laneways festival

i spent the day at the Laneway Festival in auckland. it was excellent. And i’m going to tell you all about it. if you aren’t interested in music this will be a bit boring. sorry about that.

That’s Neil Finn of Crowded House in the picture above who i spotted in the crowd after he’d played

first up, and possibly my favourite of the day were opossum   A sort of NZ supergroup. sort of.

they were on first at 12.30 so it could only be downhill from there

Then Ema (better on record than in person i thought)

the festival was in a car park next to the fish market.  near the Silos.

Austra reminded me of dr and medics, but that might have been the flappy backing dancers

I absolutely loved ‘Girls’.  here’s a nice song by them.  they were a nice surprise

Yuck were scruffy and excellent.  i’d been revising their albums so knew most of their songs.  good

pajama club were excellent.  they are made up of Neil Finn (of Crowded House) and his wife. 

here’s a video of them live

Feist were another surprise and were very good (i was quite far away for them)

and the last band i saw was the Horrors who were very excellent and the main reason i went in the first place

i left before M83 and Gotye. sorry about that

meanwhile jane and the girls had a day at home of domestic organising