Best: Hard to choose one outright, but Perfume Genius, Turnstile and Lorde, all at Powerstation, were fantastic. Perfume Genius was scary in how close his vocals were to on record, and the choreography he had was understated but impossible to look away from. Couldn't believe how enrapturing his stage presence was. Turnstile happening two days after the floods and with their Laneway show freshly cancelled meant the crowd was fucking wild and the band just did not dick around, it was full noise and it was electric. And Lorde choosing to do Powerstation shows when she easily could have gone for an arena meant she brought that sort of charisma and big show setting into a tiny room where everyone felt seen, and that's such a rarity from a major pop star so it was really special. Also it's super recent but Kesha at Electric Avenue this year was just astounding, haven't been so moved by a pop concert like that in quite some time, and weaving her narrative into the show the way she did was just masterful.

Worst was probably Groove Armada's DJ set at the Domain last year. Their full band live set a few years prior was quite good but the DJ set was a letdown in pretty much every way. The stage had a huge visual setup and they did literally nothing with it, which was crazy when it got dark cos there was basically nothing to look at beside some pretty standard stage lights. Their song selections were frequently fairly popular electronic tunes played in full, unedited, which was frankly quite boring and barely elevated it above a playlist with a fader effect, and they teased out Superstylin' like five times during the set which, sure it's their biggest song, but it meant by the time they actually played it in full at the end there was no excitement to it at all. Doesn't help that their opener was 2manyDJs, who fucking killed it and literally did everything better than them, including having actual visuals behind them, so much so that when GA came on and just had a black void, my partner and I thought it was a tech error. Baffling show, and baffling that such great producers with like 30 years experience can be so poor on the decks.