As the Australian leg of the St Jerome’s Laneway Festival starts this weekend - hello Adelaide on Friday and Sydney on Sunday – here’s a double hit of Laneway reviews, a decade apart. The area got bigger, the sound got louder, the t-shirts a bit tighter (for some of us anyway) and a few competitors fell by the wayside. But some things remained pretty much as they always were. Read on, and maybe see some of you on Sunday. 2007 Laneway Festival Circular Quay, March 4 Every fest

Laneway Festival College of the Arts, Rozelle February 4 Some things do not make sense from a distance, or even the morning after. How is it that at times during his highly entertaining, penultimate main stage set, Nick Murphy - the producer/singer/electronic soul artist formerly known as Chet Faker - sounded more rock ‘n’ roll than Tame Impala - ostensibly a psychedelic rock band but often enough a trippy, quasi-electronic dance band - which followed him? Was anyone not ther