The cogs of the festival circuit are starting to creak back into gear, my fezzy friends. This time the annual regional hoon Groovin The Moo has dropped its 2022 lineup, bringing local excellence and international sweeties (!!!) to three big shows down the eastern seaboard in April.
It’s been a couple of curdled years for the festival scene in Australia — no thanks to the spicy cough — but the announcement of who’s headed out country for Groovin this year feels right. There’s spirited confidence that hey shit, we might actually pull this one off this time.
Let us knock on wood, dust off the boots and meet who’s coming through for this year’s Groovin The Moo. The festival will whip from the Hunter Valley down the Hume Highway and over to the golden centre of Victoria, and we simply cannot wait.
Groovin The Moo 2022 Lineup
Alice Ivy
Broods (NZ)
Chaii (NZ)
Hilltop Hoods
Hockey Dad
Hope D
HP Boyz
Jesswar
JK-47
Mashd N Kutcher
Masked Wolf
Middle Kids
Milky Chance (Ger)
Montaigne
Peking Duk
Polaris
RedHook
Riton (UK)
Shouse
Snakehips (UK)
Spiderbait
Sycco
Thomas Headon (UK)
Wolf Alice (UK)
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Dijok & Jawbreakers
That’s not the last of it, either. Local acts for each city’s Fresh Produce offering, The Plot stage lineups, annual triple j Unearthed Groovin competition winners, Welcome To Country at each location and heaps of community programs have just landed too.
Groovin The Moo Fresh Produce / The Plot Lineup
MAITLAND, NSW
Fresh Produce
Djanaba
Molly Millington
Rum Jungle
The Plot
Dan Hallett
Danny Blake
DJ Junior
Eclipse
Kila
Lee Fitzpatrick
Pilo
Pure Blonde
Sèiren
Shuvcheck
Vicious Beats
CANBERRA, ACT
Fresh Produce
Aodhan
Mia Rodriguez
Philly
The Plot
Banker
Brittany de Marco
Dana
Gammacell
Fish Girl
It’s A London Thing Crew
JLP & Macca with DJHRH
Lemn
Moneybags
Quails
Sweethard
BENDIGO, VIC
Fresh Produce
Mulalo
Queen P
Telenova
The Plot
Cliterally
Darby
Dreschler
Falla
Jemima
Mason Flint
Señor Señor
Third Rail Studio Presents
Tonky
Will Barrett
Xiren Collective
Groovin The Moo is set to hit Maitland, Canberra and Bendigo over the back end of April, which is a perfect time to get the hell out of the city and have a boogie. Is there anything more gorgeous than a mid-autumn day in the crisp air of the country? Absolutely not, it’s easily my favourite time of the year.
The festival will hit Maitland Showground on Saturday, April 23, before tripping down the Hume to Exhibition Park in Canberra on Sunday, April 24. It’ll then wind things up down in Central Victoria at Bendigo’s Prince of Wales Showgrounds on Saturday, April 30.
If you haven’t hung onto your Groovin The Moo tickets from festival attempts over the last couple of years, you can grab a ticket from the festival website on Thursday, March 3 at 8am AEDT.
See you front left, I’ll be the one sobbing in happiness.
