St Jerome's Laneway Festival

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St Jerome's Laneway Festival
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2008 Laneway Festival
Location(s)	Australia Sydney (2006 - Current) Melbourne (2004 - Current) Adelaide (2008) Brisbane (2007 - Current)
Years active	2004 - Current
Founded by
Date(s)	Late February- early March
Genre(s)	Indie, Indie Pop, Rock
Website	http://www.lanewayfestival.com.au

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, and Adelaide in 2008. Pitchfork Media reviewed this event as "Australia's most insurgent and unique pop music event" ^[1].

Contents 1 History 2 2008 Lineup 3 External links 4 References

[edit] 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

There has been talk of Laneway Festival spreading to further Australian cities, as well as Auckland, New Zealand in the coming years.

[edit] 2008 Lineup

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

• Feist
• Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!
• Gotye
• The Presets
• 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 ^[2]
• Violent Soho
• Batrider

^†: Not playing Adelaide

[edit] External links

• Official Website
• Myspace
• Pitchfork Media Review

[edit] References

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