Music

Deep, aching balladry with a country twang.

An energetic, feel-good set of finely crafted songs, freewheeling anecdotes and general good humour.

Anarchic blends of anarchic synths and circuit-bent electronica, morphing from 'nearly musical' to 'downright noise chaos'. Audience participation possible.

A trio of youthful types on bass (and effects), drums and textural percussion, and keyboard / synths. High-energy original comps and modern arrangements of jazz standards.

Three determined, noisy misanthropes channelling the essence of classic UK post-punk (with a Tasmanian twist).

Blurs the lines between minimal synth-pop, immersive ambient and field recording-based sound art.

Psychedelic, cinematic mergings of post-punk and new wave.

The improvisatory talents of FFLORA—an eight-piece collective who’ll never play the same set twice—combine with the hard-hitting bars of RnB poet and rapper Grace Chia to create some fresh bangers. Gritty, intoxicating hip-hop, uplifting harmonies and heavy grooves.

A mum and dad from Moonah who tell it like it is while making you shake your rump.

Funky grooves, originals, soaring melodies. Music to move you.

Local alt-rock three piece.

Virtuousic Celtic-influenced harp, fiddle and vocals from the mountains.

Wailing, cosmic psych-rock from outer space (and northern Tasmania).

A reclusive creative based in nipaluna. They write songs and choral arrangements, and play harp.

Moses is a scholar of cumbia music and sound-system culture, here to spin up a storm of stuff he's collected on tours across the globe.

Humanist, artist, producer, DJ and composer. From India, via London (and shows alongside some of the biggest names in the UK house and rave scenes).

Left-of-centre folk-rock covering death, darkness and general malaise.

Old time mountain music evoking images of log cabins, woodsmoke and maybe some unrequited love.

Two-piece melodic sludge.

Desert guitars, synths and sublime vox perform 'sad songs to make you happy'.

Lo-fi ambient dreams. Deep drone with modular synths.

A hotpot of breakbeat, funk and wobbly bass cooked up by multi-instrumentalist Hayato.

It stands for 'Neika Electronic Workshop'. Decades-gone electronica and a tough of industrial mayhem from an arsenal of new and vintage synths, samplers and drum machines.

Old-time fiddler, banjoist and Cajun accordionist does fiddlin' 'n' singin'; mountain blues and ballads; Cajun two-steps; waltzes and stomps from the swamps.

Locals combining garage rock, dream-pop, psychdelia, shoegaze and grunge.

DJ. Digger. Producer. Master of the dark arts. Jamaican sound system culture meets 1990s big beat and the bliss of a jazz club dancefloor.

Alt-rock three-piece.

Soul-stirring RnB / neo-soul from an emerging South Australian.

Local bluesy countryish folk-adjacent tunes.

A hot local Hammond combo presents original soul-jazz and tributes to the masters.

Electric and acoustic abstractions for piano, two saxophones, guitar and percussion.

A tribute to the legendary 1930s Parisian jazz-violinist Stéphane Grappelli.

Hypnotic, psychedelia-inflected gothic rock and post-punk. Big riffs, melodic verses, synths.

Concatenative synthesis: 'it's basically like hell old built-by-hand data string AI technology, where you match WAV grains from input with WAV grains from a sample cluster, sometimes it sounds amazing, sometimes it's really chaotic in a bad way'.

The mongrel offspring of industrial drone, ambient noise, minimalist kosmiche and sonic abstraction. Pip will be joining them to improvise with radios, field recordings, found audio and various instruments.

Mercurial DJ / producer Frengo returns, promising hypnagogic reveries and abstract sonic scenes.

Sydney singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Josh brings a combo of dark folk dirges and neoclassical folk rock.

Samba jazz crew led by percussionist Carlos Ferreira.

Emotive tales of grief and acceptance in the lineage of folk icons like Joni and Laura Marling, backed by a new band.