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Farmer and The Owl

Event Details

Saturday, March 14, 2015
Headline Artist: Bass Drum of Death
Wollongong, New South Wales
AU

Farmer & The Owl Festival is excited to announce its return to Wollongong, NSW on Saturday March 14 for the second annual music and arts festival. Following the inaugural sold out event in November 2013, which earned the festival fantastic reviews, positive public feedback and even a FBi SMAC Award nomination for ‘Best Event’, Farmer & The Owl Festival will return to the University Of Wollongong grounds over a number of indoor and outdoor stages. The 2015 instalment sees international artists from USA, South Africa and New Zealand mixing it with top bands from across Australia and the best of the local crop with more to be announced. Farmer & The Owl Festival is proud to present to you the following lineup.LINEUP IN ALPHABETICAL ORDERBad//Dreems - Bass Drum Of Death (US) - Birds With Thumbs - CabinsCarb On Carb (NZ) – The Cherry Dolls - The DHDFD's (NZ) - Drunk Mums DZ Deathrays - Hockey Dad - Hy-Test - Jebediah - Lunatics On PogosticksThe Mess Hall - The Peep Tempel -...

Artists Performing at this Event

Bass Drum of Death is a garage rock band based in Oxford, Mississippi.

Jebediah are a pop-rock band from Perth, Australia.

DZ Deathrays are a two piece dance punk band from Brisbane, Australia. Started playing house parties, will most likely end at one. Formerly DZ.

Brisbane's 12 piece garage monster of legend.

The Mess Hall are a two-piece rock and roll combo based in Sydney, New South Wales that formed in 2001.

Hailing from Sydney, Australia, three piece Step-Panther spew a unique blend of surf-rock and garage pop upon their legions of fans.

The Walking Who is a Psychedelic jam-Rock trio based in Northern Illawarra, made up of Rohin Brown (guitar, vocals) Jay Drury (bass guitar) and Paul Mclean (drums).

Lunatics On Pogosticks are a trio of teen Aussie rapscallions that have been squeezing out some tasty tunes since gestation.

Shining Bird have been described musically as creating a sort of widescreen "Valium Pop', Often evoking a sense of being forever stuck in the credits of an 80s teen movie.

Drunk Mums formed in Cairns, Australia about five years ago, in a microwave, early blues being the meat, tied down by some ranty garage cling wrap.

In an age where a wah pedal and a couple of beards are enough to get a band labelled 'psychedelic', it's great to see a band doing it properly.

”Dark”, “melodic”, “spiky” and “atmospheric” are all overused words in the noble pursuit of describing sound.

Hockey Dad are an Australian indie/garage/surf rock band from Wollongong, New South Wales. The band are a duo; comprised of vocalist/guitarist Zach Stephenson and drummer Billy Fleming.

The Peep Tempel's live show, as a two-piece, had always been a blast of frenetic energy. Concise, authoritative and marked by percussive precision, angular riffs and raw power.

Just as the Hunt Of The Unicorn was considered by many to be the high point in Medieval tapestry manufacture, so will history recognize the bearded magical animal metal of Wollongong's latest fanta