Festival Artist Focus: Approachable Members Of Your Local Community

12 November 2018 | 4:43 pm | Staff Writer

"Mud pits are fun and everyone knows it."

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Answered by: Joshua Blashki

Which festivals can we find you at? Approachable Members Of Your Local Community are playing at NYE On The Hill, Hyperfest, Jungle Love and Loch Hart Festival.

Sum up in five words your typical festival season experience. Sweaty and looking for toilet.

What’s the weirdest thing you’ve seen at a festival? Anonymous gentleman asleep in the front section of our tent.

Name your top five essentials you can’t live without while on the festival circuit? Sunscreen, toilet paper, guitar picks, water and friendship.

What’s been your favourite backstage moment during a festival? Dave Le'aupepe and I feeling one another's beards after the GOY set at Let Go Fest in 2017 while reflecting upon our Jewish heritage.

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What are your festivalgoer pet peeves, the things you wish people wouldn’t do at a fest? Too many bangers pumping on people’s stereos past 3am. Some of us wanna make tomorrow's 10am sets.

Three songs that are on your festival pump up playlist? Peg - Steely Dan (gets you hot). Hey Nineteen - Steely Dan (gets you sweaty). Reelin’ In The Years - Steely Dan (gets you ready).

Aussie weather can be a hectic force come festival season. So, if you had to choose: mud pit or dust bowl? Mud pits are fun and everyone knows it.

Which acts are you most excited to catch during your festival season? POND, Kira Puru, The Kite String Tangle, Eilish Gilligan.

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