All Our Friends at Night delivered keen Canberrans a chance to enjoy a taste of this year’s Parklife lineup without making the trek up to Sydney.

UC Live and Pang! hosted the international, all-star lineup accompanied by Canberra’s very own Peking Duck who opened the show, followed by a collaboration between Offtapia and Cheese preparing the crowd for the guest stars.

Opening for the international stars, UK rapper Elliot Gleave, better known as Example, had the crowd ecstatic with his latest track to blitz Australian dance floors, ‘Changed the Way You Kissed Me’, among others well-known for the singer including appropriately named, ‘Kickstarts’, and Laidback Luke collaboration, ‘Natural Disaster’.

American Producer, DJ and Ministry of Sound veteran, Wolfgang Gartner kept the shoulder-riding, dubstepping crowd excited with his set. He included classics from Clubbers Guide including famous ‘Wolfgang’s 5th Symphony’ with a hint of Ministry’s Flashback. Having mixed with the likes of Tiesto, Deadmaus and Will.i.am to name a few, and despite the minor set malfunction as a loose cable killed the music, Wolfgang Gartner knew how to keep his fans stirred up.

By midnight, the crowd of young shufflers were well prepared for what MSRTKRFT had to deliver the dance-crazed fans. They mixed their well-known classics including, ‘Bounce’, and, ‘Heartbeats’, giving the crowd some Easy Love as they pushed up against the stage in the overcrowded mosh pit.

Hot on the dubstep scene, crowd pleaser Nero was well worth the wait. For the early hours of the morning, his high-energy set exceeded the average standard for the cosy venue. The clear classic and crowd favourite, ‘Promises’, fulfilled above and beyond all expectations. Loud bass and lustful female vocals supported an all-shuffling, ruthlessly high-vigour crowd of faithful Nero fans.

All Our Friends at Night 2011 was an electrifying collection of three Canberra DJs and four international DJ sensations who delivered a powerful dubstep dimension to the nation’s capital. Canberrans had first class access to the best parts of the Parklife festival, renowned for pulling massive crowds in Sydney, Perth, Brisbane, Adelaide and Melbourne. The acts can only get bigger and better ensuring this unique indoor Canberra festival keeps coming back during the quieter month of September.