TISM, Tropical Fuck Storm, Speed And Ratcat Lead Program For All New Adelaide Beer & BBQ Festival
Adelaide Beer & BBQ Festival will take up residence at its new home, The Drive, on July 10 and 11. Today, the festival unveils its first full-scale lineup announcement of music, food and brews to mark this new chapter. A brand new festival with the same great taste!
Leading the music program are Australia’s genre-blurring, boundary-pushing provocateurs TISM, alongside American singer-songwriter Ben Kweller (USA), art-rock force Tropical Fuck Storm, and Sydney hardcore heavyweights SPEED.
Also joining the bill are Sydney indie icons Ratcat, recent Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Tim Rogers, 90s alt-pop favourites The Mavis’s, and one of Australia’s most original voices Kirin J Callinan.
They’re joined by noise rock duo Party Dozen, The Loud Hailers featuring Christa Hughes of Machine Gun Fellatio fame, and plenty of South Australian talent, with more to be announced.
Beyond the stage, the festival leans fully into what it does best, food and drink, with three sessions across the weekend: Friday Night (18+), Saturday Day (family friendly) and Saturday Night (18+).
The food lineup features heroes of fire cooking flavours from the USA and across globe including low and slow heavy hitters Big Box BBQ (ACT) and Sydney’s Carolina Smoke (NSW via North Carolina) who is brining the thirst trapping Pork Belly Lollipop back to Adelaide. Expect fired flavours from Jamica, Thailand, Indonesia, Brazil and more.
On the drinks front, a curated mix of Australia’s leading brewers will sit alongside a growing range of ‘not beer’, including wine, gin and other brewed beverages ensuring there’s something for everyone. As always, punters are encouraged to keep their eyes open for surprises around every corner in the new home . . . remember the Secret Pickle Saloon and Dumpster Disco, plus new collaboration experiences including adult putt putt and the Sure Brewing Jukebox.
Beer & BBQ Festival founders Gareth Lewis and Aaron Sandow said the new venue signals a new start, a new festival.
“We can’t wait to see what this little independent festival can look and taste like in its new home. Not only is it more accessible from the city, it allows us more space to be creative and build the festival we want to present now.
Beer & BBQ Festival has always been about supporting the brewers, the chefs and the artists and they need support more than ever, this grown-up festival in the heart of the city means they can put their beers in the hands of more punters than ever before. And now we have a big shiny stage to play with!”
Adelaide Beer & BBQ Festival pre-sale opens at 11am today, Wednesday, April 8, at “Wayville Prices”, meaning if you have attended a Beer & BBQ Festival in its former incarnation you will be able to purchase tickets for exactly the same price as you could have last year at the Showground (inflation-free!).
General Public tickets on-sale 11am Thursday, April 9.
