Episode 17: 2025 Underland Washup (Bek, Miles, PY, & TJ)
In this episode we chat about the 2025 Underland event with a panel of community volunteers and crew members from Centre Camp, Site Planning And Maintenance, LNT, and the Sandfolks. We discuss some of our highlights; the shenanigans; the effigy and temple burns; offer some improvements for the next event, and provide some behind-the-scenes after reports with heaps of ranger and volunteer talks and ingishts.
Host: Stevan ‘Silent Disco’ Lay
Guests: Rebekah ‘Space Cake’, Miles Whiticker, PY ‘Double Shot’ Wong, & TJ ‘Hotwire’ Wier
Produced by PY Wong & Stevan Lay
Underland: Pop! | 25-29 September, 2025 | Paradise, Victoria, Australia
Photo credit: Tyrie Hancock
USEFUL Links:
Common Arts Victoria: https://commonarts.org.au/
Underland: https://underland.au/
Burning Seed: https://www.burningseed.com/
Sunburnt Arts: https://sunburntarts.org.au/
Blazing Swan: https://blazingswan.com.au/
Modifyre: https://www.modifyre.org/
Confest: https://confest.org.au/
Dark Side of the Rainbow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Side_of_the_Rainbow
Timestamps:
[00:00:00] Intro
[00:01:03] Hotwire intro
[00:03:17] Miles intro
[00:06:29] Space cake underland thoughts
[00:08:11] Hotwire underland thoughts
[00:13:37] PY underland thoughts
[00:16:11] Crew feedback
[00:20:51] First time burners
[00:25:02] Underland voice messages
[00:30:40] Effigy
[00:40:52] Centre camp workshops
[00:45:00] Dark side of the rainbow
[00:49:34] Roving art
[00:52:17] SPAM
[00:54:41] Extending underland
[01:01:55] Underland decompression
[01:07:32] Underland voice messages
[01:14:19] Temple
[01:31:10] K-sub and camp kraken
[01:35:38] New theme camps
[01:39:09] Post office
[01:42:07] Saloon
[01:46:05] LNT
[01:48:46] Lost property
[01:53:34] Underland voice messages
[01:59:30] Hotwire underland highlights
[02:03:54] Sustainable handover and shadowing
[02:12:59] Ranger shoutouts
[02:16:33] Kids at underland
[02:22:20] Improvements
[02:24:26] Burn-a-lot
[02:28:59] Underland summary
[02:31:20] Shoutouts and closing
[02:35:43] Underland voice messages
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This episode was recorded on 21 October, 2025
