Hear ye, hear ye!
T’was a battle of a year, fraught with ill bearings but it’s time to rejoice, the good people at Destroy All Lines declare a most tantalising soiree with which to bid this wretch of a year adu with Knight and Day Festival, Australia’s brand-new two-day alternative music festival, set to march on Ballarat’s Kryal Castle, on the eve of New Year.
And Lo! ‘Tis a line-up rife with wonderment.
KNIGHT AND DAY FESTIVAL
THURSDAY 30 DECEMBER & FRIDAY 31 DECEMBER
KRYAL CASTLE, BALLARAT
LINE-UP:
PARKWAY DRIVE | POLARIS
ALEX LAHEY | BAKERS EDDY | CLOWNS | DIAMOND CONSTRUCT
HELLIONS (PERFORMING ‘OPERA OBLIVIA’ IN FULL)
JUSTICE FOR THE DAMNED | MAKE THEM SUFFER | PAPERWEIGHT
SAVIOUR | TERRA | THE BEAUTIFUL MONUMENT | THE CHATS
THE GETAWAY PLAN (PERFORMING ‘OTHER VOICES, OTHER ROOMS’ IN FULL)
THE GLOOM IN THE CORNER | TO THE GRAVE | TROPHY EYES
VOID OF VISION | WINDWAKER
Gracing the festivities will be none other than the Lords of Australian metal, the crowned princes of Byron Bay Parkway Drive, set to unleash their first live performance in an age. Sydney’s purveyors of regal metalcore, Polaris will also bestow their sonic wares upon all those who dare enter the Castle grounds.
A preverbal who’s who of Australia’s alternative noble folk will also be making the sojourn to the faire, from the enchanting Alex Lahey, to ne’er do wells Bakers Eddy and the gluttonously devious The Chats.
And by Merlin’s beard, Knight and Day Festival will be a place in which to marvel at magic not seen elsewhere, such as traveling muses Hellions performing their masterpiece Opera Oblivia in full, and the honourable heroes of the scene, The Getaway Plan weaving magic from Other Voices, Other Rooms in its entirety.
Once thou thirst for live music has been quenched, ticket holders can frolic through the array of delights from the mesmerising maze, medieval performances, Dungeons, Torture Museums, Knights Towers, Secret Dragons Labyrinth to DJs and multiple acoustic stages.
Send the ravens, and rally your banner people as now, and once and for all we wish this ghastly year ‘Go thy way!’