Sugar Mountain Announces Super-Stacked 2018 Line-up

11 October 2017 | 9:30 am | Staff Writer

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Esteemed Melbourne music and arts mecca Sugar Mountain has unveiled a stellar line-up for its 2018 event, featuring a diversity of acts from around Australia and the world to set the good vibes flowing freely this January.

Hometown heroes Cut Copy lead the charge of talent hitting the festival, fresh off the back of their new album Haiku From Zero, with fellow locals Beaches, Body Type, Stella Donnelly, Love Deluxe, Ara Koufax and Kardajala Kirridarra, among others, repping Aus talent throughout the roster.

The calibre doesn't drop for even a second, though, with international fly-ins including revered rapper Joey Bada$$, emergent R&B artist Jamila Woods, experimental pop luminary Laurel Halo and iconic DJ Honey Dijon all in the mix.

That's just from the US, too — cast a wider eye, and enjoy sounds fresh from the UK by way of the likes of Actress, Eclair Fifi (Scotland), Shanti Celeste and Dan Shake, or greater Europe via Gerd Janson, Sevdaliza and more.

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It's a melting pot of musical excellence complemented by the festival's broader artistic scope, which this year includes a range of projects and performances from multiple creative walks.

To fit it all in, it's little wonder the festival has spread its wings into an expanded site that includes the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art and a Grant Street takeover, with plenty more nooks and crannies to be explored and discovered.

Sugar Mountain 2018 will be held at the Victorian College of the Arts, ACCA and the Melbourne Arts Precinct on Saturday 20 January.

Limited, specially priced first-release tickets are available now for one day only before prices rise, so if you're already frothing for the festivities, best get in sooner rather than later.

For more information, including details on additional attractions such as the returning Boiler Room and 'Future Culture' space, see the festival's website.

Sugar Mountain 2018 — Line-up

Music

Actress (UK)
Ara Koufax
Beaches
Body Type
Cut Copy
Dan Shake (UK)
Eclair Fifi (UK)
Fantastic Man
Gerd Janson (Ger)
Honey Dijon (US)
J Hus (UK)
Jamila Woods (US)
Joey Bada$$ (US)
Kardajala Kirridarra
Laurel Halo (US)
Love Deluxe
Project Pablo (Can)
Sevdaliza (Ned)
Shanti Celeste (UK)
Stella Donnelly

Art

Via Alice ft. Waangenga Blanco x Khalif Diouf (US)
Amrita Hepi x Pasefika Victoria Choir
Justin Shoulder x CORIN x Tristan Jalleh
Hiroyasu Tsuri (JPN) x Jun Inoue (JPN)
Marcus Whale x Athena Thebus