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Fri. October 01.1999 9:05 PM EDT |
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Foo Fighters, Offspring To Rock Australia This WeekendBands highlighting separate events as festival season takes off Down Under. by Correspondent Tim Scott |
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The Foo Fighters, featuring Dave Grohl, will play the Glenworth Valley Weekender this weekend. |
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MELBOURNE, Australia — It's spring here, and the rock-festival
season kicks into high gear this weekend with events featuring the Foo
Fighters and the Offspring. Nine Inch Nails and the Red Hot Chili Peppers have already been
The Foo Fighters, British art-rockers Suede and former Lemonheads singer Evan Dando highlight the Glenworth Valley Weekender, which started Friday (Oct. 1) and runs through Sunday. Meanwhile, rockers the Offspring, You Am I and Ben Lee are scheduled to turn up at the Livid festival Saturday (Oct. 2) at Brisbane's RNA Showgrounds. Peter Walsh, promoter of the 13-year-old Livid festival, said its growing popularity has forced it to expand beyond the Brisbane artists it originally featured to include the likes of rap acts Public Enemy and the Beastie Boys, rocker Henry Rollins and British punksters the Fall, all of whom have performed in recent years. Some 30,000 people attended in 1998. "Our first show in 1989 included the Go-Betweens, Died Pretty and Chris Bailey," said Walsh, who funded the first Livid with a $400 student loan. "Since then it's grown, exploded, some might say." Also among the roughly 30 acts set for Saturday's edition of the festival are the Australian bands Frenzal Rhomb, Powderfinger and Spiderbait. The Foo Fighters, fronted by former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl, are expected to preview material from their upcoming third album, There Is Nothing Left to Lose, at the Glenworth Valley Weekender. Other acts set for the three-day event include Aussie rockers Not From There, who in their relatively short existence have become festival veterans, having played Big Day Out and Livid. "Festivals are like musical supermarkets," guitarist Heinz, who goes by only one name, said. "You see kids running around with programs checking out 10 minutes of a band ... before madly rushing off to see someone else." The festival also offers an Internet lounge, dance tents and a "healing field" that provides a place for meditation, yoga and massage therapy. Homebake '99 will take place at the Gold Coast Parklands on Nov. 28 and the Sydney Domain on Dec. 11, offering Australian music on four stages as well as karaoke and an outdoor pool hall. Supported by radio station JJJ, the lineup reflects an eclectic mix of young Australian acts. Bands performing this year include stadium rockers and festival stalwarts Silverchair, whose latest album, Neon Ballroom, features the song "Anthem for the Year 2000" (RealAudio excerpt), and experimental rockers the Dirty Three. Far from the glitz of giant blow-up dolls, pyrotechnic displays and merchandise stalls is the Meredith Music Festival on Dec. 10–11 in a sleepy farming community outside Geelong, Victoria. Music fans from Melbourne and afar come to Meredith for the festival, which offers a relaxed and ramshackle environment where bands come onstage late, dogs wander through the crowd and people take part in the infamous Meredith Gift, a nude foot race with no rules. Bands expected to play the festival this year include '70s-inspired rockers the Donnas, veterans Meredithers and Latino act Combo la Revelación. Organizers of the Big Day Out festival announced Wednesday that Nine Inch Nails, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and the Chemical Brothers will top separate stages. The festival, a sort of Down Under version of Lollapalooza that debuted in 1992 with Nirvana on the bill, also will feature pop-punk act Blink-182, former Clash leader Joe Strummer, jungle artist Goldie and scores of Australian and international bands. The tour kicks off in Auckland, New Zealand, on Jan. 21 and will hit five Australian cities over the following three weeks: Gold Coast, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth. The 1999 tour was topped by rockers Marilyn Manson and Hole and also featured neo-metal band Korn, funk-rappers the Fun Lovin' Criminals, and electronica artist Fatboy Slim. (SonicNet Staff Writer Teri vanHorn contributed to this report) |
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