The eastern states hold festivals all year, and while summer might be the most common time to have one they still enjoy the festivities all year around. However Perth goes very quiet during the winter as the electro boys and girls go into hibernation, with dreams of a time spent amongst an audience in the sun or under a tent.

Whether it be the jamming of synths, keyboards and drum machines, the scratching of record and the jamming of beats on a deck, or even a dope rhyme from a hip hop act. Whatever fits your taste in the new wave/electro world and beyond, Parklife brings it to its cool fashionable attendees each and every spring. With four stages of electro, indie-dance and hip-hop, Parklife certainly pleases Perth fans who have been hanging out for a festival. The biggest names in the dance culture mass into the single performance, which has been described as an experience that is completely ‘nuts’ in the good sense of the word.

Such raw appeal for acts like Digitalism, Justice, Muscles, M.I.A and MSTRKRFT brought in the crowds for Perth’s public holiday. Most punters headed straight to the stage, positioning up the front for their favorite acts, while others headed straight for the multiple bars to start their day off with a good drink or two (or three).

Local acts such as the Bourgeois Bogan DJs and Electronic Limosine were placed at the beginning of the day’s timeslots, while the more popular acts played in the later part of the night.

One of the big Australian acts becoming a well known name amongst all cool kids is Muscles with his synth popping beats. Having the afternoon sunlight timeslot just after Kid Kenobi and Riot in Belgium, he performed a very attractive set to a huge audience. Fans danced as he tore through his short-lived set with his new tracks such like Guns, Babes and Lemonade and his otyher excellent tracks like One Inch Badge Pin, Sweaty and the one song to get the audience celebrating and jumping – Icecream . While there were some sound issues with Muscles’ vocals, his performance was well liked and cheered for. In the background K.I.M. from The Presets could be seen observing the crowd prior to his performance, before he hit the stage with a remixed version of one of his own songs I Go Hard I Go Home .

The main acts were scheduled for the biggest tent in Wellington Square, which really got pumping at dusk; the closed in tent creating a rave-like atmosphere. MSTRKRFT were the first big act to send the punter’s bodies into fits, playing their own slamming remixes and other fresh electro hits. Their own hit Work On You had a massive impact on the pumping crowd. The two Canadian gentlemen paid allegiance to Digitalism by sampling the industrial techno sound of Jupiter Room.

Speaking of Digitalism, they were next on stage and were the favourite act for many people at the festival. Their simple setup of a drum machine and three-piece drum kit with decks and keyboards behind them was the catalyst for a very respectable live performance were they played almost every track off their album Idealism, including Magnets , Digitalism in Cairo and The Pulse .

One of the biggest names in the international electro Busy P, renowned DJ and owner of the Ed Banger label (not to mention manager of Daft Punk ) played the warmup set for Justice. Bringing the audience some beautiful robo tunes like Intergalactic from the Beastie Boys and the Boys Noize remix of *Feist’s * My Moon My Man certainly kept punters entertained while the cross of the Justice duo was set up.

With the massive cross on stage even more prominant than the two DJs behind it, it wasn’t hard to be impressed by Justice’s very heavy and deep tunes. Opening their set with the heavy bass of Genesis , following on with other tunes like Let There Be Light and the Waters of Nazareth before continuing along with their more popular hits like The Party and the well known D.A.N.C.E , all the while with the audience entranced by the flashing cross on stage. Busy P came on to perform again after Justice

While most were interested in the spectacular performance delivered by the French duo, drawing a very large audience also was M.I.A. who performed her well known hits like Paper Planes and Boyz . Adam Freeland and Shapeshifter were performing on the other stages, giving audience members a taste of a whole bunch of different genres for their final part of the night. All in all, Perth couldn’t be happier.