Kate Kingsmill, Journalist

"Without giving too much away, most of the band is likely to be doing DJing beforehand, so hopefully we’ll whip the crowd up before the band plays."

“I don’t know who bills these damn things. It’s not serious. It’s a bit of a different show for me because it’s primarily singing and songs, which is different."

They finish on Oh No and bring the tempo down with a beautiful encore featuring Kitchen, which showcases Milwright’s gorgeous vocals.

He is so likeable that in the unofficial feedback session that ended the show, the meanest thing anyone said was they didn’t like his suit.

Nicholson is 22, astonishingly assured, and the smartest dressed comedian on the festival bill. He’s also cynical and anxious.

The social awkward, slightly mentally ill, very uncool and definitely bullied character that Rathbone inhabits is almost too sensitive to bear watching.

"We just give it everything we’ve got. It may not always be in tune, it may not sound perfect, but that’s kind of the beauty of what we do as well, because it’s all about the energy and the experience that we create.”

He’s held the crowd in the palm of his hand, and by the time they’ve all gone home he is driving his van to the Blue Mountains to do it all again.

Maybe Future does try to do too much all at once in trying to appeal to teenage club heads as well as old-timer indie kids. But today we danced to The Stone Roses playing Fools Gold, and that’s all that counts, really.

After three hours I’m still transfixed, but it’s getting hot in here… must be all the sexy people on stage.

You have to be seriously committed to catch acts at opposite ends of Sydney Road and even more tenacious to drag a group past the colours and smells of the food and goods stalls.

“I think people are used to thinking of dance as being very abstract. There’s no text, but I’m a big believer in movement being absolutely a very clear storyteller."