With Foreverafter Festival, The Presets look to capture that 2008 feeling…

It’s hard to explain for those who weren’t there, but I’m gonna try anyway. There was a time before iPhones when going to your local and dancing to electropop was the thing you did. At the same time as the early-2000s indie sleaze movement, Australia was producing some of the best music in the genre, which was then dripped into the ears of young people on sticky dancefloors at 3am on a Friday or Saturday night.

Locally, artists like The Presets, Cut Copy, Ladyhawke (local enough), Bag Raiders and more were seemingly releasing banger after banger, while a ragtag group of DJs known as Bang Gang were reinterpreting their heaters and streamlining them for the 125 BPM zone. Synths were chunky and distorted, the beats were unrelenting, and the rooms were heaving. What a time to be alive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfsbqFbCtC0

It’s this moment in time that The Presets are honing in on with Foreverafter, a new mini-festival curated by the duo that’s headed to Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane this January.

Joining them are fellow era-defining acts mentioned above, with rising artist FUKHED, bringing a fresh perspective to a lineup built around one of Australia’s most beloved musical movements. Julian Hamilton and Kim Moyes put it plainly:”We’ve made a racket alongside most of these artists for years, onstage and off. This is our idea of the ultimate party. We’ve all talked about it forever — so it’s about time.”

Foreverafter hits Melbourne’s Myer Music Bowl, Sydney’s Carriageworks and Brisbane’s Riverstage this January, with Frontier Members able to access a presale today, with general public tickets go on sale tomorrow from 2pm local time.