The Falls Festival, held in Victoria and Tasmania over NYE, have announced their playing times. Incredibly, Arctic Monkeys and Fleet Foxes will be opening proceedings on the first day, and have handed over the plum countdown slot on NYE to locals, Pretending Things Are Cock. Controversial. You should see 'em all here:
www.fallsfestival.com
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The
Sydney Festival overlords have announced they will open their 2012 event with a free gig at the Domain featuring the eclectic line-up of Manu Chao, Washington, Gurrumul. It goes down on January 7th. And if it's anything like last year, and you don't want to be climbing over freeway fences to get in late....*cough*...arrive early, huh.
Fun:
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A bunch of
Big Day Out sideshows have already sold out. Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds and Foster The People appear to be the hottest tickets, with those two artists having officially shifted all their units. Girl Talk has sold out the Palace Theatre in Melbourne but still has some on sale for the Enmore Theatre in Sydney on Saturday 28th January. And tickers ARE still on sale for the sideshows of:
Kanye West
Soundgarden
My Chemical Romance
Kasbian and The Vaccines
Röyksopp
Cage the Elephant
More at
bigdayout.com
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The little festival that could,
Boogie Rock, has announced the line-up for its sixth ever event. Held in the shade of a chalet/clubhouse squeezed between a ravine and football oval in the middle of
nowhere Tallarook, in country Victoria. The thing goes down over the Easter Weekend - April 6,7,8 - and will "stick to the tried and true 3 day extravaganza kicking off on Friday and finishing late on Sunday night." They also offer "free return train travel from the Melbourne CBD and free camping."
Line-up looks like this:
POND
JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE
ROYAL HEADACHE
JAMES REYNE
LANIE LANE
AC/DSHE
SNAKADAKTAL
KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZZARD
BITTERSWEET KICKS
BAPTISM OF UZI
MERRI CREEK PICKERS
LOVE MIGRATE
...and "a whole bucketload more to come next year."
Details via capital letters:
BOOGIE 6. APRIL 6,7,8, 2012. BRUZZY'S FARM.
FREE TRAIN TRAVEL FROM MELBOURNE CBD. FREE CAMPING. SAME TICKET PRICE AS LAST YEAR. GOOD TIMES.
TICKETS ON SALE Tuesday DECEMBER 13 FROM
www.boogie.net.au and at GREVILLE RECORDS, and POLYESTER in Brunswick and the City.
Read our musings on
Boogie and Palace of Fire in 2009 here on TheVine.
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Staying in Victoria, the
Sugar Mountain festival have announced their final additions to the January event.
Organisers have announced a stage in conjunction with Mess+Noise, which will feature "exciting local acts" Straight Arrows, Lost Animal, The Harpoons and Fox + Sui, as well as a DJ set from Boredoms frontman Yamantaka Eye (Japan). Melbourne artists Rhys Mitchell and Raphael Rizzo will also contribute to the Mess+Noise stage, providing "a hyper-vibrant back drop and stage set." The M+N thing will happen on the mezzanine level of the Forum Theatre.
Visual artists Chaco Kato, Keith Deverell, Lucy Benson and Matsuri Yamana have also been added to the line-up.
Sugar Mountain Festival
Saturday 14 January 2012
The Forum Theatre, Melbourne
MUSIC AND SOUND:
DEERHOOF
TUNE-YARDS
THEE OH SEES
SHABAZZ PALACES
JULIANNA BARWICK
JOHN MAUS
SUN ARAW
PRINCE RAMA
WORLD'S END PRESS
ABSOLUTE BOYS
DJ YAMANTAKA EYE
FOX & SUI
LOST ANIMAL
PETS WITH PETS
STRAIGHT ARROWS
THE HARPOONS
THIS THING PRESENTS
The MESS+NOISE STAGE
VISUAL AND PERFORMANCE ART:
KIT WEBSTER
MAYA HAYUK
KYLE RANSON
DYLAN MARTORELL
BEN BARRETTO
VINCENT MOON
LUCY BENSON
KEITH DEVERELL
CHACO KATO
MATSURI YAMANA
RAPHAEL RIZZO
RHYS MITCHELL
and contributors Speakeasy Cinema, Body Electric Dancers and the No Lights, No Lycra Dancers
Tickets are $85 + bf and still available from
www.ticketmaster.com.au. More:
www.sugarmountainfestival.com
{{mind*flower}} from Sugar Mountain on Vimeo.
Read our
somewhat contentious review of last year's Sugar Mountain debut here on TheVine.
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