Good Vibrations - 2008
Well the bus ride across town to Sydney's Centennial Park nearly turned me away from this years Good Vibrations festival. I thought I was back at school on the bus with all the popular people. You know the ones, the people who always thought they were amazing at school and by 25 now have been divorced and have a few kids. Well the bus ride was pretty much a trip down memory lane, lucky the festival was nothing like high school.
Muscles put on an amazing show, to quote the slapper next to me "his music is like so good, but he is like so totally ugly". Well he is no stud muffin but his tracks like "Sweaty", "Ice Cream" and a few others from his debut are shit hot!
The "Star Bar" had some awesome beats going on and Cypress Hill showed they could still pull a crowd.
Calvin Harris proved he may well be just another one hit wonder with "Acceptable in the 80's".
Kanye West was this years headline and he did something very tricky. He pissed off all the teeny boppers who knew one or two songs by playing an amazing medley of album cuts and rare singles and radio hits such as "Flashing Lights". "Can't Tell me Nothing", "Through the Wire", "Homecoming" and more. His singles went off, especially "All Falls Down", "Gold Digger", "Good Life" and the finale "Stronger".
Overall a great day, in the sun with hot beats and hot people.
Until next year farewell Good Vibrators!
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