Review by Ben Connolly
There’s always something special about country town festivals. For the locals, there’s the rare joy of rocking out with your house key in your pocket; for the ring-ins, there’s the extra heady buzz of a sugar fuelled roadtrip, or skanky train chug at the end of the night. From the get-go this buzz was palpable at Bendigo’s fifth turn on the Groovin’ The Moo carousel.

As always happens when you’re a big-smoke ring-in, events like these not only provide a musical feast but also a chance to see how the locals do it in comparison.

Observation #1: the locals love their festival. Sure the procession of beaten up shit boxes and busloads of hipsters from Melbourne bolstered the numbers, but the bulging excess of humanity dodging the cow pats and shielding their eyes from the dust eddies screamed of local pride.
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