Newtown Festival 2012

Overview

I’ve can’t remember specifically the last 150th birthday party I went to, but it probably didn’t have awesome live bands and snacks that weren’t tiny asparagus sandwiches. Newtown isn’t your average 150-year-old, however, so will be keeping the tradition of putting on a massive park party each November live and well.

To mark the milestone all performers and artists chosen to be part of 2012’s festivities have a special connection to this eclectic slice of the Inner West. When you’re not shopping for handmade bracelets, deciphering performance poetry or watching dogs act like humans you can enjoy tunes from festival mainstays King Tide, The Crooked Fiddle Band, Kira Puru and The Bruise, The Rescue Ships, Kill City Creeps and Little Bastards on the Federation Stage, plus Regular John, Bearhug, Collarbones, Caitlin Park, The Fabergettes, Tokyo Denmark Sweden and Battleships on the Essential Stage.

Don’t BYO booze, but do BYO a non-glass drinking vessel — Newtown Festival 2012 is going Bottled Water Free this year, and eating your body weight in gözleme is easiest when you have a liquid chaser.