Editor’s Note
My predecessor Gloria has left behind a warm chair but a mountain of expectation. She embodied what it was to be a passionate, intellectual, know-a-lot editor and I can only do my best to assume her heightened post. As the clock shifts, daylight is officially being saved and the first brushes of summer are upon us. What beckons is exhilarating – the Melbourne underground remains fertile during winter but blossoms like a spring rose during summer.
We will be greeted by open-air parties, park shindigs and raucous Sunday sessions. It’s time to revel companeros, and dance because the sun isn’t going to sleep. Festivals are awakening, and soon there won’t be a weekend without a one-day, two-day or three-day extravaganza. Someone chuck on ‘September’ by Earth, Wind & Fire because excitement levels are brimming like a Mentos chemical reaction.
For our 1647th edition, we’ll invite you to two phenomena, Hopkins Creek and Docklands Blues Music Festival while also uncapping more of what Strawberry Fields, World Vegan Day and Darebin Music Feast have to offer. Then there’s Cat Power, the masterful goddess who gets plenty of love this week, adorning the cover and the precipice of our Singles column. Time to party, my friends.
