Prepare yourselves for the 2015 Laneway Festival line-up. Featuring a mix of Singaporean, Malaysian and international acts, the Singapore event will host perhaps its strongest line-up to date.

Following a successful 2014 event with a crowd 10,000+ strong, Laneway Festival Singapore returns to the idyllic setting of The Meadow at Gardens By The Bay for the fifth year running.

Into its eleventh year in 2015, St. Jerome’s Laneway Festival has expanded into a seven-city music festival which has gained international following and acclaim, as well as an unrivalled reputation for programming new talents on the cusp of greatness. Having well and truly settled into its home in each state, the event is a true highlight on the Singapore, New Zealand and Australian music calendars.

Check out previously announced festival dates and venues along with our amazing early bird deals available from today until 16 October here.

THE LINE-UP

In alphabetical order:

ANGUS & JULIA STONE • BANKS • CHET FAKER • COURTNEY BARNETT • EAGULLS • ENTERPRISE • FKA TWIGS • FUTURE ISLANDS • .GIF • HANGING UP THE MOON • JUNGLE • LITTLE DRAGON • LYKKE LI • MAC DEMARCO • PASTEL LITE • POND • ROYAL BLOOD • RUSTIE • ST. VINCENT

Even though it has already been 2 weeks since St Jerome’s Laneway Festival in Singapore. But still, we can’t it over that day yet! As we are putting something different to cover of what happened this year, we have highlighted seventeen best moments that we did experience at St. Jerome’s Laneway Festival this year!

1. Laneway SG team: kudos to the team for organizing everything so well: third stage, lines at the entrances, toilettes and more sitting areas. Everything was perfect that day even the weather!

2. Crowds at Vance Joy: chill vibes while sun beating down on us and the band singing “you’re loved, you’re loved.” Is this the best way to start the day yet?

3. Everything about Youth Lagoon: not to take it so personally (but it kind of is), we can’t deny Trevor Powers’ performance how powerful it was, not to mention his pink socks, and the bassist’s super long epic facial hair!

4. Bands and fans: we spotted Frightened Rabbit, Vance Joy, bassist and guitarist of Youth Lagoon, Savages, and Haim came out from their safety areas to meet their crazy lovely fans!

5. Kurt Vile was ‘So Good At Being In Trouble’: we know that it’s Unknown Mortal Orchestra song but what happened is that during UMO was playing the song, Ruban Nielson, the front man had to stop singing and said “Hey, you!” to Kurt Vile to make his loud soundchecking stop.

6. Hipster outfits: just like the previous years, too many awesome outfits by all the hipsters from all over Southeast Asia to be seen.

7. H&M: big thanks to H&M for giving us free water, ice-creams and tote bags. Laneways goers seemed to like taking photos at the H&M photo booth as well. We really loved this collaboration!

8. XXYYXX: the Cloud stage area was super packed. I couldn’t help myself but staring at Marcel Everett and thought what I was doing when I was 19. I’m sure a lot of people who knew his age felt the same way.

9. The local acts: Vandetta got the early birds at Cloud stage singing along to a cover of “Come As You Are” by Nirvana. The Observatory, the one and only Singaporean act that got to shine on the main stage, and we would love to see more of the local acts next year!

10. Elena Tonra of Daughter showing her happy tears: good job, people! Daughter fans made Elena impressed so much she couldn’t bare but let the happy tears out after crowds singing along to their famous song, Youth. This is every impressive and so emotional.

11. Powerful Savages: these masculine women were so cool. It really doesn’t matter how Jehnny Beth’s hair is way too short or how aggressive the band looked but they absolutely represented women of our generation, strong and powerful!

12. Haim, not hype: too much loveliness for this band. From what I observed, they got the most audience, looked very spontaneous being on stage. Loved it when Alana dared her sister to dance and when they took a crowd selfie for their grandma.

13. Jamie XX on fire: with his electronic grooving set that got everyone moving, plus very thick smoke during his performance, these combos totally made Jamie being on fire!

14. Chvrches fans: seeing so many people from Cloud stage running their lives to Roscoe stage to see the band as close as they could is an impressive thing to see and I’m not sure how many times I overheard “Lauren is so cute!”

