Ladies and gentlemen this is tonight’s main event! Introducing, in the red corner, from Commonwealth Place Canberra, the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world, the shake and bake by the lake, the three stage malaise, the bureau of fluro, the 2010 Foreshore Summer Music Festival!
Remember when you were walking out of the gates in 2009 and you turned to your friend and said “Mate, that…whoa! Hang on, that’s a tree! Man I’m hammered” then you turned the other way and said “Mate, that was the best day of my life. I already can’t wait until next year.”
Well guess what? You don’t have to wait much longer.
The boys at Kicks Entertainment have dropped the first round announcements like a ton of bricks. The only question I have is, who the hell is the headliner? With an unbelievable array of equally deserving talent including the world’s #1 DJ Tiesto, The Temper Trap, Calvin Harris, Benny Benassi, Major Lazer, Afrojack, Luciano, Caspa, Art vs Science, Cut Copy and Miami Horror, the festival just keeps getting mind bogglingly bigger and better, like Jason Statham’s lateral obliques.
Words can’t explain how monumentally excited I am about this… So much so that I don’t even want to talk about anything else. If it’s OK with you I’m just going to sit here and you can talk amongst yourselves for the next 300 words or so.
Well actually in all fairness, there are a few months to fill between now and Saturday November 27 so I might just run through a few of your current clubbing options while I have you all here with me.
A Night of Prog makes a long awaited return to Mercury Bar on Saturday August 7. The night is a unique event in our city, loaded with the best in underground classics for your eardrums. The line up for this instalment includes Amplidyne, Jonesy, Gabriel Gilmour, String~Theory (AKA Beat It), Ryz, Sølsta, Miracle Blue and a special Vinyl Only classic progressive record battle between Peekz and yours truly, Tim Galvin.
I have had a lot of people ask me recently “What happened to the hard scene in Canberra?”. Well it’s probably wherever you left it last, down the back of the couch or next to your keys in the refrigerator. Until it resurfaces, the team at Effigy are presenting a huge Sunday session at Transit Bar on August 8 featuring none other than the prince of perpetual motion himself, John 00 Fleming. Get your tickets at Moshtix or at the door from 2pm on the day.
Holy shit, it’s Lee Coombs! Sorry, I just couldn’t think of any other way to introduce the second last paragraph. The breakbeat and tech house master is flying into our city for one night only at The Maram (for those of you who don’t know it’s on Gartside Street in Wanniassa) on Friday August 20. If you love the Plump DJs and The Freestylers, do not miss this!
I’ll leave you with this last thought just to bookend this column with juicy festival goodness. Please, please, please buy your Foreshore ticket now because it will sell out soon and I would love to see all of you there.
TIM GALVIN
