WELL... How Did Camp A Low Hum Go

adriancarl, 6 February 2007 - 2:19pm

Some of us saps had to work.
So how was camp low hum?
Reports?
Favourites?
Highs?
Lows?
Dirt?

I renamed the topic due to my far too obscure title ... dumb-ass

Bookmark/Search this post with:

Forums: NZ Music,

I went to heaven without dying. I ...

I went to heaven without dying. I don't want my old life back now.

sigh.

I can't wait for the next no pants party.

Disasteradio, 7 February 2007 - 4:36am

Ok so heres the lineup. Theres no way ...

Ok so heres the lineup. Theres no way im reviewing all the bands there is way to many... and what goes on at camp stays on camp right?

Polka Dot Dot Dot (US)
Ladybird (FRA)
Bang! Bang! Aids! (AUS)
Actor/Model (AUS)
Birth Glow (AUS)
The Rise and Demise (AUS)
Batrider (AUS expat)
The Cosbys (AKL)
The Gladeyes (AKL)
Golden Axe (AKL)
Shaft (AKL)
The Sneaks (AKL)
Pumice (AKL)
The Coolies (AKL)
Flick (AKL)
The Situations (AKL)
Collapsing Cities (AKL)
Whipping Cats (AKL)
Lester Osbourne (AKL)
Kill Surf City (AKL)
The Vacants (AKL)
The Deadly Deaths (HAM)
The Shrugs (HAM)
Mc Stormtrooper (HAM)
Girlfriend (CHCHish)
Pig Out (CHCH)
The Enright House (CHCH)
Frase+Bri (CHCH)
The Shocking Pinks (CHCH)
Get Set Play (CHCH)
The Tiger Tones (CHCH)
Not so Experimental (CHCH)
Operation Rolling Thunder (DUN)
So So Modern (WLG)
The Bonnie Scarlets (WLG)
Ginger Brown (WLG)
Captain Sergent Major (WLG)
Grayson Gilmore (WLG)
Cortina (WLG)
Holiday With Friends (WLG)
The Mega Chan Gang (WLG)
Disasteradio (WLG)
Tommy Ill (WLG)
Over the Atlantic (WLG)
Ghostplane (WLG)
Thought Creature (WLG)
The Inkling (WLG)
Phelps and Munro (WLG)
Blink Vs Stevie (WLG Vs AKL)

Very Happy THAT TOOK AWHILE

Goodbye Galaxy, 7 February 2007 - 10:48am

A couple of vids from some of the pool ...

A couple of vids from some of the pool partys are up on youtube. I'm sure there will be heaps more stuff appearing over the next few days.

People there from Europe and the US who had been to like every big festival known to man told me that it was the best music festival they'd ever been to, so that was pretty damn heartwarming.

I can't believe that it actually went to plan... bands playing up trees, by streams, in vans, in forests, by swimming pools, around campfires. What made me proudest of all is everything that happened that I didn't organise. I simply set up a system and it went nuts, all the pool parties after the first one, all the parties in the Lions Lodge, the no pants party. People went all night every night. The amount of people coming up to me saying "best weekend EVER!" was simply overwhelming.

[ external link ]

blink, 7 February 2007 - 1:12pm

best weekend EVER!...

best weekend EVER!

Disasteradio, 7 February 2007 - 2:17pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAABRb3Zz...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAABRb3ZzFM&eurl=

[ external link ]

blink, 7 February 2007 - 6:53pm

first ...

first review:
http://www.lumiere.net.nz/reader/item/808

[ external link ]

blink, 7 February 2007 - 7:04pm

How many people were there at the camp?...

How many people were there at the camp?

Huriana, 7 February 2007 - 7:49pm

just under 400....

just under 400.

blink, 7 February 2007 - 8:04pm

Did that include the artists? There ...

Did that include the artists? There must've been quite a few of them?

