’s Feed the Animals.
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Tezza says:
Since I’ve been listening to remixed music essentially my whole life, the thing that really excites me now is original, creative vocal or instrumental output. DJing and remixing is an artform and can be very cool one. But it is neither new nor particularly groundbreaking or mindblowing for anyone born… Read more »
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