{"id":211,"date":"2008-04-28T23:26:04","date_gmt":"2008-04-28T22:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inforeignparts.net\/blog\/2008\/04\/28\/homegrown-festival\/"},"modified":"2017-09-21T16:57:52","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T16:57:52","slug":"homegrown-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/2008\/04\/28\/homegrown-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Homegrown festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, I met Janne once more before she left.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/shirasade\/2449663847\/\" title=\"Oriental Bay by shirasade, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2318\/2449663847_e31c20c7fa_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"Oriental Bay\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But the big thing was of course <a href=\"http:\/\/homegrown.net.nz\" target=\"new\">Vodafone Homegrown<\/a>, a festival with over 30 kiwi bands playing on 5 stages over 11 hours. I went with Meredith and her friend Zoey and it couldn&#8217;t have been a better festival experience, starting with the awesome weather, the fun atmosphere and of course the great music. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/shirasade\/2449668445\/\" title=\"Homegrown festival by shirasade, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3090\/2449668445_405e0082ff_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"Homegrown festival\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These are the bands I saw at least partly, in chronological order: Salmonella Dub, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ladi6.com\/\" target=\"new\">Ladi6<\/a>, Sunshine Sound System, Cornerstone Roots, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opshopmusic.com\/\" target=\"new\">Opshop<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elemenop.com\" target=\"new\">Elemeno P<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thephoenixfoundation.co.nz\/\" target=\"new\">The Phoenix Foundation<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblackseeds.com\/\" target=\"new\">The Black Seeds<\/a>, The Mint Chicks, Tiki. There were also buskers, breakdancers, a Brazilian drum group and awesome <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fire_poi#Fire_poi\" target=\"new\">fire poi<\/a> to admire.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s some more photos, music and video from the day:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><strong>New Zealand Dub\/Roots stage:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/shirasade\/2449665315\/\" title=\"Homegrown festival by shirasade, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2152\/2449665315_54e8f6e5c7_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"Homegrown festival\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/shirasade\/2450489676\/\" title=\"Homegrown festival by shirasade, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2177\/2450489676_9835ae6788_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"Homegrown festival\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/shirasade\/2450490170\/\" title=\"Homegrown festival by shirasade, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2002\/2450490170_d576e3d8db_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"Homegrown festival\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&#8211; Ladi6 &#8211; I Can See: www.sendspace.com\/file\/qisnxr<br \/>\n&#8211; The Black Seeds: www.sendspace.com\/file\/pr3td9<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rock stage in the TSB Arena<\/strong> (for which we had to queue):<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/shirasade\/2450491882\/\" title=\"Homegrown festival by shirasade, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3044\/2450491882_245507c334_m.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" alt=\"Homegrown festival\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/shirasade\/2450492320\/\" title=\"Homegrown festival by shirasade, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2154\/2450492320_6f9d682141_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"Homegrown festival\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/sN3L2c80mHg\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/sN3L2c80mHg\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\n&#8211; Opshop &#8211; No Ordinary Love: www.sendspace.com\/file\/49raci<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/shirasade\/2450492712\/\" title=\"Homegrown festival by shirasade, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3288\/2450492712_ba88313dda_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"Homegrown festival\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&#8211; Elemeno P &#8211; www.sendspace.com\/file\/pzqxgb<\/p>\n<p><strong>Indie stage:<\/strong><br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ue-N-9_4m3E\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ue-N-9_4m3E\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\n&#8211; Phoenix Foundation &#8211; Bright Grey: www.sendspace.com\/file\/pzqxgb<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/shirasade\/2449667941\/\" title=\"Homegrown festival by shirasade, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2056\/2449667941_4fd104b897_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"Homegrown festival\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, I met Janne once more before she left. But the big thing was of course Vodafone Homegrown, a festival with over 30 kiwi bands playing on 5 stages over 11 hours. I went with Meredith and her friend Zoey and it couldn&#8217;t have been a better festival experience, starting with the awesome weather, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/2008\/04\/28\/homegrown-festival\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Homegrown festival&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,18,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","category-photos","category-nz","category-oceania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":568,"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions\/568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}