Two Sundays ago was a comfortable 27° – perfect for a day rave. We got to Claremont Showgrounds at around 2:30pm and everyone was buzzing and ready to go. This is the merry cast of the day: Tham, Lydia, Scott, Selina, Kayo, Simon and me.

And a couple of hours into it, we met up with Katie and James.

There was a sea of people in every direction.

Which meant two things: queuing up for drinks …

and the toilet was a major mood killer.

What made it worse was that we had the stoopidest bar system on the day: you queue up once to buy drink tickets which you then need to queue up at another set of counters to redeem the drinks with. Queuing up twice is not the worst of it; there were no proper lines and everyone was pushing in from every freaking direction too. Not happy, Jan.

And what did we end up doing? We can’t be arsed queuing up so often so we redeem a large number of drinks and ended up more or less binge drinking. Shhh, don’t tell my mom.

Anyhoo, we were there for the music and dancing. I enjoyed John Dahlback’s set.

I heard Chicane was good but I was stuck in the bloody drinks queue for half an hour missing most of their set. Argh!

Next up was Axwell, and he was bloody worth it for the entry alone.

After his set, our group were truly energized and there were still 3 hours of the day left. Woohoo! But to be honest, I didn’t quite get into Fedde’s set. It was middling with good bits here and there.

Therefore I was really hoping for deadmau5 to end the day on a high note. But disappointingly, his set was very mellow and chill.

After the show, we heard that Darren J and Laurent Garnier in the Sneakerpeeps tent were great. Them’s the breaks with these things – you really have to pick and choose and sometimes you do miss out on some good acts.

Overall it wasn’t the best day rave that I’ve been to but my friends more than made up for the lacklustre music.

Here are some shots of random punters and girls on shoulders to finish up this post.

Here are the highlight clips of Axwell, Fedde Le Grand and deadmau5.

Onwards, to the next rave!