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Midnight Youth

Your most memorable Festival moment or experience? Playing Big Day Out and doing shots with Lily Allen while she sun-bathed beside our portacom. Favourite Artist you’ve seen at a Music Festival? Neil...
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Sam Clarke

Your most memorable Festival moment or experience? Going to the 100th big day out and afterparty. Unbelievable! Favourite Artist you’ve seen at a Music Festival? Karnivool. What’s your ideal Festival...
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All Time Low

Your most memorable Festival moment or experience? Soundwave is amazing but we have always had a blast playing Bamboozle in New Jersey....the crowds have been insane. Favourite Artist you’ve seen at...
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MM9

Your most memorable Festival moment or experience? I think playing at the Open Arms Festival last year in Coffs Harbour. The day was ridiculously hot right up until we hit the stage and just then a massive...
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Shout Out Louds

Your most memorable Festival moment or experience? Our stage manager once fixed things so that I could stand on a podium on the side of the stage and pretend to set my keyboards up while Roky Erickson...
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Kora

Your most memorable Festival moment or experience? Have done so many. Really cannot say which one stands out most. I think everytime we get on stage. This is the best job in the world. How many people...
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Every Time I Die

Your most memorable Festival moment or experience? Download in 2005. it was such a great vibe the entire day and people seemed to really get into our set Favourite Artist you’ve seen at a Music Festival?...
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Hockey

Your most memorable Festival moment or experience? Playing in Norway at Hove festival was great. We were on boats all day People seemed to know us a lot more than they should and we played before the fleet...
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Clutch

Your most memorable Festival moment or experience? Without a doubt seeing Heaven and Hell at Hellfest last summer. They were fantastic. Ronnie James Dio is incredible. Favourite Artist you’ve seen...
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The Beautiful Girls

Your most memorable Festival moment or experience? Probably the first time we played Falls. It was in Tasmania and we were on a side stage in the afternoon and were just happy to be there. Our friend Mason...
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The Panics

One of the best was Splendor In The Grass a couple of years back when we had just released our album cruel guards. I just remember this massive circus tent overflowing with people singing along,people...
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Alex Lloyd

I think the first time I did the Big Day Out we were sharing the stage with the Black Eyed Peas before they got massive we had a great time hanging out and the audiences were fantastic Favourite artist...
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Mental As Anything

It's a pretty horrible one actually. On the Australian Made Tour in, it was about 87' - 88'. There was us, there was Barnsey (Jimmy Barnes), The Models, The Divinyls. You know it was a really fun tour...
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Sneaky Sound System

It’s too hard to pick one, we love festivals. In no particular order: Playing the big Dance Arena at Glastonbury 2008, Main Stage Good Vibrations 2007, Splendour in the Grass 2007, Big Day Out 2009...I...
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Behind Crimson Eyes

We did a festival in melbourne and it was a great. We got to hang out with Grinspoon and drink with those guys. What are your tips for attending Music Festivals?Don't get drunk to quick. Pace yourself....
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Axle Whitehead

I remember seeing Blondie at the Falls Fest in 98. Brilliant. But as a kid my parents would take us to a lot of festivals. I remember running around dancing, annoying people, stealing things, so much fun....
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Cut Copy

We played an amazing festival called T in the Park in Scotland, which was a year and a half ago now, but that was really amazing in terms of being, by far, the biggest crowd we've played infront of, I...
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Bliss N Eso

It was at the Great Escape Festival in Sydney. It was a really nice setting as the stage was set up alongside the Parramatta river. The only problem was about 15 minutes before the show it was raining...
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Michael Franti

I remember at the Falls Festival a few years ago after we played there we got one of those little train vehicles and jumped out in the middle of night to this creek bed and went to this little revien and...
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Horsell Common

As a band we played the Pyramid Rock Festival at Phillip Island last year, that was a very awesome thing to be a part of. Was so hot you felt like you were going to die but was worth every second. Ideal...
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Behind Crimson Eyes

This year we were lucky enough to play at 3 Big Day out shows. It was great because we were friends with a fair few of the bands (Karnivool, Something With Numbers, Gyroscope, Hilltop Hoods) so it was...
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Funeral For A Friend

Well I guess the most memorable would be in 2005 when we played the first Australian Taste Of Chaos festival. It was the first night in Perth & the venue was like five or seven thousand & we were sure...
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British India

Adelaide Big Day Out. We were staying in the same hotel as other artists and I came downstaris to go to the after party and a big crowd was surrounding Aracde Fire and Bjork at the grand piano in the restaurant...
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Children Collide

I was very young - very very young – and I tried something for the first time and it was at Big Day Out and Sound Garden were playing and it was meant to be the last Big Day Out ever and I was lying down...
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The Living End

I could probably go on for hours, but the one stand out for me was in 2003 at the Auckland Big Day Out. It was the set of the Queens Of The Stone Age & 2 songs in the gear blew up & they had to stop playing,...
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Birds of Tokyo

In january 2007 we did our first Big Day Out over here in Perth & when we got on stage the security had to close the doors of the pavilion as the room capacity had been reached. Now the thing was the band...
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Gyroscope

I’d probably say it was earlier this year, we did a show over in Perth, I think it was a festival. The show was completely sold out & at home we were able to have heaps of friends & family, don’t get me...
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Michael Franti
I remember at the Falls Festival a few years ago after we played there we got one of those little train vehicles and jumped out in the middle of night to this creek bed and went to this little revien and sat there and our eyes started to adjust to the darkness and what was creepy were these things... on the walls they were filled with these glow worms and it was the most fantastic thing... all these different colours- purple, green, white all glowing and that was the most amazing festival experience I've ever had!

When I see a band I always have a moment in show when you have an epiphone at some point when this band is kicking, or the band is about to hit a peak, or something that the drummer does like knock this bottle of beer off the stand [laughs] or something crazy when there is just this sudden abrupt thing and everyone just lets go and that’s what I love of that experience... people not worrying about the past or the future.

Ideal Lineup?
On a historical sense, definately love to have Bob Marley of course, but apart from that I really love going to festivals because you see bands that you’ve never heard of before and you know that’s how I met Blue King Brown, Ben Harper, Jack Johnson, R.E.M., John Butler, The Public Enemy... throw any of those bands on a festival and it will be good but its about finding something that you never imagined.

Tips for attending Music Festivals?
My tips [laughs]... Always bring your own roll of toilet paper and the other is only look at the festival schedule if absolutely necessary... like if you know that the Black Keys are your most favourite band in the world and you need to know what time they are playing, then look at the schedule but otherwise just walk around!