Review: Meadow Festival 2021 delivers three glorious days of revelry and fun Image by Tom Parker
We went along to Meadow 2021 and this is what went down.
Comparisons can be enlightening but they can also be fickle, misdirecting attention and undermining achievements. When I departed Meadow Festival on its last day, the reflections came teeming in and the judgements accumulated.
There will always be noise – prior festival experiences thwarting novelty; friends’ opinions clouding perceptions, yet, there isn’t a more authentic and organic way to lend your assessment to something than by judging it on its merits.
That’s what I’ll be doing with this piece – removing likenesses and wandering narratives to give Meadow its own lane, for which it deserves.
Close Counters’ performance at Colour was an unforgettably inventive audiovisual experience 1 / 4
Photos by Dylan Jardine
They just keep getting better and better.
Close Counters’ ascension to the height of Australian dance music seemed a sure and destined thing after their heaving, unforgettable set blew everyone away at Meredith 2019.
Following the release of their
Refractions record, no one in that 20,000-strong crowd could doubt that this band were the real deal. One global pandemic and a couple of lockdowns later, Allan McConnell and Finn Rees – the duo that make up the heart of this act – have been anything but idle.
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