Huriana, 7 February 2007 - 8:07pm

yup, totally. about 120 people there ...

yup, totally. about 120 people there were artists, which was about my estimations. I thought that 1/3rd of the people there would be the band members. Tickets were limited to 450 anyway, so it got pretty close to selling out. Even though there is stacks of room, i thought 450 was all that the toilet facilities/catering/intimate shows could handle. I am going to open it up to max 600 next year, i really don't want to lose the intimacy and enjoyment of no queues and plenty of open space which I think is what people really enjoyed about it. I could move the stage to an area where i could squeeze in 5000, but then it would simply become a run-of-the-mill music festival. not a "camp"

blink, 7 February 2007 - 8:12pm

Cool. Are you gonna use the same venue ...

Cool. Are you gonna use the same venue next year?

Huriana, 7 February 2007 - 8:16pm

depends..ideally yes... but I gotta go ...

depends..ideally yes... but I gotta go do some smooth talking with the locals. Got 14 noise complaints on the first night. I spent almost all of Sunday driving around seeing people apologising. 'Tis why i had to make the next two nights finish two hours earlier..

blink, 7 February 2007 - 8:59pm

IT WAS SO AWESOME! me and Don are ...

IT WAS SO AWESOME!

me and Don are gonna do a Radio 1 'The Local' show about it tonight (in about half an hour), showcasing everyone. i discovered SO many new bands. i loved the Deathy Deaths and the Vacants and Kill Surf City and the Shrugs. and so many more. it was SO great having the bands play twice - once in a room, and once on a bigger outdoors stage. that was like getting double the bands for the price of one. and it was so easy to wander back and forth between the stages.

and the grounds were amazing!! flocks of 20 kereru going nuts eating blossoms and bugs over Shaft! (they were awesome too) i've never seen so many of the wee jumbo-jet buggers in one spot ever.

and don't get me started on the cheap soul-satisfying just-what-needed-after-sitting-in-sun-watching-bands-for-10-sunny-hours food.

so much more i want to say, but gotta hit the road and have too much fun reliving it while we play the music to everyone who couldn't go.

it was like all the low hum tours all at once, with great food and tents and barefeet on grass.

iluvtheclean, 7 February 2007 - 9:25pm

awesome show. loved the whole thing. I ...

awesome show. loved the whole thing. I was blushing at how much you guys were gushing..but yeah, I totally love recapping the thing already. I've been going through all the video today...man, the documentary is going to be amazing. so much great footage. Its especially amazing watching footage of stuff i missed...like the whirlpool of doom in the pool haha where everybody was running around in a circle one way around the swimming pool. haha. gonna make an awesome movie

blink, 8 February 2007 - 1:26am

I remember three seperate whirlpools, ...

I remember three seperate whirlpools, one in the day on the first day, then one the first night at 3AM (no pants party), then a little one on monday.

I spent way too much time in the pool.

Disasteradio, 8 February 2007 - 3:18am

yeah, and i remember being kept awake ...

yeah, and i remember being kept awake for the next couple of hours by you baaaarstards in the pool. Teach me for being a grown up and going to bed at a responsible hour.

kirk, 8 February 2007 - 5:42pm

yeah, that's the only thing - us ...

yeah, that's the only thing - us oldies need a quiet corner for wimps in which to pitch out tent, so we can whoop it up, but then hobble off and sleep. next camp i'm establishing a wimp's ghetto.

Onanon, 8 February 2007 - 6:18pm

me and D were so buzzed after that ...

me and D were so buzzed after that radio show recap ... it was so brilliant listening to all (well, most) of the music and having a good ol' rave rant session about it.

everybody who didn't go, down here in Dunners, is asking us about it. seems a lot of people were really tentative about it, wanted to see how the first one went, were afraid it was just "y'know, for kids" (i love the 'Huduscker Proxy'). i reckon tickets are going to vapourise super-fast next time, cos everyone who went this first time is guaranteed in (dependent on a kick-arse Rippon lineup), most people they've been proselytising to will consider going too.

Onanon, 8 February 2007 - 6:29pm

Wimps Ghetto. or Wimps Grotto....

Wimps Ghetto. or
Wimps Grotto.

adriancarl, 8 February 2007 - 7:30pm

Grotto, yeah, that sounds better. like ...

Grotto, yeah, that sounds better. like the Playboy Mansion, with tents, but everyone's in bed by 3 am, heh.

iluvtheclean, 8 February 2007 - 9:55pm

//Its especially amazing watching ...

