The young band, which won last year’s Very West competition to gain a spot on the bill, played with reckless abandon — in particular tambourine player Isaac Hayes, who seemed to channel Midnight Oil frontman Peter Garrett with his gyrating dance moves.

Nine hours later, the same stage was swarming with fans crammed in to see headline act M83, who put on a dazzling show of seductive pop under the night stars. All in all, the festival’s third instalment held in Footscray delivered another polished affair.

On another blazing Melbourne day, the ‘‘indie kids’’ turned out in force, boys swapping skinny jeans for skinny shorts, girls donning vintage dresses and carefully co-ordinated outfits.

Music-wise, delicate English folk singer Laura Marling played a crowd-pleasing afternoon slot on the Dean Turner stage.

Crowded House legend Neil Finn added some experience and class to the event, showing off his new band Pajama Club alongside wife Sharon, before jetting off to play a gig in Sydney.

The much-hyped British band The Horrors didn’t disappoint fans, either, playing a rampaging set which included tracks from their latest album Skying.

Other notable performances included Brooklyn indie pop band The Drums, Girls, Anna Calvi, and Twin Shadow.

The only hiccup of note came late in the day when police and Metropolitan Fire Brigade members had to coerce down from a tree a punter who had climbed up to get a better vantage point to see Active Child. It took an hour to get the man down but not before an interested crowd of 50 gathered around him for the spectacle. He was taken away by police.

Since moving to Footscray from Melbourne’s CBD following bad publicity and issues of capacity, the festival has quickly recaptured its moxie.

It’s a relaxed, intimate event that has carefully cornered the indie crowd and cemented its place in the congested festival market. The novelty of staging a music festival in suburban Footscray seems to have worn off, too. Now it just seems like home.