Lineup for 30th Meredith revealed

THE lineup for the 30th edition of the Meredith Music Festival has dropped, with headliners to include Caribou, Dry Cleaning, Yothu Yindi and Courtney Barnett.

To be held from December 9-11 in the “Supernatural Amphitheatre”, the event returns after being called off in 2020 and 2021.

Fans are already putting their names down for the hotly-contested ticket ballot.

 

In an email to subscribers last week, organiser Aunty Meredith said the 30th Meredith will be the “same size, same shape, still BYO everywhere, still independent, with no commercial sponsors, and one stage fits all”.

Led by Dan Snaith, Caribou is a Canadian four-piece “who flip out through every flavour of fun. That huddle around centre stage in a buzzing coil, powering up a gigantic aural adventure to make us dance and feel. And feel and dance”.

Caribou were slated to appear at the cancelled 2020 edition of Meredith, and Aunty Meredith said Snaith’s performance with Caribou “won’t be the last we see of Dan this weekend” in a “special treat” for attendees.

Formed in South London in 2018, Dry Cleaning are described as a squalling, ragged post-punk force walking in the ghostly shadows of Wire, Magazine and Joy Division, and “a collection of searing, surrealist distillations propelled by the extraordinary weight of Flo’s [Florence Shaw] poetic beats and dents, her Sprechgesang-esque delivery and tricky, slippery words at the thumping centre of it all.”

 

Legendary Australian band Yothu Yindi created “songs that altered the very fabric of this country… that reshaped the way we saw ourselves, the music we made, the stories we told”.

Barnett is returning to Meredith for the first time in seven years since her previous performance and nine years since her debut Meredith set – “since then, all those songs, the wit, the quietly virtuosic guitar playing, the live shows, and the magnetic, enigmatic character she is have become adored all over the globe… a once-in-a-generation songwriter telling her story, and sometimes ours too”.

Announced last week, the lineup for Meredith this year is:

Caribou

Dry Cleaning

Yothu Yindi

Courtney Barnett

The Comet Is Coming

Tkay Maidza

Sharon Van Etten

Private Function

DJ Quik

Erika de Casier

Babe Rainbow

Derrick Carter

CLAMM

Minami Deutsch

Nu Genea

SHOUSE

Tasman Keith

Rot TV

Surprise Chef

POOKIE

Our Carlson

Darcy Justice

OK EG

Allara

Rubi Du

Daphni

More artists will be revealed “in a month or two”.

For more information and to join the ticket ballot, head to mmf.com.au.