BIGSOUND continues to gear up this year, with the September festival revealing more of its cards for 2018 – their first artist announcement coming this afternoon. Some familiar faces will return to The Valley to showcase their music, while a whole range of fresh names will be on the bill to bring themselves to the attention of music fans and industry members, both from Australia and abroad.
“The amount of BIGSOUND applications this year smashed last year’s record by another 70 to make up approximately 1,133 applications.” programmer Maggie Collins has said. “That’s a lot of talent. Punters wanting to own the fact that “they discovered an artist first”, better get themselves across this massive list of acts, who are on the cusp of exploding worldwide.”
Included on this first artist reveal are musicians including Eilish Gilligan (Melbourne), KAIIT (Melbourne), Sleep Talk (Adelaide) and T$OKO (Perth), while Ella Hooper, Gabriella Cohen and Olympia represent favourites returning to the BIGSOUND fold for 2018.
Check out the full line up from today’s announcement below!
BIGSOUND 2018 FIRST ARTIST ANNOUNCEMENT
A. SWAYZE & THE GHOSTS
ADRIAN EAGLE
ALICE SKYE
ARSE
ARTERIES
ASHA JEFFERIES
BIN JUICE
BLANK REALM
BUGS
BUTTERFINGERS
CABLE TIES
CAST DOWN
CLYPSO
CRY CLUB
CXLOE
DEAN FOREVER
DRELLER (UK)
EAT YOUR HEART OUT
EILISH GILLIGAN
ELIOTT
ELIZABETH
ELLA HOOPER
EMMA ANGLESEY
ESTERE (NZ)
GABRIELLA COHEN
GENESIS OWUSU
GEORGIA MULLIGAN
GOOD DOOGS
GRAACE
GRAVEMIND
GRETA STANLEY
HACHIKU
HAZLETT
HOBSONS BAY COAST GUARD
IMOGEN CLARK
JAMES WRIGHT TRIO
JEFFE
KAIIT
KAITLIN KEEGAN
KIAN
KOTA BANKS
KULT KYUSS
KWAME
MANE
MISS JUNE
MOANING LISA
MOOKHI
OH PEP!
OLYMPIA
PACES
PINK MATTER
POOL SHOP
RACHEL MARIA COX
RAT!HAMMOCK
RILEY PEARCE
RUBY GILBERT
SAMSARUH
SLEEP TALK
SLOWLY SLOWLY
STEVIE JEAN
SUMNER
SUNSCREEN
SWEATER CURSE
SŸDE
T$OKO
TAPE/OFF
THE CHATS
THE MERINDAS
TOTTY
TRIPLE ONE
TWO PEOPLE
TYNE-JAMES ORGAN
VOIID
WAX CHATTELS
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Tickets are on sale for BIGSOUND now via www.oztix.com.au and more information can be found via www.bigsound.org.au!
SINGLE NIGHT PASS – $45.00 (plus BF)
RAINBOW PASS – $85.00 (plus BF)
PURPLE PASS – $370 (plus BF)
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