Finally a Festival Good News Story...

Music Festivals are under the spotlight (AGAIN!) for dull line ups, cancellations, camping packages cancelled, pricing, changing the event entirely or just plain having a go at AJ from Soundwave. So yesterday it was with great delight to see the Laneway Festival line up.

What a breathe of fresh air this line up was, after the HalfBake line up on Friday and the news of the cancelled Harvest Festival Australia needed a reason to still care for music festivals, and I think this is it!

So let's look at the line up:

Adalita 
Autre Ne Veut 
Cashmere Cat 
Cass McCombs 
Chvrches 
Cloud Control 
Danny Brown 
Daughter 
Dick Diver 
Drenge 
Earl Sweatshirt 
Four Tet 
Frightened Rabbit 
Haim** 
Jagwar Ma 
Jamie XX
King Krule 
Kirin J Callinan 
Kurt Vile 
Lorde** 
Mount Kimbie 
MT Warning 
Parquet Courts 
Run The Jewels (EL-P & Killer Mike) 
Savages 
Scenic 
The Growl 
The Jezabels** 
Unknown Mortal Orchestra** 
Vance Joy 
Warpaint 
XXYYXX 
Youth Lagoon

**Exclusive to Laneway: no sideshows

Fantastic! I am super proud to say Festival's might be back on the right track of you get the right artists on the bill. For too long Festival organisers have been missing the mark but this one spot on. The cool kids will be moist for artists like Haim, Jamie XX, Lorde, The Jezabels and more talent than you can poke a stick at.

Now all we have to do is wait till early 2014. Stay tuned for more about this overly exciting line up!