Dashville is excited to announce the first five acts for ‘slightly heavier’ music event Thrashville, as it makes a gallant return, Saturday 11th September 2021.
A one-day festival, currently featuring around sixteen spots on the bill, Thrashville kicks things off today with the ‘first furious five’, featuring one of Australia’s most respected vocalists, Rob Younger with his band The New Christs, Melbourne post-punk trio Cable Ties, Sydney death metal outfit Flaming Wrekage, South Coast hardcore punkers The Owen Guns and thrustcore innovators Rick Dangerous & The Silkie Bantams.
Bouncing around the pandemic pogo stick, it’ll be the second time heavy music fans get a taste of Thrashville in 2021, with the February 13 event being the return of the postponed 2020 event.
After such an overwhelmingly positive experience from all involved with the February event, it was a relative ‘no brainer’ to jump straight back on the steel horse to plan for the September event.
The one-of-a-kind regional all-inclusive heavy music festival has had an overwhelming response via the website, receiving a mountain of applications from punk, metal, rock performers across Australia eager to perform. Such incredible interest has spurred organisers into a belief that an additional third stage may just be a viable thing to allow more bands the opportunity to play.
Traditionally a two-stage festival, organisers have retreated from a full announce while they go back to the drawing board to toy with the idea of adding an additional stage, in an effort to support local and emerging bands in the region.
Organiser Matt Johnston outlines, ‘At Dashville festivals we don’t like to put a band on at the same time as another. With Thrashville though, the demand for bands wanting to play is through the roof. We reckon as long as we can get enough of an audience, a third stage could actually be a viable thing given we have the space.’
