Splendour In The Grass 2014 Line-Up Announced

The line-up for this year's Splendour In The Grass has just been announced, with Outkast, Interpol, Lily Allen and Two Door Cinema Club leading the bill of one of Australia's premier camping festivals.

The reformed hip hop duo leaked themselves via a premature website listing last week, but now the full line up for the three-day July event at Byron Bay can be revealed.

Splendour 2014 Line-Up

Outkast (Only Australian show)
Two Door Cinema Club (Only Australian show)
Lily Allen
Interpol (Only Australian show)
Foster The People
Angus & Julia Stone
City And Colour
London Grammar
Vance Joy
360
Darkside (Only Australian show)
RÜFÜS
Ben Howard
Kelis
Metronomy
Hoodoo Gurus
Chvrches (Only Australian show)
Grouplove
The Jezabels
The Preatures
Tune-Yards
Wild Beasts
Danny Brown (Only Australian show)
Illy
First Aid Kit
Violent Soho
Ásgeir
Spiderbait
The 1975
Ball Park Music
Art Vs Science
DMA's
Buraka Som Sistema (Only Australian show)
Parquet Courts (Only Australian show)
Sticky Fingers
Peking Duk
Sky Ferreira
Future Islands
Courtney Barnett
Phantogram
DZ Deathrays
Skaters
Gossling
Jungle
The Strypes
Hot Dub Time Machine
The Kite String Tangle
Ry-X
Mikhael Paskalev
Wave Racer
The Acid
Saskwatch
Kingswood
Circa Waves
Broods
Dustin Tebbutt
The Head And The Heart
Darren Middleton
Little May
Darlia
D.D Dumbo
Tkay Maidza
The Creases
The Wild Feathers
Chrome Sparks
Fractures
Mas Ysa
Nick Mulvey
Triple j Unearthed Winners

DJs AND PRODUCERS

Nina Las Vegas
Yacht Club DJs
Motez
Touch Sensitive
Indian Summer
Wordlife
L D R U & Yahtzel DJs
Cosmos Midnight
Sable
Kilter
Basenji
KLP
Fishing DJs
Paces
Charles Murdoch

Taking place Friday 25 – Sunday 27 July, it will be the second year for the event at their North Byron Parklands. They've indicated previously that will incorporate North Byron Parklands' natural amphitheatre into the site layout this year, after successful integration during the first Byron Bay Falls Festival.

BANDS YOU NEED TO KNOW

 JUNGLE

Already proving themselves as hard-workin' purveyors of provocative aural and visual productions, British duo Jungle carry a mysterious air about them of near-Daft Punkian proportions. The relative unknowns exploded out of London last year with the infectious Platoon - and its simply incredible video clip replete with breakdancing child - before following it up with the equally enthusiastically devoured The Heat.

FUTURE ISLANDS

If you need proof that synthpop is still a viable genre, look no further than Maryland-based outfit Future Islands. For the past seven years, the band has been peddling New Wave-steeped indie-pop flavours with aplomb, and with fourth studio LP Singles fresh on shelves and their newly minted status as "band that has appeared on Letterman" under their belts, expect big things from this unassuming quartet in the near future.

PARQUET COURTS

Even if you know nothing else about US punk sensations Parquet Courts, the fact their video clip for the song Sunbathing Animal - the title track from their impending fourth full-length - is literally four minutes of a cat sunbathing should automatically make them your new favourite people, regardless of everything musical they've ever done. It's just a bonus that they're really good at the performance side of things, too.

TUNE-YARDS

Tune-Yards, or "tUnE-yArDs", if you will (we won't), is the alter-ego of Connecticut native Merrill Garbus, a colourful soul whose expertise lies in the varied fields of lo-fi, Afrobeat, experimental pop and just an ever-so-slight degree of avant-gardism. Her third LP, Nikki Nack, is set to drop in May, while, live, she and bassist Nate Brenner concoct surprisingly lush compositions using little more than the simplest of tools - vocals, ukulele, drum loops, the occasional saxophone - and a whole lot of ingenuity.

DMA's

Up-and-coming Newtown trio DMA's have much to celebrate on the road to Splendour - namely, the release of and support tour for their self-titled debut EP, just released through I Oh You. With the first two shows of their tour already sold out, the band's growing appeal is pretty obvious, and are clearly setting themselves up for a huge second half of 2014.

RY X

As theMusic reported in December, LA-based Aussie expat Ry X has been on the cusp of big things for some time. In fact, arguably, he's well past the cusp, with the title track of last year's Berlin EP reaching chart status in France, Germany and the UK - so it's easy to imagine he'll be flying high and in strong form when he returns home for Splendour later this year.

DUSTIN TEBBUTT

Sydney-based folk-wit Dustin Tebbutt has been busy lately, recently announcing a national run of shows, to take him through May, in support of latest single Bones. His headline dates are selling fast, with a second show in Adelaide, and third shows in Sydney and Melbourne announced to cope with the demand that Tebbutt apparently commands. Count us in for a Splendour viewing, then.

D. D. DUMBO

Loop mastery is an increasingly viable skill these days, and self-described "enigmatic" Castlemaine muso D. D. Dumbo uses it to great effect in crafting his ambitious, experimental pop. Drawing influence from "world" music sounds derived from the traditional tunes of regions such as west Africa and the Indian subcontinent, Triple D (consider it coined) boasts some of the festival's most aurally exciting ideas and potential.

FRACTURES

No stranger to irony (or unfortunate coincidence), Mark Zito, aka Fractures, seems an introspective sort. The Melburnian muso and one-man electronic orchestra cites influences from Radiohead to Explosions In The Sky, with his diverse, often darkly tinted, tastes informing his own electro-pop wizardry. The spells seem to be working, too, with hype building steadily for his atmospheric, considered offerings.

SKATERS

New York City's own enfants terrible of the DIY rock scene, Skaters, were formed on a whim and grew in a whirlwind, signing to Warner Bros. Records before they'd even spent 12 months together. With debut full-length "tribute" album Manhattan barely two months old, one can only guess the kinds of heights with which this trio should get familiar - but a spot at Splendour is certainly a fitting watershed amid their meteoric rise.

TICKET DETAILS

Tickets go on sale 9am AEST on Friday 2 May through Moshtix. Prices are as follows:

Three Day Event Tickets – $355 plus booking fees
Single Day Tickets – $149 plus booking fees
Onsite Camping Tickets – $99 plus booking fees
You have the option to offset your carbon emissions for $3 per ticket

Check out our coverage from the 2013 event here.