Five Years Of Fuck This:FasterLouder Goes To TheAnnandale

Fri 24th Jun, 2005 in Features

The musical scene in Sydney has, to a certain extent, always included the Annandale Hotel. But for a while the music ceased – much to the chagrin of music-lovers across the city – as the landmark venue attempted to make its way as another style of pub.

But for the last five years, under the guidance of brothers Matt and Dan Rule, the pub has gone from strength to strength. And with a reputation for being one of the most enjoyable venues for both punter and player, it’s easy to see why.

On a cold June evening, FasterLouder edged past the Wok ‘n Roll kitchen and up the stairs to the Rule brothers’ home-cum-office. Posters for gigs, news snippets and photos of friends – famous and otherwise – papered the walls. The affable proprietors – firm handshakes, big smiles and a familial, open manner – sat down and gave us their perspective on the pub that’s become a Sydney legend, beginning with the story of how they came to be involved in the place. Fittingly, a band is soundchecking downstairs, and metal riffs filter their way up.

“There was a funny situation there,” begins Matt. “The guy who took music off here, I actually knew his daughter. I didn’t know him. But [he took] music off, thinking he’d make it a pokie pub when it hadn’t been before. He had the idea of putting pokies in and getting rid of the music, of turning it into a flash eastern suburbs style of hotel and make a bomb out of it. After a while, things began to go extremely badly.”

“Dan and I were running hotels elsewhere, and this girl I knew continually kept asking us to come out and try and help him out, the father. It came to a point where we were finishing up our jobs at the time, and we came out here on a three month consulting job, just to get some structure in the hotel. Then, after a period of time, we got music back on. And then to cut a long story short, ended up purchasing half, and then ended up purchasing the whole pub after 12 to 18 months.”

“He was a bit of an older gentleman,” continues Dan. “And he didn’t like the direction that we were taking the pub. It was paying the bills, and he wanted to sell. But we didn’t want to sell, so we ended up buying him out.”

Interestingly, the history of the venue wasn’t something that the brothers were particularly knowledgeable about. While Matt has been to the pub for gigs before, Dan wasn’t that familiar with the place.

“To be honest with you, I didn’t [know the pub’s history]. I was brought up over in Coogee area, the Clovelly Hotel, and it’s a whole different world over there. So to be honest with you, I didn’t know that much. And I didn’t know anything about live music. We were over there and I was doing what most hotels do with pokies and restaurants. That’s how it was done. Matt knew a little more. You knew what the Annandale was, but it definitely wasn’t my scene.”

Matt breaks in. “Yeah, I mean I’d seen a few gigs out here. I saw a bit of live music. But I can’t actually say I was a regular weekend live music aficionado. Obviously, we knew the history of the Annandale, and when we put music back on it was because the pub had no soul. You just knew – it was glaring you straight in the face that that’s what it needed. It was just this dull pub on the corner that everyone hated because of what had happened. It had lost completely its character and its soul, so it was just completely natural for us to put music back on here. And from there, my love of live music has just grown.”

The reawakening of the musical side of the Annandale proved to be a bit of a mixed bag – though the brothers have had some great help in their campaign to bring live music back to the pub, recalls Dan.

“It’s funny. You know, we were lucky that we brought in Brett from Mothership Music who was previously doing the Iron Duke. He really had a wealth of knowledge about live music in general and was the person who set us in the right direction and is the person who still works with us today.

“Initially, it was pretty tough,” he says. “There was a lot of backlash. People in the music industry have long memories, and there was a very big stigma that we had to get rid of. And then with the residents, we have had a bit of backlash.”

Matt continues. “Initially it was all pretty fine. Because we meet all requirements – that’s the thing. We’ve done all our work. Our acoustic levels are perfect outside. In the last two years, our biggest hurdles have been Leichhardt Council, which is the hardest council. And we’ve had a very small bunch of residents kick up a huge stink over the last 12 months which has affected out 3am licence. Unfortunately, four to six residents hold the ear of Leichhardt Council, and it goes against the majority. But look, we’re fighting that.

“On the whole, though, when we went for the 3am licence, we had more supporters than opponents. Which also begs the question as to how we got knocked back! And then had to go to the Land & Environment Court. You know, Leichhardt Council’s incompetence is one of the hardest things.”

