Brenton Harris, Journalist

Pavement will be joined on the Tent Pole lineup by will be indie-rock royalty Spiderbait, legendary Geelong locals Magic Dirt, alt-pop-rock faves Floodlights, San Diego rock’n’soulers The Schizophonics, NT rockers Black Rock Band and punk trio CLAMM, with more acts to be revealed soon.

One of the most popular and influential bands to come out of the American underground in the last three decades, Pavement will return to Australia for the first time since 2010 next February/March.

"Guest vocals by Taylor Barber (Left To Suffer) serve as the voice of DeGraver on the track. In the first verse, he tells of how the church he was brought up in ostracized and attempted to crucify him after they discovered he was supernaturally different to his peers"

Ska Nation 2022 will bring some of the best ska-centric acts to the small regional town of Warrion, just outside of Colac in Victoria.

The Goanna supergroup will join Katie Noonan, The Temper Trap, Budjerah, Ngaiire, Mike Brady, G Flip and Robbie Williams in providing the musical entertainment for the big game.

"Mr Lazenby’s recollections were personal views and they are totally unacceptable."

The British punks responsible for penning the sarcastic 'God Save The Queen' to 'celebrate' Queen Elizabeth II's jubilee in 1977, have taken rather different approaches to their reflections on her passing.

"I already want to show you my shit. They took it down off the internet. No more dicks, no more titties? Is that it? What I’ve done is I have now gone over to a place where you can be free as fuck. And you can show anybody whatever the fuck you want, and they don’t fucking take it down. So fuckin’ suck it! You can see all my shit over there.”

"The actions of these lowlife scum ruined the festival experience for the youths they targeted. I want to express how sorry I am that incidents of this nature occurred at River Sounds, and I want to apologise to any individual impacted by this appalling behaviour."

"Welcome to the new era of Parkway Drive. Live like life depends on it.”