Ball Park Music, Aston Shuffle Lead 50 New BIGSOUND Live Acts

BIGSOUND Livehas today announced a whopping 50 new acts for this year's live showcase, which is part of the Brisbane based BIGSOUND music industry conference each year.

Following on from the first announcement which featured Kate Miller-Heidke, Violent Soho and others, organisers revealed today that they expect to have 120 artists playing this year's event. Taking place Wednesday 12 and Thursday 13 September, the bands will play across 12 venues in Brisbane's Fortitude Valley.

Without further ado, here is the line-up so far. New acts bolded.

Kate Miller-Heidke
The Aston Shuffle
Closure In Moscow
Ball Park Music
Hungry Kids Of Hungary
The Beards
Violent Soho
David Bridie
The Jungle Giants
Owl Eyes
Eagle & The Worm
Henry Wagons
All The Young (UK)
Emperors
The Paper Kites
James Walsh (Starsailor/UK)
King Cannons
The Cairos
New Navy
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
Northeast Party House
The Snowdroppers
Art Of Sleeping
Boy In A Box
Catherine Britt
Step-Panther
Oliver Tank
Kira Puru & The Bruise
The Darcys (Canada)
The Trouble With Templeton
Millions
The Preachers
Velociraptor
Cairo Knife Fight (NZ)
Bankrupt Billionaires
Straight Arrows
Voltaire Twins
The Delta Riggs
Grey Ghost
Super Wild Horses
Mosman Alder
Transistors (NZ)
Kingswood
Hey Geronimo
Jenn Grant (Canada)
Clairy Browne & The Bangin' Rackettes
Strange Talk
Bearhug
The Brow Horn Orchestra
Saskwatch
Winter People
YesYou
Caitlin Park
Gung Ho
Underlights
Current Swell (Canada)
Elizabeth Rose
Argentina

The conference itself runs from Wednesday 12 to Friday 14 and will feature Ben Lee, Mark Poston, Rene Chambers, Richard Moffat and more as speakers.

The youth-focused Little BIGSOUND has also been announced.

Tickets are available for entry across the event, as well as for BIGSOUND Live only. $45 will get you a one-night ticket (60 bands) while $69 will get you entry to the venues across both nights (120 bands). Prices not including booking fee.

Head to oztix.com.au for tickets to the Live events and to bigsound.org.au for BIGSOUND tickets.