“That and a small group of locals who don’t like what we do, and won’t listen,” offers Dan. We get blamed for everything that happens in the area, when you’ve got the Empire up the road with a 3 o’clock [close], you’ve got the North Annandale with a 3 o’clock, you’ve got a 24 hour McDonald’s…”

“You’ve got shootings in McDonald’s carparks!” interjects Matt, before a laughing Dan continues.

”...and you’ve got the Marquee at 3 o’clock. Yet the Annandale, which is the cornerstone of rock music in Sydney and on this strip, is subjected to closing at 12 o’clock because four residents put the blame squarely at our feet for the whole area’s ills. They think it’s like Macquarie Fields!

“Mate, I’ve worked in this pub for five years now and the amount of times I’ve had to call the police here for any incident, I could put on one hand. I’ve worked at fantastic pubs in the eastern suburbs, and police come there every night. Just because you’re dressed differently – I’ve got a metal crowd in tonight – then they don’t like the look of it and they’re scared by it and you get blamed for it. And these guys are going to do nothing wrong. So it’s a crying shame, and that’s the stigma that you carry.”

The stranglehold that residents can have over the livelihood of a live music venue is just one of a number of differences between running a normal pub and running a place like the Annandale. There’s some unique problems that the Rule brothers – and live venue owners in general – face. And despite wishes to the contrary, money does matter.

“It’s not like running a normal pub,” explains Dan. “You know, you turn your pokies on, you’ve got to compete with soundchecks – like we are now! – and people are being charged to come in the door. It’s not the same every night. You get a different crowd in with different bands, so it’s not just like going to your local and you know everyone in the place.

“If there’s music that you don’t necessarily like – well, I’m not going to go to The Metro on nights that I don’t really enjoy the music! So you’ve got to cater for different crowds. That’s a difficult part. You haven’t got that local trade – your poker machines take a dive. But there’s plenty of good stuff that goes with that too.”

“You know, the inconsistencies in music are unfortunate,” says Matt. “We might have a sold-out show on a Saturday, but the four nights before that mightn’t reach that, so unfortunately, the Saturday show has to pay for that. That inconsistency is difficult. And bands pulling out on late notice is a real killer. We don’t really blame the bands so much, but sometimes some aren’t so accommodating.”

” You know, a lot of bands say they’ll bring 3-400 people, so you’ve got six staff on, two doormen, and then fifty people walk in the door,” muses Dan.

I suggest that even then, those fifty would probably be on the guest list, prompting a gale of laughter from the two proprietors.

“Yeah,” says Dan. “You’ve got to make yourself better and try to dodge those bullets. You try to make sure contracts are in place, and that you’ve got three or four busy nights a week. Like the Birthday Week will be, where we have seven busy nights. We hope to get to that stage every week.”

“Yeah!” grins Matt. “There’s things which are difficult, but for every downside there’s ten upsides. It’s too good a life!”

Perhaps the hardest thing for a live venue to master is the mix of bands they put on. Who’ll pull? Who’ll suck? Will the punters come? Judging from the acts playing the Annandale with some regularity, it would seem to the observer that the venue has that particular task nailed. But Matt suggests that it’s not as cut-and-dried as that – and that professionalism goes a long way.

“I mean, we’ve had some crap bands…” he says. “It’d be nice to say that they’re all fantastic, but it’s not that way. It’s also unfortunate that you do need people to come through the doors. So you might see a band downstairs and they’re playing in front of two people. And you’ll see a crap band, but one who has done a lot of work to make their show successful and they’ll bring in 200 people. Unfortunately, you can’t give the show to the good band. You’ve got to say ‘Guys, as much as I love you, I can’t economically have you on.’

“But we definitely give people a try. I think you’ve got to be very flexible as there’s always new crowds coming through, getting into different styles of music. To have longevity, you’ve got to be able to cater to that. So we’re continuing to try and get the mix right, but we’ve still got a shitload of work to do.”

The Rule brothers, aside from being businessmen that need to bring in the bucks at the end of the day, have a reputation on the Sydney scene as being stalwart supporters of new talent. The pair have an ethos regarding untested performers that’s almost akin to mentorship. It’s something that’s beneficial to both the scene and the brothers’ business, explains Matt.

“We’ll always give anyone a go. But there has to be professionalism. The problem is if we give a band a go and it’s blatant that they’ve got no idea – which is something we’ve got to help. We’re trying to put something in place so that bands that don’t know how to give a show get the support they need to get people to come here. But it’s very difficult when you see bands here who just don’t put that professionalism into it. You just viably can’t give them too many gigs – you can only give them one or two. You know, if you’re losing on the bar, the doors are going to close.

