AMENDS

Starting life in the mid 2010s as an emo-rock revival outfit, Amends soon recalibrated and expanded the project to incorporate a sound more focused on alt-country, heartland rock and folk-punk. From Amends' 2019 debut ‘So Far From Home’ to their 2021 sophomore album ‘Tales of Love, Loss and Outlaws’, 2023’s ‘Our Place Amongst The Dirt’ serves as the band's most realised efforts to date.

COURTNEY MARIE ANDREWS

Phoenix-born Courtney Marie Andrews will be bringing her band with her for the first time to Australia after a successful solo run around the country in 2021 where the poetic songstress made many friends and fans.

Fresh from releasing the acclaimed Loose Future last year, Courtney’s dreamy and joyful songs written on the honey-coloured shores of Cape Cod, will be shared along the East Coast, starting at Thirroul Music Festival this summer.

ROBERT ELLIS

Adventuring off the back of a new release is Robert Ellis following on from his heartfelt and nostalgic Yesterday’s News (2023, Love Police Records & Tapes).

Robert’s song writing style has been praised as a ‘sharp eye for storytelling’ by Rolling Stone, his intricate fingerpicking likened to Nick Drake and Richard Thompson, but his songs make you stop in your place and take note.

FOLK BITCH TRIO

Folk Bitch Trio are a band born out of a mutual love for songwriting, truth, and rocking out. Heide Peverelle, Gracie Sinclaire and Jeanie Pilkington are known for enrapturing audiences around their home city of Naarm/Melbourne with their sensitive and thoughtful arrangements of three part harmonies. What begun as an casual collaboration between three friends has led the trio to share stages with acts such as King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Julia Jacklin, Courtney Barnett and M.Ward (US), and perform at festivals including Port Fairy Folk Festival, Boogie, Nine Lives, Queenscliff Music Festival and more.

HOT APPLE BAND

Hot Apple Band is Sydney’s most talented and tasteful revivalists of 60s/70s rock, alt-countryand folk, fronted by multi-instrumentalists Jack Kinder and Lewis Mosley. Weaving a lush soundwith vintage authenticity, Hot Apple Band brings the brilliance ofartists such as GeorgeHarrison, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and Harry Nilsson into the modern day, much likeWeyes Blood, The Lemon Twigs and Daniel Romano.

HOWLIN’ ALVAREZ & DREY ROLLAN

From the muddy banks of the Marrickville’s Cooks River and the mean streets of Bankstown comes Akira‘ Howlin’ Alvarez and Drey Rollan, two inner city blues men carrying on the traditions of rural American Blues music. Alvarez & Rollan blend a mix of Pre War era Delta Blues with Hill Country Blues and Texas Boogie. Music to make you wanna dance, sing, fight, love and cry.

STEVE KILBEY

Steve Kilbey singer and bassist for the Church and double hall of fame inductee, will play all the hits and a few near misses plus some deep cuts at Thirroul music festival. Armed only with a trusty 12 string guitar, this is one geezer’s story: Kilby’s brushes with fame and infamy and his many reminiscences, populated with the roadies and groupies and managers and punters who made up the pub rock explosion in the 1980s. An incisive tour de force of church singles and beyond.

MARY LATTIMORE (USA)

Mary Lattimore bathes her spectacular Lyon and Healy concert grand in an electronic glow through effects pedals, loops and synths. Accompanied by guitarist Paul Sukeena, Mary Lattimore blesses Australian stages with her dream like compositions and her new album ‘Goodbye, Hotel Arkada’, which features Lol Tolhurst (The Cure), Meg Baird and Rachel Goswell (Slowdive).

BIRDSVILLE

Northern suburbs locals Birdsville are seasoned post-punk merchants who pride themselves on delivering a live set that is tighter than two coats of paint.

The boys have spent 2023 playing shows across Wollongong, Canberra and Sydney in support of their second album "Rambis", which features lead single "Rock, Rot & Thirroul".

CONCRETE SEA

Concrete Sea released their debut album Australian Dream in early 2023 gaining 2SER’s Feature Album of the week which saw it placed on high rotation across integral community radio stations around Australia.

 Concrete Sea is an initial offering of three songwriters: Nick Elias, Cody Munro Moore and Rohan Wilcox, who are best known for their contributions to Sydney bands Big White, New Lovers, The Money Go Round and Wallspace.

