The 21st Meredith MusicFestival line-up

Thu 18th Aug, 2011 in Local News

“It was a party and the three guys who organised it called it the Meredith Music Festival as a cheeky joke.” – Aunty Meredith, 2011.

Over two decades since a couple of mates held a party for two hundred friends in a paddock, Meredith Music Festival is coming of age. On its 21st Birthday Melbourne’s Musical Mecca remains fiercely BYO, continues to shun commercial sponsorship and (save the occasional late night reveler) is still distinctly free of dickheads.

To celebrate twenty-one years of myth-making, Aunty Meredith has tipped her hat to the cosmic powers that be and arranged for St Nick to lead his Grinderman into battle under a Lunar Eclipse, Icehouse to let their flowers bloom as the sun sets on Saturday, Mudhoney to unleash their Supernaturalfuzz, Explosions In The Sky to create explosions in our mind and Denis Commetti to make sure everything is just ‘Centimetre Perfect’ come Sunday. This is going to be one hell of a party.

The 21st Meredith Music Festival line-up:

Grinderman – Saturday night
Icehouse – Saturday evening
Kurt Vile & The Violators – Friday evening
Mudhoney
Cut/Copy
Gang Gang Dance
Explosions In The Sky – Friday night
Ladyhawke
Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears
Off!
Adalita
Future Of The Left
Frank Fairfield
Harmonic 313 (Dj Set)
Joelistics
Big Freedia
Unknown Mortal Orchestra
Graveyard Train
Tim Sweeney
Oscar + Martin
Cash Savage
The Last Drinks
Angus Sampson
Barbarion
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
Juiceboxxx
Virgo Four
Eagle & The Worm
The Rechords
Dave Graney & The Lurid Yellow Mist
Matt Sonic & The High Times
The Town Bikes
City Of Ballarat Municipal Brass Band
Master Song Tai Chi
Silence Wedge
A Total Lunar Eclipse
Dennis Cometti as the very special guest MC of ‘The Gift’

Meredith Music Festival
Friday 9th – Sunday 11th December
Meredith Supernatural Amphitheatre

Given it’s such a special year for the old bird, we had a yarn with Aunty Meredith about her favourite party moments through the years – read it here.

Tickets to Meredith Music Festival remain $279 +bf and if you want to celebrate with Aunty Meredith this year make sure you enter the ballot at www.mmf.com.au.

If anyone deserves the last word here, it is Mr Dennis Commetti, who knows a good thing when he’s on to it.