“You try to book bands that you think have got it,” says Dan. “We might go downstairs and see a band, and we might try to steer them in the right direction, be it through booking agents, through management or whatever. You’ll try to tell people what to do so they can get on – I guess that’s where we’re supportive. We’ve got those nights – Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Sundays – when we try to bring those bands through, but you’ve got to try and make those nights busy too. So we are supportive of whatever we can get.”

The difficulty with the live experience is that bands can and do get discouraged at the lack of support that the public can give. Why don’t certain acts attain higher levels of success and acclaim? It’s something that gives both brothers pause for thought.

“And then you see the bands like the Hard-Ons and the SixFtHicks of the world,” enthuses Dan. “They’re just amazing acts. It’s like ‘Fuck, these guys are great!’ – and they’re getting less crowds than they truly deserve. Dan Brodie’s another example. You know, he came up recently and just didn’t get the numbers. And you feel like they’re taking a step backwards. You hope that they’ll stick with it.”

“It’s just a matter of getting that support from radio,” adds Matt. “I mean, we had a JJJ Presents here once for The Boat People I think it was – I can’t quite remember – and they were on the radio all the time, and we thought it’d be a really great show. And six people turned up!”

Dan is equally amazed. “How does that convert? How can’t there be interest from all over Sydney if these guys are getting played on the radio?”

The increased prominence of FBi on Sydney’s broadcasting scene has had a beneficial effect on the Sydney scene, says Matt. Dan agrees – but he also claims that there’s a robustness in the local music culture that’s not often given much acknowledgement.

“Yeah, I think it’s not just FBi,” he says. “With the festivals – the Big Day Out’s selling out, Homebake’s selling out, Splendour In The Grass is selling out, Come Together is selling out – people are getting away from the dance scene which has inundated us for ten years. People are getting out there, and live music’s being done really well. And I think a lot of bands understand that bands from all around the world are coming here and playing. I think Australian bands are as good as any, but when you see the big bands who’ve been playing at festivals all around the world, and you see the light show and the professionalism they bring to it, then the Aussie bands realise what they’ve got to do sometimes, and it filters all the way down to the bottom rung, which is where we are.

“It goes across the board. The guys who’re playing Tuesdays see the guys who’re selling out on Saturdays and realise that they’ve got to get to that level. So it just converts, it rolls. The whole industry’s helping each other. And hopefully venues will learn, if we’re doing something right. You’ve got to have a great PA, you’ve got to have a good light system. You’ve got to be a bit loose. It’s not an IKEA pub where you just come in and put a PA in the corner and hope the bands pull – you’ve got to have a heart and soul in there at the end of the day. And that’s where it all stems from. So I think there’s a good culture in Sydney music. Or I hope there is. It’s building, but it’s got a long way to go.”

“And that’s where things like FBi and FasterLouder come in,” says Matt. “They’re bringing a new generation of punter into the mix. I was actually speaking to [You Am I manager] Todd Wagstaff today and we were having a chat about this and we were just kind of saying that there’s a whole load of these cool kids, who’re like 18-21 who are coming in. They’re very new to the scene from what I can see. And as annoying as that can be – they’re the fashion crowd almost – it’s kind of nice to see them being drawn to live music instead of where we losing them five to ten years ago to clubs, to bars. Now, there’s a cooler element that’s coming back in – all the ‘80s kind of fashion. It’s good to see that they’ve been introduced to the scene. And I think that it’s FasterLouder and FBi – these access points – that are really helping.”

It’s suggested that Sydney venues encounter difficulties that are different to those found in other Australian cities – particularly Melbourne. Dan agrees wholeheartedly.

“Yeah, you can run things differently down there… and you don’t have a $4million mortgage! At the end of the day, if we didn’t have the mortgage that we have, then we’d be putting more money into music. Down there, a pub this size isn’t worth what it is up here. And we are inner-city. We’re not out in the sticks. This pub is worth a lot of money and you’ve got to service the mortgage. They don’t have to have 300-400 people in on a weekend. We do. They don’t sell out every weekend, so they can have all these different things, and the licensing laws are a lot different down there.”

“There is a lot of cost involved in running a bar,” says Matt. “We employ security, we employ a sound guy who makes sure that our gear is all working, and we pay a lighting guy. And so you’re hoping that the band does their work, and that marketing works so that you get a crowd.

