Polaroids Of Androids

News

Laneway Festival 2011: Menomena, Deerhunter, Ariel Pink, Holy Fuck, Beach House, Les Savy Fav

Les Savy Fav. Photo via You Ain't No Picasso.

ONE WORD - Menomena. Some more words - IT'S REALLY GREAT THE MENOMENA RUMOURS TURNED OUT TO TRUE!

But (somewhat expected considering the festival's fairly consistent history) the line-up hardly starts and ends there. In addition to the Man Phenomena, there's also Deerhunter touring their 2010 masterpiece Halcyon Digest, Holy Fuck bringing their face-melting live show back to our shores and then there's the Sweaty Chaotic Man Juice of Les Savy Fav, who are (still) one of the greatest live bands EVER.

...AND there's millions more grams of goodness.. here's the full (first) line-up:

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

* not appearing at Perth.

and.. the important dates:

Monday, January 31: Aotea Square, Auckland
Friday, February 4: Alexandria St, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane #
Saturday, February 5: Footscray Community Arts Centre, Melbourne
Sunday, February 6: Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney
Friday, February 11: Fowler's Live, Adelaide #
Saturday, February 12: Perth Cultural Centre, Perth

# twilight event.

Tickets for all the Australian shows go on sale Wednesday, October 20 at 9am and set you back $125 (+ bf).