The Farmer & The Owl Festival debuts this March, at its new home among the steel-lined laneways and lush urban parklands of McCabe Park in the heart of Wollongong, lined with spacious lots and secluded post-industrial alcoves for music consumption and discovery!
Lovingly curated by the Farmer and The Owl label family of Hockey Dad, Totally Unicorn, The Pinheads, TEES and Tropical Strength, it was always going to dish up an eclectic line up of insanely talented artists (you can listen to the official Spotify playlist here)
Deafheaven’s genre-agnostic blend of sinister shoegaze guitar tones, post-rock, wraithlike black metal shade has polarized and galvanized fans since their inception in 2010. The San Francisco five-piece have been serving up beautiful gloom that has crossed genres and landed them stage slots on mainstream festivals like Coachella!
Californian pop-punk four-piece Joyce Manor bring their boyish charms, an arsenal of punchy radio friendly punk jams, with sing-along choruses and mosh pit igniting rhythms. Five albums since their 2008 inception, Joyce Manor shows tend to take a life of their own, make sure you save your energy for this one!
Amyl & The Sniffers is an explosive punk band from Melbourne, Australia, three-chord mega riffs! They have blown apart the past two years since their 2016 formation, relentlessly touring around the globe, giving international fans a taste of Australian music with as much fun as possible and a massive bogan slap in the head!
The Pinheads are one of the Leisure Coasts must-see live bands; no mic stand was left unturned, no face left unmelted, no speaker stack was left unclimbed. They reside within a stylistic purgatory – too weird for punk shows, too free-form for garage rock, too genre-defiant for rock & roll, persevering on their own path!
Not experiencing Wollongong metalcore outfit Totally Unicorn live is like never tasting good coffee, or top shelf champagne, you are missing out! Known for their epic unpredictable live sets, that may or may not feature nudity!
Farmer & The Owl is the perfect way to usher in the cool change of Autumn, with 3500 other music fans, some of your favourite artists, and a bunch you are about to discover who will become just that!
Stay tuned for more acts to be announce in the coming months.
Farmer & The Owl Festival
1st Line Up Announcement
Beach House
Deafheaven || Snail Mail || J Mascis
Joyce Manor || The Garden
Rhye || Alan Braxe
No Mono || Flint Eastwood ||Stella Donnelly
The Aints! ||Amyl & The Sniffers
Gavin Rayna Russom (LCD Soundsystem)
A Place To Bury Strangers || Foxing
Banoffee || RVG || These New South Whales
Shogun & The Sheets || Shining Bird|| Retiree
The Pinheads || Party Dozen || Flyying Colours
Clea || Milan Ring
Totally Unicorn || Sweater Curse || Lucianblomkamp
Mother & Son || Carla Geneve || New War || Ella Thompson
RAT!hammock ||Planète|| Wax Chattels
Sunscreen || Lucy Cliché || Godtet
Collectively Curated by
Hockey Dad, Totally Unicorn, The Pinheads, TEES
The Farmer & The Owl Label Family and Tropical Strength
Saturday March 2 2019, McCabe Park Wollongong
Sign up for presale tickets 8.30am Monday, November 26 from https://arep.co/p/farmerandtheowl-presale2
General on sale tickets 8.30am Wednesday, November 28 from Moshtix