DEADNECKS

"Hailing from the western suburbs of Melbourne/ Naarm. Deadnecks take the iconic music of The Grateful Dead and use it as a vehicle for their expansive jams rooted in psychedelic rock, blues, country and jazz. Known for their explosive live shows, inventive song transitions and a growing following of die hard deadheads in tow. Deadnecks are the only band in town that can get close to the long strange trip of The Grateful Dead's songbook.

The band are playing Thirroul Music festival off the back of their hugely successful "Jerry Day '23" celebration show, which saw the biggest congregation of deadheads ever in Australia, where they recreated the Dead's classic Bickershaw 72' performance plus a bonus set of disco Dead. A 5 hour marathon show in the true spirit of the dead.

EARTH, WIND & CHOIR

Earth, Wind & Choir (led by renowned artist and local resident Elana Stone) are a community choir based in the Illawarra's northern suburbs. The group reinterpret and perform an eclectic mix of songs, from the likes of Tears for Fears and Blink 182, to Fleet Foxes and The White Lotus theme- and everything in between! Make sure you catch Earth, Wind & Choir at this year's Thirroul MusicFestival.

HAYLEY MARSTEN

If HAIM & Shania Twain got together to make music, their sonic sister would be Hayley Marsten. Her sophomore release, Girlhood, glittered into the world in June this year.  As described by Apple Music ‘her darkly dramatic country anthems bear rousing traces of 1970s rock’, Girlhood is a triumph.

Her sharp pen and open heart led to the creation of her stellar debut, ‘Spectacular Heartbreak’ in 2019. The album was crowdfunded, nominated for Alt-Country Album of the Year at the Golden Guitars, Country Work of the Year at the Queensland Music Awards in 2020 and was streamed over half a million times. 

METEOR INFANT

Meteor Infant is the project of Sydney-based guitarist and singer-songwriter Liam Keenan. 2022 saw the release of "Ancient House" which drew upon Keenan's Indigenous heritage and experiences growing up in regional Australia.

MINOR GOLD

Minor Gold are the new Americana/Folk duo featuring ARIA nominated, award-winning songwriters Tracy McNeil & Dan Parsons. Living in a van whilst touring as solo artists in early 2020, Parsons and McNeil hightailed it out of Melbourne Victoria up to sunny Queensland, narrowly avoiding the winter as the first lockdown occurred. Holed up in the land of palm trees and perfect weather, the duo subsequently wrote their debut album ‘Minor Gold’ – released August, 2023.

SHINING BIRD

Formed initially as a studio project in 2012, they released the Shade of the Sea EP, followed by their debut album Leisure Coast through Spunk Records in 2013. The album received widespread acclaim for its unique brand of Australian pop. During 2018 the band started work on Deadlands, album number three and in early 2019 were handpicked to play a select local show with Midnight Oil. Shining Bird has toured Australia extensively and supported acts such as; Midnight Oil, Kurt Vile, The Drones, Beach House, DMA’s, and Father John Misty as well as playing Festivals such as Fairgrounds, Panama, Yours & Owls and Sydney Festival.

TROPICAL STRENGTH

Tropical strength are a 6 piece band that channels the spirit of ‘60s pop but blends it with modern studio experiments to avoid a throwback feeling. Al Foil’s songwriting and lyricism have matured and become much more personal. Memories, confessions, and fleeting revelations are all woven together into songs. The effect is something of a warped house of mirrors, each revealing fragments of Foil’s inner world and the characters who live there. 

M. WARD & THE UNDERTAKERS

Following on from a hugely successful Australian tour earlier this year, M. WARD makes his Thirroul Music Festival debut with FOLK BITCH TRIO at his side, continuing the 20th anniversary celebrations of the critically acclaimed album Transfiguration of Vincent.  

Fans will experience classic M. WARD tunes from one of the greatest blues-inspired Americana albums ever created as well as new music from his latest album Supernatural Thing (2023).

Hailing from Portland, Oregon, prolific singer-songwriter and guitarist M. WARD is known to many, whether this is through his mesmerising folky/bluesy Transfiguration of Vincent released back in 2003 or his collaboration with Zooey Deschanel in She and Him, or perhaps as a member of indie supergroup Monsters of Folk?