15. James Blake’s magic: he sounded just like the record but more alive. Pretty sure his music spelled us that night, I saw a lot of people closing their eyes and dancing slowly, included me.

16. Many F&B stalls: no more worries if you would get starved or wait for the lines for too long. This year’s Laneway provided us a lot of variety of food and drinks. Is there anything better than listening to the music you like and eating good food at the same time? I hope not.

17. Not so Laneway in Singapore but more like Worldwild: this was the third time for us to attend Laneway in Singapore. As far as I can tell, everything got bigger each year, venue, stages, especially crowds, not only Asians from Southeast Asia countries joined the fest but also Caucasians, they just could be seen everywhere!

Surely, there will be more awesome moments to be experienced in 2015. LanewaySG team always keeps us surprised and thank you so much we love you for that. Do you know you’re the best music festival in Southeast Asia so far? Much love and see you all next year! (Text : Nette Kosit / Pics : Alvin – Afiq Omar)

The 12-hours boutique festival is back with a bang! Even though the crazy heat has been the main distraction of the day, but the crowd seems less care about it, as the new venue, The Meadow at Gardens by the Bay, has turned into a huge field of music enthusiastic that are ready to kick off their weekend.

The Norwegian duo, Kings of Convenience was honored to start the festival at 12.40pm. Performed “My Ship Isn’t Pretty” which taken from their 2009 album “Declaration of Dependence”, and continued busting the crowd with their good twisted songs and live band playing “Misread”, “Boat Behind”, “Rule My World” and “I’d Rather Dance with You”, which somehow sounded much better when we saw it live. Poliça headed up after, and even though the set was sounded a little bit flat, but the Minnesota native, Channy Leaneagh’s presence somehow reminded us of Sinead O’Connor with her smooth sound and eclectic music. They performed songs from their album “Give You The Ghost” such as “Lay Your Cards Out” and “Amongster”.

Right after Polica, the Cleveland-based Cloud Nothings brought another heat for the crowd. Dylan Baldi’s high-pitched screaming turned out to be an annoying thing to hear for some. But they have performed some songs from their album Attack on Memory such as “Fall In”, “Stay Useless” and the 8 minutes track “Wasted Days” which then received a cold reception from the crowd. The so-called U.S indie super group, Divine Fits was performing after, Dan Boeckner and Britt Daniels controlled crowd’s needs of classic alternative stuff with their singles such as “My Love Is Real” and “Would That Not Be Nice”.

The festival ambiences grow bigger when Of Monsters And Men came onstage. Nanna Bryndís Hilmarsdóttir, Ragnar “Raggi” Þórhallsson, were able to electrified the crowd with a singalong and dancing sessions. Their hits, “Little Talks”, along with “King and Lionheart”, “Mountain Sound” and “Six Weeks” turned out to be a major sing-along sessions and become one of the most memorable set of the day.

The Canadian duo, Japandroids delivered a hell of a rock n roll set. During an interview, Brian and David stated that the only thing they expect from the crowd is a warm reception from the crowds, which what exactly they got during their performance. Starting the set with “Adrenaline Nightshift”, the crowd jumped and moshing like there’s no tomorrow. The crowd went nuts when “Wet Hair”, “Fire’s Highway” and “The House That Heaven Built” were played. They ended the set with a memorable drum crushing session and guitar-jumping movements.

After tired banging their head, the crowd couldn’t help but to enjoy the sound of tropical live electric sounds from Nicolas Jaar. With a mission to turn the green grass into a massive dancefloor, he managed to balance the needs of the partygoers to Kimbra’s die-hard fans, which are waiting patiently for her set at the other side of the stage. And off course, wasn’t a big surprise that the girls and the curiosity of the boys, went crazy when Kimbra showed up after Nicolas Jaar’s Balearic set. Her expressions, dance moves, thumping feet and not forget to mention, her attractive costume, gave the crowd energy to jump along to each of her songs, which taken mostly from her Vow album.

New Jersey’s Real Estate was armed with a warm indie tracks from their breakthrough album, “Days”, such as “Easy” and “Green Aisles”, as they tried to show their magic to the crowd. Although it felt flat for most of the time, which I think maybe because their songs were suited better to listen in a warm sunny day instead of a cold night. Unfortunate for Mercury Prize winner, Alt-J, turned out to be this year’s The Pains of Being Pure At Heart, as they have to face the sounding issue at the beginning of their set, worst, it was during their hits ‘Tessellate’. But luckily, they came back stronger and brought more of their unique gloomy music through “Matilda”, “Something Good”, “Breezeblocks” and “Dissolve Me”. Joe Newman managed to keep his voice steady all the way through their set, which was an improvement compared to their previous live set.

