Laneway Festival 2016

Overview

It's been 11 years since Danny Rogers and Jerome Borazio decided to fill a Melbourne alleyway with tunes in 2005. Heading back to their collection of unconventional venues for another year, Laneway Festival has returned.

Returning to Singapore, Auckland and the five established Australian Laneway go-to cities, Laneway will raise a plastic cup to the middle of summer with one heck of a killer lineup — and Kirin J Callinan as MC. Following the previously leaked Hudson Mohawke and Purity Ring headliner announces, Laneway will see one heck of a crew on their unconventional stages.

Odd Future's super outfit The Internet will be here, alongside Ninja Tune's bass monarch Thundercat and the return of Grimes (start losing your collective shit). Epic Scottish electronic crew CHVRCHES are headed back to Australia, with a few fellow return trippers — Baltimore dreamboats Beach House, American math rockers Battles are back with their new album, as well as Brooklyn's atmospheric foursome DIIV. Plenty of love for the onstage return of Big Scary after Tom Isanek finished up with #1 Dads, and there's sure to be a big ol' ruckus for Sydney wonderkid Flume back on stage.

You'll be hard pressed to find a spot at Las Vegas hypecard Shamir's set, watching young Washington rapper GoldLink or the pretty, pretty Beatles-y Tobias Jesso Jr. Odd Future's Vince Staples is headed here too, following his OFWGKTA bud Tyler the Creator's ban from Australia. With beloved local artists like Hermitude, Violent Soho, The Smith Street Band and DMA's, this year's lineup is more eclectic than a Jenny Kee jumper.

Enough talk, here 'tis.

LANEWAY FESTIVAL 2016 LINEUP:

Ali Barter*
Banoffee
Battles
Beach House
Big Scary
Blank Realm**
Chvrhces
DIIV
DMA’s
East India Youth
FIDLAR
Flume
GoldLink
Grimes
Health
Hermitude
High Tension
Hudson Mohawke
Japanese Wallpaper
Majical Cloudz
Methyl Ethel
METZ
Purity Ring
QT
Shamir
Silicon
Slum Sociable**
Sophie
The Goon Sax***
The Internet
The Smith Street Band
Thundercat
Tobias Jesso Jr.
Vince Staples
Violent Soho

* Exclusive to Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne only
** not playing Fremantle
*** Exclusive to Brisbane only

ST JEROME'S LANEWAY FESTIVAL DATES AND VENUES FOR 2016:

Saturday, January 30 — SINGAPORE (THE MEADOW, GARDENS BY THE BAY)
Monday, February 1 — AUCKLAND (SILO PARK)
Friday, February 5 — ADELAIDE (HARTS MILL, PORT ADELAIDE, 16+)
Saturday, February 6 — BRISBANE (BRISBANE SHOWGROUNDS, BOWEN HILLS, 16+)
Sunday, February 7 — SYDNEY (SYDNEY COLLEGE OF THE ARTS, ROZELLE)
Saturday, February 13 — MELBOURNE (FOOTSCRAY COMMUNITY ARTS CENTRE (FCAC) + THE RIVER’S EDGE)
Sunday, February 14 — FREMANTLE (ESPLANADE RESERVE AND WEST END)

Tickets on sale September 30 at 9am from Laneway Festival.

Image: Andy Fraser.

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