Mona Foma lineup leads with huge, noisy, and groundbreaking acts
Mona Foma just dropped a seriously delectable line-up for their 2018 run. Hitting Tassie with over 11 days of music and art, it will feature performances from the likes of Violent Femmes, Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Mayhem. Earlier this year Godspeed You! Black Emperor put out their well-received 6th studio album Luciferian Towers, which they will play in part in separate performances when not providing the live score to The Holy Body Dance Tattoo.
Mayhem are finally bringing their De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas world tour to Australia,playing the ground-breaking, controversy plagued and genre-defining debut album in its entirety.
And Violent Femmes will be performing their acoustic-punk alongside the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra.
MOFO 2018 LINEUP ANNOUNCEMENT
Brian Jackson with the Southern Gospel Choir (AUS/USA)
Emel Mathlouthi (TUN)
Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (UK/USA)
Godspeed You! Black Emperor (CAN)
Gotye Presents a Tribute to Jean-Jacques Perrey (AUS/USA)
Launceston Block Party
Mayhem (NOR)
Monumental – The Holy Body Tattoo (CAN) with live music by Godspeed You! Black Emperor (CAN)
Moor Mother featuring Rasheedah Phillips (USA)
Violent Femmes + the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra (USA/AUS)
Adam Simmons
Ajak Kwai
Alessandra Garosi (ITA)
Andrew Bainbridge
Austin Buckett and Martin Ng
Black Quantum Futurism Collective (USA)
Black Rock Band
Blaise Garza and John Sparrow (USA)
Breadwoman Variations (USA)
Chakam Ensemble (IRN/AUS)
Cinemofo
David Jones
Edley ODowd
Eve Klein
Evil Goat
Faux Mo
Fémina (ARG)
Filastine and Nova (USA/IDN)
Gordon Gano (USA)
Hobart Liberation Orchestra featuring Petra Haden (AUS/USA)
Hobart + Music = Yeah: Re/cognition
Jamila Woods (USA)
Jim Denley and Rosalind Hall
Joseph Nolan and Brent Grapes
Kardajala Kirridarra
Martin Blackwell
Maxine Beneba Clarke
Michael Candy and Rosalind Hall
Michael Kieran Harvey, Arjun von Caemmerer and Brigita Ozolins
Military Position
MoMa
Rahim AlHaj and Karim Wasfi (IRQ)
Rod Thomson
SAAKA
Silver Space
Sisters Akousmatica
Sonya Lifschitz
Tannery: Tasmanian Taiko and Leather Orchestra
The Daemons of Dissent
The Ghosts of Nothing featuring Laura Purcell
The Museum of Everything
Thembi Soddell
TSO Chorus extreme
Unconscious Collective