Musica Festival - Fun in the sunshine

A day of quality acts, great beats, sunshine, dancing, smiles, one main stage with great sound and fast bar service. Saturday proved the boutique festival concept has made it's way to Sydney with Musica and we like it. Bon Chat, Bon Rat and local favourite Simon Caldwell warmed the day up. With many picking a spot on the grass in the sunshine as a base to start the day. 



Electric Wire Hustle has either proven their Sydney following or we have to many Kiwi's here. All sheep jokes aside the guys put on a brilliant show and are definitely a hot act to keep an eye on. If you haven't yet heard of them and you like Fat Freddy's Drop or the sound of future beats, electronica and reggae beautifully fused into a live band then EWH are for you. 

Tiger & Woods (download their new free album here) came on to show that Disco is here to get us dancing and smiling in the sunshine this summer. Dressed unfortunately not as a tiger or a wood but just in matching black polo shirts and caps drawn down over their eyes their identity was clearly not the point of the day. Not going to the efforts of SBTRKT with a full mask but clearly trying to keep their persona's outside of the music as quiet as possible.



As the sun went down the crowd grew and were serenaded by the dulcet tones and grunge meets grime-pop sound of Ghostpoet.  Ghostpet made a good effort to warm up the crowd as dusk began to fall and it was then that we started to realise just how well the line-up had been programmed. The crowd certainly lapped it up and there wasn't much of a changeover in audience despite moving from the disco stomp to the shoe gaze.

Next came Canada's Lunice to pick up the pace with a massive party starting future crunk throw-down. The switchover between the acts was as neat as any i have ever seen and a certain Pulse Sydney editor could be seen legging it down the wings from the bar into the photographer pit, to catch the first songs just in time. Lunice doesn't even need to be the huge performer that he is to get people going nuts, that's how pumped his beats are, but once he asked for some swag from the audience, he certainly got it.

By the time SBTRKT came on almost everybody had made there way on to the dancefloor to shake the night away to a really fun set of Uk Garage and House; featuring some favourties from his debut album (as well as Mosca's hit tune Bax early on) and his usual rapid fire mixes, that kept what a largely accessible SBTRKT set, interesting for tighter fans. My only complaint for the day is it finished too early; I could have quite easily done with a couple more hours, but im sure my liver doesn't agree with that. There will have to be a Musica II: the feeling in the air all day was that there's a fun, hot summer on the way for Sydney. 

Check out the images of the day below, some were collected from Fasterlouder's gallery and others were taken by us. Enjoy. See you at Musica 2. 













Listen to Electric Wire Hustle on Pulse Radio

Listen to Simon Caldwell on Pulse Radio

Listen to SBTRKT on Pulse Radio