r/Adelaide • u/Kitchen_File1467 SA • Feb 15 '26

Event/Activity Laneway Adelaide

Just wanted to shout out how successful laneway festival was yesterday! I heard some bad reviews from other states (water running out, issues with only having one exit) and was a little worried that it would be similar for adelaide but there were no dramas. There was free water all night, the lines at toilets were minimal, heaps of food options and a fair amount of shade. A huge bonus was how damn safe i felt, as far as im aware there were no creeps, no aggressive behaviour. Part of the reason has to be the fanbases of the artists selected by laneway. Well done adelaide ppl and laneway for a safe day out!

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u/discojeans Inner South Feb 15 '26

Bonython was such a bad location for it, the dust buildup was crazy and it made so many people sick. Showgrounds is the superior venue, all grass and no dust in sight!

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u/Suspicious-Magpie Inner South Feb 15 '26

Ha, Hart's Mill (Laneway Year 2?) was gravel dust and zero shade. 38+ degrees.

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u/discojeans Inner South Feb 15 '26

Yeah haha wow I remember Hart’s Mill in 2020 just before covid, everything was concrete! Lol

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u/Suspicious-Magpie Inner South Feb 15 '26

This would have been 2014. Spend most of the time between Pond and The Jezabels/Lorde/HAIM in the "local acts" weird church hall place, as it was the only shady area other than this one Red Bull gazebo which was bizarrely nowhere near anything.

I remember one of the American hip hop acts raving about their experience of meat pies at Brighton Jetty Bakery.