Charley Crockett. Credit: Bobby Cochran

New Geelong festival Tent Pole expands 2023 lineup with international acts and local heroes

Black Lips, Charley Crockett, The Prize and more join Tent Pole: A Musical Jamboree, the newest festival headed for our region in 2023.

Taking to the famed grounds at Mt Duneed Estate in early 2023, on their newly developed Top Paddock site, new music festival Tent Pole: A Musical Jamboree has just upped the ante for its inaugural run, announcing more acts to its already glorious lineup.

Featuring twelve acts across two stages and a no-holds-barred attack on your aural senses, March will see the likes of newly announced acts in Texan blues alt-country singer-songwriter Charley Crockett and his band, US garage punk rockers Black Lips, Melbourne punk trio legends MOD CON, power pop rockers The Prize and Bellarine-based psychedelic dream pop, prog rockers Sirens being added to the already jam-packed bill. 

Tent Pole: A Musical Jamboree 2023

• New festival on Victoria’s Surf Coast – Tent Pole: A Musical Jamboree. 
• Inaugural festival headlined by Pavement – featuring newly announced acts Charley Crockett, Black Lips, Mod Con and more.
• Tent Pole is all about celebrating an eclectic mix of artists, while showcasing a musically diverse mix of seminal and highly influential international and Aussie acts, as well as local, up-and-coming and emerging artists.
• Tickets on sale now. 

Full Festival Lineup

• Pavement
• Spiderbait
• Magic Dirt
• Floodlights
• The Schizophonics
• Black Rock Band
• Clamm
• Charley Crockett
• Black Lips
• Mod Con
• The Prize
• Sirens

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Promising to turn the festival experience on its head with a line-up curated for maximum enjoyment over two stages, these fresh acts join previously announced headliners in influential and iconic US indie heroes Pavement, as well as indie-rock royalty Spiderbait, legendary Geelong locals Magic Dirt, alt-pop-rock faves Floodlights, San Diego rock’n’soulers The Schizophonics, NT rockers Black Rock Band and punk trio CLAMM.

https://fortemagazine.com.au/new-music-festival-tent-pole-a-musical-jamboree-is-coming-to-geelong-next-year/

With a bill teeming with revered, respected and rising stars, the new Surf Coast concert event is the first collaboration between Roundhouse Entertainment (the team behind Australia’s iconic outdoor summer concert series a day on the green), Love Police (led by music maverick Brian ‘BT’ Taranto, promoter of excellent international tours Out On The Weekend & Boogie, merch guru, book publisher and record label wiz) and Johann Ponniah, founder of I OH YOU (home to one of the country’s most successful independent record labels). They are combining their decades of expertise in booking the finest bands from all over the globe to give music fans the ultimate experience. 

The inaugural event is taking place at Geelong’s Mt Duneed Estate, on their newly developed Top Paddock site, on Saturday 4 March. 

Auslan Stage Left, a national organisation specialising in the arts and performance interpreting, will be at the event, providing access for the Deaf Community while OK Motels will take over the second stage, curating a line-up that will embrace their unique love of all-things rural and retro.

Prepare for iconic, indie, lo-fi, hi-fi, post-punk, alternative, renegade rock.

Tickets for Tent Pole on sale now from Ticketmaster.