//Its especially amazing watching footage of stuff i missed//

There's nothing there of me wearing a blink mask humping people is there? Cause I didn't do that.

Jon Jr., 10 February 2007 - 4:34am

<i>Grotto, yeah, that sounds better. ...

Grotto, yeah, that sounds better. like the Playboy Mansion, with tents, but everyone's in bed by 3 am, heh.
In Bed By 8, Home by 11
Giggiddy

adriancarl, 11 February 2007 - 5:06pm

For those interested here's the ...

For those interested here's the playlist from last week's Camp A Low Hum Special from "The Local" on Radio One, Dunedin:

The Deadly Deaths - Restless
MC Stormtrooper - Lord Vader
The Vacants - Long March Home
Betchadupa - Empty Head (in place of Liam's newer Lester Osbourne stuff, there's some on myspace but it can't be downloaded yet.)
Thought Creature - Your Telepathy
Over the Atlantic - Cannot Believe
The Situations - Postcards From Egypt
Shaft - Our Blue Hell
Ghostplane - Holy Mother
The Shrugs - Edge of the Earth
Goldenaxe - Micro Dracula
Batrider - Trouble (demo)
Kill Surf City - Canned Food
Operation Rolling Thunder - Eden
Collapsing Cities - Elixir Always
Disasteradio - "Power Up"
Pumice - Stefan and the Fire Eater
The Coolies - Holiday/Vacation
Cortina - 2001 Ways To Love Me
Phelps & Munro - Bounceback

Too many bands to fit everybody in, some stuff was just too new for us to source at short notice, if you're not on this list, don't worry, you were probably raved about between songs. Discovering new bands & music at the camp was a real joy, the "surprise" element worked for us. Looking forward to more videos coming online!

dmin, 11 February 2007 - 5:31pm

I turned 20 on the 5th and fuck it was ...

I turned 20 on the 5th and fuck it was great. hopefully camp will be on the same time next year so I spend celebrate my 21st in the same way!

..aww yeah also, does anymore remember who played 'smells like teen spirit'.. I was lying on a bed in a cabin and heard the intro riff so got up and went inside and it was awesome.. ended up onstage with a whole bunch of other people and the band who were ......

(cheers if anyone knows ;)

ps. go blink, sally and.. well everyone really.. go camp!!!!

Kryst, 14 February 2007 - 11:58pm

haha...oh shit.a 21st at camp ...

haha...oh shit.a 21st at camp lowhum..now if ever i heard an excuse for a pants-off party..that was it.

Smells like Teen Spirit was done by Birth Glow + Batrider, haha...and maybe 15 odd guest singers.

blink, 15 February 2007 - 1:35pm

bizzare...i just found video of them ...

bizzare...i just found video of them doing some sort of practise in their cabin...haha. mad.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tMlHp7NNT8

haha

[ external link ]

blink, 15 February 2007 - 4:19pm

ha ha...

ha ha

adriancarl, 15 February 2007 - 4:23pm

For those interested, on monday night, ...

For those interested, on monday night, National radio will be doing a one-hour special radio doco that they put together from interviews etc.. from camp...

From the radionz.co.nz website:

Monday, 19 FebruaryThe Music Mix
11:00 pm

Camp “A Low Hum” Special
“A Low Hum” tours have been storming through New Zealand for three years now, helmed by a seemingly tireless supporter of the underground music scene- Ian Jorgenson AKA Blink.

Blink’s decided to stay home this year, but “A Low Hum” is going out with a bang and a crash – to camp.

For three days 50 (mystery) bands will be descending on a campsite in Wainuiomata., near Wellington.

There’ll be campfires, marshmallows, mobs of indie hipsters, jolly country music, a hip-hop bling pool-party, ropes courses, musicians playing up trees, acres of tight black jeans, and LASHINGS of ginger beer!!

Join Kirsten Johnstone and Sam Wicks as they head for the hills with their rucksacks full of microphones and tent-pegs for the indie event of the year- Camp “A Low Hum.”

Produced by Radio New Zealand National.

blink, 15 February 2007 - 1:39pm