“Basically, if you had a pub and decided to turn on a poker machine and let it run itself, then you could probably employ three staff. You’d have someone on the pokies, making sure they’re clean, making sure they do their payouts properly, and keep the other two bar staff for serving the general public – turning on the Foxtel. Your expenses aren’t there. So I think it can be a gamble putting on live music, as there’s a lot of expense going out. It’s not a safe bet.

Given the sometimes financially perilous state of live music, it’s clear that the brothers’ family link is key to the success of the business, it seems. Certainly, both Matt and Dan are enthusiastic about the benefits of their business partnership.

“It makes it a lot easier,” says Matt. “At the end of the day, if you work with family then you can have a bit of a blue. It’s just part and parcel of growing up together. It’s not something that you hold onto the next day. I mean, when you were kids you were fighting over a football, but the next day it’s all back to normal.”

Dan agrees. “There’s a lot of stuff you can talk about. There’s a massive trust factor, too. You’re not questioning any money, any business decisions. We come from a very tight family of six kids, so that trust factor is a major thing. You’re not looking over your shoulder. You just know the support’s there, that you can bounce ideas off each other. We know that with what we’re doing here that we’re on the same page and we’re going in the right direction. And that’s where we had the business partner who, at the end of the day, wasn’t on the same page as us. And that can happen in any business. And that’s where me and Matt find it very easy, in that sense. We know that what we eventually want to achieve, we’re going in the same direction. I enjoy it.”

Of course, it’s not just music that the pub’s famous for. With their slogan – “Fuck this, I’m going to the Annandale” – the venue’s easygoing nature and fame as an escapist destination has spread far and wide. And  it seems that it all stems from a hat. Matt explains.

“I saw a hat. It was like ‘I’m off to Barney’s’ or something like that. It was an old truckers’ hat. And I sort of thought, what if we said ‘I’m off to the Annandale’? And then someone said ‘Ah, fuck this, I’m going to the Annandale’ and that was it! And it was set. I couldn’t really say that there was a lot of thought, or that it was our marketing or whatever. It was more like ‘Ah, fuck going to Oxford Street’, or getting hassled by bouncers, or getting beaten up. Or fuck having a hard day at work, I’m going to the Annandale where I don’t have to get dressed up and I can relax. Or I can get as dressed up or as dressed down as I like, and it doesn’t matter. And it was also that we are an alternative pub, I guess, and I want it to be that way.

“We wanted it to have that laid-back aspect, you know?” says Dan. “Just like ‘Fuck this, I’m going down the Annandale…’ Not a fuck this, in-your-face kind of thing, but more a ‘I don’t have to put up with any of your shit’.

It’s a slogan that’s not won the brothers many friends with local watchdogs, though, says Matt.

“It’s funny, in the council meeting, one of their biggest points was ‘Have you seen their website? It says “fuck this” on it! They’re saying “fuck this” to the world and the community! Is this the type of place we want on our corner?”

“And they ripped it off our website!” exclaims Dan, chagrined. “If you read their newsletter that went out, it said ‘Fuck hanging round the family this easter, I’m going to the Annandale’. It was blurb that they come out with every week and we proudly support it! ‘How dare they try and break up families?!’ – and we’re like ‘Fuck you!’ You know? Fuck this and fuck you! That’s who it’s directed at. That’s why we’re going to the Annandale – to get away from YOUR shit!

“Now, they’re walking out the door! There’s a picture of Dan Brodie and Chris Brodie on the Eiffel tower wearing them. You love it when you can go to the festival and you can see one of the band guys who you’ve given a shirt to and they’re up there on-stage with ‘Fuck this, I’m going to the Annandale’ on them.”

Matt recalls a favourite ‘Fuck this’ tale.

“I went to SXSW last year and was speaking to a bloke – I think it was the drummer from Riff Random – and he said I wouldn’t believe it, but he’d just come from CBGB’s and a guy walked out with a ‘Fuck this…’ shirt on it.”

“That’s what we should have on our website,” says Dan. “Take photos of ‘Fuck this’ around the world and send them in. That’s another thing that’s working for us. Our website’s going really well – 300,000 hits last month or something like that. But that’s the type of thing we’re trying to develop – to brand ourselves as a name. Not so much as a pub. We’re always going to be a pub, but if you can get out of relying on the old way of what pubs are – restaurant, a bar and pokies – and can say that you’re a pub that’s a venue and a brand name, then I think that five years down the line, we’ve realised that we’re getting to that point. And I hope that with Birthday Week, hopefully the launch of the DVD will put us on the market.”

