Highly anticipated triple j bonanza Requestival is back again for its third year of wicked and whacky requests.
From 6am-10pm on Monday the 26th to Friday the 30th, triple j listeners will have full control over the decks, picking out a load of songs to soundtrack the week.
Coming to fruition in the first year of the pandemic and offering up a small morsel of fun in those darker months, Requestival has become an Aussie fan favourite, providing a fun week of music that is as weird as it is wonderful.
This year, triple j have switched it up a bit, laying out a theme and asking for listeners to request songs that make them "turn TF up – the nostalgic throwbacks, pump-up playlists, so-bad-they’re-good bangers, beloved classics and everything in between."
However, they've made it clear that "there's no such thing as a bad or too-crazy request" so go wild! Make Requestival history!
To partake in the fun, download or update the triple j app and make your request from Wednesday 21 to have a chance of your top pick being played. You'll be able to make one new song request each day, so make each vote count!
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Additionally in the app, you'll be able to give your opinion on the tracks played throughout the weeks through a very sophisticated emoji system; 'Heart' for love and 'Vomit Face' for dislike. Last year, Taylor Swift's Shake It Off proved the most divisive with 43% heart emojis and 52.6% vomit emojis across 21,298 reactions whereas John Williams' Star Wars tune Duel Of The Fates proved the opposite with 16,682 reactions, with 85% of them being a heart react and 9.2% vomit emojis.
Requestival 2020 saw a total of 105,430 requests made through the triple j app across the week, with 26,831 new downloads of the app. The station has also shared that they received a whopping 38,000 texts across the week, two and a half times the amount they normally would.
Some of our favourites from the last two years include:
