Splendour

Going through the list of Allan's regrets, somewhere after about 10 girls, or missed opportunities with girls, we get the 2006 Splendour in the Grass festival. Every year Splendour serves up a great multi-day festival of the best indie and whatever's hip kind of music.

This year, for the second year in a row, they're having it at Woodford, up on the Sunshine Coast. Convenient? Most definitely. But to me, it's always the line up. And this year's has been announced.

COLDPLAY
KANYE WEST
JANE'S ADDICTION
THE HIVES
PULP
THE LIVING END
THE MARS VOLTA
REGINA SPEKTOR
BLISS N ESO
PNAU
MOGWAI
DJ SHADOW
GLASVEGAS
THE GRATES
DEVENDRA BANHARDT AND THE GROGS
MODEST MOUSE
THE MIDDLE EAST
KAISER CHIEFS
JAMES BLAKE
KELE
THE VINES
ELBOW
ESKIMO JOE
NOAH AND THE WHALE
CHILDREN COLLIDE
THIEVERY CORPORATION
CUT COPY
ISOBEL CAMPBELL AND MARK LANEGAN
BLUEJUICE
THE KILLS
BLACK JOE LEWIS & THE HONEYBEARS (featuring THE RELATIVES)
ARCHITECTURE IN HELSINKI
FOSTER THE PEOPLE
THE PANICS
FRIENDLY FIRES
JEBEDIAH
THE VACCINES
GOMEZ
BOY AND BEAR
GOTYE
DOES IT OFFEND YOU YEAH?
CLOUD CONTROL
MONA
SPARKADIA
WARPAINT
MUSCLES (Live)
FITZ AND THE TANTRUMS
THE JEZEBELS
DRAPHT
BRITISH SEA POWER
TIM & JEAN
LEADER CHEETAH
GROUPLOVE
SEEKER LOVER KEEPER
YELLE
KIMBRA
PHRASE
OH MERCY
DANANANANAYKROYD
THE BLACK SEEDS
MARQUES TOLIVER
THE HOLIDAYS
GHOUL
LIAM FINN
THE HERD
YOUNG THE GIANT
GUINEAFOWL
HUNGRY KIDS OF HUNGARY
JINJA SAFARI
WILD BEASTS
ILLY
CUT OFF YOUR HANDS
GARETH LIDDIARD
ALPINE
WORLD'S END PRESS
MOSMAN ALDER
LANIE LANE

I've done that thing where I've bolded the ones I'd go see.

Now don't get me wrong, there's some great artists there that I'd love to see. Heck, my second favourite band (Modest Mouse) was the first announcement. But at the same time, it's the regular Australian indie concert lineup almost. And for ~$500? No. I think I'll take that money, buy flights to Melbourne/Sydney, catch a few sideshows and avoid the camping, the traffic jams, the idiots only there to do drugs and drink and not for the music.

And that's what's going to piss me off. Sideshows. Brisbane never gets Splendour ones. Even though it sells out in microseconds every year. It's a bit of a sham. It grinds my gears.

And FYI: Mogwai, Regina Spektor, Kanye and Coldplay are doing zero sideshows.