Triple J Announce One-Off Concert to Celebrate 40 Years On Air

To celebrate an incredible 40 years on the air, beloved broadcaster and your best friend on a road trip Triple J will host a big one-off party in The Domain as part of next year's Sydney Festival. Taking place on January 15, Beat the Drum will feature The Presets, Hilltop Hoods, The Cat Empire and Vance Joy among others. No worries if you won't be in Sydney. The whole thing will be broadcast live on Triple J.

The lineup, which hasn't yet been fully released, will be full of high-rotation Australian tunes. As well as the above artists, Beat the Drum will feature You Am I, Ball Park Music, The Preatues, Adalita, Courtney Barnett, Remi, Owl Eyes, Tkay Maidza, as well as Alister Wright and Heidi Lenfeer of Cloud Control. As always, Nina Las Vegas will also be on the decks.

It seems appropriate that this celebration be announced this week, following all the nostalgia that came with the death of the legendary Gough Whitlam. Establishing the station (then called Double J) in 1975, Whitlam is the reason Triple J exists at all.

As Faster Louder wrote following the news of Whitlam's death, he also "introduced FM radio to Australia in 1974, established local content quotas for commercial broadcasters and created independent arts funding body the Australia Council for the Arts." This legacy continues today.

On the 40th anniversary of this excellent institution, Beat the Drum will not only feature an all-Australian lineup, it will also be beaming out some covers of iconic Triple J hits. Prepare to take a stroll through the history books of the Hottest 100.

The lineup so far:

Hilltop Hoods
The Presets
The Cat Empire
You Am I
Vance Joy
Ball Park Music
The Preatures
Nina Las Vegas
KLP (DJ Set)

Adalita
Courtney Barnett
Remi
Owl Eyes
Tkay Maidza
Alister Wright and Heidi Lenffer (Cloud Control)

Beat the Drum will take place 4pm-11pm on Friday, January 16, 2014 at The Domain, Sydney. Tickets go on sale Monday, October 27 via Sydney Festival.

Via FasterLouder.