Melbourne Beats

St. Jerome’s Laneway Festival is undoubtedly Australia’s coolest streetparty for discerning music lovers, and it is back bigger than ever with one of its finest line-ups to date in 2009. Heading up the bill is the master of blips, blops and samples, Girl Talk, who will be joined by the utterly mesmerising Stereolab on their first trip down under in six years. There’s also the king of pervasive pop-punk, cult favourite Jay Reatard, as well as Aussie inclusions Architecture in Helsinki, The Drones and back from recording their debut album, The Temper Trap.

Laneway Festival first round line-up:

Girl Talk
Stereolab
Architecture In Helsinki
The Hold Steady
The Drones
Cut Off Your Hands
Four Tet
Tame Impala
El Guincho
Jay Reatard
Buraka Som Sistema DJ/MC Set
The Temper Trap
No Age
John Steel Singers
Canyons
Pivot
Port O’Brien
Holly Throsby
Born Ruffians
Mountains In The Sky
Tim Fite
Still Flyin
Daedelus

With more announcements to come.

As previously announced, the party is stretching national this year as St. Jerome’s heads to Perth for the first time. Melbourne is also in for one helluva block party, as the festival will now take over Little Lonsdale Street and part of the QV Building.

Laneway tour dates:
Sat Jan 31 – Brisbane, Alexandria St off St Paul’s Terrace, Fortitude Valley
Sun Feb 1 – Melbourne, Lonsdale St, Caledonian Lane and Little Lonsdale St, Melbourne
Fri Feb 6 – Perth, Perth Cultural Centre, Northbridge
Sat Feb 7 – Adelaide, Fowler’s Live, Northern Terrace
Sun Feb 8 – Sydney, The Basement, Macquarie Park & Reiby Place, Circular Quay

Tickets go onsale Monday October 27th, stay tund for further updates.

Dude.

You forget the best part.

fail...

Four tet? For real?

would go just to see four tet alone

awesome flyer

yawn. stereolab maybe..

could be good! Buraka Som Sistema could be interesting. sound is always a bit of a problem at the Laneway Fest tho. the alleys look cool but aren't too kind for the acoustics. good mix of indie and electronica tho

Awesome flyer. Shittest lineup ever tho! Four tet only good act on it! Shithouse!

Girl Talk
Stereolab
Architecture In Helsinki
The Hold Steady
The Drones
Cut Off Your Hands
Four Tet
Tame Impala
El Guincho
Jay Reatard
Buraka Som Sistema DJ/MC Set
The Temper Trap
No Age
John Steel Singers
Canyons
Pivot
Port O’Brien
Holly Throsby
Born Ruffians
Mountains In The Sky
Tim Fite
Still Flyin
Daedelus

Blaxter wrote:Girl Talk
Stereolab
Architecture In Helsinki
The Hold Steady
The Drones
Cut Off Your Hands
Four Tet
Tame Impala
El Guincho
Jay Reatard
Buraka Som Sistema DJ/MC Set
The Temper Trap
No Age
John Steel Singers
Canyons
Pivot
Port O’Brien
Holly Throsby
Born Ruffians
Mountains In The Sky
Tim Fite
Still Flyin
Daedelus

Nailed it. Jay Reatard FTW

i had a great time last year, even though it was a bit squashy for gotye...

saw music i wouldnt normally have seen...

will go again!

Pivot are awesome

Daedelus!

Stray wrote:Pivot are awesome

Yep. Saw em support BATTLES (even awesomer) at Billboards earlier in the year, great for a Aussie act and now signed to Warp which is impressive

But yeah pretty unimpressive lineup apart from Four Tet. I'd go if it was his band Fridge, not worth it for a guy playing some prog tech (judging by his latest stuff) unless he does a DJ Kicks style mix.
And yeah Daedelus...

The setup sounds interesting.. expanding...might just try see/hear from outside or sneak thru somehow