Splendour in the Grass 2007, Day 2

We got up, breakfasted ourselves hard, and then headed out to Byron. We sat on the beach, trying to shoo seagulls away and enjoying the sunshine, then grabbed a lunch of burrito for Elissa and sausage and chips for me. At about 4pm we made it to the festival in time for Midnight Juggernauts, a dancy Aussie group, kind of in the vein of Hot Chip. We tried to get in to see Gotye, but he'd been put in the third stage, and there just wasn't room for everyone who wanted to get in there. Everyone had been saying how well organised the festival was, until this one, but other than that they'd done a good job. And we'd seen Gotye at the Metro a week before, so we hit the nearby bar.

We emerged again in time for Josh Pyke (who had the same problem with overcrowding) but he wasn't much cop so we headed back to the other stages, and caught up with a friend of Elissa's. He'd managed to get in by highly suspicious means, as had his friends. We learned later that it had been the worst year for fence jumping in the festival's history. The lot of us went to see Hoodoo Gurus, who were a good old fashioned rock band, and one of Elissa's surprise acts of the weekend. I wasn't overly impressed, but they did the job. Eager to see Bloc Party, I stayed where I was, as the others went to see Cut Copy on the other stage. But by about halfway through Bloc Party's set they'd played everything I wanted to hear, and the pressure from the crowd was pretty crazy, so I went to join Elissa and her friends for the start of Hilltop Hoods, an Aussie hip-hop group. Hip-hop's mot my thing, but the atmopshere in the crowd was great. After about 20 mins I headed over the catch Arctic Monkey's festival-closing set. They're still not my favourite band, but there's some catchy tunes in there, and it was a diverting hour and a quarter.

Elissa and I managed to meet up and ead back to the chalet. About halfway back we spotted Candice and Jo, and we all walked back together, grabbed a glass or two of wine and slept like babies! A good time was definitely had by all!