4 days, 9 stages, 22 000 fans, 10 huge international acts, over 180 local acts… throw in a world cup rugby WIN for South Africa and you get what was the ultimate 10th Birthday a festival could ever have celebrated. This year, Daisies once again sold-out and boasted a stellar lineup, it’s largest to date, including The Kooks, Milky Chance, The Cat Empire, Crookers, Scuba, and Thomas Jack, local favourites Jack Parow, PH Fat, Al Bairre, Alice Phoebe Lou, Fokofpolisiekar, The Rudimentals and many more. I arrived on the Friday arvie to my 7th Daisies in a row – this year having decided to go full-glamp with an amazing crew, from instant tents & blow-up mattresses, to skottles & whistling kettles to food and booze to boot, we really went all out in trying to make this year the best one yet. With filled up sippy-cups we zipped up our tents and headed to the festival, passing free-hug signs, decent porto-loo’s (a big thank you to the cleaners who were constantly on the ball!), thousands of happy faces, a Vida stall, The Daisy Den, a Vans campsite dance floor, the booze checkpoint and in…we…were… jamming front left at the Carribean Twist Beach Bar to the likes of Miss Cj and Munniezbrotherz until we were ready to #SwitchOnTheNight! [...]
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