Ching Pei Khoo, Journalist

"Ours is the sort of music that was played in dance halls in the 1920s and ‘30s in New York and Chicago."

Flap! perform their last Australian show this year at the Hi-Fi on Saturday 13 July before leaving to support The Cat Empire on their European tour.

Even in that, she is demonstrably poised and certain of her direction.

Earlier favourites Vincent and To Where You Are stay the test of time, and Groban is to be commended for utilising and promoting local talent throughout his tour.

They are the Irishmen you dream of meeting at the local pub – their merry on-stage banter and the drunk dial stunt adding to the band’s growing popularity.

..his dextrous fingers effortlessly strumming his guitar, the timeless prose of his lyrics, a generation’s worth of harmonies.

They add little to what is already a hypnotic musical marriage between the old and the new. Novalima are guaranteed to get you dancing.

The grass lawns of St Paul’s are littered with entwined couples dreaming of the next all-night party.

She fares better with the slower, smooth songs like So Far Away and City Streets.

When We Were Young closes off a night worth the long anticipation. Here’s hoping we don’t have to wait that long again for their next return.

The intentional juxtaposition works, however, and it ends the festival on a high note. By then, even the ankle biters are jigging.