This clearly wasn't just a gathering of nocturnal researchers and UFO die-hards, but also a family-fun extravaganza that would ideally boost business revenue for the struggling town of Pine Bush, population 2,000.
Advance reports that this British songwriter's fourth album, "Girl Who Got Away," would be a "big, fun electronic extravaganza" were misleading.
He said, "parents who grew up in the late '50s and '60s will get a kick out of the musical tributes to the music of those eras and perhaps listen along with their kids during a family fun time extravaganza".
Co-organised by VICE and The Beats, it's going to be an extravaganza of fun, that's going to be so much fun that you're going to be totally funned-out by the end of the fun.
Their mission statement is filled with words that invite daydreams, "Symbiosis intends to facilitate peak experiences through a synaesthesia of art, music, transformational learning, and sustainable living integrated into an unparalleled extravaganza of fun beneath the starry skies".
The bill also includes jazz saxophonist Pharoah Sanders, a talk by provocative KLF member Bill Drummond, a Kooky Motorik Pelvis dance party that combines all kinds of fun and a one-stop food extravaganza put on by Sydney restaurateurs Icebergs Dining Room, Bar Da Orazio Pizza + Porchetta, Fratelli Paradiso and 10williamst.
In truth, that's probably expecting too much from what is ultimately a highbrow pop-up shopping mall, but certain motifs always emerge from these extravaganzas, and what's more fun than sussing out the pattern?
According to McHale, last month's Le Fooding extravaganza in New York was "the most fun foreign event we've done.
Partitum Mutante is a convincingly meretricious creation, and Faber has dry, disapproving fun with its portentous flourishes and the gynaecological extravaganza of the accompanying video installation.
"The Extravaganza promises to be an evening full of exotic fun, surprises and gastronomic delights.
