ORGANISERS of the Slim Dusty Kempsey Festival are hopeful its relaunch will ensure the future viability of the country music event.
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After taking a year off in 2019, the renamed festival will return at a new site in the grounds of the Slim Dusty Centre in the mid-north NSW town of Kempsey from September 3 to 6.
Australia's queen of alt-country Kasey Chambers will headline the festival, along with fellow Central Coast artist Felicity Urquhart and Tom Maxwell, Luke O'Shea, Pete Denahy, Dianne Lindsay & Peter Simpson, Brad Butcher, The Bushwackers and many more.
The festival's relaunch was announced at the Tamworth Country Music Festival on Wednesday during the 90th birthday celebration of Dusty's widow Joy McKean.
ROCKING LIBRARY
RADIOHEAD have always been one of most intellectual bands. The English art-rock legends have taken that reputation a step further by launching their own Radiohead Public Library.
The online archive on the band's website will feature detailed artwork, official videos, TV performances, B-sides and compilation tracks and previously out-of-print merchandise to be custom made on demand. The five members of Radiohead are serving as librarians this week to launch the archive.
Fans can head to radiohead.com to create their own personal library card and membership number to access the curated catalogue.
NO TAME RETURN
THE release of Tame Impala's fourth album The Slow Rush on February 14 is arguably the most hotly-anticipated Australian release of 2020. So tickets aren't expected to last long for the psych-rock band's biggest ever Australian and New Zealand tour announced this week for April.
Kevin Parker and the gang play the Brisbane Entertainment Centre (April 18), Sydney's Qudos Bank Arena (April 20), Melbourne's Rod Laver Arena (April 23), Adelaide Entertainment Centre (April 25) and Perth's RAC Arena (April 28).
Texan genre-defiers Khruangbin, best known for the song White Gloves, will support Tame Impala throughout the tour.