Meredith Music Festival

Stray · Post by **Stray** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 11:43 am

First Round Lineup Announced

HOLY FUCK
LITTLE RED
MGMT
SAUL WILLIAMS
MAN MAN
THE BRONX
MUSCLES
FINAL FANTASY
TAME IMPALA
BEACHES
THE MOUNTAIN GOATS
TEN EAST
THE RUBY SUNS
BLACK DIAMOND HEAVIES
COMBO LA REVELACION
YACHT CLUB DJS
GRAND SALVO
ADAM GREEN
THE DATSUNS
ARCHITECTURE IN HELSINKI
REGURGITATOR

http://www.mmf.com.au/2008/

Blaxter · Post by **Blaxter** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 1:52 pm

As long as theres not too much 4/4 electro-rock band crossovers like last year, I will be keen to go back for more Merdith adventures.

menace · Post by **menace** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 10:42 pm

meredith is just mad imo... love it ..but think i will wait for goldern plains ... for a quick trip

Hardy · Post by **Hardy** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 10:49 pm

I only know 3 of those artists.

menace · Post by **menace** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 10:58 pm

hardy you could enter the nudie run (the gift ):P...win= slab of beer . t shirt . free entry for life ... do it

Hardy · Post by **Hardy** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 11:11 pm

menace wrote:hardy you could enter the nudie run (the gift ):P...win= slab of beer . t shirt . free entry for life ... do it

Fucking sold.

Prepare... FOR MY JUNK!

Post by **fooishbar** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 12:08 am

woo, scored in the first round ballot.

menace · Post by **menace** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 12:12 am

GOLD

a little ab the gift

THE MEREDITH GIFT
THE ALL NEW CRUMPLER WORLD FAMOUS MEREDITH GIFT

With special guest Giftmistresses The Town Bikes

The world's stupidest foot race, The Meredith Gift will be held on the Sunday afternoon of the Festival. The winner will take home the coveted Golden Jocks, as well as a slab of cold beer, as well as one of several excellent prizes courtesy of the generous sponsor of The Meredith Gift, Crumpler Bag Company. Crumpler are based in Melbourne and are currently looking after the bagging needs of the progressive modern human being, in a number of countries around the world. The simple fact is their bags are unbeatably good.

Speaking of bags, the Meredith Gift is a completely nude sprint, of about 80 metres. See below on this page for The Rules. Anyone at the festival can enter (its free), as long as they are nude. It all started in 1992 when one of the bands was late to arrive on the Sunday. What do we do, we wondered. Have a race involving the patrons. Winner gets a cold slab. Some guy wandered to the front of the stage as this was being announced and asked what he would win if he did it in the nude. TWO slabs, of course. The following year the race was held again - as it was a talking point from the year before - and several people got nude, completely on their own accord. The year after we had to limit entry to only fully nude people, as there were so many people wanting to run. If you haven't seen a Meredith Gift, its pretty bloody funny. It can be a bit confronting and tragic too, buts mostly funny. There’s always a crash, nude people tumbling along at speed, grass burns, injured penises, etc. You should watch some footage of previous Classic Gifts, which you can do by clicking here.

THIS YEAR - A HEAT AND A FINAL

This year there will be a heat involving all competitors. There will be 10 Crumpler Meredith Gift bags strewn across the track near the finish line. The 10 competitors who grab a bag then go through to The Final. The Final will be run immediately after The Heat, and will involve those ten successful bag-grabbers racing for The Golden Jocks as usual. Except they will be running whilst carrying/wearing the bag.

THE TOWN BIKES

The Marvellous Town Bikes are an institution in their role as Special Gift Mistresses; taking registrations, issuing instructions, marshalling the runners and most wonderfully firing the starters pistol. Believe me, you will do what they tell you.

REGISTER

All competitors must register this year, by going to the Big Tree near The Gift Shoppe at 2pm and signing an Indemnity Form, then getting a stencil sponged onto their torso. The Gift runs at about 3pm Sunday.

HERE ARE THE RULES OF THE GIFT:

- Anyone at the Festival can enter.

- ALL entrants must be nude or underpanted.

- Gaffer tape can be used to fix the underpants to the buttocks, to prevent riding. 'Wedgies' are always welcomed and often amusing.

- Any competitor wearing Lycra will be set on fire.

- Spectators must stand well behind the sidelines unless they want to trip someone over.

