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\x26lt;p\x26gt;\x26lt;br\x26gt;\x26lt;\/p\x26gt;\x26lt;p\x26gt;\x26lt;br\x26gt;\x26lt;\/p\x26gt;\x26lt;p\x26gt;Bluesfest 2024 will mark the 35\x26lt;sup\x26gt;th\x26lt;\/sup\x26gt; anniversary of this all\-time favourite festival and will take place across the Easter Long weekend from Thursday, 28 March to Monday, 1 April 2024. The five days festival is held on the beautiful grounds of the Byron Events Farm, Tyagarah, NSW, Australia.\x26amp;nbsp;\x26amp;nbsp;\x26lt;\/p\x26gt;\x26lt;p\x26gt;From humble beginnings in 1990 with crowds of 6000 people, Bluesfest now regularly attracts an audience of 100,000.\x26amp;nbsp;\x26lt;\/p\x26gt;\x26lt;p\x26gt;Bluesfest hosts artists such as Buddy Guy, Bob Dylan, BB King, Bonnie Raitt, John Fogerty, Mary J Blige, Santana, Kendrick Lamar and Tom Jones, thus securing itself as Australia\x26amp;rsquo;s favourite music festival. It\x26amp;rsquo;s also the most awarded festival, being nominated up to nine times as Best International Festival by Pollstar, the music industry publication. Pollstar also listed Bluesfest as one of the TOP 10 Festivals of the Decade.\x26amp;nbsp;\x26lt;\/p\x26gt;\x26lt;p\x26gt;Bluesfest 2024 promises to be another amazing festival. With extensive site upgrades at\x26amp;nbsp;Byron Events Farm, the experience is only getting better and better.\x26lt;\/p\x26gt;\x26lt;p\x26gt;In terms of location, Bluesfest is well\-situated and surrounded by the charming village of Mullumbimby and the beach towns of Byron Bay and Brunswick Heads. So come along; you can expect the best festival vibes ever!\x26amp;nbsp;\x26lt;\/p\x26gt;\x26lt;p\x26gt;\x26lt;img src=\x26#34;https:\/\/s3\-ap\-southeast\-2.amazonaws.com\/production\-api\-file\-upload\/uploads%2Fclient\-20658%2Fevent\-description%2F1700693669275\-BF24_Merged+Lineup+2_Socials_1080x1080.jpg\x26#34; style=\x26#34;width: 633px;\x26#34; class=\x26#34;fr\-fic fr\-dib\x26#34;\x26gt;\x26lt;\/p\x26gt;\x26lt;p\x26gt;\x26lt;br\x26gt;\x26lt;\/p\x26gt;\x26lt;p\x26gt;For more info on the festival, artist line\-up and more head to \x26lt;a href=\x26#34;https:\/\/www.bluesfest.com.au\/\x26#34;\x26gt;www.bluesfest.com.au\x26lt;\/a\x26gt;\x26lt;\/p\x26gt;\x26lt;p\x26gt;Bluesfest 2024 is being held from Thurs 28 March \x26amp;ndash; Mon 1 April 2024.\x26amp;nbsp;\x26lt;\/p\x26gt;\x26lt;p\x26gt;\x26lt;strong\x26gt;Keep in touch via Bluesfest\x26amp;rsquo;s\x26amp;nbsp;\x26lt;\/strong\x26gt;\x26lt;a href=\x26#34;https:\/\/bluesfest2.sharepoint.com\/Users\/ellie\/Desktop\/COPY%20FOR%20ANNOUNCEMENT\/bit.ly\/bluesfest_subscribe\x26#34;\x26gt;Newsletter\x26lt;\/a\x26gt;\x26lt;strong\x26gt;\x26amp;nbsp;|\x26amp;nbsp;\x26lt;\/strong\x26gt;\x26lt;a href=\x26#34;https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bluesfestbyronbay\/\x26#34; target=\x26#34;_blank\x26#34;\x26gt;Facebook\x26lt;\/a\x26gt; | \x26lt;a href=\x26#34;https:\/\/twitter.com\/bluesfestbyron\/\x26#34; target=\x26#34;_blank\x26#34;\x26gt;Twitter\x26lt;\/a\x26gt; | \x26lt;a href=\x26#34;https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bluesfestbyronbay\/\x26#34; target=\x26#34;_blank\x26#34;\x26gt;Instagram\x26lt;\/a\x26gt;\x26lt;\/p\x26gt;
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February 27th 2024
Wonderful show at the perfect venue! Really great performance representing the range of their music repertoire. Good visuals. Odd lighting in that not much of it brought focus on the musicians. But, probably intentional.
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Byron Events Farm is the home of Bluesfest.
