![]() ![]() Underneath those, however, the festival didn’t drop off. There was also Nero’s live show coming the year following Promises and Crush On You’s arrival, and Passion Pit at the height of Gossamer - aka the album that gave us Take A Walk. They were one of the first homegrown festival headliners an act that had a worthy place amongst the international heavy-hitters they were seen as the big-ticket movers in that time, both for Parklife specifically and Australia’s festival lineup as a whole. The festival was headlined by The Presets, who were coming off their 2012 record Pacifica - a worthy and still overlooked follow-up on 2008’s break-out Apocolypso. Almost every single act on the festival is a star, whether it be back in the early-2010s peak or now some nine years later, where some of the lineup’s smallest names would be a rare sight even a-top of Australia’s biggest festivals now. It was the final hurrah before it changed to Listen Out in 2013, and a festival that seemed to summarise the brilliance of Parklife through its various peaks. ![]() However, one that stands from the crowd and will always be one of the best festival lineups of all time is Parklife 2012. Every single year was stacked, and it’s quite a journey looking through the lineups and finding now-heavyweights play at 1PM on a side-stage, while old favourites that you’d now dream to see on lineups play headline slots which made sense back in 2010. In 2009, there was Empire of the Sun and Crystal Castles 2010 gave us Missy Elliott (!!) and Soulwax amongst early Flight Facilities and The Wombats while Nero, Katy B and SebastiAn led 2011’s lineup. ![]() In 2008, Soulwax and Dizzie Rascal were wedged in-between Peaches and Diplo and Van She Tech. amongst local heavyweights like AJAX and Muscles. There’s no secret that nostalgia for this time is immense - just look at the reaction to Faker’s reunion just yesterday - but it’s difficult to highlight just how brilliant Parklife’s lineups were every single year, at a time where Australia was still a little blimp for international acts who often, would spend much of their time within the US / UK / Europe festival spaces. Run by Fuzzy, the touring festival was the predecessor to what’s now Listen Out - which came from the ashes of Parklife’s event as an ‘intelligent dance event’ featuring the off-kilter and left-field sides of dance music - that every year, captured the brilliance of the world’s music scene in one of its most glorious times: the mid/late-2000s. However, one that often gets left out is Parklife. the Metallica year), and almost every Big Day Out there was until its eventual demise. Falls Festival 2015 is usually in the mix too - and who can blame them, with Foals, Bloc Party and Disclosure leading the way - as well as Laneway 2017 (which is stacked top to bottom), Soundwave 2013 (a.k.a. There’s the classic Splendour In The Grass, whose lineups have always been strong thanks to their budgets and buying powers, but a few specific years always stand out: 2011 (Kanye, Coldplay) 2015 (Outkast) 2012 (Jack White, Bloc Party). #PARKLIFE MUSIC FESTIVAL MELBOURNE PLUS#
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