Jezza’s Blog

Was in Byron Bay last August for the 2007 Splendour in the Grass music festival. Have been too slack to write anything, but am procrastinating today so thought I’d update my blog. Was heaps of fun, besides the lots of waiting in lies (to get into carpark, into the festival, for drink tickets, for toilets, for getting out of the car park…).

The weekend started with a flight up to the Gold Coast, where we were picked up by my cus Trev. Thanks to Jetstar, we needed to go tent shopping as they lost our tent on the flight. On a positive note, the weather was absolutely fantastic, it was even good enough to go for a bit of a dip at Surfers Paradise.

We made our way down to our camping ground in Brunswick Heads just north of Byron Bay. Really pretty place on the shores of the Brunswick River, and much more relaxing than it would have been staying on site at the festival.

Later that day, Jetstar informed us that they had found our tent, so we didn’t bother to open the new one we bought, thinking we’ll return it at the end of the weekend. Well, Jetstar didn’t deliver the tent to us until about 9.30pm so we had to put the tent up in the dark (which was reminiscent of the last time we were up for the festival, but that time we had just finished a 24 hour non-stop drive).

Next day we were off to the show. First up were the Editors.

Hadn’t heard any of their stuff before, but they were pretty good all the same.

Next up were Ash.

They were OK live but not fantastic, with there best performance being “Oh Yeah”.

We saw a few songs by Paul Kelly in the GW McLennan Theatre while we were waiting Sarah Blasko

Not really the biggest fan, but other people seemed to enjoy it.

Grabbed some seats to watch the first half of Sarah Blasko

She was really good, funky dance moves and all. Was hanging out to see “Don’t Dream it’s Over” but she didn’t play it in the handful of songs we saw (not sure if she plays this, since its not really her song).

Had to dash back to the Big Top to catch the Kaiser Chiefs.

Started off with lots of energy from frontman Ricky Wilson and peaked when he climbed up one of the tent poles. After about 2/3 of the way through they seemed to lose their way a bit but it was still an awesome performance.

Last show for the day was Lily Allen who I was really looking forward to, and she delivered a solid show.

More photos here.