After whetting appetites with the news that Norwegian experimental heroes Ulver would be appearing at this year's Dark Mofo event in Hobart, organisers have revealed the full, jaw-dropping program, featuring some seriously incredible and diverse artists from Australia and abroad.
The lip-smacking spread of sights and sounds includes Scottish post-rock veterans Mogwai, unstoppable Aussie rap duo A.B. Original, venerated noise-rock luminaries Xiu Xiu (performing their take on the score to cult-favourite series Twin Peaks, as composed by Angelo Badalamenti), German industrial trailblazers Einsturzende Neubauten and Oz-music hero Paul Kelly, as part of the Ancient Rain event with Camille O'Sullivan and Feargal Murray, among a whole raft of other drawcards.
Beyond the straight musical fare, there is the program of Dark Mofo Films — to be announced this May — as well as the annual Nude Solstice Swim and fellow favourite Winter Feast, plus a rumination on sound and the absence thereof in Silence, the harrowing drama of Radio Gothic, the astonishing array of artworks at The Museum Of Everything, the art-and-music-blending Borderlands (featuring Nine Inch Nails touring member Alessandro Cortini, local sound-smith and aural philosopher Lawrence English, US artist Grouper and Sweden's Klara Lewis) and a new, gruesome work from the ever-visceral Hermann Nitsch, just to name a few of the highlights.
Dark Mofo runs from 8-21 June. Tickets will go on sale from 10am this Tuesday, 11 April.
For further details, see the event's website.
Dark Mofo 2017 — line-up
Mogwai* (Scotland)
Einstürzende Neubauten*
Ulver* (Norway)
Ulver + TSO: Messe IX-VI.X* (Norway/Tasmania)
Chris Levine* (GBR)
Hermann Nitsch* (Austria)
Mike Parr
Sound of Silence: Alfredo Jaar* (USA/Chile)
Welcome Stranger
Dark Mofo and City of Hobart Winter Feast
Dark Park
Siren Song: Byron J Scullin + Supple Fox
Red Bull Music Academy: Transliminal Crossing
+ Unconscious Collective
+ Danielle Picciotto + Alexander Hacke
+ Miles Brown
Ancient Rain
+ Paul Kelly
+ Camille O’Sullivan (Ireland/UK)
+ Feargal Murray (Scotland/UK)
Hymns To The Dead
+ Taake (Norway)
+ Anaal Nathrakh* (UK)
+ Barshasketh (UK)
+ Grave Miasma (New Zealand/Scotland)
+ Mournful Congregation
Buried Country
A.B. Original
Thelma Plum
Sleeping Beauty
+ Victorian Opera + TSO
The Museum Of Everything
+ Mona
Sophie Hutchings
Ogoh-ogoh
+ The Purging
+ The Burning
Borderlands
+ Alessandro Cortini (Italy)
+ Klara Lewis (Sweden)
+ Grouper (USA)
+ Lawrence English
Xiu Xiu plays the Music of Twin Peaks (USA)
The Second Woman: Nat Randall
Radio Gothic
The Dark Chorus: Lucy Guerin Inc
Luke Howard + Tilman Robinson
Dark Mofo Films
Silence: Strings Of The TSO
Nude Solstice Swim
*Australian exclusive
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