Maroondah Festival
Monday, February 20, 2006
I may have awarded the Sun a rare victory in our ongoing saga, but that didn't put a damper on the festivities at Sunday's Maroondah Festival at Croydon Park.
While I should have travelled down earlier to catch more than a song of Trial Kennedy's set, Kisschasy were quite good despite their askew attempts at crowd control. Behind Crimson Eyes also provided good entertainment to the black clothed teen punk brigade too. It's encouraging to see the organisers securing another decent (and free) lineup after bringing Spiderbait last year and Bodyjar (once rumoured to actually be called Croydon such is their love affair with EVs and the suburb) the year before.
I really like the idea of live music "in my backyard", alongside a bunch of other stuff going on that you can check out between acts (although we never did go to the kids stage and throw up the horns \m/). It effectively creates a hub of interest in Croydon, which isn't normally the case. I never really had any Croydon pride until I met the Ringwood crowd in high school, when I felt obliged to defend my homeland. Back in those days we had the cinema and they had the ice rink instead. How times change. Still, Croydon knows how to throw a festival when we want to, and we've got more parks and space to host it than anywhere else in the Maroondah district.
So woo for Croydon and woo for entertainment that I could walk to if I wanted to (and if I wasn't running late).
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You Croydonians kinda got jibbed with the whole festival thing, having to rename the Croydon Festival the Maroondah Festival even though it's still held in Croydon, is essentially exactly the same as the Croydon Festival, and has little or no involvement from Ringwood.
Ringwood - 1
Croydon - 0
Oh, and I forgot to say that Trial Kennedy rock. You should have got there early to catch them.
I can burn you their EPs if you like, or I can give you a compilation CD that the bassist from Horsell Common gave me the other day which contains two of Trial Kennedy's songs (as well as one from Horsell Common and one from Grand Fatal).
I know they're good, since Sunday I've been listening to their EPs that I got off Brodie's PC.
And for attempting to latch onto Croydon's festival like a parasite...I say that's Croydon 1 Ringwood 0 not the other way around. Agree to disagree!
But Ringwood gets half the glory while doing none of the work!
Who would give Ringwood praise when they didn't do anything?
It's the Maroondah Festival, and Maroondah is half Ringwood, so by association Ringwood gets half the glory.
Alright, I give up.
Where were you anyway? Don't tell me you had to work or something?
I went to work at 5am on no sleep after Crag's, so I spent all of Sunday sleeping in preperation for Karnivool. :D
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