Future Music Festival

Even though it's not 100% my kind of festival, and the tickets were pretty overpriced for a one-day event, the venue was Randwick Racecourse and it was just too unbearably close not to go, and so whole group of us booked tickets for Future Music Festival last Saturday. I'm kinda annoyed that we paid the price of the tickets after seeing this video though....

...haha!

Gates opened at 12pm and Harry, Josie and I finally rocked up at about 2pm and met up with some of the others. The weather was blistering hot with clear blue skies and we spent the day mooching about, enjoying being back in the festival atmosphere and catching some of the early acts. Harry and I didn't really care much for most of the bands and stayed mainly at the Cocoon Stage which hosted the likes of djs Maya Jane Coles, Dubfire and Sven Väth. We caught a bit of Rudimental and Pharrell Williams too who were pretty good to be fair, but Sven Wäth won hands down, sorry Pharrell.
I also found a VIP pass on the floor which was pretty exciting, however only for all of 10 minutes as I didn't have the wristband to match it and the security man was having none of it and so it proved to be pretty boring in the end. Oh well.

The day was good fun though and went by pretty quickly, but there's not much to say really so here are a few snaps from the day.

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Mardi Gras

Had only been back from Thailand for a matter of hours and was exhausted, however Anna convinced me to come and join her and Cicely etc. at the Mardi Gras parade that was happening down Oxford Street. I ran back to mine, donned some suitable sparkly fun attire and hopped on the bus with the cripple. For those of you that don't know, Mardi Gras is a huge LGBT event every year in Sydney and everyone goes completely bonkers for it. The whole festival goes on for just under a month, but as a big last finale thing the parade happens and everyone dresses up, grabs a milk crate to stand on and floods the streets to watch the floats go by. 

Anna and I ended up the other side of the street from where the others were and so watched the parade just us two. It was CRAZY! The atmosphere was amazing, everyone was so happy and dancing and just really enjoying the freedom to dance and express themselves. The costumes and performers were amazing too, such an awesome few hours!

Afterwards we found the others and grabbed some food, and then ventured out into Surry Hills to see what was going on. We found this awesome little street party where a DJ had set up in a cafe window and danced there for a bit with everyone. Some serious disco tunes were played, always got time for a bittah disco! Sadly the weather took a turn for the worst but no one let it damped their spirits and everyone stayed outside and danced for ages in the rain.

Once we'd had our fix of disco, we decided to head on down the the Cross to potentially go to a club, and on our way bumped into loads more people who we all hadn't seen for months, turning our little party of four into a group almost twenty strong! Cue mass hugs and celebratory drinks all round. It was so nice to see everyone after so long and everyone had so many stories to tell. Someone mentioned that there was some good music by Standard-Famoud-DJ-No-Ones-Heard-Of going on in Goldfish and somehow we managed to wangle our way in for just $15 with a free drink voucher!? The original price of the tickets was at least $25 and although admittedly the drinks voucher was only valid after 2am, we were pretty pleased with our achievement and needless to say I didn't get to bed until 5am.

Its good to be back, Sydney!

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Listen Out

Yesterday I went to Listen Out festival with Grace and her two friends Rosie and Hannah, Ailsa and Megan, which was held in Centennial Park. The weather was amazing and though we did have a great day, inner city day festivals are very different to the ones I'm used to at home...! It felt weird to be only there for a day and everything ended really early because of licensing and noise pollution regulations etc.

We did manage to catch some good acts though, Miguel Campbell and Duke Dumont were particularly good and I hate to say it but Disclosure did put on a pretty decent set. Azealia Banks also stormed off stage during her set too as someone through a beer can at her haha! 

Here are some snaps from the day:

Getting lost in the park on the way there

Miguel Campbell

Disclosure

It was nice to be able to chill out at a festival for the day, but sadly it probably wasn't worth the money and I don't think I'm going to bother with any one day festivals again. If I'm going to do it, gotta do it properly I guess!

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