October 17, 2019
Hot Chip
Uncle Acid and The Deadbeats || Sleaford Mods
Weyes Blood|| Fat White Family|| Drab Majesty
Miss June|| Body Type || Rebel Yell
+ more to be announced …
Collectively Curated by
The Farmer & The Owl Label Family
Hockey Dad, Bad//Dreems, Totally Unicorn, The Pinheads, TEES and Tropical Strength
Saturday February 29th, MacCabe Park Wollongong
General tickets on sale 9.00am Friday October 18 from Moshtix
“Farmer & the Owl was like no other music festival in the country… it was a huge risk that, creatively, paid off handsomely” Double J
The Farmer & The Owl Festival made its successful debut in March, within the steel lined laneways and lush urban parklands of McCabe Park in the heart of Wollongong.
4,000 music addicts descended on the spacious lots and secluded post-industrial alcoves for a day of music consumption and discovery. Farmer & The Owl returns in 2020, serving up a fresh collective of garden-fresh, magnificent sounds for your listening pleasure.
Described by The Guardian as “the greatest British pop group of their generation”, audio adventure addicts Hot Chip (UK) will make their triumphant return to Australia in 2020, bringing the party to the people of Wollongong! Hot Chip have transcended musical trends while remaining adoringly aloof at the absolute cutting edge.
Hot Chip
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Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats (US,UK, CANADA) have been making extraordinary music since 2009. Always too bold and idiosyncratic to be easily pigeonholed, they emerged from an obscure corner of the labyrinthine English underground as shadowy purveyors of a new and overwhelmingly psychedelic take on the gruff and gritty rudiments of hard rock and turbo-blues.
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Sleaford Mods (UK) are one of the most important, politically charged and thought-provoking bands in music today. Stumbling into the music scene in 2013 at a time of political and creative austerity, their breakthrough album ‘Austerity Dogs’ surprised many and caught the moment, spearheading a punk renaissance and paving the way for a generation of new artists.
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Weyes Blood (US), is the moniker of California-based artist Natalie Mering. Titanic Rising, her fourth album and Sub Pop records debut, has received unanimous critical acclaim.
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Fat White Family (UK) have always been a drug band with a rock problem, their legendary live show – part exorcistic pagan ritual, part violent bacchanalian assault of the senses have made headlines in all the right outlets around the globe.
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Drab Majesty (US) is the solo project of Deb DeMure, the androgynous alter-ego of L.A.-based musician Andrew Clinco.
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Miss June (NZ) is what happens when angst matures. Raised in the embers of punk rock, Miss June harness jagged, noisy guitars filtered through the unrivalled stage presence of frontperson Annabel Liddell.
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Rising Sydney-based, trash can girl band, Body Type (AUS) swan down the freeway to Wollongong on a wave of praise from global tastemakers.
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Rebel Yell (AUS) is the solo project and moniker of Sydney via Brisbane electronic/techno artist Grace Stevenson. Known for her demonic-like musical force, Grace has produced some of the most mesmerising, brooding techno anthems in the country.
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Stay tuned for more acts to be announced in the coming months!
Saturday February 29th, 2020 MacCabe Park Wollongong
General tickets on sale 9.00am Friday October 18 from Moshtix
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