Bit of an update

So it's been awhile since I've written a blog other than one for our class, so I thought I would give a bit of an update as too what has been going on!

Well on Monday May 14th tickets went on sale for Splendour in the Grass and I got up early to buy my ticket online I even missed my first class of the day but the uni network is gay and wouldn't let me get through to the queue. So I went to the next class to make up for missing the first and found out Matt (who I was going with) had his mum sitting at home ready to buy them. So in class me, matt and Lauren all sat through our class attempting to get into the queue and we did but again the network was gay and kept kicking us out! Grr!

In the end I went back to Matt's place and his mum was still in the queue but really near the front so we waited and managed to get our tickets finally but we missed out on camping tickets so we found a camping ground near by where we will be staying at through out the weekend!

The next week on friday the 25th May we had heard that the Presets were playing in Canberra, so An, Party Marty, Philo and myself roadtripped to Canberra to see them. It was a scary/ weird adventure I was driving and it was interesting our roadtrip. Just passed Yass we got stopped because their was this massive accident (because of all the flashing blue and red lights we had a joke going on that it was really the policemans ball, which probably wasn't very appropriate but meh!) and the policeman said we had to go back to Yass and follow the signs to Goulburn and we were like F@*k! that's gonna had and extra 2 hours on to our trip and considering we were already massivly late we were pretty worried.

Anywho we had a good idea to stop in Yass and find out if there was a quicker way we could get to Canberra and luckily we asked the right person. we had to take the old Canberra highway which was mainly dirt and windy as hell and after awhile cars stopped coming towards us and we were the only people on the road in the dark bushland. I began to stress that we would break down and a wolfcreek scene would happen to us, it was scary as hell! eventually we came back out on the road we needed to and made it to Canberra!

We were staying the night with one of Party Marty's school friends at ANU and we eventaully found the campus but couldn't find her building and asked every passer by who all pointed us in different directions. Philo thought it would be funny to tell people we were from Perth even though we had Victorian licence plates, but it was funny considering he was already drunk!

Made it to Elains place, got ready then went off to this club called Moose Heads which was pretty lame, apparently its heaps better on Uni Nights it was interesting though but a bit tacky!

We then went on to Academy to see the Presets and Riot in Belgium where we danced our booties off! it was so much fun unfortuantly it was only one half of the presets playing and he was more DJing then anything but he did play some Preset songs which was good!

That night I slept like a log and we drove back to Wagga in the early afternoon but not before going into town and buying sushi! OMG did I eat suchi! I love it and it was decently priced and was so good unlike the places in Wagga that sell Sushi!

Arrived home knackered as anything and then continued the weekend which I will write about in another blog!

Splendour in the Grass

Well guys and girls it has been like 5 days since I wrote my last post *shock horror* and for some reason decided to re-read Johannes' Blog post from back in the last week of school, and am now starting to freak out, that although I've completed quite a lot of that checklist there is still a lot that I feel I haven't covered thoroughly enough; especially for what we are ment to link in our final blog before emailing it to Johannes! I was told by Matt the other week that I ramble too much and that my stuff isn't interesting and now I am doubley freaking that I will fail from lack of interestingess!!! ARGH! Anywho, so for this post I decided to write about the festival Splendour in the Grass.

Last week a friend's sister asked me if I had seen the line up for Splendour in the Grass cos Triple J had annouced it and she said it was quite impressive, telling me that they had announced Bloc Party were playing. So off I toddled to Splendour In The Grass.com and pretty much had a heart attack by the shock of how great the line up was! So many of my favourite bands are going to be playing there!

Splendour in the Grass is a music festival being held at the start of August (6th-8th I think) for a weekend up in Byron Bay, so basically great music along with camping for a whole weekend!


As I said before Bloc Party was announced last week to be one of the main acts, they will be playing on the Sunday. For Bloc Party who reign all the way from Britain this will be their second appearence at Splendour, with the release of their new album A weekend in the city. I haven't yet listened to this, but if it is anything like their first album Silent Alarm then I have lots to look forward too!


Also playing at the festival and hailing from Britain is another one of my favourite bands, the Arctic Monkeys they too have just released a new album (came out today) Favourite worst nightmare with the first single being Brainstorm - it's similar to older stuff by the Arctic Monkeys but a little more edgier and a lot faster, I'm not sure whether I like the song or if my doubt comes from the crappy download I got. The Arctic Monkeys will also be playing on the Sunday.


Yet another band coming over from the UK to play (there are lots of them!) at Splendour and the one I am most excited about, the Kaiser Chiefs! They are also another band to release a new album Your's Truly, Angry Mob with the first single being Ruby. This album I feel is not as good as their first album Employment, but it would be very hard to make another album to this standard and Your's Truly is still a great effort and still worth a listen! I am so excited for them to be playing, I saw them live at a festival in England last year and it was an amazing performance, so hopefully this one will be as well!

There are quite a few other British artists playing (Lily Allen) as well as lots of local produce including Powderfinger (as they are bringing out a new album), Hilltop Hoods, Grinspoon and Josh Pyke.

I have decided I desperately want to go to Splendour in the Grass, even if it will take us like 2 days to get there, and Matt and I have talked about organising a group and driving up there! So anyone interested in going should so totally come, it will be well worth it. Tickets go on sale on the 12th of May I think and are $185, then in addition to this ticket you need another ticket to camp (these sell out very, very quickly) which is a further $115, I know it's expensive but for a great weekend who cares. To buy the tickets you also need to have access to a credit card as ringing in to buy is the only form of purchase as they print your name and birthday on the ticket to stop scalping.

One great weekend, hopefully a good group of friends, brilliant bands, camping, lots of fun and a mad road trip! Come on guys lets go to Splendour in the Grass 2007!

Until next time when hopefully everyone wants to go to Splendour, Peace Out!

P.S. For any of you interested, in a post I wrote last week on the Melbourne Comedy Festival Gala wanting to know who two comdeians were I finally found out who the Welsh guy is, he was on Spicks and Specks as well as on Rove last night; his name is Mark Watson and he is HI-LAR-IOUS!