jannimary: Our Latest Travels - Mundi Mundi Bash

Where does one begin? There was so much happening at the Mundi Mundi Bash.

Once again, here is the line up.

All the music happens on this stage setup with the big screens on either side.

WEDNESDAY

A beautiful, sunny, warm day.

There were a couple of bands on the Wednesday night, before the official start. Tha Boiz are local music teachers from Broken Hill and put on a great show.

They were followed by Furnace and the Fundamentals. We first encountered them at last year’s bash. The most energetic party band, with all songs that we know and sing along to.

THURSDAY

There was a little rain overnight, so the weather wa much cooler the next day. Coats, rather than tshirts.

Thursday saw the official concerts start. Shane Howard, of Goanna Band had a choir of local kids from the far western region and they had even written a song together for the occasion.

Here we are, in front of the big Goanna Band sign. The significance of this is that we had our photo taken at one of their concerts back in the mid 80s, just after Mick had popped the question to me earlier in that night. We looked a little different back then.

Troy Casserole-Daley was up next. He always comes across as such a nice fellow.

We have seen The Waifs before and they put on a good show.

By then, we had worked our way up to the very front of the crowd. This is that they looked like from our position….and that’s just the ones standing up at the front. Take note of the sky. Most of the cloud from earlier in the day had cleared.

The Hoodoo Gurus were next up.

We took another crowd in the sunset photo. Notice the sky has started to turn grey. We didn’t. Well, towards the end of the Hoodoo Guru’s set we noticed a sprinkling of rain in the lights and expected more of the drizzly stuff of the previous day. Nope! It straight away turned into horizontal rain and apparently 70kmh winds. Everyone did a mad dash back to their campsites. Fortunately, Mick had tied down our awning, so all was good. Some faired much worse. We didn’t worry about going back for the final act of the evening, although quite a few did.

FRIDAY

It was freezing with a cold wind.

We had pretty good seats near the front of the crowd, after having put our gear in the queue to enter quite early in the morning. However, from where we were I wasn’t able to get many photos. Here are just a few. However, it was still a great lineup. The performers must have been quite cold on the windswept stage.

There was a drone’s eye view of the crowd displayed on the big screen. That’s a lot of people.

Many people take their chairs, eskies and bits and bobs from their camp site to the concert in trolleys. Mick, being Mick, made a custom set up to just hold the esky and strap the chairs on top. It works really well.

SATURDAY

Another day of great music, and fortunately, not as cold as Friday.