The first bands have been announced for Thrashville, the boutique festival in the lush bushland of Dashville at Lower Belford in the New South Wales Hunter Valley, and heading the bill is veteran American punk band FEAR,
Thrashville is on Saturday, June 27. The line-up so far is:
FEAR (USA), Disentomb, The Bennies, Dregg, Hybrid Nightmares, Turtle Skull, Good Sniff, Private Wives, Couch Wizard, Catpiss, Purple Disturbance, Pyrefly, Whisperhead, Shacked, Happy Fuckin Family, Immortal Within and I Hate People.
No word on sideshows by FEAR but stay tuned.
Tickets for Thrashville are on sale here.
Formed in Los Angeles in 1978, FEAR didn’t just help shape punk rock - they defined its confrontational spirit.
The band made history in 1981 as the first punk act to appear on national TV in North America with their infamous Halloween performance on “Saturday Night Live”, courtesy of John Belushi. The chaotic set left the studio in shambles, landed the band on a permanent ban list.
Their landmark debut album has sold more than 500,000 copies and is widely regarded as one of the ten greatest punk records of all time.
Thrashville will add the four winners rising from the Thrashville Regional Battles, which happen across NSW at the following regional locations:
Crossroads Bar - DUBBO - May 9
Pot Belly Bar - CANBERRA - April 18
The Servo - PORT KEMBLA - May 22
Blah Bar - LISMORE - May 31
Tickets for these regional battles will go on sale in coming days, alongside an announcement on the 16 or so bands that will join those line-ups.
