Parklife!

Parklife is one of those yearly kind-of-dance music festivals that I avoid with a passion. Years gone by it would be full of neon-wearing teenie boppers dropping E and generally just annoying the heck out of me with bad music that I just don't care for.

But about a year ago I started watching this show:

It's funny, it's got Aziz Ansari. But even better is that title track that starts it off. The band? Death From Above 1979.

My Canadian friend Michelle spent years telling me I'd like this band, but I never got around to listening to them. But as soon as I started watching Human Giant, I was hooked. DFA 1979 really hasn't left my MP3 player since that day. It's just 2 guys: a bass guitar and a drummer, but the hooks and riffs the write are just noisy and danceable, my kind of music.

They broke up a long time ago, but only reformed this year, which saw their first show end in a riot.

So hang on, what's this got to do with Parklife, a music festival I hate? They're playing probably their only Australian shows there. Goddamn it. I want to see them so badly, but I don't want to pay what I'm going to guess is $150+ to see one band I'd kill to see. Of course there's other bands, they are:

Gossip
Lykke Li
Santigold
Death From Above 1979
Duck Sauce
Katy B
The Naked & Famous
Crystal Fighters
Example
Digitalism
Adrian Lux
The Streets
Simian Mobile Disco
Magnetic Man
Nero
SebastiAn
Diplo
Mstrkrft
Sebastien Tellier
Little Dragon
Gold Fields
Mylo
Wolfgang Gartner
Joker & MC Nomad
Feed Me
Tensnake
Kimbra
The Aston Shuffle
Flux Pavilion
Yacht Club DJs
Harvard Bass

There's a few in their I'd want to see, especially the Streets, who will be breaking up after this tour of their last album. But, not bagging on the genre, it's just not really my scene... But... DFA 1979. GYAH.

It's all going down October 1 at the Riverstage.

Parklife

Apparently, due to traffic concerns, the Parklife festival on September 25 will be moving from the Gold Coast to Brisbane.

The organisers have cited a bunch of issues that contributed to the move back to the Brisbane Botanic Gardens & Riverstage arena including:

"Major road works around the venue and a number of other operational issues risked reducing the quality of the event. Construction to be carried out during September and October for the Gold Coast Light Rail and Gold Coast Hospital and road works on Olsen Avenue have foiled attempts to devise a sufficiently effective traffic management plan to guarantee the quick and safe arrival and departure of customers."

Tickets purchased for Parklife on the Gold Coast will still be valid at the new venue and there will be a free shuttle bus running from Surfers Paradise to the Botanic Gardens & Riverstage.

Parklife organisers have set up a dedicated where punters can send through any queries about the event relocation or register for the free shuttle bus. It's parklifebrisbane@fuzzy.com.au

Get all the event details at parklife.com.au

Huh. Well that's interesting.
Here's the poster if you can't remember who was playing:

Parklife 2010

Parklife is a festival I've yet to attend. It brings out some good bands, but never enough to motivate me to plonk down the money. So what does 2010 hold in store?

I've italicized the ones I've seen and bolded the ones I want to:

• Groove Armada
• The Dandy Warhols
• Cut Copy
• The Wombats
• Darwin Deez
• Ou Est Le Swimming Pool
• Wolf Gang
• Washington
• Gypsy and the cat
• Missy Elliott
• Kele
• Midnight Juggernauts
• Dan Black
• Chiddy Bang
• Mix Master Mike
• Sinden
• Bag Raiders
• Ajax
• Soulwax
• Busy P
• Uffie
• Jack Beats
• The Glitch Mob
• Brodinski
• DJ Mehdi
• AC Slater
• Yolanda Be Cool vs Dcup
• Holy Ghost!
• Memory Tapes
• Classixx
• Delorean
• New Young Pony Club
• The Swiss
• Jesse Rose
• Grum

Obviously, to me, it's probably not worth going. But if you like your dance and electronica music and enjoy the experience of a festival, then this is probably for you (coincidentally, both things I don't like).

September 25, at the Gold Coast Parklands.