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By The Pier Unveils 2023 Line-up

Dan Cribb

Described as an “intimate festival experience”.

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A slew of Aussie favourites have signed on for the return of By The Pier.

Thelma Plum, SAFIA, Holy Holy and more lead next year’s bill, which will run across the last weekend of March on the picturesque Bellarine Peninsula in Queenscliff.

The foreshore event has been described as an “intimate festival experience” when compared to its “elder sister”, Queenscliff Music Festival. 

By The Pier 2023 will feature a single outdoor stage, gourmet food trucks, bars and a DJ Tent, all right next to the beach.

FRIDAY MARCH 24


THELMA PLUM, KING STINGRAY, SLOWLY SLOWLY 

Felipe Baldomir, Good Sniff, Chook & Moluck DJs 

SATURDAY MARCH 25


SAFIA, HOLY HOLY 

Big Twisty & The Funknasty, Alice Ivy, Jacotene, Full Flower Moon Band, Maz Green, Chook & Moluck DJs

Limited early bird tickets go on sale this Friday, November 25, ahead of general on sale next Wednesday, November 30, and punters will have the option to buy two-day, single-day, youth and child passes.

For all the details, click here.

Back in August, headliner Thelma Plum featured as The Music’s Cover Artist around the release of restorative EP, Meanjin, inspired by her Brisbane hometown, family and lockdown nostalgia.

On lead single Backseat Of My Mind, Plum noted: "When I wrote that song, I remember being a bit emo. We'd had shows cancelled. I just remember being like, 'I just wanna be on tour. I wanna work. I miss being on the road.' All of these things that I thought I did not like about touring – which was being on the road and moving around, travelling so much – I missed it." 

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