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Splendour 2019

Photography Daniel Sutanto


Australia’s biggest indie music festival is back this year, announcing a tremendous line-up for 2019. Taking place from Julu 19 – 21, the three-day festival will be held once again in the North Byron Parklands, NSW. Each day is stacked with huge headliners from across the globe and a quality undercard across a range of genres.

Day one will kick things off with the likes of Broods, Odette and Wolfmother. For an opening headline act, Day one will feature the return of Splendour favourites Tame Impala, performing at the festival for the first time since 2015.

Day two will be lead by Childish Gambino, along with Catfish and the Bottlemen and Courtney Barnett. A “mysterious Oz act” is slated to also play on the Saturday night. Speculation points to the lineup’s biggest omission, 2018 Hottest 100 winners Ocean Alley.

Day three holds the biggest names, with the show’s main headliner, Chance the Rapper, at the helm. Day three also includes Matt Corby, SZA, What’s So Not and The Rubens.

Tickets go on sale Thursday, April 11 at 9am and are available from the Splendour website.

Here’s the full lineup:

Chance The Rapper / Childish Gambino / Tame Impala / SZA / Foals / Catfish And The Bottlemen / James Blake / Santigold / The Lumineers / The Streets / Russ / What So Not / Courtney Barnett / Warpaint / Mystery Oz Act / Matt Corby / Wolf Alice / Friendly Fires / Broods / Dean Lewis / FIDLAR / Cosmo’s Midnight / Meg Mac / Ziggy Alberts / Hayden James / Dave / Dope Lemon / Dermot Kennedy / Allday & Friends / Little Simz / The Rubens / Maribou State / Winston Surfshirt / Tycho / Pond / The Teskey Brothers / Jacob Banks / Wolfmother / Tropical F*ck Storm / Kyle Hall / Local Natives / Mansionair / Odette / Ruby Fields / Mike Servito / Last Dinosaurs / Thelma Plum / Trophy Eyes / Harvey Sutherland (DJ set) / K.Flay / Sam Fender / Slaves / Pub Choir / Seb Wildblood / The Beths / Set Mo / Hatchie / Honne / Kwame / The Nude Party / Nathan Micay / Slowly Slowly / Psychedelic Porn Crumpets / Kian / Kenji Takimi / Dear Seattle / Charly Bliss / Kaiit / Phony Ppl / A Swayze & The Ghosts / The Midnight / Channel Tres / Pist Idiots / MorMor / Suzanne Kraft / Erthlings / Telephones / Moaning Lisa / Thandi Phoenix / DJ Nett / Wax’o Paradiso / Andy Garvey / Tyne-James Organ / Lastlings Merve / Jennifer Loveless / Noise In My Head / Skin On Skin / Rebel Yell / triple j Unearthed Winners / Ninajirachi / Body Promise / Donald’s House / Casual Connection / DJ Klasik / Close Counters (DJ Set) / Merph / Dameeeela / Lex Deluxe