Parklife 2007 @ Botanic Park

Parklife has been Sydney’s longest running premier festival and this year it is coming to Adelaide.

With the very best of local and international artists you will hear a wide variety of electro, hip hop, house, breaks, beats, turntablism and more.

This spectacular event will be set in the beautiful Botanic Park in the Adelaide Botanic Gardens, home to Adelaide’s biggest music event Womadelaide.

Parklife: A world of its own.

ADAM FREELAND (UK)
AJAX (AUS)
BUSY P (FRA)
CRAZE (USA)
DERRICK CARTER (USA)
DIGITALISM LIVE (GER)
GREENSKEEPERS LIVE (USA)
GREG PACKER (AUS)
JUSTICE DJ SET (FRA)
KID KENOBI and MC SHURESHOCK (AUS)
LYRICS BORN LIVE (USA)
M.I.A LIVE (UK)
MSTRKRFT (CAN)
RIOT IN BELGIUM LIVE (AUS)
SCRATCH PERVERTS (UK)
SHAPESHIFTER LIVE (NZ)
STEREO MCs DJ SET (UK)
THE HERD LIVE (AUS)

Tickets on sale midday Thursday 5th July

First release: $69 + bf from www.fuzzy.com.au , www.inthemix.com.au, Venuetix (www.venuetix.com.au or (08) 8225 8888) and usual outlets

$77 including booking fee from Ticketek (www.ticketek.com.au or 132849)

Final release: $79 + bf from www.fuzzy.com.au , www.inthemix.com.au Venuetix (www.venuetix.com.au or (08) 8225 8888) and usual outlets

$88 including booking fee from Ticketek (www.ticketek.com.au or 132849)

yeah cant wait for this one. didnt realise it was in the botanic gardens until now. what an awesome setting for a show like this. craaazy line-up    :baddancing: <--- wtf? love it!

its not actually in the gardens mate....botanic park is where its at

still tippin it as the party of the year.

not far away now!

yeah!! when do they release a layout map n stuff? wonder where the entrance will be. hope its from the frome road side...*drinks on uni grounds*

if people are keen, i might get some ice n esky and set up a lil pre-drink thing on the grass outside my building, on victoria drive...would be fun to start the day off with a pile of crew, watching enthuasiastic peeps getting in early!

I *heart* MIA

Still need to get a ticket for this... anyone know how much tix will be on the door???

88+bf presale so id be expecting 100 or more on the door.

Yeah bring it on Lady!

Lets relive Womad!
 

(But maybe a lil less Vodka&stuff...for me anyways )

map & times in next weeks 24 7

Can't wait for this show!!



Sooo excited

Awesome! Very much looking forward to this day!

god i hope i get my tax back in time   

Me too!!!!! Got nefarious things planned 

Yes this will be the party of the year. Bring it on.

I think it's further towards the zoo (if i heard correctly) this time. Something about high ground, just in case...


This is gonna rock, can't believe it's so soon!

??? its all the same place really! cant get closer to the zoo than where they were last year! u mean, near the kids area for womad? i didn't mean the hippy-out-chai-tent-forest area :P

yeah yeah, thats what i meant!

freakin hurry up already!

yeah freakin hurry up already tax.  i want to buy my freakin ticket!

Ticket sorted!!!

im in and actually pretty pumped for this. hope its a nice day

its still a 5 min stumble from my office

map of the venue apparently!!  wont post directly, tis huge! http://www.raveadelaide.com.au/forum/index.php?act=attach&type=post&id=18974

This has crept up so quick!

Bring it!!

hope the weather holds up...been a bit unpredictable lately...

teh weather is pretty darn predictable if u ask me! if anything, its worked in our favour of late, cause any prediction of showers has been falling short of some brief rain spells and then it clears up again (re: last nite)

Anyways....