Bluesfest attracts over 100,000 music fans and is proudly the premier festival in Australia as a safe, fun, family-friendly e...
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Portugal. The Man Biography
Well, we’re two full months into 2017 and the world continues to burn like an avalanche of flaming biohazard material sliding down a mountain of used needles into a canyon full of rat feces. But hey, it’s not all bad: Portugal. The Man has a new album coming out called Woodstock.
PTM’s last album came out over three years ago—a long gap for a band who’ve dropped roughly an album a year since 2006. And in true, prolific band fashion, they’ve spent almost every minute since 2013 working on an album called Gloomin + Doomin. They created a shit-ton of individual songs, but as a whole, none of them hung together in a way that felt right. Then John Gourley, PTM’s lead singer, made a trip home to Wasilla, Alaska, (Home of Portugal. The Man’s biggest fan, Sarah Palin) and two things happened that completely changed the album’s trajectory.
First, John got some parental tough love from his old man, who called John on the proverbial carpet or dogsled or whatever you put people on when you want to yell at them in Alaska. “What’s taking so long to finish the album?” John’s dad said. “Isn’t that what bands do? Write songs and then put them out?” Like fathers and unlicensed therapists tend to do, John’s dad cut him deep. The whole thing started John thinking about why the band seemed to be stuck on a musical elliptical machine from hell and, more importantly, about how to get off of it.
Second, fate stuck its wiener in John’s ear again when he found his dad’s ticket stub from the original 1969 Woodstock music festival. It seems like a small thing, but talking to his dad about Woodstock ’69 knocked something loose in John’s head. He realized that, in the same tradition of bands from that era, Portugal. The Man needed to speak out about the world crumbling around them. With these two ideas converging, the band made a seemingly bat-shit-crazy decision: they took all of the work they had done for the three years prior and they threw it out.
It wasn’t easy and there was the constant threat that the band's record label might have them killed, but the totally insane decision paid off. With new, full-on, musical boners, the band went back to the studio—working with John Hill (In The Mountain In The Cloud), Danger Mouse (Evil Friends), Mike D (Everything Cool), and longtime collaborator Casey Bates (The one consistent producer since the first record). In this new-found creative territory, the album that became Woodstock rolled out naturally from there
Remember that mountain of burning needles we were talking about? Good. Because Woodstock is an album (Including the new single “Feel It Still”) that—with optimism and heart—points at the giant pile and says, “Hey, this pile is fucked up!” And if you think that pile is fucked up too, you owe it to yourself—hell, to all of us—to get out there and do something about it.
Read MorePTM’s last album came out over three years ago—a long gap for a band who’ve dropped roughly an album a year since 2006. And in true, prolific band fashion, they’ve spent almost every minute since 2013 working on an album called Gloomin + Doomin. They created a shit-ton of individual songs, but as a whole, none of them hung together in a way that felt right. Then John Gourley, PTM’s lead singer, made a trip home to Wasilla, Alaska, (Home of Portugal. The Man’s biggest fan, Sarah Palin) and two things happened that completely changed the album’s trajectory.
First, John got some parental tough love from his old man, who called John on the proverbial carpet or dogsled or whatever you put people on when you want to yell at them in Alaska. “What’s taking so long to finish the album?” John’s dad said. “Isn’t that what bands do? Write songs and then put them out?” Like fathers and unlicensed therapists tend to do, John’s dad cut him deep. The whole thing started John thinking about why the band seemed to be stuck on a musical elliptical machine from hell and, more importantly, about how to get off of it.
Second, fate stuck its wiener in John’s ear again when he found his dad’s ticket stub from the original 1969 Woodstock music festival. It seems like a small thing, but talking to his dad about Woodstock ’69 knocked something loose in John’s head. He realized that, in the same tradition of bands from that era, Portugal. The Man needed to speak out about the world crumbling around them. With these two ideas converging, the band made a seemingly bat-shit-crazy decision: they took all of the work they had done for the three years prior and they threw it out.
It wasn’t easy and there was the constant threat that the band's record label might have them killed, but the totally insane decision paid off. With new, full-on, musical boners, the band went back to the studio—working with John Hill (In The Mountain In The Cloud), Danger Mouse (Evil Friends), Mike D (Everything Cool), and longtime collaborator Casey Bates (The one consistent producer since the first record). In this new-found creative territory, the album that became Woodstock rolled out naturally from there
Remember that mountain of burning needles we were talking about? Good. Because Woodstock is an album (Including the new single “Feel It Still”) that—with optimism and heart—points at the giant pile and says, “Hey, this pile is fucked up!” And if you think that pile is fucked up too, you owe it to yourself—hell, to all of us—to get out there and do something about it.
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