Dig It Up! Festival To Return In 2013 With Hoodoo Gurus

The critically acclaimed Dig It Up! touring festival, which was promoted by Feel Presents and curated by the Hoodoo Gurus in its inaugural year, will return for 2013 the band have confirmed.

In a post on the Hoodoo's page, frontman Dave Faulker wrote, “I'm very pleased to announce, we will be doing another run of Dig It Up! shows with a whole new crop of bands – young and old, from far and near – similar to the shows we did early this year. Once again it will take place on and around Anzac Day (April 25), beginning a week earlier in Brisbane and finishing in Perth on Sun. 28. I'll give you more details about the exact dates and the line-ups in the new year but what I can tell you is this year we will be performing Mars Needs Guitars in its entirety.”

There had been speculation about whether the band would be involved in any future Dig It Up! events or whether another band would be contracted to curate the event, and Faulkner says next year might be the last time the Gurus perform an album.

I'm not one to make fearless predictions but I reckon this will be the last time we do this particular event (no, we won't be going through all our albums one at a time for the next half dozen years or so).

This year's event also grabbed headlines thanks to the reformation of The Sunnyboys.

As part of the update Faulkner also revealed he'll be playing his first full solo set.

“I've never performed a whole set solely under my own name but I received an offer and I felt like taking up the challenge,” he wrote. “As it happens, I don't have any unheard solo material to unveil so I'll just be doing a bunch of Gurus songs (well, I DID write 'em!) however it'll be quite a different way to hear them: unplugged and raw – well, raw in an acoustic sort of way.”

That show will take place on the New South Wales Central Coast early next year at Gosford Racecourse.

Last year's Dig It Up festival also featured The Sonics, Redd Kross, The 5.6.7.8's, Died Pretty, The Fleshtones, Hard-Ons, Royal Headache, The Gooch Palms and more. It visited Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth with varying depths of the line-up.