The Thousands

Just when you thought you were actually about to lose it, Lost City appeared. You’ve been looking for those mystery subterranean tunnels, looking for an undiscovered corner of the city, looking to the past, looking to the future, looking for your keys, looking for something new to spark your interest. Well, it’s here.

The beautiful, historic Queen’s Theatre is an immersive, transformative space just waiting for a similarly transcendental experience to blossom within its walls. For Lost City, two stages featuring a swarm of imported bands (nine including Prince Rama, Love of Diagrams and Galapagoose) plus complementary locals (Doe, Sparkspitter, Oisima and no less than ten of our favourite others) make for a swirling, extrasensory, line up of noise, electronica, post-rock, composition and psychedelica over two days.

The carefully curated festival generously uncovers the best in avant garde and experimentation. My Disco side project! Next Wave sound artists! Brisbane Festival-presented musicians! Projections courtesy of Jayson Haebich, BIG DOS and Hal Bird! Augmented reality installations by Dr Christian Sandor! Market stalls and support from local craft breweries only add to the impressive juggernaut of the festival. Frankly, we don’t quite know where to begin.

Forget about searching for anything more than this. We’ve found the door. Enter, friends. Be lost no longer.