Mogwai, A.B. Original, Xiu Xiu & More Fill Out Dark Mofo's Awesome 2017 Line-up

After whetting appetites with the news that Norwegian experimental heroes Ulver would be appearing at this year's Dark Mofo event in Hobart, organisers have revealed the full, jaw-dropping program, featuring some seriously incredible and diverse artists from Australia and abroad.

The lip-smacking spread of sights and sounds includes Scottish post-rock veterans Mogwai, unstoppable Aussie rap duo A.B. Original, venerated noise-rock luminaries Xiu Xiu (performing their take on the score to cult-favourite series Twin Peaks, as composed by Angelo Badalamenti), German industrial trailblazers Einsturzende Neubauten and Oz-music hero Paul Kelly, as part of the Ancient Rain event with Camille O'Sullivan and Feargal Murray, among a whole raft of other drawcards.

Beyond the straight musical fare, there is the program of Dark Mofo Films — to be announced this May — as well as the annual Nude Solstice Swim and fellow favourite Winter Feast, plus a rumination on sound and the absence thereof in Silence, the harrowing drama of Radio Gothic, the astonishing array of artworks at The Museum Of Everything, the art-and-music-blending Borderlands (featuring Nine Inch Nails touring member Alessandro Cortini, local sound-smith and aural philosopher Lawrence English, US artist Grouper and Sweden's Klara Lewis) and a new, gruesome work from the ever-visceral Hermann Nitsch, just to name a few of the highlights.

Dark Mofo runs from 8-21 June. Tickets will go on sale from 10am this Tuesday, 11 April.

For further details, see the event's website.

Dark Mofo 2017 — line-up

Mogwai* (Scotland) 
Einstürzende Neubauten* 
Ulver* (Norway) 
Ulver + TSO: Messe IX-VI.X* (Norway/Tasmania) 
Chris Levine* (GBR) 
Hermann Nitsch* (Austria) 
Mike Parr 
Sound of Silence: Alfredo Jaar* (USA/Chile) 
Welcome Stranger 
Dark Mofo and City of Hobart Winter Feast 
Dark Park 
Siren Song: Byron J Scullin + Supple Fox 
Red Bull Music Academy: Transliminal Crossing 
+ Unconscious Collective 
+ Danielle Picciotto + Alexander Hacke 
+ Miles Brown 
Ancient Rain 
+ Paul Kelly 
+ Camille O’Sullivan (Ireland/UK) 
+ Feargal Murray (Scotland/UK) 
Hymns To The Dead 
+ Taake (Norway) 
+ Anaal Nathrakh* (UK) 
+ Barshasketh (UK) 
+ Grave Miasma (New Zealand/Scotland) 
+ Mournful Congregation 
Buried Country 
A.B. Original 
Thelma Plum 
Sleeping Beauty 
+ Victorian Opera + TSO 
The Museum Of Everything 
+ Mona 
Sophie Hutchings 
Ogoh-ogoh 
+ The Purging 
+ The Burning 
Borderlands 
+ Alessandro Cortini (Italy) 
+ Klara Lewis (Sweden) 
+ Grouper (USA) 
+ Lawrence English 
Xiu Xiu plays the Music of Twin Peaks (USA) 
The Second Woman: Nat Randall 
Radio Gothic 
The Dark Chorus: Lucy Guerin Inc 
Luke Howard + Tilman Robinson 
Dark Mofo Films 
Silence: Strings Of The TSO 
Nude Solstice Swim

*Australian exclusive