BAM! Festival announces inaugural lineup

3 June 2010 by Soulshine News

BAM! Festival, coming to S.E. Qld in October, have announced their first round of artists, an all-Aussie assortment of emerging acts.

Bands and artists set to impress the crowds:

 The Winnie Coopers, The Barons of Tang, Dallas Frasca, Headkase, Chocolate Strings, Free Agent Crew, Dead Riot, The View From Madeleine's Couch, Tin Can Radio, Flowers for Lily, The City Shake Up, The Mercy Beat, Bang Bang Boss Kelly, They Are Spies, The Good Ship, TroubleKarmaFlow, Jac Stone, The Belligerents, Blame Ringo, The Lyrical, Torn Asunder, Recoil, The Fricken Hecks, Issac Graham, 1989, Chamberland, The Arachnids, The Baby Seal Club, Rob Robot, Origin of Janken, Jack Flash, Jessiah Cocks, Transvaal Diamond Syndicate, Celebrity Stalkers, Truth Serum, The Bobkatz, The Orange City Sings, Anarchist Duck, Blind Lemon, The Ninth Chapter, Dirtybird, Diamond Trade, Sarah Kay, The Dashounds, Howling Steel, Jac and Jessiah, Rareicorn, Moniters, Sam Hales, Green Thief, The Founds, Bec Plath, Courage, Cleveland Blues & Red Eye Junction, Autumn Heartache.

Supporting these superb acts are some world class DJs such as Baby Gee, Bexta And SHFL‐ Amber Savage, Nik Fish, Habebe, Danny T, Luki, ADICTS, SHIFTY, Config|sys PROJECT (Live), Butterz, S3RL, Tenji, Bananaz, DJ Fez, Angry Young Computer, Tomy, Gyrus, Paul Kruger, Jody 6, Disko Diva, Zannon, Footsie, Justin Charge, Quett Lai, Jigzee, Keni, Rushnosh, The Matchstick, Pretension, Tails, Timmi Hendrix, Robert Evans. The BAM! Launch party, held at Ivory’s Rock over the weekend, allowed a select group of people a special preview of the festival site, and were the first to see the first release.

“We’re really happy with the line up so far and we will be announcing the second round of another 50 acts in July,” said the organisers. “Now there is a line‐up, people will be able to see a bit more of what we’re about and what we hope BAM! to be.”

BAM! Festival is a 24 hour, non‐stop, 3‐day camping festival that gives local and national talent the opportunity to play in a festival setting.

Evan Shaw, Marketing Manager, reinforces this idea by saying that BAM! wants to start from a grassroots beginning, and prosper in years to come.

“With so many festivals already on the calendar and more being established we have our work cut out for us but we think BAM! will fill a niche local market that no other festivals are fulfilling,” Shaw said. “We want everyone to know we’re about supporting local and national artists and DJ’s while giving festival goers an intimate and unique experience.”

The first line‐up is a showcase of talent sure to cater for most music tastes. A second line‐up will be announced in July as BAM! were overwhelmed with artist applications.

BAM! Festival is being held at Ivory’s Rock Conference Centre from the 8th – 10th of October. Single day tickets including camping are on sale now for more information visit www.BAM2010.com

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