BIGSOUND BRISBANE IS HERE
Monster Children is excited to announce that we're a media partner of this year's motherfuckin’ biggest: BIGSOUND in Brisbane.
This year marks BIGSOUND’s sliver jubilee - twenty five years of big. For a quarter of a century, BIGSOUND has brought the best and brightest of Australia and New Zealand’s music scene as well as an array of international artists to Fortitude Valley for a weekend of sight and sound the likes of which occurs nowhere else on the brave continent. From September 1-4, the valley will play host to incredible talent, with the entire precinct becoming a playground for local and visiting music industry professionals looking to amplify and unearth music’s next wave of stars, curated and programmed in an exciting, choose-your-own-adventure style festival.
It is a place for discovery, collaboration, and appreciation of the thing we all love most: good fucking music. It is so rare to get to see a festival that isn’t blown out by the things that ruin what should be a magical experience; things like enormous queues, obligatory-enormous-pop-stage-art-direction, and most importantly: a lack of community. BIGSOUND is beloved because it is first and foremost a community pillar. It is a festival dedicated to the love of the art and artists, and treats both with integrity, and we couldn’t love it more. In keeping with the celebration of their twenty fifth birthday, here are twenty five bands that you need to see at Brisbane’s favorite festival, with a lil’ somethin’ about a few of our absolute favorites.
See the whole lineup and get tickets, here.
And Beyond
Blue Diner
‘an Australian indie project that doesn’t sound like a reproduction of something else - an original approach to a saturated genre both delicate and chaotic.’
CATPISS
‘the name alone… I mean, come on.’
DC Maxwell
‘supremely earnest - a collage of sensitive lyrics and punk energy that bursts before you realize what’s happening.’
DeepFaith
Dumbhead
‘like if a Casiotone beat kit made sweet sweet love to a series of distortion pedals under the starry Australian sky.’
Gloam
Jaal
Kaikobad
Kiz
Ladyhawke
‘adjectives like ‘nostalgic’ are reductive in reference to Ladyhawke’s output because it fails to identify the innovation and ambition built into the songwriting and its substance.’
Local the Neighbour
Lover
‘narrative-centered, deeply personal lyricism mixed with genuinely surprising melodies make indie sound sensitive again.’
LOW
Milly Strange
‘didn’t Josh write about Milly Strange for Monster Children like last year? ahead of the curve on that one, Josh.’
Mim Jensen
PRETTY BLEAK
Ricky Neil Jr.
Sam Fischer
Sidney Phillips
‘not your grandma’s acoustic.’
Special Features
‘everyone needs a dance now and then, and Special Features is where you go to hear the beeps and boops that you can move to.’
