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Here you go

I reckon it was a really great Meredith....

Hightlights (roughly in order):
Cash Savage and the Last Drinks (shoe-worthy!)
Graveyard Train (got the shoe!! and shoe-worthy)
Off! (smashed it)
Future of the Left (+ 2 Mclusky tracks. totally slayed)
Grinderman (very very good)
Mudhoney (couldn't quite match the awesomeness of their corner show.. but totally ruled)
Black Joe Lewis (great party funtimes)
Barbarion (hillarious show... fireballs, flying sparks, guitarmonies.... ''Cop that Meredith!'')
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard (were fun and rocked it. slightly bratty.. gave great hi-fives)
Adalita (obviously had a great time. Not her best set, although the closer, Repairer was jaw droppingly good)
Mrs Ben catching Warren Ellis' sleigh bells!

wait for the gnashing of teeth during the great trip home roadwork debarcle of '11

not the way I drove home nony

wait for the gnashing of teeth during the great trip home roadwork debarcle of '11

Left at 12 by the usual route and didn't encounter anything. Where was it?

best Meredith i've been too...good job, Meredith...

Roadworks on the Geelong bypass had traffic backed up all the way to the anakie turnoff. May have only hit later.

As for review:
ASS OVER HERE, ASS OVER THERE
ASS EVERYWHERE ASS EVERYWHERE!

ASS OVER HERE, ASS OVER THERE
ASS EVERYWHERE ASS EVERYWHERE!

bend ova, like I told ya

Due to volunteering commitments I missed some things... this included.

All I can say is from the weekend

Hoola hooping is now the fire twirling equivalent in the indie scene.

Bands were good. Future of the Left, Graveyard Train and Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Mudhoney I was happy to see (amongst others) and they didn't disappoint. Ladyhawk, Icehouse Cut/Copy were booooooring, and Big Freedio left me confused and not happy (I didn't 'get' it apparently) Higher ratio of dickeads this year in my opinion, but I could just be getting old and crankier.

Oh, and my van ROCKED to sleep in. Highly recommended :o)

Highlights:
Future of the Left
Graveyard Train
Black Joe Lewis
Big Freedia (mainly for the look on my festival companions faces)
Frank Fairfield

Usual array of asswipes, but on the whole an enjoyable weekend.

Mudhoney were superb.
Icehouse surprised me.
Off are possibly the worst band I've seen this year.
Gang Gang Dance were just like Hawkwind, pointless.
Cash Savage nailed it.
Graveyard Train deserved the admiration, wonderful show.
Kirt Vile made me want to vomit in boredom.
Barbarion hit the sweet sweet spot.
Future Of The Left came second favourite, my throat was screwed form the rest of the weekend after that.
Frank Fairfield blew me away, flawless and beautiful. The only thing that ruined it was the shitfuck child running between my legs kicking a beach ball into everyones head, seriously thought about kicking it in the face... people with kids, what a joke.

Food was good again, Vege Burgers as always were the best midnight treat. Waiting 30mins for a plate of corn chips from the Taco tent pissed me off. The organic noodle joint was another good outing.

Tried the cocktail bar, didn't enjoy either cocktails, but the setting was quite nice.

Drove home the secret way, no traffic, good country baked corn jack and chips.

Frank Fairfield gets the num

Frank Fairfield gets the num

Hmmmm.. I don't recall writing that addition.. I think I need sleep.

The ride on the way home - traffic was slooooooow. Painful, roadworks badly timed. On the stretch just before getting to Werribee I think?
One lane for ages. AND To the dickheads who don't understand what merging is. Go have a fucking POWER NAP you're going to kill someone or get snapped. You killed my good vibes. Fuck you. Everyone is on the same road. Learn some fucking patience. My car is older than you are, its not as fast as your stupid white wagon, I'm not gonna race you to merge into the one lane. You nearly caused an incident with the van in front of me too, so don't think that I'm the dickhead, ya dickhead.

While I'm venting - To the dickheads getting narky road rage before you've even left the camp grounds. Fucking grow up and chill out, or FUCK OFF.

End rant/

ehhh....I need food and sleep too

Was it just me or did everyone seem to go really hard on Friday night this year? The silence wedge was not respected on Friday where I was camping, there was loud camp partying everywhere and I could hear the feral drum circle thing down at the stage at 4am of all the people who wanted to keep going, yet Saturday night from 1am was pretty mellow. Never had such a quiet night's sleep up there.

Didn't actually end up seeing that much music in the end, maybe only 10 acts. Went to bed pretty early both nights as a result of coming into the event feeling pretty shitty. Highlights were FOTL and Frank Fairfield and a few of the Grinderman numbers. Icehouse and the Rechords were both fun too.

