I ought to start compiling a list of vantage points where music lovers can, for free, catch the best of the concerts and music festivals that take place around the eastern suburbs of Sydney.
In the last couple of weeks the area has played host to Good Vibrations in Centennial Park, and the Future Music Festival at Royal Randwick Racecourse.
This Saturday, 15 March, Jack Johnson performs in Centennial Park from 4pm.
While much of the area surrounding the concert venue is in the process of being screened off, meaning actually seeing him will be difficult, you should be able to picnic in the surrounding fields, and still hear the show quite clearly.
It is public parkland after all. They never used to screen off the boundaries around the temporary concert areas in the park, it’s something that’s only started happening recently. It makes the bootleggers’ task a little harder I guess.
I sat on the fence rail and watched Bob Dylan’s evening show there in 2001, and also saw Carlos Santana in 2003, likewise from the “cheap seats”.
What a free-loader I am…
jumping the fence is also good fun, especially if its an over 18s concert… good times.
its not too difficult if you have some half decent arm muscles, and that way you can WATCH the show too!
hehe… the problem is there are now about three or four fences to jump… the concert area is better fortified than Constantinople!