The DVD – the Annandale’s second after the low-key release of a warts-and-all, high-powered performance by The Bronx – is set up to be the beginning of an ongoing line of releases.

“It’s been a long hard word to get the initial DVD out, just because we started with no idea,” says Matt. “So as soon as we’ve gotten through Birthday Week and have gone over it, we’ll hopefully be able to set things up and do it the right way. It might make life a bit easier to release the next one, and there’ll be more of them. And the guys from Livecast have set up their studios up here, so it’s always a possibility – we really want to keep doing it.

“The launch of our DVD – it gets launched on Tuesday – will encourage a lot of interest and it’ll open a lot of doors,” says Dan. “Right now, a lot of labels are saying we’d have to pay for it, and film it for nothing, and as Matt said, we did it arse-end-up. But once you get the product out there, like a JJJ compilation where people know that bands are going to get exposure from it, then we can film it. And they can get exposure, whether that’s through record stores, or whether it gets shown on Rage or on Channel V or wherever it gets shown. Bands will be getting exposure for nothing other than being on the compilation. And that stuff is great. So you know, the release of the DVD will be a real turning point in bringing that other arm of the hotel closer to what we want to do.”

But back to the slogan. It could be argued that ‘Fuck this’ encapsulates the best parts of the Annandale: the fact that it’s a place where you can go at any time and feel welcome. It’s an atmosphere that the brothers are very proud of, and work hard to maintain – to the extent of giving overly-touchy security guards their marching orders during one of the busiest nights of the week.

“We sacked two doormen on Saturday night because they were being fucking arseholes to customers coming in,” says Matt. “So we went to the door and said ‘Get out, we’ll run the door.’ “

“Yeah, I sacked the door guys on Saturday night,” recalls Dan. “Because we’ve got a new security company… we were wondering what was happening with them [and their] nightclub bouncers! It’s a hard issue, security, because with licensing laws regarding the responsible service of alcohol. But all of a sudden, there’s six of my customers out there, and if they’re pissed, I thought fucking hell, they should see me when I’m drunk!

“I think with us, though, that it comes across, and that’s the kind of crowd that we get down here, which we’re also very proud of. It’s not about how you look or anything, but if you treat people nice down here you’ll be treated the same way by the staff and the owners. We’re pretty hands-on, if we see people that are being rude. It’s not about how you look when you get in the door, because you get in the door first because you bought tickets. But if you’re pissed and you’re going to cause trouble, then you’re not going to come in. But you come here to have a good time, and you’re going to have a good time, so that’s what I really have to get across.”

“But the great thing about the crowd here is that if they play up, you can actually go up to them and say ‘Mate, you’re acting like a dickhead and you’re going to get kicked out and you’re not going to see the show,’” says Matt. “And they say ‘OK – no worries!’”

“And most of the time they’re just excited because they want to see a show.” agrees Dan.

Through their time running the pub, the Rules have seen a number of exceptional gigs. So who do you pick as being the best when you’ve got the chance to see phenomenal acts almost every night of the week? It’s a difficult task.

“There’s so many good shows, whether it’s Jet or whatever,” says Dan. “But I always go back to The Mark Of Cain. I didn’t know anything about the band – it was sort of my introduction to live music. We’d been here for a little while – but [promoter] Tim Pittman, who puts on a lot of shows here and is great to us, put on The Mark Of Cain when they could’ve easily sold out The Metro, I’d say, at least, because both shows were snapped up in record time. It was just a mindblowing experience. But any time you say that, you could say the Magic Dirts, or the Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billys or Holly Golightly the other week, or Rocket Science. Birthday week is just a culmination of all the bands who’ve played here, but I suppose a standout show in that sense of seeing something that I’m not into but something that was just a great musical show was The Mark Of Cain.”

Matt is a little less sure. “I’ve got no idea!” he says. Honestly, I couldn’t pick one. John Butler the first time was unbelievable. He played just on the corner stage by himself. He’d just come down from the Blues Festival and I was just blown away watching him play for the first time.

