Fat As Butter festival announced their 2013 lineup on Tuesday, headlined by US rap-rock outfit Gym Class Heroes and Australian acts Bliss N Eso, Matt Corby and Boy & Bear.
The Newcastle-based festival, held along the city’s foreshore, is going into its sixth year and promises to be the highlight East Coast pre-summer event featuring a blend of international and Australian acts from a multitude of genres.
Fat As Butter organisers have gone in a different direction to last year’s 90s-themed lineup that featured the likes Eiffel 65, N-Trance, Wheatus and Grinspoon, mixing hip-hop and folk acts atop the lineup A-Listers.
Aussie rap trio Bliss N Eso have scored second billing behind Gym Class Heroes after the success of their new album. The guys achieved a second consecutive No.1 ARIA chart ranking with Circus In The Sky, following on from the success of 2010’s Running On Air.
Too much hip-hop? Folk acts Boy & Bear and Matt Corby will also be there along with British India, the UK’s Cosmo Jarvis and a number on international DJ sets.
Fat As Butter 2013
Saturday, October 26 – The Foreshore, Newcastle
Gym Class Heroes
Bliss N Eso
Matt Corby
Boy & Bear
Porter Robinson
Digitalism [DJ Set]
Booka Shade [DJ Set]
Mickey Avalon
Bombs Away [Live]
British India
The Aston Shuffle DJs
Cosmo Jarvis
Owl Eyes
Gold Fields Djs
Spit Syndicate
The Holidays
Peking Duk
The M – Machine
Dialectrix
Battleships
Willow Beats
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