St. Kilda Festival

Along with hitting the Chinese New Year celebrations this past weekend, we also checked out the St. Kilda Festival in Melbourne. The self-proclaimed "largest free festival in the southern hemisphere" was a blast.

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First, we checked out a street performer named Annie who did a wild show. She made her body do things I've only dreamed of, like fitting herself into this handy carrying case. Convenient as a cold six-pack, and even more refreshing.

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Next we went over to the Earthcore stage. Apparently Earthcore is an organization known in Oz for putting on massive raves, and this was no exception. The sound system was absolutely disgusting, and there were thousands of people gyrating to the beats. The hills were alive with the pound of music, and even though we didn't have any drugs it was still a hell of a thing to behold.

At one point, this girl jumped up on top of the speakers and the crowd went absolutely ballistic. After a while one of the djs went over and told her she should probably get down, and she was like "no worries". If she'd tried something like that at a show in DC she would've gotten an earful (at best) from a security guard. It was so cool to see so many people out having a good time at a huge party without the enormous police presence you'd expect to see in the States.

I also made my first attempt at breaking a Guinness World Record. Me, Fiona, and about 6000 other people got together and made out for 10 seconds straight in hopes of breaking the record for the Most Couples Kissing Simultaneously:

Oh well. It was still pretty hot to look around and see thousands of couples pressed together, even if we don't get a mention next to the world's heaviest twins on their motorcycles.

Posted by flow Frazao on February 16, 2005 at 08:21 AM in Australia | Permalink