St Jerome's Laneway Festival

St Jerome's Laneway Festival

Lanewayfestival.jpg 2008 Laneway Festival Melbourne (2004–present) Sydney (2006–present) Brisbane (2007–present) Adelaide (2008-present) Perth (2009–present) Auckland (2010-present) Singapore (2011-present)
Years active	2004–present
Date(s)	Late February – early March
Genre	Indie, Indie pop, Rock
Website	http://www.lanewayfestival.com.au

Known simply as the Laneway or St. Jerome's Festival, the 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.

The festival expanded 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 1 October 2009, that the festival would begin to visit Auckland, New Zealand from 2010. On 15 November 2010, the organizers held a press conference in Singapore announcing that the festival will expand to Southeast Asia. The Singapore leg of the festival will take place on 29 January 2011 at the historic Fort Canning Park. Following the press conference, the band that will headline the festival in Singapore, The Temper Trap, made a guest appearance.

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 original home of the laneway festival, St Jerome's was shut down in 2009 by developers Colonial First State and Caledonian lane, the festival's original home was demolished in January 2010 to make way for a loading bay for a new indoor shopping mall.

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

2006 Lineup

• The Avalanches
• Broken Social Scene
• Les Savy Fav
• Pretty Girls Make Graves
• The Hold Steady
• The Posies
• Faker
• New Buffalo
• Youth Group
• Wolf & Cub
• Cut Copy - Melbourne only
• Augie March - Melbourne only
• Temper Temper - Melbourne only
• Mountains in the Sky - Melbourne only
• Dane Tucquet - Melbourne only
• The Gossip - Sydney only
• The Raveonettes - Sydney only
• Decoder Ring - Sydney only
• Jens Lekman - Sydney only
• Pivot - Sydney only
• Mercy Arms - Sydney only
• Darren Hanlon - Sydney only
• The Pop Frenzy Sound Unit - Sydney only
• Clare Bowditch and the Feeding Set - Sydney only
• Gersey - Sydney only
• Art of Fighting - Sydney only

2007 Lineup

• Yo La Tengo
• Peter Bjorn and John
• The Sleepy Jackson
• Camera Obscura
• Midnight Juggernauts
• Love Is All
• Fionn Regan
• Archie Bronson Outfit
• The Walkmen
• Youth Group
• Casino Twilight Dogs
• Macromantics
• Ground Components

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 Presets
• 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
• John Steel Singers
• Canyons
• Pivot
• Port O'Brien
• Holly Throsby
• Born Ruffians
• Mountains in the Sky
• Tim Fite
• Still Flyin'
• Daedelus
• Spiral Stairs
• Papa VS Pretty

2010 Lineup

• Echo & The Bunnymen - No Melbourne / failed to show up in Brisbane.
• Midnight Juggernauts - Melbourne only
• Florence & The Machine
• Black Lips
• The xx
• Cut Off Your Hands
• Bachelorette
• Chris Knox And The Nothing
• The Naked and Famous
• The 3D's
• Daniel Johnston – No Adelaide
• Sarah Blasko
• Street Chant
• N.A.S.A
• Eddy Current Suppression Ring
• Hockey
• Dappled Cities
• Mumford & Sons
• The Very Best
• Radioclit
• Warpaint
• Wild Beasts – No Adelaide
• Whitley
• The Middle East
• Kid Sam
• Dirty Three – Melbourne only

2011 Lineup

• !!!
• The Antlers
• Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti
• Beach House
• Bear In Heaven
• Blonde Redhead
• Cloud Control
• Cut Copy
• Deerhunter
• Foals
• Gotye
• The Holidays
• Holy Fuck
• Jenny & Johnny
• Warpaint
• Les Savy Fav
• Local Natives
• Yeasayer
• Menomena
• PVT
• Rat Vs Possum (excluding Perth)
• Stornoway
• Two Door Cinema Club
• Violent Soho
• World’s End Press

External links

• Official Website
• Myspace
• Pitchfork Media Review