After a triumphant debut in 2009, boutique festival Days Like This! returns to Sydney on the 10th of January 2010 with another illustrious line-up. The mix of genres that made the inaugural edition so special will again be on full display – with hip hop, electronica, indie-rock, roots and plenty more spread across the four stages.

Heading the bill this time is none other than Roots Manuva, in his first visit since 2006. The Londoner with a gift for wordplay released his sixth album Slime & Reason this year, and he’s a proven live performer.

Prolific chanteuse Cat Power will lead her band Dirty Delta Blues, with Detroit soul man Amp Fiddler and homegrown festival favourites The Cat Empire also on board. Just as it in 2009, the line-up runs deep – hip hop veterans Dilated Peoples, New Zealand dub collective The Black Seeds, local lights Pivot and a whole lot more.

Days Like This! first line-up looks like this. Tickets on sale Thursday 8 October.

ROOTS MANUVA
THE CAT EMPIRE
AMP FIDDLER
CAT POWER & DIRTY DELTA BLUES
THE BLACK SEEDS
PIVOT
UGLY DUCKLING
MAYER HAWTHORNE
LTJ BUKEM & MC CONRAD
DILATED PEOPLES
QUANTIC (DJ SET)
THE BAMBOOS FEAT: KYLIE AULDIST
JOKER
MARVA WHITNEY
THE NEXTMEN
MICACHU & THE SHAPES
THUNDERHEIST
WE HAVE BAND
NICKODEMUS
CASSETTE KIDS
PÉPÉ BRADOCK
TOM UGLY
TEENAGERSINTOKYO (DJ SET)
BRENNAN GREEN
HARMONIC 313
MATTHIAS MEYER
APSCI
LEE DOUGLAS & LOVEFINGERS
THE SWISS!