The first round of acts for this year’s Homebake festival have been announced. It’s the annual local music festival’s fifteenth birthday, and the confirmed acts are an interesting blend of old, reformed and new Aussie bands.
POWDERFINGER
JET
HILLTOP HOODS
ESKIMO JOE
SIA
DANIEL MERRIWEATHER
MIDNIGHT JUGGERNAUTS
SARAH BLASKO
A special best of performance by TIM FINN
CLOSURE IN MOSCOW
TIKI TAANE (NZ)
SHORT STACK
UNDERGROUND LOVERS (original line-up)
PHRASE
DECODER RING
BUMBLEBEEZ
TUMBLEWEED (original line-up)
EDDY CURRENT SUPPRESSION RING
ROWLAND S HOWARD (together with Mick Harvey, JP Shiloh & Lindsay Gravina)
THE FUNKOARS
THE MIDDLE EAST
THE ASTON SHUFFLE
SUGAR ARMY
RECORD PRODUCER
SHOCKONE
Joining this list will be the winners of Triple J’s Unearthed and the Hopetoun Homebake Incentive. There’s ‘many more acts still to be announced’ but already it’s shaping up to be a fitting fifteenth anniversary. Tickets go on sale 9am Monday, August 17th (Tickets have Sold Out) and if the previous years are anything to go by, it’ll sell out faster than Limp Bizkit.