- Competitors may NOT drive their car instead of running.

Past winners include

The Two-Bearded Man, Trevor and three time Champ Richo The Plumber, and Jarrod Red Cap.

Blaxter · Post by **Blaxter** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 2:00 pm

Saul Williams is worth the price od admission.
Seeing Hardy nude is a fucken bonus from Santa.
Or should that be boner?

witty_pseudonym · Post by **witty_pseudonym** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 2:08 pm

Past winners include

The Two-Bearded Man, Trevor and three time Champ Richo The Plumber, and Jarrod Red Cap.

something you're not sharing bs?

wizzle-wazzle · Post by **wizzle-wazzle** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 4:19 pm

Woooooo!

Line-up looks awesome. Plus the usual few unknowns who blow me away.

I love you Meredith!

Blaxter · Post by **Blaxter** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 6:12 pm

I only have one beard

Lizkins · Post by **Lizkins** » Fri Aug 22, 2008 4:00 pm

i is going to this. WOOT! well once i buy the tickets, which will be on Monday. a mate got on the ballot but now can't go, so i gets it. YAYs! Me and the boy haven't been in years. cited!!!!

Lizkins · Post by **Lizkins** » Fri Aug 22, 2008 5:57 pm

yikes i just found out the ticket price - $169 for just Saturday and Sunday. Last time i went i paid $85 for Saturday and Sunday. Dang that is expensive. I guess its over two days an all, but jeebus

Stray · Post by **Stray** » Fri Aug 22, 2008 6:29 pm

all the festivals cost a lot more now. It's still great value though

menace · Post by **menace** » Fri Aug 22, 2008 7:14 pm

169 bucks is not bad for this day and age
BYO booze

enuff sayed

Lizkins · Post by **Lizkins** » Sat Aug 23, 2008 6:12 pm

yeah for sure, i think i am just a bit shocked cos its only been a few years since i last went and its gone up almost a $100. Bit crazy is all. Still, looking forward to it

Blaxter · Post by **Blaxter** » Tue Aug 26, 2008 5:30 pm

No friday night bizness Liz?

Lizkins · Post by **Lizkins** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 7:40 pm

oppss sorry Jay just saw this, nah we just doing the Sat and Sun. We thought about it a lot too cos its better to go Friday to get the good spots, but the ticket price scared us off a bit

Blaxter · Post by **Blaxter** » Tue Sep 09, 2008 9:57 am

Won the ballot but didn't find out till it was too late.

Stray · Post by **Stray** » Tue Sep 09, 2008 11:50 am

Tickets on sale in stores today

wizzle-wazzle · Post by **wizzle-wazzle** » Tue Sep 09, 2008 1:04 pm

The website says they're all sold out.

autumnleaves · Post by **autumnleaves** » Tue Sep 09, 2008 1:20 pm

Woah... that's in 3 hours.

No tickets this year, but wristbands? weird.. I guess it will help that moment of panic when you get to the front of the line and go FUCKKK do I have my ticket with me?? and go rummaging through your bag like a madman

Stray · Post by **Stray** » Tue Sep 09, 2008 1:32 pm

wizzle-wazzle wrote:The website says they're all sold out.

Ok, well they went on sale today.

Online Sales Open 10am Thursday 11 September

Kaiproject · Post by **Kaiproject** » Tue Sep 09, 2008 8:20 pm

Lined up outside Polyester for 2hrS+ this morning (Q went all the way round the block leceister to rose st)
Got there way too late, people camped out with matresses and chairs etc extremely early it seemed

Got almost to the shop window only to be told they were sold out. FFS.

Better get them Thursday morning or won't be happy at all (and even if I do I might not be after today)
Plus I'll just feel ripped off anyway with the amount of festivals on...

gb · Post by gb » Thu Nov 20, 2008 2:17 pm

Anyone got a reasonably priced spare ticket for Meredith? $500+ on ebay is just ridiculous and I'm not going to line some scalper's pocket... A giant dose of good karma to anyone that can help out?

wizzle-wazzle · Post by **wizzle-wazzle** » Thu Nov 20, 2008 4:26 pm

It's sick. Why don't you enter in Auntie's last chance? Apparently she is open to all reasonable requests.

gb · Post by gb » Thu Nov 20, 2008 4:34 pm

wizzle-wazzle wrote:It's sick. Why don't you enter in Auntie's last chance? Apparently she is open to all reasonable requests.

