BIGSOUND Live Artists Announced!

BIGSOUND has come out swinging with its first live line-up announcement for 2014. With the 80+ acts dropped today and dozens still to come, the program is one of the best yet with the likes of Gold Fields, DMA’s, Holy Holy, BAD//DREEMS, Client Liaison, KINGSWOOD and REMI all set to play in front of both industry and punters in a celebration of live Australian music.

They’ll be joined by Deep Sea Arcade, Thelma Plum, HITS, Sampology ft Tom Thum & Jordan Rakei, Blank Realm, D.D Dumbo, Fractures, Ash Grunwald, Halfway and over 100 other artists over two nights in fourteen venues in Brisbane’s iconic Fortitude Valley live music precinct.

This year will see the site map expand north to include venues like The Underdog, Crowbar, The Elephant and The New Globe as well as welcoming a new outdoor venue behind Brightside and Magic City.

"The diversity and talent in BIGSOUND's line-up gets richer and deeper each year," said programmer Nick O’Byrne. "With more 80 artists still to be announced there's no doubt that those two nights in September will be the single best festival of new Australian music we've ever had".

The event will once again welcome back the triple j Unearthed stage as well as a new InTheMix electronic music stage. Full BIGSOUND event laminates will provide priority access to all venues over the two nights, while BIGSOUND Live passes, which go on sale today, give punters wrist-band access to the shows for one of the best value tickets in the country.

BIGSOUND Live tickets are available for $69+bf from Oztix, while those looking for the full BIGSOUND experience including conference and party entry still have some time to grab special rate tickets from www.bigsound.org.au

BIGSOUND LIVE FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT
Airling - Alison Wonderland - APES - Ash Grunwald - Avaberee
BAD//DREEMS - Banoffee - Baptism of Uzi - Blank Realm - BONJAH
Brad Butcher - Caligula's Horse - Client Liaison - Coach Bombay
Crooked Colours - D.D Dumbo - Deep Sea Arcade - Devon Sproule
DMA's - Ernest Ellis - Eves - Fieldings - Flyying Colours
Fractures - Fraser A. Gorman - Gold Fields - Halfway
Hayden Calnin - HITS - Holy Holy - I'lls - Indian Summer
Jack Ladder & The Dreamlanders - Jane Tyrell
Jess Ribeiro and the Bone Collectors - Jesse Davidson
Jimblah - Karl S. Williams - KINGSWOOD - Klo - KLP - LANKS
Left. - L-FRESH The LION - Lia Mice - Little May - Lime Cordiale
LOWER SPECTRUM - Luca Brasi - LUCIANBLOMKAMP - Lurch & Chief
Major Leagues - Mansionair - Milwaukee Banks - Morning Harvey
Oisima - Okenyo - Olympic Ayres - Orphans Orphans - PACES
Panama - Pikelet - REMI - Ruby Boots - Sampology ft. Tom Thum & Jordan
Rakei - Scenic - Steve Smyth - Step-Panther - Stillwater Giants
Sweet Jean - Sydonia - Teeth & Tongue - The Bennies - The Creases
The Harpoons - The Murlocs - The Phoncurves - The Tiger & Me
Thelma Plum - Thrupence - Tin Sparrow - Tkay Maidza
Tully On Tully - wordlife - Yeo

BIGSOUND 2014 INDUSTRY SPEAKERS / BUYERS
Tom Windish - The Windish Agency (US)
Kevin French – Paradigm (US)
Chris Sampson – Superfly / Bonnaroo / Outside Lands (US)
Sean Carlson – FYF Fest (US)
James Minor – SXSW (US)
Adam Ryan - The Great Escape / MAMA & Company (UK)
Avery McTaggart - The Windish Agency (US)
Michelle Cable - Panache Booking (US)
Josh Moore – The Bowery Presents / Cloud 9 Adventures (US)
Danny Rogers - Lunatic Entertainment / St Jerome’s Laneway Festival (AUS)
Jerome Borazio - Get Notorious / St Jerome’s Laneway Festival (AUS)
Jamie Wade - X-Ray Touring (UK)
Emily York - Penny Drop (AUS)
Ben Marshall - Sydney Opera House (AUS)
Justin Sweeting - Artist Voice Asia / Clockenflap Festival (HK)
Melissa Yong - Village Sounds Asia (SNG)
Josh Taylor - Cassette Entertainment / Sprung Hip Hop Festival (AUS)
Mario Stresow – FKP Scorpio (GER)
Henning Ahrens - Four Artists Booking Agentur (GER)
Grimur Atlason - Iceland Airwaves (ICE)