Parklife lineup announced
Parklife, one of Australia’s longest running and most popular music festivals announced its 2011 artist lineup today.
Known as the festival which kicks off the spring / summer music season in Australia, Parklife is held in beautiful inner-city parks and botanic gardens in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth in September and October.
Parklife specialises in the best of indie-meets-dance from punk-funk to electro to house to dubstep.
This year Parklife is hosting the following acts, which are sure to create some buzz:
ADRIAN LUX
CRYSTAL FIGHTERS
DEATH FROM ABOVE 1979
DIGITALISM (LIVE)
DIPLO DUCK SAUCE
EXAMPLE / FEED ME
FLUX PAVILION
GOLD FIELDS
GOSSIP HARVARD BASS
JOKER & MC NOMAD
KATY B / KIMBRA
LITTLE DRAGON
LYKKE LI MAGNETIC MAN
MSTRKRFT
MYLO (DJ SET)
NERO
SANTIGOLD
SEBASTIAN SEBASTIEN TELLIER
SIMIAN MOBILE DISCO (LIVE)
TENSNAKE
THE ASTON SHUFFLE (LIVE)
THE NAKED & FAMOUS
THE STREETS
WOLFGANG GARTNER
YACHT CLUB DJS AND MANY MORE
Enigmatic songstress Lykke Li will be heading to Australian shores to perform material from her critically acclaimed album Wounded Rhymes, proving her to be one of the hottest properties on the underground right now.
Undoubtedly one of the most respected acts in electronic music is Digitalism - and this time the boys are back with new album I Love You Dude, rumoured to be their best yet. Known for their crossover appeal to indie kids and electro heads, Digitalism are the act to follow if you’re serious about groundbreaking new music. 16 JUNE PRESS RELEASE, FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FOR ALL PARKLIFE MEDIA ENQUIRIES, ARTIST INFORMATION OR INTERVIEWS PLEASE CALL (02) 8202 0555 SOPHIE PATERSON: SOPHIEPATERSON@FRANKPR.COM.AU, LAURA BARETTE: LAURABARETTE@FRANKPR.COM.AU
Parklife brings the dubstep movement to Australia with supergroup Magnetic Man, responsible for the floor-shakers I Need Air and Perfect Stranger. Made up of the three individual artists Skream, Benga and Artwork, Parklife will be the group’s first ever Australian shows.
But if fans want to catch the real deal, they can. Both Simian Mobile Disco and the Gossip will be sharing the Parklife line-up - let’s hope they get to share the stage as well! Coveted studio producers and one of the biggest electronic acts around, Simian Mobile Disco always bring the good times when they perform.
Post-punk rock trio Gossip will take to the stage to showcase work from current album Music for Men and material from their new album set for release later in the year. Loved for their raw animal power and energetic sound, all eyes will be fixed on charismatic front-person Beth Ditto.
Surely the must-see performance of the summer goes to The Streets who will play their last ever Australian shows at Parklife. After five albums together, the band have decided to go their separate ways but not before giving Parklifers a show to remember.
