The daytime
The day started out a crisp 20°. We arrived at 10am for set up. A light mist of rain fell, but it wasn’t too annoying, so we zipped around and checked the place out. An annual Australia Day tradition, Kiss My Grass follows an Aussie Day theme, and this year, stages were named after Australian icons, like the Lamington stage, the Bindi Irwin stage, the Lifesaving stage and the Neighbours VIP area. Aussie fun!
GRLmobile was at Kiss My Grass in our big pink shipping container, with our DJ Skool ready to rock the hizzo and our promo crew armed with condoms and tattoos to keep the punters amused. We had a mini VIP area, decked out with astro-turf, blow-up palm trees and bean bags.
Guys and gals started filtering in as soon as the gates were open – it was still a little cold, so we sold a few hoodies straightaway. For the rest of the day it was top fun seeing girlies and dudes decked out GRLstyle!
We had a steady crowd at the trailer all day – not surprising – DJ Herbie J and DJ KC from the GRLmobile DJ Skool, and DJ Dirty Diggs were slammin’ out some of the phattest beats at the festival (remember last year? Same thing!).
By 1.30, chicks were coming up to have a spin on the decks. By 2pm, the container was packed and pumping. Chicks were stoked to have a go. “I’ve always wanted to be a DJ, but I never knew how – this is so cool!” one spunky diva said. We love watching how much everyone enjoys it. We reckon some of our budding DJs would have seen their time in the spotlight as the highlight of their day, by the looks on their faces after they finished!
DJ Nugget (our fave chick on the decks) took over from 3pm and amped up the crowd like a superstar with some smooth, driving beats. The crowd was digging the tunes and dancing shoes were out in force. It’s funny how otherwise shy people will come out of their shell when there’s a maxxin’ PA system and a stage to get up and dance on. The front of our container became a springboard for aspiring Pussycat Dolls and hot rock chicks.
The only time our music stopped rocking was when one of our GRLfrnds lost their mobile phone – we turned off the music so we could hear it ring. Our phones are our lives, so that’s a good enough reason to put the party on hold, right? P.S. she found it!
The evening
As the sunshine turned orange and slowly subsided, the DJ Skool boys jumped back onto the turntables and welcomed some new wannabe DJs up onto the stage. The audience was still psyched from Nugget’s set, and DJ Herbie J and DJ KC kept the vibe electric with more deep ‘n’ dirty beats, perfected by some sweet scratching by our new BFFs.
To be honest, our container was bouncing up and down so hard that it was difficult to write this blog [I’m writing this from inside the container, behind the decks. It feels like we’re on the high seas the amount this thing is moving at the moment! I can hardly control my mouse…]!! I also uploaded over 400 photographs to our Facebook fanpage. You can check the pix out here. There are more to come, which I’ll put up on Monday.
At ten to eight, we started ushering people out of the container. We were actually scheduled to finish at eight, but the power cut out at five minutes to. There was much booing, and the crowd started up with a chorus of We Are The World to encourage us to stay. Yes, people were begging us for one more song. Yes, people really, really wanted us to keep the party going – what can I say? For one more year we rocked the house…
The crowd finally filtered away, and wandered off to find their next aural adventure leaving us to deflate our palm trees, roll our cords and stack our boxes for our next festival journey (Future Music in Brisbane anyone?). The festival was another unbridled success, with thousands of new GRLfrnds getting to know how rad GRLmobile is, and us gaining a whole bunch of street cred all over again with a new fan base.
Kiss My Grass? We’d love to. Bring on 2011.
Mwah mwah
From MissGRLmo @ KMG 2010
Xx
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