Holy shitballs, this is big. Kendrick Lamar will return to Australia next year, for the first time since he supported Eminem in 2014, to headline the opening night of Bluestest 2016, and play shows for whatever lucky bastards can get tickets in Sydney and Melbourne.
It was confirmed first thing this morning that Kendrick will play at Melbourne‘s Rod Laver Arena on March 21 and Sydney‘s Allphones Arena on March 23. Tickets go on sale 9am Monday October 19, and details are available via LiveNation.
Bluesfest 2016 will take place from Thursday March 24 until Monday March 28 outside Byron Bay – for more info on that, check out the Bluesfest website.
Other acts confirmed for Bluestest include:
Tom Jones, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, Jackson Browne, The Decemberists, Jason Isbell, Sturgill Simpson, Tweedy, Steve Earle & The Dukes, The Wailers (performing four albums in entirety; Exodus, Survival, Uprising and Legend over four nights), Grace Potter, Lord Huron, Nahko And Medicine For The People, Vintage Trouble, Lucky Peterson, Emdee, Blackberry Smoke, The National, City and Colour, UB40 featuring Ali Campbell, Astro and Mickey Virtue, Joe Bonamassa, Tedeschi Trucks Band, The Cat Empire, Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real, The Word, Rhiannon Giddens, Janiva Magness, St Paul & The Broken Bones, Allen Stone, The Selecter, Shakey Graves and Songhoy Blues.
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