Another year bearing the promise of awesomely energetic musical vibing is almost here: the 2015 St. Jerome’s Laneway Festival in Singapore is happening in less than two months.
All music festival attendees have the responsibility to come prepared (and we do not mean just the beer-drinking and dancing!), so here’s something that would help you get moving, and possibly make the wait a little bit less painful (also, to those who have already bought their tickets, here’s a list of accommodations for you and your friends).
At least 19 bands will be performing. Highlighted below are things that 8 of them might do in the one-day musical event at The Meadow at Gardens By The Bay. Read on even if you’re not sure about attending–this just might convince you to book those tickets before they run out!
8. Sibling love by Angus & Julia Stone
7. Visual overload by FKA Twigs
6. Courtney Barnett singing poetry
I found an ezra pound and made a bet that if i found a cigarette i’d drop it all and marry you
Just then a song comes on: “you can’t always get what you want” – the rolling stones,
oh woe is we, the irony!
The stones became the moss and once all inhibitions lost,
the hipsters made a mission to the farm
We drove by tractor there, the yellow straw replaced our hair,
we laced the dairy river with the cream of sweet vermouth
5. Your heart melting at Lykke Li’s moves
EDIT: Lykke Li cancelled her tour due to health reasons. She’ll be replaced by Jon Hopkins. Read more about it here.
4. New smooth grooves by Little Dragon
She explained: “I think a lot of visions came through. Our sound is wide – it’s not just one particular style – so we dove into different worlds. New worlds, new spaces we haven’t been to before. There definitely are elements of sonically romantic tracks. It feels like there are different moods and we’re exploring ourselves a bit.”
An energetic performance–hopefully with orchestra members they have collaborated with–is expected in the festival. These four R&B pop musicians will surely make you get up and do some serious dancing.
3. Chet Faker being incredibly smooth (Also, No Diggity)
Australian electronica artist Chet Faker, whose real name is Nicholas James Murphy, did one of the smoothest covers of any R&B song ever. His version of “No Diggity,” off his debut EP Thinking In Textures, went viral when it was first released and was used in a Super Bowl commercial. This will most likely be played at the Festival (protests will probably ensue if he doesn’t), and you will hear a voice smooth and sweet as warm honey.
2. Samuel Herring dancing
The band’s been doing a lot of live performances lately, and one of the things that got everyone talking is Herring’s dance moves, which is like no other (see the beautiful gif above). The dance is so exceptional that it already has articles devoted to it (this link gives you 10 easy steps to dance like the singer, and this one highlights how Herring “lowered his hips, held one hand in the air like a beacon and unleashed a series of dance moves that set the Internet ablaze”). Basically, it’s Herring-1, You-0.
The good news? The moves come to life in the band’s live performances, so the Laneway audience will most likely see this beautiful thing materialize before their very eyes. You can try imitating the moves, but you will most likely fail because no one dances like Samuel Herring. No one.
1. St Vincent doing this
Aside from dance moves on stage with guitarist Toko Yasuda, Clark also has some brave stage antics, the most recent of which happened at her Austin City Limits performance, wherein she gets a photographer’s giant camera and climbs a scaffolding. There is no promise that she will do this act again, but there’s a chance that she will do something just as interesting at Laneway.
Are you going to Laneway Festival 2015? Who are the acts you are looking forward to seeing the most? Share them with us in the Comments Section below!