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Laneway 2026: a tumor that metastasised
From its humble beginnings in a literal alleyway containing 1,400 people in Melbourne’s Caledonian Lane, St. Jerome’s Laneway Festival is now a pan-Australian and New Zealand festival that attracted 50,000 people in Sydney on the 8th of February.
At a time when music festivals in Australia are fighting to stay afloat, Laneway continues to surprise, pulling artists like Chappell Roan, Geese, Yung Lean and Bladee, and PinkPantheress all in one run this year. Last year, they pulled Charli XCX as a headliner. This year, they proved that it wasn’t just luck, but deliberate attunement to what the public wants. Like Charli, Chappell Roan had already passed from being an online sensation to a household name by the time she landed in Australia.
Laneway Is Bringing Music And Mayhem To Mardi Gras
As the sun sets on Mardi Gras 2026, there is one Sydney street that will still be ablaze with the last and loudest roars of ecstatica. Where you’ll lose your last LOOP earplug and forget to care, and where what’s left of your glitter vest will be reduced to street confetti. Yep, you guessed it — Laneway is back.
On Sunday, March 1 at 2pm, Sydney’s beloved Beresford and adjacent Hill Street will turn into the Mardi Gras kick ons that keeps on kicking. Expect disco and house bangers, enough queer joy to (mostly) assuage the burning in your calves, and, as always, a killer line up.
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Well, we actually begin at 1.29PM, arriving at the festival almost an hour late. Things happen; friends take long to get ready, and the trains run slow here in Sydney, especially when it rains. So unfortunately, Laneway starts with myself and my friends missing Blusher, The Belair Lip Bombs, Cavetown, and walking past Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers on our way to view Gigi Perez.
Fortunately, I have had many chances to see a few of them, specifically Blusher opening for Aurora as well as at Sydney’s own Fair Day, and they were incredible as always. The Belair Lip Bombs have been an incredible band, who have performed at Bigsound in Brisbane while I was up there interviewing and photographing various musicians. And, Teen Jesus was an incredible act I managed to catch in Melbourne a while back, and may I just say that show was incredible. (And reminded me to re-purchase ear protection as I am always caught lacking).
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