SET TIMES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PARKLIFE SET TIMES


AIR STAGE
12.00 - BEN JAMES
1.00 - JAPEYE + TROY J BEEN
2.30 - STEREO MCS (DJ SET)
4.00 - CRAZE
5.00 - THE HERD LIVE
6.00 - SCRATCH PERVERTS
7.30 - LYRICS BORN LIVE
8.30 - M.I.A. LIVE

FIRE STAGE (onelove)
12.00 - MINX
12.40 - BARK AND BANG LIVE
1.20 - DLUX
2.00 - GREENSKEEPERS LIVE
3.00 - AJAX
4.00 - RIOT IN BELGIUM LIVE
5.00 - ADAM FREELAND
6.30 - DERRICK CARTER
8.30 - JOHN COURSE

WATER STAGE
12.00 - JOHN DOE
12.45 - THE LEVIATORS LIVE (triple j unearthed winners)
1.30 - GREG PACKER
2.30 - SHAPESHIFTER LIVE
3.30 - KID KENOBI + MC SHURESHOCK
4.30 - THE SOUNDS LIVE
5.30 - MSTRKRFT
7.00 - DIGITALISM LIVE
7.50 - BUSY P
8.45 - JUSTICE LIVE

WOOOOOOOOOO Justice Live??!! NIce! FUCKERNS same time as M.I.A.

Nice one!!!

Start with John Doe and head over to the Air Stage when Shapeshifter finish.
Doesn't get much easier than that!!!

fucking sweet!  no clashes for me!!!    

woah according to the map it really IS in the botanic gardens! I don't get it!
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Can't wait!!

Air & Water stage looks like the go for me

only freeland and the herd clashing really for me. looks like a bit of bad luck for adam.

ah well. the rest is perfect.

we have tickets for 86 dollars which includes fees. khem ur glasses must be fogging up!

copied the info from itm, blame them

needs more cowbell!! 

Only one hour for Craze...
That guy can do a fuckin hour just on hiphop better than anyone in the business. Let alone the DnB. Oh well, more time for drinking after, haha.

Looks like all the DnB will be over by the halfway point of the day too.

At least there are no major clashes.

Get there early for The Levitators everyone. Totally worth it.

John Doe-Levitators-Greg Packer-Shapeshifter-Ajax-Craze-The Herd-Scratch Perverts-Mstrkrft-Derrick Carter-BusyP-Justice-MIA

I'll be running around in that order if anyone wants to join me =)

john doe-japeye and troy j bean (funkfest i reckon!) -   shapeshifter- craze - craze/riot in belgium - mstrkrft - scratch perverts/derrick carter - digitalism/lyrics born - M.I.A./Justice...

wish me luck with that one!!!

extended forecast is saying 22 degrees and sunny. Lovely!

needs more craze!!!

will be a super day anyway..

  gonna miss craze and shapeshifter, damn work 

I'll probably be at the air stage for the whole day.

Maybe venture to the others now and then...

would love to see patch play at this!

should be a top day!

I'm thinking almost exactly along those lines

Are the timetables out?

scroll down champ

set times are further down the page

 

mm am thinking that post party drinks at the botanic or sugar would rock :P might as well take monday off! or at least, 'work from home' Heheheh...

OH SHIT WAIT I AM MEANT TO WORK AT 9AM HAHHHAAHHA *frantically emails people to get out of the early prac lab monday morning*

Yes i won't be able top get out of work on monday but thats the beauty of a day rave. Just as long as I don't get sick like I did after Future music festival I will be fine.
Getting very excited for a massive day in the park!!!

I dont have to work Monday now, WOOO yeah glad that's sorted hehe.

Gonna be a fun day/nite! Long as I can get my tickets off Lachy sometime. he keeps forgetting to bring em to town for me! :P

i was tempted to throw a sicky, but now that i am actually sick today, and had last monday off as A/L, i don't think 3 mondays in a row will go down too well.  hmph....

I chucked a sickie last Monday so I can't call in sick next Monday either and I'm way too busy to put in annual leave... it just won't fly. I should be fine though, worst case I'll just rock up late. Looking forward to Sunday 

my predictions for the weekend
Saturday; awesome power victory
Sunday: awesome outdoor party
Monday ; awesome hangover

Scratch Perverts are gonna be sick

 

weather is saying fine, partly cloudy and 23 degrees...wouldnt mind a bit more mercury

Oh man I'm getting heaps excited about this

pretty sure i will be munted out on the grass all day 

you should definitely come to womad then!!!

