News January 28, 2016

Kirin J Callinan is Laneway’s official emcee

PRESS RELEASE:

Laneway Festival hasannouncedKirin J Callinan(guitarist, linguist, activist, gymnast, moodist and Instagram nudist) will betheNational Festival Emceein 2016. The news was formally shared by last year’s honourable emceeAgnes DeMarcoearlier today, check it out below.

Taking a steely grip of the baton from the honourable Agnes DeMarco, Kirin will welcome to the summer stages a myriad of the world’s finest and most adventurous musical souls.

This follows a busy year cracking the binary code of social media with a naked bathtub sojourn alongside tour matesMac Demarco&GUM, a year of shows including glittering sets atParis Pitchfork Festival, theTerrible CMJ Party NYC alongside Empress OfandLeif, and opening forTame Impalaat the celebratedHollywood Forever Cemetery. Funkadelia was also royally lifted across both theMark Ronson albumandAustralian shows, as well as performing the music ofDavid Lynchin the ‘In Dreams’ show across Europe.

Catch Kirin J Callinan at Laneway Festival across all Australian dates this summer for maximum LOLs and wisdom.

LINE UP

(IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER)

Ali Barter [Bris/Syd/Melb] – Banoffee [excl. Freo] – Battles – Beach House – Big Scary – Blank Realm [excl. Freo] – CHVRCHES – DIIV – DMA’s – East India Youth – FIDLAR – Flume – GoldLink – Grimes – Health – Hermitude – High Tension – Hudson Mohawke – Japanese Wallpaper – Majical Cloudz – Methyl Ethel – METZ– Purity Ring – QT – Royal Headache – Shamir – Silicon – Slum Sociable [excl. Freo] – Sophie – The Goon Sax [Bris] – The Internet – The Smith Street Band – Thundercat – Vince Staples – Violent Soho

For the NZ line-up, please headhere. The Singapore line-up ishere.

ST. JEROME’S LANEWAY FESTIVAL

DATES & VENUES

Supported by triple j & Fasterlouder

Saturday 30 January –SINGAPORE– THE MEADOW, GARDENS BY THE BAY

Monday 1 February –AUCKLAND– SILO PARK

Friday 5 February –ADELAIDE– HARTS MILL, PORT ADELAIDE (16+)
Saturday 6 February –BRISBANE– BRISBANE SHOWGROUNDS, BOWEN HILLS (16+)

Sunday 7 February –SYDNEY– SYDNEY COLLEGE OF THE ARTS (SCA), ROZELLE (SOLD OUT)

Saturday 13 February –MELBOURNE– FOOTSCRAY COMMUNITY ARTS CENTRE (FCAC) AND THE RIVER’S EDGE (SOLD OUT)
Sunday 14 February –FREMANTLE– ESPLANADE RESERVE AND WEST END

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