Yeasayer, one of the Laneway veterans has also managed to make us dancing with their improved set. During the years, Yeasayer has been known for their live set twist, as they tend to remix some of their instrument’s sounds. That’s why their old hits such as “2080”, “ONE”, and “Ambling Alp” sounded different than the original track. Some of the crowds thought their set was a little bit weird and thought they should’ve stayed with their original sounds, but some of their die-hard fans were able to appreciate the band’s effort, as they were able to lift their set to the next level.

Another Britton, Natasha Khan or known as Bat For Lashes were able to deliver a good, mesmerizing set for the night. Natasha showed us the definition of a good singer perfectly. She nailed the high-pitched notes in “Laura” perfectly. It gave us a goosebumps! The way she performed “Daniel” and “Pearl’s Dream” was just perfect.

And as the starts popping out the sky, its time for the four psychedelic Aussies with one Frenchman, Tame Impala delivered their expansion of consciousness through songs from Innerspeaker and Lonerism, which managed to turn The Meadow upside down. Started with “Solitude is Bliss”, continued with “Music to Walk Home By”, “Enders Toi”, and the unexpected jazzy breakdown at the middle of “Elephant”, which made the crowd went nuts straight after. They also lead the crowd into a massive sing-along sessions with “Feels Like We Only Go Backwards” and “Half Full Glass of Wine” as their closing song.

To top it all off, Gotye showed us his live acts capacity, playing songs from “Making Mirrors” with a solid performance, especially during his hits such as “Easy Way Out”. Well off course, before he ended the show, he managed to surprise the crowd with the appearance of Kimbra while singing “Somebody That I Used To Know”. After another couple songs, he closed the festival with a style and smiled on everyone’s face, as each genre’s listeners has received what their ears want to hear that night. So, once again, congratulation to St. Jerome’s Laneway Festival for bringing South East Asia some good taste of music, and we surely can’t wait to see more of great line-ups in 2014!

There are few things people do at January 26th this year, for people around East Asia they went for St. Jerome’s Laneway Festival, but for Australian, not only the day they celebrate their Australia day but also the time for Hottest 100 day!

What’s about this Hottest 100? This is an annual music poll conducted by one of the biggest radio station in Australia, Triple J, in which to determine their favourite song of the year by votes two weeks prior to Australia Day and will be played on the weekend of the big day. The radio itself  has recently released their compilation double – CD featuring selection of songs from the countdown. From Joy Division to Nirvana, Powderfinger to Foo Fighters, The Cure to Crystal Castles, there are lots of good music and bands being chosen on the list, which proved that Ozzie have some taste in music, and believe me, if it counted inside the list, it must’ve been a good music to listened to.

So, this year we took part at this annual vote, lots of bands we wanted to win, but nevertheless with the result Macklemore and Ryan Lewis have lived up to everyone’s expectations as this super independent hip hop crowned on the top of the list, with their hit Thrift Shop.

It wasn’t surprising when we knew that Number 2 on the list was six-pieces Keflavik’s band Of Monsters and Men, with Little Talks, their single which taken from their debut studio album, My Head Is an Animal. As we saw them yesterday at Laneway, we couldn’t doubt more that they deserve that position.

Followed on the third place, was this Cambridge young indie rock quartet form  ∆ (alt-J) with their Breezeblocks which taken from their debut album, An Awesome Wave. With the catchy, eclectic sound no wonder, beside receiving gold in the UK, they also won UK Mercury Prize this year.

And the list goes on to Flume with Holdin On, Mumford & Sons with I Will Wait, Major Lazer feat. Amber Coffman with Get Free, Tame Impala with Elephant, Frank Ocean with Lost, and another Tame Impala‘s song Feels Like We Only Go Backwards, and The Rubens with My Gun.

Check out all the complete list on Triple J’ website or listen to their spotify list.