You're definetly gunna get dicked then

*disclaimer- dicked; to have images of the male reproductive organ drawn on ones face.

Ha, funny shit! Seriously though next year put Andy C on as the sun goes down and watch the dnb following in this town go bananas...

patch could have done the job quite easily...

what happened to greg packer? was looking forward to that with him being the only dnb dj on the line up, but fuck mpk played some real nice summer rollers though!

yeah your right man, he would have, but you know what peeps are like, if he aint an internatty sensation then they wont check. hopefully that will soon change.

High Contrast, with his crossover appeal, would have been amazing at sunset for that kind of party. Andy could almost have been too over powering for a show like Parklife - after a day in the sun with mostly electro, breaks & chilled hip hop I reckon he could be a bit too much for a lot of that crowd. Remember, the older people and electro clubby metro's are too cool for raving - a really ravey DnB act could scare them off, not get them interested in exporing our scene more.

The tunes High Contrast makes and plays would have been perfect at that party. It was the same as LTJ Bukem at Future Music - played deep enuff to keep the headz happy but also accessible enough to have even the trance & house heads listening and dancing.

hc definately man (as long as there is no inna gada davida (spelling?)). still think andy would smack the shit out of everyone tho, as would most people im sure.

My call for set of the day... Scratch Perverts. All the way.

what a freakin awesome day!   

shapeshifter went off!  definitely my fav set for the day!!   

lyrics born and the scratch perverts were awesome, was loving dancing in that afternoon sun!!   

craze was good for the first half of his set, but like everyones said, it certainly turned to shit towards the end!

was really looking forward to M.I.A, but was left a little disappointed... she's certainly an interesting character, but it sounded like she was miming the whole thing...  fuck that!!   

all in all, fantastic time was had!  big ups to everyone i saw, danced with, talked shit with, and generally run amok with!!!     


ooh, and i really like the idea of high contrast playing a sunset set!!!

scratch perverts were even better than i thought theyd be. i think troy and i were speachless at times, both of us holding our camera's up as long as our arms could aloow us recording the madness, and i think the look on craze's face as he watched in amazment said it all, imagine how good it woulda been on 6decks 

bummed... last minute pull out (how bad are they?  )

but doesnt sound like i missed too much. maybe next year when my daughter isnt teething eh? 

no need to talk about your sex life in this thread

had a top day, very hazy memories but my favs were scratch perverts (amazing) and justice really rocked it later in the night.

ah and i love partying in that location, so good!

Met some guys at the berkley at about 800 in the morning who had been. I had to work though which sucks. Still went out after work. Anyone been to 6ix before? Not a bad place. No DnB but I was flying anyway so I didn't really care.

wow, a wicked day. cant remember to much but im pretty sure i had a blast.
cheers to everyone i talked shit to and to dave and jonno for the bbq and recovery afterwards.
i think i managed to steer clear of most of the electro kids so they didnt piss me off to much, but yeah they are twats.

You're pretty spot on there...

In Sydney last year, where the crowd is even more electro/housey, when Coldcut were playing the Qemist remix of their track mixed with their re-working of Pendulum (which are pretty ravey), even though the important thing was the shit that was happening on the screen, the crowd were growing restless... And that was just two dnb tracks 

Fkn oath i was getting so irritated with the 18 year old wanna be fluro crew. was totally reminding me of rise in some areas. LOL

Still, was loving the vibe thou. I only stayed for a few hours but was good to say howdy to lots of faces.

justice were sick, derek carter was awesome, so were shapeshifter, the perverts and the herd

craze should just play hip hop

so glad we took rugs!

rug city crew shout out!

our mate Mel lost her Canon coolpix camera there... anyone seen it?... contact sway

Awesome day.
Awesome venue.
Awesome company.
Shapshifter, The Hird & Scratch Perverts, awesome.
After party... fuckin awesome!!!

