After its unequivocally spectacular debut last year, the Good Things festival is back for another crash-hot round of rock, punk, pop and mosh. Punters arrive in droves for the first acts, with all nine-plus hours of the schedule packed tightly with international icons and local legends alike. For us, the festivities kick off with a poignant – if decidedly polarising – set from web-famous weirdcore princess Poppy.
Across 45 minutes as upbeat as they are unsettling, the 25-year-old fuses bright bubblegum pop hooks with thumping hip-hop beats and guttural black metal riffs – if you’re wondering how that works, don’t, because we certainly can’t explain it. Somehow, though, she and her band (who, by the way, are wearing deeply disturbing latex masks of Poppy herself) pull it off without a…
