Following a successful 2017 event with a crowd 10,000+ strong, Laneway Festival Singapore returns to the idyllic setting of The Meadow at Gardens By The Bay .

St. Jerome’s Laneway Festival has expanded into a seven-city music festival which has gained international following and acclaim, as well as an unrivaled 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.

Going in to Laneway 2018, we have few reasons to tell why Laneway Festival Singapore is your hottest ticket for the wildest weekend getaway:

1. A celebration of South-East Asia music

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Festivals should be beyond discovering American and UK music, and Laneway Festival Singapore realize just that. Each year Laneway Festival Singapore celebrates the diversity of South-East Asian talents, and this year’s Laneway is no exception! Performers from across ASEAN will come and show the world what they’re missing. Be ready to show your instagram followers how awesome Heals from Indonesia, Obedient Wives Club from Singapore, The Ransom Collective from the Philippines, and ALEXTBH from Malaysia all really are.

2. Dress your wildest!

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What good is it going to a music festival as big as Laneway Festival Singapore and just dress like your everyday self? Laneway Festival Singapore is the PERFECT time and place to let your guard down and get wild from head to toe. Believe us when we say that people will appreciate it. Nothing like a good, crazy, and fun outfit to get the party started.

3. Get wild with your squad

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When you’re to shy or insecure in getting wild all by yourself, then bring your squad with you! Festivals are the place to share your joy, and Laneway Festival Singapore is no exception. Worry that no one wants to go with you? Worry not my friend because no better place to make new friends than at a festival. Forget about all the people that don’t want to come with you to one of the greatest festival in Asia and make new friends. A huge chance you’ll be going to a lot of Laneway Festivals in the future.

p.s.: apology for the excessive use of the word squad.

4. Eat your guts out

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For a day, give your diet a break and just.eat.you.goddam.guts.out! Imagine being at The Meadow at Gardens by The Bay, you’re laying on the grass, sun is out, you’re listening to Amy Shark telling you she adores you, but you still feel like you’re missing something. We bet 100% that you’re missing food and a cold beer on your hand. Give yourself a break and spoil your heart and tummy for a day.

5. A festival caters to every taste of music

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We’ve come to the main reason on why we absolutely can’t wait for this year’s Laneway Festival Singapore: the music! I mean, have you guys check out the line up?! They got the soulful Amy Shark, the heart-melting Father John Misty, the peachy Wolf Alice, rocking The War On Drugs and they even bring back the quirky Mac Demarco to the stage. Everything you want, Laneway Festival Singapore granted and take it a thousand times better!

Just thinking about all the music and fun we’re going to have at Laneway Festival Singapore 2018 makes us all giddy and chipper inside. We just know we’re gonna have one wild time! (Doc: Laneway)

For more information go to http://singapore.lanewayfestival.com/

“No! We’re like Birmingham’s biggest buzz band but we just want to represent London,” said Ellie Rowsell, the frontwoman of Wolf Alice, to NME. We’ll put that as a starter just in case you guys will put them along with Birmingham’s bands like Peace or Swim Deep. Wolf Alice might be your average indie band, but they are starting to be the ones to watch. The band consist of Ellie Rowsell, Joel Amey, Joff Oddie, and Theo Ellis, were formed in 2010. Wolf Alice’s early root was basically a country slash folk-infused psych rock but later when the rhythm section joined, they turned into rock-pop with some fiery and loud tunes in it.

At the beginning, Wolf Alice was Ellie Roswell’s solo project. The story is simple, Ellie and Joff were planning to create a MySpace’s page, then later completed by the additions of Joel Amey and Theo Ellis. If you listen to their ‘Leaving You’, you’ll recognize them as a solo affair, but the song gradually shows a sound of a fully-formed band. The name of the band was picked from an Angela Carter’s novel.

In 2012, they released their first self-titled EP and a single, ‘Leaving You’. Wolf Alice’s Leaving You has earned an airplay on BBC Radio, the band also have spotted by NME to their Radar’s list and featured as one of the most exciting new bands in 2013. In the same year, Wolf Alice did some touring with Peace. The band are not bringing some heavy material music (that contains of random idealist thoughts) but they bring this sweetness, light, full of friendship stuffs, especially in their song ‘Bros’. Ellie Roswell described their music as “It was teen self-indulgence in a way, if that makes sense. When you’re 16 and you hate your parents, boys don’t fancy you and your friends didn’t invite you to their sleepover. You think you’re going through something no one understands so you write a song about it and it makes you feel better. Also I just wanted to be Avril Lavigne…obviously.”

Wolf Alice might be known for their sweety friendship songs, but you can get yourself to listen to ‘Fluffy’, which was released in February 2013. Fluffy is more to a pop-rock loud song that will snab people’s ears with the repetitive loud part, “Set Free! Set Free!”, on its chorus. Wolf Alice are just a pure work of the London four-piece that will suit your life’s soundtrack. You may ask more about Wolf Alice’s songs, just wait for them as Ellie confirmed the band have bunch of songs that they would like to show to a wide listener, but they are only available for the live shows. So, we can only say “keep calm and listen to Wolf Alice”.