A few minor issues throughout the day but we pushed through and it was def worth it in the end

Anyone seen any pics online yet??? Mine will prob be up on Ringo tonight.

the rug was a good wacking device as well wasnt it mate

anyone know where my rug went? i remember someone telling me they had it but can't remember who it was

i was there for a while got there about 7 pm don't really remember to much from it except walking around with four vodka redbulls for myself.
Then convincing myself i should send myself to my mates car to plur up on the back seat.

i remember lapsing in and out of conciesnouss then hearing an absolutely horrible killing in the name of remix then that was the end. Mates came back to the car and we left.

The most important thing however is that my ozzy zoo crocodile hat is still in my possesion

dave i've got the best pic of you in ur hat!!!   

What an awesome day! Felt like it only went for an hour tho...

Shapeshifter and Scratch Perverts were my highlights...i think 

Ah fun (but messy) times!!

sick is it on ringo? i think there was a few photo's taken. i need a new my space photo and 50% pissed 50% crocodile would do it beautifully

I have a question... been receiving some wildly varying reports on the crowd size at this gig.

What do you all reckon? How did it stack up vs say Future Music Festival in March and Enchanted last December?

I didn't really think about it at the time... I was just too damn happy it was really happening.

i think future had more people, and def better crowd

i heard this got 4000 ppl but i rekon 3000 would be more accurate

I dunno, there were alot of people there in the early arvo. Def appeared to thin out after the sun went down.

4800 tix sold by friday, so im informed...  They were expecting to crack the 5000 sales mark on Saturday. 

I wasnt there and i havent seen any other reports on numbers, just relaying info.

i heard they sold about 4000 on thursday. i dont beleive that tho.  would be good to hear the official number

well the fella just came and collected ticket money from the shop, he said 6500 thru in total.

id say that sounds fair .

oh timmay where is that rug???

which one you talking about? i'm talking about my red one that i can't find, no idea what happened to the other one.

Foonji's pics are online: http://www.perceptible-fallout.com/
and I have some on ringo too

oh and this was wicked, Shapeshifter, Craze and Scratch Perverts rocked it
...and greg packer who looked awfully like MPK

Perfect weather, awesome company, great music and lovely vibe!

Big up julian again for the el cheapo ticket

TBH i liked future music music better.

Parklife was wicked but agreed, FMF was definitely a better party.

Daytime parties are definitely the bizness tho.

yeah well, NOT having a last minute pull out about 15 months ago got me into this problem

I had a ball 

Spent alot of time if not most my time looking for peeps though 

Loved Shapeshifter and scratch perverts - think Craze was ok till he started playing the dnb - it all gets a little fuzzy after that but I htink it was Justice at the end was good too

Great to be on the lawns -  was spewing Mr Packer didn't show - I still haven't seen him yet!

great to see all the usual suspects out and about as well as the monkeys

Big thanks to the recovery and BBQ crew!

Much love and PLUR to all

whoops

spot on but if only i made it to the horse

Man i wish i could remember stuff from this, last thing i remember is standing with smudgy doe.... nuff said.

  same and i think you were in there somewhere too......

Mildly better than Enchanted, and mildly not better than Future Music Festival. But they were all pretty damn good.

No where near as good as Sydney Parklife 05 (or 06) though, but shat all over Melbourne Good Vibrations 07.

Parklife Melb wasnt much chop.  Apparantly Fuzzy gave the stage/sound organising to the FMF crew.  They didnt do a very good job and a couple acts cut their set short and i think Lyrics Born didnt go on at all. 

everyone went over their time in melbs for goodvibes 06 and markey got about 20 minutes at the end...

Ditto.

Was there for about an hour.

Then next thing I know im in the middle hindley street picking up cash that has dropped out of my wallet, walking flat stick into poles/bines/shopfronts/people...must've looked like a junky on the nod.

Then next flash I have is a cab driver shaking me on military rd asking where to drop me off.

God bless Xanax

Good times!