Get your head out of the clouds and say hello to Daydream: A new festival preparing to weave its way through the east coast this April. Daydream‘s lineup is packed with homegrown and international talent, offering up a cornucopia of Indie-Rock, Punk, Psychedelica and Shoegaze to drown out those Autumn blues.
Leading the charge is Washington’s Modest Mouse, a band whose name has been canonical in the Indie-Rock discourse for thirty years.
Modest Mouse reached the heights of mainstream popularity in the mid-2000s: A time when it wasn’t uncommon for anthemic folk bands like Arcade Fire and The Shins to be sandwiched between Rhianna and Fergie on the radio.
Modest Mouse‘s steady slew of cult hits like Float On, Dashboard, Dramamine, and The World At Large solidified the band’s position as Alt-Rock A-listers, but the 2010s saw them drop off the map a bit. Since the release of their seventh studio album The Golden Casket in 2021, Modest Mouse has once again hit their stride – the LP is indulgently layered and experimental, led by percussion and obscure instruments like vibraslaps and spacephones.
Alongside the band’s appearances at Daydream, Modest Mouse will be performing headline shows across Australia and New Zealand for the first time since 2016.
Joining Modest Mouse for Daydream is Britain’s Slowdive. After reforming in 2014 and releasing a self-titled album in 2017, Slowdive is returning to the stage to drench your eardrums in their blissful drones of ambient rock.
Naarm’s own Art Punks, Tropical F*ck Storm will also be hitting the stage at Daydream, alongside US natives, Beach Fossils, and Cloud Nothings. Psychedelic surf rockers, Majak Door will appear in the Eora and Naarm legs of the festival.
Daydream will kick off in Naarm, making its way up to Eora, before wrapping up in Meanjin:
Sat 22 April
Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Naarm/Melbourne, VIC
Sat 29 April
Hordern Pavilion, Eora/Sydney, NSW
Sun 30 April
Riverstage, Meanjin/Brisbane, QLD