Regional NSW festival The Gum Ball has shared its first line-up announcement for its 2024 iteration, set to take place in the Hunter Valley compound known as Dashville this coming April. Heading up the bill is Dan Sultan, fresh from a win at the 2023 ARIA Awards for Best Adult Contemporary Album, as well as Tropical Fuck Storm – who are returning to live performing in 2024 following bassist Fiona Kitschin’s shock cancer diagnosis last year.
In addition to playing with TFS, lead vocalist and guitarist Gareth Liddiard will also perform a solo set at the festival on its opening night – including songs by his previous band, The Drones, as well as cuts from his sole 2010 solo album Strange Tourist. Others joining the festival line-up are the Hard-Ons, with now-permanent frontman Tim Rogers at the helm, as well as RVG, Dallas Crane and Emily Wurramara. The full first announcement can be found below.
Dan Sultan – ‘Won’t Give You That’
Returning for its 19th year, The Gum Ball is one of several festivals held throughout the year at the Dashville property. Others include the country festival Dashville Skyline and the heavy music festival Thrashville. Both are set to return in 2024, with Thrashville generally taking place in early September and Dashville Skyline taking place in early October.
Last year’s Gum Ball included acts such as Mudhoney, Party Dozen, The New Christs and Flowertruck, with artists like Paul Dempsey, Cable Ties and Ainslie Wills joining the festivities in the second line-up announcement.
The Gum Ball 2024
- Dan Sultan
- Tropical Fuck Storm
- Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds
- The Lachy Doley Group
- RVG
- Hard-Ons
- Gareth Liddiard
- Teeny Tiny Stevies
- Coterie
- Dallas Crane
- Emily Wurramara
- Battlesnake
- Vaudeville Smash
- Bullhorn
- Melody Pool
- Marvell
- Karl S. Williams
- Queenie
- Dave Wells
- Checkerboard Lounge
- Burger Joint
- Claire Anne Taylor
- Jet City Sports Club
- Junior Burger
- Radium Dolls
- The Main Guy & The Other Guys
- SF Wrens
- Sitting Down
- The Bures Band
- Joe Mungovan
- Salarymen
- Chimers
- Don’t Thank Me, Spank Me
- Georgie Winchester Special
- Joey Leigh Wagtail
- Butterknife
- Dashville Progress Society
Dates & Venue
Thursday 25th – Sunday 28th April 2024 – Dashville, Lower Belford/Wonnarua Country, NSW
Tickets on sale now via Humanitix.
Further Reading
A Guide to Every Australian Music Festival Happening in 2023/24
Dan Sultan Covers Archie Roach’s ‘Took the Children Away’
Tropical Fuck Storm to Launch Mini Festival Tour Cellophane Honeymoon in 2024