With two side-by-side stages and 14 acts St. Jerome’s Laneway Festival in Singapore this year probably was one of the biggest festival, which been waited by 7800 Indie music lovers around Asia.

The festival itself started around 2pm in the middle of the day, and lots of nice good looking hispters already gather to see Cults, duo from NYC with their first song Abducted followed by You Know What I Mean, Slow Song and after 40 minuets perform they closed it with their hits Oh My God which taken from their self titled album.

Band which famous with Shook Down song, Yuck came out as the second band and with their noise and shoegazing sound, the band start to play their hits like Holing out, The Wall, Georgia, Suicide Policeman, Milkshake and closed with Rubber. As the venue getting full with hipster crowd, another NY duo Chairlift which just released their second album Amanaemonesia recently, played hits songs both from their first and second albums such as Take It Out on Me, Wrong Opinion, Bruises, Met Before, I Belong in Your Arms, Evident Utensil and off course Amanaemonesia.

The crowd also can enjoy their late lunch inside the venue companied with sounds from Austra with their unique girl-band appearance. Followed by Girls, the crowd was led by Christopher Owens and his guitar to paid tribute to Whitney Houston by sang I Will Always Love You before playing the band’s set.

Another band that have gain lots of Asian fans since their tour last year was The Drums. The band played songs all dancing shoes lover wants to hear such as Best Friend, Let’s Go Surfing, What You Were, Money, The Future, Me and The Moon and Forever and Ever Amen.

As the sun goes down, the hype on the fest gets up. Continued with Twin Shadow, Anna Calvi and Laura Marling, the crowd can cater around and enjoyed the late sunset with their friends and loves one. And then the emotion gets rock again when The Pains Of Being Pure at Heart went to the stage and played their nu gaze indie pop songs like , I Wanna Go All The Way, Belong, Young Adult Friction, A Teenager In Love, and Heart In Your Heartbreak. Wasn’t enough with rock sound, Toro Y Moi come up and made the crowd dance to their New Beat, All Alone, Talamak, Still Sounds, Freaking Out and even Low Shoulder.

Feist, The Horros and M83 probably was the most waited band of the night, and with songs and live act that holding breath the bands succeed to made the crowd jumping around, nodding their heads and even dancing like no tomorrow. And to top it all of Anthony Gonzalez and his live band closed the festival with epic performance from the stage atmosphere, lightning, to their act itself succeed made every penny paid off. Surely after this festival as Danny Rogers of Laneway said, we couldn’t wait to see more of ‘right music’ come to asia next year!

1. The Line-up’s
Do you know who are those bands and singers? who you wanna see this year? are they playing at the fest? Check all about the bands here.

*Please note WU LYF are no longer coming and replaced by Chairlift

2. Band schedules
Do you know who’s performing when? Which band you want to see? Since you can’t be in both stages at the same time, its good to learn about their time tables.

Singapore’s Laneway Festival 2012 time tables: (link)

Australia & New Zealand’s Laneway Festival 2012 time tables: (more)

 

3. Festival survival tips

We have given you some tips how to survive your first gigs, but do you know how to survive in a music festival, especially if this is your first time? Here some tips you may reconsider to follow:

Expect the unexpected. You never know what will happened tomorrow, is it going to be muddy or is it going to be super hot? but we know its outdoor and it’s rainy and quite muddy last year, so its better if you bring a light raincoat.

Be as comfortable as possible. You’re not going to a fashion week, well.. you may want to look nice and catchy but make sure its comfortable enough in any condition. You don’t wanna watch your favourite band in misery right?

NO umbrellas. Well we wrote to prepare for any weather but exception for this umbrella, as this blocks the view of the stage so its better to come with ponchos, as far more considerate and party going anyway right?

Bring Cash. You might want to buy food or merchandise from the festival, but since there are no ATM’s close by, is better to bring your own cash but remember to keep it save.

Learn about the venue. Make sure you know how to get there, you don’t want to missed your band because you were lost. Learn what’s inside the venue, do they have ATM? food stool? Clinic? How about the transportation? Do you know the procedure there? You can get some tips from our twitter timeline and you can also head to their Website or Facebook and Twitter to get all info and updates about the festival.

Have fun. Last but not the least, try to have fun. dont bring your burden and missery to the festival, cause the festival is only about fun and partying!