I felt bad for Kurt Vile, he had the worst sound out of anyone I saw on the weekend. None of the intricacies of his music came though. Only part of his set I really enjoyed was Baby's Arms. Corner show was much better.

Loved that new wine bar area too. Great space to spend some time in the afternoon... and the food cones were awesome. Look forward to spending some more time there during Golden Plains.

Every band I saw on Friday disappointed me with the exception of Barbarion and Gang Gang Dance - I love pyrotechnics, and Gang Gang Dance in that slot where magical. Stayed up till 5 then slept through Saturday daytime bands, none of which I were too keen to see but I heard Adalita and Graveyard Train were good.

Spent the evening watching Mudhoney, Icehouse, Cut Copy who were all amazing. I found Grinderman boring, but I expected that, they're just not my thing. Seeing the crowd showered with confetti was amazing though. Lucky I spent a lot of time overlooking a beautiful moon on Friday though, cos I saw no sight of it on Saturday.

I didn't see any dickheads at all - maybe my medication has chilled me out to the point where I was oblivious to it? But I found the crowd lovely, our neighbours were lovely. So glad that gratuitous costume-wearing is going out of fashion, seems to be replaced with the milder, less offensive gratuitous facepaint-wearing.

And it's the little things that make you feel loved - like the way the toilets are now the right height and were always stocked with toilet paper! Also, somehow Aunty made the weather just perfect this year :)

So much face paint!! ugh.

If I can keep the cash, I'll implement the system.

But I don't wanna work too hard at the festival.

Ahh the dilemma

One of the best things about Meredith / GP? The one stage policy. I got to check out some acts I wasn't all that familiar with beforehand, now I'm a fan.

though there was a hare krishna playing some drums at the food court in a direct violation of this rule.

I almost gave him the boot.

Oh, and if anyone found an iPhone 4, I know someone who would be very happy if it was handed in.. it's still ringing out, so it's somewhere.. hopefully.

You don't have Find My Phone turned on?

You don't have Find My Phone turned on?

It's not mine... by the time we made it back to Melb it was going to voicemail, apparently that means the battery is dead... I would have thought that Find My Phone app would have a power function written in that saved a certain amount enough to initiate this.. but seemingly not.

Do the hare krishnas still run food vans at these festivals? I haven't been for years...

Cauliflower pakoras with tamarind sauce, curried pasta salad, a veggie stew thing and dessert (usually cherry pilaf) all on one plate... the Best. Shit. EVER.

Do the hare krishnas still run food vans at these festivals?

Yep. I've avoided it ever since my first Meredith which saw their food go straight through me twice in a row.

Really? It always had the opposite effect for me. Plugged me up 'til Sunday night.

gang bang gang or whatever they are called were god damn embarrassing. what was the story with the 'technical' difficulties?

Very poor quality gear. That's all I'll say about that.

kuroneko said 14 minutes ago:
One of the best things about Meredith / GP? The one stage policy. I got to check out some acts I wasn't all that familiar with beforehand, now I'm a fan.

Me too. Abbe May. Oh my goodness.

Really? It always had the opposite effect for me. Plugged me up 'til Sunday night.

I was compost bound 20mins out of the hour for about 4hrs. No fun at all.

Frank Fairfield was amazing by the way, completely did not expect to be that impressed at 11 am on the Sunday morning.

Hellzapoppin said 4 minutes ago:
Really? It always had the opposite effect for me. Plugged me up 'til Sunday night.
I was compost bound 20mins out of the hour for about 4hrs. No fun at all.

A friend got the tasting plate at Eric's and didn't feel so great afterwards.

Hellza, the Hare Krishna's koftas are awesome. Shame it's been ruined for you...

Hmm, never been that bad off krishna food but it always seems to do something weird to my stomach. Yet I keep going back for more. This year I had a plate, that vege curry was amazing, but immediately afterwards I felt way too sluggish to party at all and had to call it a night.

The Nick Cave rocking horse was definitely a highlight. Got some spectacular pictures.

Still blown away by Barbarian. Thought i'd cringe and block my ears the whole time but it was just so, so, so, so good. One of my mates cried it was so good.. a 32 year old man crying with delight at bondage and pyrotechnics.... never saw that coming...

sadly, i reckon the krishna plates have really gone downhill

that's an incredible photo mit_as_in

Haha! That was you mit? You have some very incriminating photos of me and a mate in sheer, fucked up joy on that thing...

Only getting one free cocktail at the Bavaria party Saturday afternoon. They seemed to go real quick. Minor gripe, really. >

Did I hear them say it was the last one they are doing? Tell me it ain't so

Ghoti, i was with the luminescent pirate hat group that pretty much missed the entire Nick Cave set because we were so taken by the rocking horse. The other chic that was taking all the photos on a real camera was the wife of the guy that made the rocking horse.