The line-up has been revealed for this yr’s Splendour in the Grass music festival, dropping greater than 12 hours sooner than deliberate after particulars had been leaked on-line.
The annual occasion, which is happening from July 19-21 this yr at North Byron Parklands in New South Wales, will kick off with Kylie Minogue headlining on Friday evening.
Other homegrown artists amongst the line up embrace G Flip, digital duo The Presets and Tones and I.
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American rapper Future will headline on Saturday evening in his first Aussie gig in seven years, whereas Canadian band Arcade Fire will shut out the three-day occasion on Sunday, marking their first Australian efficiency in a decade.
The rock outfit expressed their hopes to get again to play in entrance of Aussie audiences a few years in the past, after skipping the continent on their most up-to-date tour for the album WE.
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“It’s been forever,” the group’s frontman, Win Butler, advised Rolling Stone Australia in a 2022 interview, including they had been hoping to “come back soon”.
Other artists on the invoice embrace BRIT Awards rising stars The Last Dinner Party, in addition to Fontaines D.C., Viagra Boys and Lizzy Mcalpine.
Minogue’s efficiency is being billed as an unique look and shall be the first time the singer has taken over the Splendour in the Grass Amphitheatre stage.
It’s simply one other feather in her cap following a unprecedented 12 months for the Melbourne-born singer who earlier this month was awarded the BRITs Global Icon Award in the UK and Billboard Women in Music Icon Award in the US in the similar week.
After changing into a viral sensation throughout social media, Padam Padam not solely received Minogue a brand new technology of followers but in addition gave the singer her first Grammy Award in 20 years.
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The music additionally scored the 55-year-old her first ARIA Award in 21 years final November and prompted a Barbie in her likeness to mark International Women’s Day final week.
Minogue has confirmed her skills to nail the out of doors gig having smashed her Legend’s Slot at Glastonbury in 2019.
Taking to the Pyramid Stage in entrance of over 100,000 folks the Australian performed the headline set of the UK music festival on the Sunday, 14 years after she was compelled to cancel her 2005 look because of her breast most cancers battle.
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