“Also, the Winterman & Goldstein show was a special one where Jet and Harry Vanda got up, and with 78 Saab and stuff like that,” reminisces Dan. “But The Vines’ one was another one like that for me. You didn’t even know it was a great show until next day when Triple M are ringing you and wanting a reaction, and you hear that they’ve split at the show and haven’t played since. Sometimes you don’t know it’s a great show until you’ve walked away from it, a day later maybe sometimes.”

He asks which show stood out for me, and I have to admit that when Nashville Pussy toured, it was amazing – even if my mate, a fellow punter, was chomped on by another gig-goer. It’s a gig that Dan remembers clearly.

“It was really good, except for this fucking sheila up the front who was up the front. And of course the mosh is crowded, but she attacked this bloke and was abusing me for not breaking up the mosh. I couldn’t enjoy the show! She drove me mad!”

“Actually,” says Matt, as an aside, “do you know that the only real trouble we’ve had in the hotel with violence has been with women? We’ve had to take two to psychiatric hospitals! At Spurs [For Jesus] one day…

“And at Tex Perkins,” interrupts Dan. Unreal! They brought the psych van down…”

Thankfully, such instances are rare. The pub continues to thrive – psych-van visits aside – but the Rule brothers aren’t content to rest easy on their achievements. There are impressive plans afoot for the venue, including expansion into the realm of charity. But the road’s not easy – already there’s been red tape wrangles. Matt takes up the cause.

“Well, we’re half finished the renovations now. We’re looking at the beer garden, at decking, and we’re basically going to enclose that area so it’s a nicer area for eating – all-weather. But it’s just another one of those things – we went through council for over a year to get our roof replaced, which was insane. That’s been crazy. And we’ve just punched a hole through to [the property] next door to utilise as a lounge, an area people can come to if they don’t want to pay to get in to a show – a place where they can just chill out and get away from it all.

“Both those things are basically us trying to consolidate what we’re doing with the hotel in regard to trying to not solely rely on the music aspect of things. So we can get the restaurant working a bit better, generate a bit more income, then we can continue to funnel money into supporting music, to keep it going for as long as possible. There’s a few other projects we’ve got going on related to the Annandale name. You’ll probably see us take a step away from the bar more. We’re also going to start an auction charity site. It’s basically done – we just haven’t had the time to get it up and running.”

“Basically, you can get a signed poster of any touring band, whether they play here or elsewhere,” explains Dan. “You get it signed, and then the next day there’s an online auction – and all that money goes to charity. That’s something that we’re keen on. We’ve got it all ready to go, it’s just a matter of getting it put in place because there’s just not enough hours in the day. I think a lot of people will jump on board, as bands’ll see that it’s a good thing.”

Initially, the monies raised are earmarked for charities that work with children with cancer, but the brothers plan to share the wealth.

“I think we’ll change it all the time,” says Matt. “We’ll head for a target, then when we hit it, we’ll move to another one.”

“Any charity that approaches us,” continues Dan. “Of course, if there was something that could help rock venues or bands…” He trails off, musing. “Yeah, it’s just a matter of getting involved.”

Bigger spaces, charitable organisations… where else are the brothers planning on taking the Parramatta Rd-fronted pub?

“We’re trying to affiliate with different venues around the world, with different technology,” says Dan, suggesting that streaming technology could link the pub with other like-minded establishments around the globe.

Clearly, the brothers aren’t limiting their plans to a corner in Annandale.

It’s a long way from a silent stage. Here’s to another five years!

The Annandale Hotel’s Birthday Week celebrations commence on Monday, 27 June and continues until Sunday, 3 July. Radio Birdman, Dallas Crane, SixFtHick, The Mess Hall and Cog are just a few of the bands playing. Some gigs are already sold out, check the ‘Dale’s website for more details.

A complete list of the shenanigans:
Monday June 27, Sounds Of Sinema Spectacular, present Eat My Dust (1976) among other things… 7.30pm – Donation
Tuesday June 28 VIP Party – 6pm – Invite Only
Special headline performance from 78 Saab, with sets from up and comers, The Model School, The Holy Soul, Pinky Tuscedero, The Forgotten Army, The Dolly Rocker Movement
Wednesday June 29, Dallas Crane, Six Ft Hick and Cold Harbour
Thursday June 30, Cog, Bang Bang You’re Deadly and Degrees.K
Friday July 1, Gerling with The Mess Hall
Saturday July 2, Radio Birdman and The Specimens
Sunday afternoon July 3, Spurs For Jesus and friends
Sunday evening, Decoder Ring, Dappled Cities Fly