Reviews

Diving into crowd-pleaser, Alice Practice, a blonde Glass windmilled her arms while wrapping her mouth around the microphone and screeching her lungs out, scraping each crowd member’s cochlear.

These two men may not have looked like your typical Spiegeltent performers but their joy in the music and performing with each other was infectious.

At just 23, touring her debut album, Havas has many years to expand on her talent. Let’s hope Australia gets to see this charming singer often.

Sleep deprivation on a working week day has never felt so right.

To have a fun night stomping around to house music in such a beautiful old building is a testament to the progressive and encouraging way Sydney is engaging with music.

If this sounds like a love story perhaps it was, and if you love your rock music without pretence but with a whole lot of Southern-inspired hospitality then get on down to an Alabama Shakes show while they are still playing smaller venues.

The night was then closed with an incredible set by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. One of the world’s most celebrated rock bands, the group certainly lived up to their title as they faced a packed-out main arena.

Fast becoming an institution on Melbourne’s festival calendar, the 2013 edition of Sugar Mountain offers up plenty of quirky hipster cool, good music and fun times.