This weekend marked Canberra’s biggest congregation of drunken uni students for the year. As enticing as that sounds I probably wouldn’t have gone, except for the seriously excellent line up they had this year.

Friday night’s draw card for me was Groove Armada, and they didn’t disappoint. They played most of the songs I’d hoped for, and from what I could see were doing most of it live, or at least there were lots of musicians on stage. Dj Dexter, of Avalanches fame, was also pretty cool.

Saturday arvo Jeremy and I went for a Boulder at the NL, and so I just caught the end of the Beautiful Girls. Then came Rocket Science, who are pretty underrated I think, they put on a great show.

The Von Bondies, or is it Van Bandies (thick accents), from somewhere stateside also put on a good show. The lead singer in particular had been taking his rock pills, and pulled off a particularly cool move where he followed a bout of screaming by dropping straight to the floor, while continuing to play his guitar. One for Chris to practice.

Some people were about intrigued by the choice of Something For Kate as the final act, but when they want to they can put on a really good rock show. They soldiered on through two power failures, something which Paul Dempsey later remarked was actually good because it gave him a chance to do an Electricity joke.

They played most of the old favs, plus a few newies, and everyone sung along. The organisers must have told them not to do an encore, because they crowd were definitely up for it, but the band never returned. Oh well, we were all dog tired anyway.