Future Music Festival Sydney

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Figuring out how to spend your last few days in a city can be tough, because it feels like a toss up between things you loved doing and may not get to do again or things that you never did and may not get the chance to do.

My last weekend here coincided with Future Music Festival, and luckily thanks to some work opportunities I was able to score a free ticket.

There is a lot I have done around the world, but proper music festivals really are not one of those things. When I was backpacking Europe we stumbled across some international DJ Festival in Budapest, and when I was living in Korea I we went up to Seoul for some electronic music concert. That was the extent of my music festivals, and they were not even that intense.

A day-long, multi-stage festival was something that never registered on my radar, yet a free ticket to Future Music Festival was too hard to pass up. Not to mention Pharrell had recently been added to the lineup, and I have one of the biggest crushes ever on him.

Future is a music festival held each year across some of Australia’s biggest cities and features both national and international artists, with Pharrell, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, Rudimental, Hardwell, Deadmaus and a few others were some of the headlining acts.

When I woke up to a beautiful, sunny and hot day – the first in a while in Sydney – I found myself dreading the concert ahead. I could see it happening: sweating to death and stuck in a mosh pit of sweaty, drunk and drugged out naked people.

I was contemplating passing and heading to the beach.

“Yeah I was confused as to why you were going because I thought you hated things like this,” my friend Lydia said this morning as we talked about figuring a way out of the day.

“I do. I don’t really have any desire to go,” I said. My words were drenched with misery, as if someone was sending me to go watch a documentary on the history and rules of cricket.

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But I knew that once I got there I would have fun, and that my friends and the Italian were all going, and it would be one of the best Sydney experiences to go out on.

From the moment we made our way over from Pyrmont to where the event was held over at Randwick Race Course, I felt like I stepped back in time to my tailgating days at Penn State.

Drunk people were everywhere, and by drunk I mean these people were just absolutely wasted. Like, lifeless bodies strewn all over the place. There were all the typical scenarios, whether it was a girl yelling at her lifeless friend to get her shit together so they could get into the concert or a kid swaying back and forth, falling asleep upright. People were throwing up everywhere, passing joints around, tripping off their faces, making out everywhere, taking naps in the middle of a stampede of concert-goers and there were one too many who looked as blank as a slate and probably would not have been able to remember their own names.

We have all been there before, but I found myself wondering why these people even bothered paying 180 dollars for a ticket to get so absolutely mortal that they would not even have a clue as to where they are.

This is more than just a concert; Future is a like a carnival of tattooed flesh by day with all the women who are half-naked and all the men who are actually naked. By night it almost feels like a neon war zone, bodies strewn all over as if they fought the hardest battle of the lives while the rest carry on strong, dancing like robotic machines to the house music that carried throughout the festival.

Pharrell was the first act we caught, and he came on stage at around 4:15 p.m.. I will admit, for as much as I love him, he was a bit of a let down and was really difficult to hear – though he did pull some girls on stage with him and I found myself supremely jealous of them regardless of his performance.

We went on from stage to stage, dancing to Tinie Tempah, who was actually one of the best parts of the afternoon, to Hardwell to Rudimental to anyone else that gave us a good beat and a good crowd of people.

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I felt like I was floating on a cloud the entire afternoon, and going to Future Music Festival was definitely a check off the Sydney bucket list. I wrapped up the day by meeting back up with the Italian to get dinner at the best pizza place in Sydney. The food at this place really is so deliciously fresh that I would almost go so far as to say it is as good as Peppino’s back home in Brooklyn. (His tastebuds clearly have nothing on mine when it comes to knowing good Italian food.)

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Sydney, you did me well this weekend with showing me the time of my life at Future and sending me out with a bang.

Less than 24 hours left.

At least I think.

 

Category: Australia, Sydney

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