On most days of the year, a Brisbanite can wander into a Fortitude Valley venue and listen to live tunes. In most years, too, the inner-city suburb celebrates that fact in a huge way. We've all been to a Valley Fiesta. We've all been to several, in fact, because they've been filling the Brunswick Street Mall and surrounding bars with music for 24 years now — and the suburb-specific festival is back in full swing in 2021. Running from Thursday, October 28–Saturday, October 30, this year's three-day Valley Fiesta is hitting up 23 locations with oh-so-much live music. Get ready to hop between Black Bear Lodge, The Brightside and its outdoor area, Cloudland, Greaser, Netherworld, The Tivoli, The Triffid, The Wickham and The Zoo. You'll also be heading to Backdock Arts, Birdees, EC Venue, Kings, La La Land, O'Skulligans, Press Club, Queens, Suzie Wongs Good Time Bar, The Prince Consort and Woolly Mammoth as well. As for who you'll be listening to, the list of acts includes more than 150 artists and bands, so you can get ready to check out Blonde on Blonde, Butterfingers, Beddy Rays, Nerve, DVNA, Jesswar, VOIID and SixFtHick — plus DZ Deathrays doing a DJ set — among a heap of other names. Prices vary and tickets for each event are sold separately — and, obviously, it'll be a COVID-safe affair with the applicable capacity restrictions. And, if you're wondering why this year's Fiesta kicks off on a Thursday, that's because Friday, October 29 is the rescheduled Ekka public holiday. So, your long weekend itinerary can including hitting up a Brisbane favourite — and also heading into the mall on the Saturday for a huge music marketplace that'll span record swaps, vintage clothing and pop-up DJs. VALLEY FIESTA 2021 LINEUP A Love Supreme Alivian Blu Allora Amarri Amy L Annoying Neighbours Asphyxia B-boy Cielo B-girl Tinylocks Bad Neighbour Band 42 BBTK Beddy Rays Being Jane Lane Betty Taylor Big Dinner Birdman Randy & The Ivory Street Preachers Blonde on Blonde Blussh Bombshell Academy Breakfast at Nans BRIA Brief Habits Brixton Alley Buttered Butterfingers Callin Malley Big Band Carmouflage Rose Charlesworth Chelsea Drive Chukale Clarence Kent Colourblind Cooper Riley Creed Tha Kid Curtis Sciliba (DJ) Dahlia Dyer Dahlia Gunn David Carberry Day of Embers De La Vinx DJ Bacon DJ Fukhed DJ Lil J Don Rual Dream Coast Dumb Things DVNA DZ Deathrays (DJ) Ebony Ruth Echowave Ella Fence Eloelo Ethan Enoch Feelsclub First Beige (DJ) Flamingo Blonde FOMI Foul Face Frenchie Darling Friends of Friends General Press: GP001 Halfway Haliday Hive Mind Hope D Hot Reno J-Funk Jack Davies and The Bush Chooks Jacob Tompkins Jesswar Kessin King Stingray Kweir La bOum Lacy Pop Late November Lazy Leis Lila Lux Lilith Revere LO'99 Local Safari Loiter Lotus Ship Lunchtime Madeline Glasseater Malibu Stacey Margeaux Le Gogo Melaleuca Mellow Miranda vs Arizona Mou MoZza Nerve Nice Biscuit Nicole McKinney Oh Bailey Parachute Youth Passionfruit People Mover Phatnug Phil Smart Pocketlove Pure Milk Pvcker Up Radolescent Ramjet Rose Rogers Ruckus Slam S*A*S*H Halloween Sachem Saint Lane Sametime Selfish Sons Sellma Soul Set The Record Shifting Sands Siala Sid The Entertainer SixFtHick Skanalosos Skies Collide Skrub Sleeping Slowrip Slurpee Jerks Smak Soviet X-Ray Record Club Start Together Stone & Wood Garden Sessions Strictly Classics Sunsets syrup, go on Teen Sensations The Buzzing Towers The Double Happiness The Lonesomes The Mangroves The New Black The Sleepyheads The Unknowns The Wolston Butchers Toby Hobart TOWNS Trilla D VERUM VOIID Waxflower Wet Season Wetlands Wharves White Light Station Yellowcatredcat Yr Familiar Zed Charles Valley Fiesta 2021 takes place from Thursday, October 28–Saturday, October 30. For further information and to buy tickets, head to the festival's website. Images: Dave Kan.