St Jerome's Laneway Festival

St Jerome's Laneway Festival
File:Lanewayfestival.jpg 2008 Laneway Festival
Genre	Indie, Indie pop, Rock
Dates	Late February – early March
Location(s)	Australia Sydney (2006–present) Melbourne (2004–present) Adelaide (2008-present) Brisbane (2007–present) Perth (2009–present)
Years active	2004–present
Website	Official Website

Known simply as the Laneway Festival, this unique Australian music festival began in Caledonian Lane in Melbourne in 2004. Emerging as an indie music event, the Laneway Festival has grown rapidly in popularity, receiving favourable reviews in music press, and expanding to Sydney in 2006, Brisbane in 2007, Adelaide in 2008 and Perth in 2009. Pitchfork Media reviewed this event as "Australia's most insurgent and unique pop music event" . It was announced on October 1 2009, that the festival would begin to visit Auckland, New Zealand from 2010. More details are to be announced in the upcoming weeks.

History

Located in small laneways and urban areas within the respective cities, St Jerome's provides a unique atmosphere and sound environment, with inventive re-imaginings of typically disused urban spaces. Laneway Festival is also popular for its smaller crowd capacity as opposed to many other Australian music festivals.

The artist lineup is focused mainly on indie rock, giving many Australian bands the opportunity to play alongside international indie bands which have included over the years:

• Peter Bjorn and John
• The Walkmen
• Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
• Yo La Tengo
• Broken Social Scene
• Les Savy Fav
• The Raveonettes
• Love Is All

Australian bands which have played at the Laneway Festival include:

• Dappled Cities Fly
• Augie March
• Youth Group
• The Sleepy Jackson
• New Buffalo
• The Avalanches

2008 Lineup

The 2008 St Jerome's Laneway Festival lineup includes international and Australian acts:

• Feist
• Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!
• Gotye
• The Cool Kids
• Broken Social Scene Presents Spirit If...
• Okkervil River
• Dan Deacon^†
• Via Tania^†
• The Panics
• Bridezilla
• The Holidays
• Devastations
• The Brunettes^†
• Little Red
• Rudely Interrupted
• Stars
• Violent Soho
• Batrider

^†: Not playing Adelaide

2009 Lineup

• Girl Talk
• Stereolab
• Architecture in Helsinki
• The Hold Steady
• The Drones
• Cut Off Your Hands
• Four Tet
• Tame Impala
• El Guincho
• Jay Reatard
• Buraka Som Sistema
• The Temper Trap
• No Age
• The John Steel Singers
• Canyons
• Pivot
• Port O'Brien
• Holly Throsby
• Born Ruffians
• Mountains in the Sky
• Tim Fite
• Still Flyin'
• Daedelus
• Spiral Stairs

2010 Lineup

Echo & The Bunnymen
Florence & The Machine
Black Lips
The xx
Daniel Johnston – No Adelaide
Sarah Blasko
N.A.S.A
Eddy Current Suppression Ring
Hockey
Dappled Cities
Mumford & Sons – No Adelaide
The Very Best
Radioclit
Wild Beasts – No Adelaide
Whitley
The Middle East
Kid Sam
Dirty Three – Melbourne only

External links

• Official Website
• Myspace
• Pitchfork Media Review