As we edge closer to summer the festival season is once again upon us with New Years festival "Pyramid Rock" releaseing their lineup for 2011/12. After being fairly disapponted with the Falls Festival lineup for this year the Pyramid lineup is a breath of fresh air, although I did expect them to have a few more tricks up their sleeve. American glam-rock group Scissor Sisters have been announced as headliners for the festival which doesn't really entice me at all as I'm as far removed as you can get from being a Scissor Sisters fan. However never fear there are other cool artists to whet your apetite including Lyrics Born, Spank Rock, Drapht, The Panics, The Herd, Gotye, The Bamboos and the one and only Grandmaster Flash. There is definitely a strong Aussie contingent and I'm looking forward to seeing Lyrics Born and Spank Rock but I hope they have a few more quality international acts in store when they announce a second lineup sometime in October. That's not to say that I'm totally disappointed as I would say the lineup is still better than this years Fall's contingent. After being a longtime Falls Festival attendee I atteded Pyramid Rock last year for the first time and I can tell you after the disaster of the 2009/10 festival it's actually pretty good... pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty good. It's an awesome location, I had a great time and I was also introduced to the man, the myth known as "Patto". The Pyramid Rock festival will take place on Philip Island from Thursday December 29 until Sunday January 1. Check out the full lineup along with ticketing information after the jump or head over to the Pyramid Rock Festival website for further details.
PYRAMID ROCK 2011/12 FULL LINE-UP:
Scissor Sisters
The Living End
Gotye
Grandmaster Flash
Boy & Bear
Drapht
Spiderbait
Cloud Control
Bluejuice
Muscles
Spank Rock
The Panics
Lyrics Born
The Herd
Dum Dum Girls
Illy
Salmonella Dub
Bertie Blackman
Jonathan Boulet
Ash Grunwald
Hanni El Khatib
The Bamboos
Calling All Cars
Grace Woodroofe
Graveyeard Train
Tim & Jean
The Aston Shuffle
Jim Ward
Thundamentals
Owl Eyes
Split Seconds
French Horn
Rebellion Rockwiz Live
Pyramid Rock sells two kinds of tickets - 3 day passes with camping included which allow patrons to arrive a day early and get settled in before th madness kicks off on the 30th. Or you can stick with the standard 2 day ticket which also includes free campin.
Tickets will go on sale Wednesday 14 September at 9:00am AEST on the Pyramid Rock Festival website, so mark that one in your diaries.
Via Pyramid Rock
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