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 6^th 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