The chilled out nature of the day led me to sit aside the McLennan stage on the populated adjoining hill. The laid back expectation of this set, I feel, calls for a bit of laid back absorption.
An eerily haunting blue light emanates from within the tent accompanied by equally ghostly sound that introduces popular new release Killer.
Poison in our Pocket follows some not uncommon crowd banter from main man Levi and all feels balanced. Some humorous Splendour banter continues before leading into a set highlight version of Save Your Soul.
By the time fourth song Bright White Lights begins, the crowd has begun to bulge out all sides of the open sided tent and Whitley's choice of calling it a day and Splendour their last festival, seems a poor one.
Whitley's fantastic ability to engage an audience is evident as he slows the tempo down to draw everyone's attention to mid set cover, Dancing Queen.
As he describes as he was born in his mothers mould, the temperature continues to drop and what was a beautiful sunny day has become a clear cool night sky where spotlights shine with power and are easily visible from rising dust whilst licking surrounding aged eucalyptus.
Conclusion to the set comes excellently together with Head First Down followed by final hurrah All I Could Have Been. Now well energised for an evening of farewell fun.
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