Big Day Out 2010 Perth

Big Day Out is one crazy carnivale. Not for the faint-hearted, BDO is one heady festival full of rock, electro-pop and a few dance acts thrown in. Held annually at Claremont Showgrounds, this was my first BDO. Nevertheless I felt so old compared to the mass of 18 year olds around me. Perhaps the fact that I wasn't wearing a) high waisted shorts or b) a cut-out swimsuit was a dead giveaway.

BDO is comprised of seven separate stages, the Orange and Blue stages are next to each other for easy transitioning between big names.

On the Green stage we watched Lisa Mitchell beg the crowd NOT to throw coins at her during Coin Laundry. Her small voice carried over the crowd, surprisingly, and she sounded great live.

I knew Eskimo Joe's oldest song in their set "Wake Up" which definitely shows my age! Frontman Kav Temperley proudly spoke about writing songs "down the road" in Fremantle. He may need to rethink the all white ensemble though.





After surviving the mad push into the 'D' area we got ten deep close to the stage for Ms Lily Allen. Lily strutted out onstage, blinding us with her silver cape. Her set seemed longer than most covering big hits Smile, LDN, the Fear and 22. Underneath the giggling, smoking, beer-drinking and that Brit accent though - Lily struck a chord with her mostly female audience. "C'mon ladies, you know what I mean!" she screamed before breaking out into Not Fair. She changed three times and declared it to be her last gig before she branches out in a new direction, a shame that...







Buzzed after Lily's set, we pushed through to the front for Powderfinger, waited an hour, and stood right in front of Bernard Fanning. The oldies like These Days and My Happiness won the crowd over, as did Fanning's constant teasing of the crowd waiting for Muse on the Blue stage.





By this time we were exhausted, had drunk way too much free iced tea and were in desperate need of dinner and a sit down. We did manage to fit in a bit of Groove Armada's set before we caught Peaches and her massive mess of fake hair.

In 11 days time I'm going to Good Vibrations... wish me luck!