THAT WAS QUICK!

Tickets to the 2006 edition of Homebake: Party in the Park went on sale at precisely 9am yesterday morning.

They were on sale for about half the day before they were all gone, daddy, gone - with such massive support, Homebake has officially sold out.

With such intense and surprising reaction, it can be proudly proclaimed that the local industry is well and truly in a healthy shape.

Featuring four stages (Main Stage, The Big Top, The Dome & The Hopetoun Stage), Homebake 2006 will also have a cinema tent (bigger and better than ever), international food fair, market stalls, roving performers, artist signing tent (with all proceeds - meaning one can presume that you pay for the privelege going to Youth Off the Streets, rides, youth and community information and awareness stalls, and more.

And that’s without even mentioning the bands!

Homebake: Party in the Park will feature Silverchair, Eskimo Joe, The Hilltop Hoods, Scribe, Gotye, You Am I, Youth Group, Björn Again, The Butterfly Effect, The Presets, The Models, Bob Evans, Toni Collette & The Finish, Little Birdy, Infusion, Midnight Juggernauts, Kid Kenobi & MC Shureshock, Parkway Drive, Augie March, Angus and Julia Stone and many, many more still to be announced.

Date:
HOMEBAKE 2006 – Party In The Park
Saturday December 2nd, 2006
The Domain, Sydney City, NSW

QUEENSCLIFF FESTIVAL LINE UP

This year’s Queenscliff Music Festival (held just over one hour’s drive from Melbourne) are proud as punch to announce their lineup thus far.

There’s more, so much more to come, we are assured, but how’s this for starters:

Weddings Parties Anything - reuniting at Queenscliff for a Saturday night barnstormer of a show - first festival appearance since disbanding in 1998!

Betty Harris - the American Soul Queen & her electrifying 10-piece band (featuring Melbourne’s hottest R ‘n B players) will make Saturday night a soul spectacular which is sure to crown Betty Harris the undisputed “Queen” of Queenscliff!

TNT (Tex Perkins and Tim Rogers) - two heavyweight champions of Australian rock headline Sunday’s Concert Stage. It’s dynamite. Watch them explode!

Yann Tiersen (France) - a star in his homeland, best known to Australian audiences for his epic film soundtracks for Amelie and most recently, Les Retrouvailles

Teddy Thompson (UK) - son of British folk-rock icons Richard and Linda Thompson and friend/associate of Rufus and Martha Wainwright, this charismatic young artist is sure to win the hearts of Queenscliff...

Models - the seminal lineup of Sean Kelly, Andrew Duffield, Mark Ferrie and Barton Price, combining the edgy pop arrangements and experimental synth stylings of their earlier releases with the big beat of their later chart topping hits

Don Walker & the S.F’s - founding member and key songwriter of Cold Chisel, Don Walker’s new solo album Cutting Back is being hailed as an Australian classic

Mick Harvey - the right-hand man to Nick Cave and PJ Harvey headlines Sunday’s Fishnet Stage with a rare performance of his own material and a stellar band featuring Rosie Westbrook on double bass and fellow Bad Seeds Thomas Wydler on drums and James Johnston on organ and guitar

Matmatah (France) - Matmatah has sold more than 1 million albums, largely on the back of their reputation as a phenomenal live band. Matmatah provide the thrillingly Gallic climax to Friday night’s Concert Stage.

Lior - one of the shining success stories of Australian independent music, Lior returns to Queenscliff with his band to headline the Friday night concert stage

FourPlay - world-renowned rock string quartet offer something for everyone, from pop to post-rock to "Bollyrock", with influences as diverse as klezmer, tango, slide guitar and folktronica, all with a strong in-your-face rock attitude

Bill Chambers - the patriarch of the Chambers Clan is a master of delicate picking on Dobro or Lap Steel, a demon on Slide and an accomplished songwriter. Bill shares his stories on Saturday night on Queenscliff’s Pelican Stage

Horse Stories - the reunion of the original lineup of the much-travelled Horse Stories, featuring Melbourne-born Toby Burke and drummer Clinton Stapleton, a native Texan based in California, together in Australia for the very first time

Dili Allstars - a high-energy seven-piece funk, ska, rock, and reggae group, guaranteed to make you move after midnight on Saturday’s Pelican Stage Blue King Brown - human rights and global grooves, heavy percussion and soul, Afro beat, roots, rock and reggae!

LABJACD - a 9-piece latin hip-hop outfit drawing their influences from everything from old school hip-hop and jazz to Cuban salsa and even Andean folk music

John Schumann & the Vagabond Crew - a tribute to Henry Lawson featuring Aussie legends John Schumann (Redgum), Mike Rudd (Spectrum), Broderick Smith (Dingoes), Shannon Bourne (Chris Wilson) and Mick Wordley (Eric Bogle)

The Audreys - featuring the smoky vocals of chanteuse Taasha Coates and a line-up of dapper suited boys on banjo and guitars, violin, double bass and drums

Anne McCue - expat singer-songwriter-guitarist, righteously championed by Lucinda Williams

Darren Hanlon - the well-travelled troubadour and his band bring a homegrown narrative realism and a wide-eyed romantic idealism to the Fishnet Stage on Sunday arvo

Holly Throsby - a songwriter who selects her words with a poet’s precision and performs with quietly mesmerising intensity - Friday night on the Concert Stage

Lisa Miller - performing songs from her fifth solo album, the beautiful and brand-new Kangaroo Island

Rebecca Barnard - fresh from her come-back blow of sultry pop on her powerfully moving debut solo album, Fortified

Matt Walker & Ashley Davies - the distinctive sound of Matt Walker’s resonating acoustic, slide and lap steel blazes, combined with the tuneful physicality of Ashley Davies’ drumming delivers a moving and unforgettable festival experience

Croxton Neapolitan: Dan Warner, Sarah Carroll & Marcel Borrack - a special Saturday evening dinner-time set from the cream of Croxton Records, three gifted songwriters who create a dream trio of cool country, folk harmony and roots guitar as they trade songs from their extensive catalogues.

Dates:
Queenscliff Music Festival
November 24-26, 2006