Nah, these are all closed as well unfortunately. I've been messaging individual sellers on ebay and making offers, though I'm guessing this is kinda pointless:

Hi (this is a canned answer),

I've received a few of these requests between when I listed and logged back into my email and don't think it would be fair to pick one person out of the bunch to get it early.

"So I will make it fair by selling it for the highest possible price!"

wizzle-wazzle · Post by **wizzle-wazzle** » Mon Nov 24, 2008 10:30 am

Maybe try Mess and Noise - quite often the kids on the forum there will sell their tickets at cost price. Or oaktree maybe.

ghetto kitty · Post by **ghetto kitty** » Thu Dec 04, 2008 12:47 pm

hello!

ive got a friend with two tickets for sale...

pm me for detials!

gb · Post by gb » Thu Dec 04, 2008 1:16 pm

Thanks for the offer GK! Managed to get hold of one at a normal price last week...

ghetto kitty · Post by **ghetto kitty** » Thu Dec 04, 2008 1:21 pm

yeah these are at cost price too...glad you got one tho!

if you know anyone else, send em my way!

DEAN G · Post by **DEAN G** » Wed Dec 10, 2008 9:14 pm

I'm on like Donkey Kong! Look out for the coconut lodge!

wizzle-wazzle · Post by **wizzle-wazzle** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 9:36 am

Holy Fuck!

Only one more sleep!

wizzle-wazzle · Post by **wizzle-wazzle** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 3:22 pm

Just got word from a reliable source that there will be pigs and dogs waiting at the entrance all day Friday.

Baby Ruth · Post by **Baby Ruth** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 5:53 pm

and confirmed by this

http://www.theage.com.au/news/entertain ... 81370.html

Lizkins · Post by **Lizkins** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 8:54 pm

have a blast y'all. had to sell my tickets but got tickets to Golden Plains, woot!!!

Post by **fooishbar** » Mon Dec 15, 2008 11:31 am

good times! had a lark after eventually finding my tent at 4:30am on friday night (long story). was pretty cold by that stage. black diamond heavies were mad on sunday.

Stray · Post by **Stray** » Mon Dec 15, 2008 11:48 am

how was the weather??

Post by **fooishbar** » Mon Dec 15, 2008 11:51 am

friday night = non-stop apocalyptic storms, kokoda trail
saturday = constant rain, but not very hard or windy
sunday = sunshine

large swathes of it were just completely impassable on friday night. mental.

Stray · Post by **Stray** » Mon Dec 15, 2008 2:27 pm

fooishbar wrote:friday night = non-stop apocalyptic storms, kokoda trail
saturday = constant rain, but not very hard or windy
sunday = sunshine

large swathes of it were just completely impassable on friday night. mental.

Same as in Melbourne then.

I've done soggy Meredith before.. is still fun

spiral · Post by **spiral** » Mon Dec 15, 2008 5:55 pm

Lizkins · Post by **Lizkins** » Mon Dec 15, 2008 7:36 pm

omg what a shot spiral

was thinking of all the Meredith peeps over the weekend. man that weather was epic

gb · Post by gb » Mon Dec 15, 2008 8:07 pm

woo! have spent the day cracking encrusted mud off everything I took.

Mad weekend though, big ups to all that stayed until the end of Sunday, the sunshine made it well worthwhile (that, and Adam Green rocking out in the pink leather jacket - he was a crack up)! Bring on golden plains!

Stray · Post by **Stray** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 10:21 am

spiral wrote:

fucken lol!

wizzle-wazzle · Post by **wizzle-wazzle** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 10:38 am

HOLY FUCK!

ghetto kitty · Post by **ghetto kitty** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 10:55 am

yay for mud and those who party in it!

gb · Post by gb » Tue Dec 16, 2008 1:13 pm

Seriously, though - how the fuck did I get so sunburnt? And I'm not even the worst of us, my mate's got a blistered nose!

Stray · Post by **Stray** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 1:25 pm

It IS summer, UV rates are quite high at the moment.. regardless of the weather.

gb · Post by gb » Tue Dec 16, 2008 1:30 pm

Stray wrote:It IS summer, UV rates are quite high at the moment.. regardless of the weather.

Can't argue with you there. Was just suprised that anything could get through the 10cm of mud that covered us all.