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LANEWAY FESTIVAL
sideshows are here 

AJ Tracey, d4vd, Paris Texas, DOMi & JD Beck
& Hemlocke Springs

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Laneway Festival 2024 is dripping with some of the most exciting artists from around the world including a blockbuster list of international artists at the top of their game and fresh talent on their way to becoming signifiers of the best new music. If you’re looking for a bonus serving of Laneway Festival this summer, sideshows are here!

Laneway Festival sideshows announced today include AJ Tracey, d4vd, Paris Texas, DOMi & JD Beck, Hemlocke Springs and more. Plus, extra tickets have been added to RAYE’s previously announced headline shows. Find all the details below.

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AJ TRACEY

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AJ Tracey

Presented by Handsome Tours, Astral People & triple j

AJ Tracey has plenty to boast about. In a few short years, the artist from Ladbroke Grove has solidified himself as British rap royalty, dominating the mainstream as a fully independent artist. From his early mixtape days to his sophomore album Flu Game, AJ Tracey has been known for his distinctive, eclectic flow and hit singles. He’s the ultimate musical polymath with bars that blend seamlessly over any kind of beat: UK garage, grime and drill, trap, R&B and Caribbean soca music inspired by his Trinidadian roots. His list of collaborators reads as a who’s who of the international rap and R&B world – Stormzy, Dave, T-Pain, Kehlani, Headie One and more. And with 5.3 million monthly listeners on Spotify, it’s safe to say the world eagerly awaits new AJ Tracey. Lucky for us, this announcement lands ahead of the imminent release of hotly anticipated new music.

DATES:

Friday Feb 2, 2024 – Sydney Enmore Theatre (All ages)
Thursday Feb 8, 2024 – Melbourne Forum (18+)

Ticket info HERE

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PARIS TEXAS

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Paris Texas

Presented by Laneway Presents, Handsome Tours & Astral People

Paris Texas are true chaos. The wildly inventive duo from Los Angeles blend various strains of rap and rock music into a fusion of pure energy and irresistible urgency. In doing so they’ve exploded out of nowhere with one of the most unpredictable albums of the year. Whether filtered through songs like the serrated ‘ahead’ or the pulsing playful ‘trying to kill me’, their commitment to whatever feels nakedly true in a given instant makes members Louie Pastel and Felix unmissable voices in music today, and essential translators of the end times. Drawing inspiration from LA’s famed hip-hop collective Odd Future, Paris Texas is for fans of Brockhampton, Kenny Mason and King Krule – but ultimately, they’re tearing up the book and making their own rules. It’s no wonder that Tyler the Creator is one of their biggest fans. Witness them unleash everything that got them here – the impulse, the masterplan, the groove and the cacophony.

DATES:

Thursday Feb 1, 2024 – Sydney Oxford Art Factory
Thursday Feb 8, 2024 – Melbourne Night Cat

Ticket info HERE

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DOMI & JD BECK

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DOMi & JD Beck

Presented by Laneway Presents, Handsome Tours & Astral People

DOMi & JD BECK’s music finds both humour and greatness in harmonic complexity, rhythmic shiftiness, and speed. DOMi favours sounds that evoke ‘70s jazz fusion and the colourful blips of 2000s Pokémon soundtracks, while JD tunes and plays his snare in ways that can sound electronic, channelling IDM and boom bap. Sometimes they’re stuffed into a bathroom and sometimes the drums are muffled by pretzels stacked on the hi-hat, or toilet paper tossed on the snare. Their acclaimed debut album – NOT TiGHT, released by Anderson .Paak’s new label APESHIT in partnership with the legendary jazz label Blue Note Records – is an attempt to bottle their goofy magic. Featuring collaborations with the likes of Laneway alumni Thundercat, Mac DeMarco and .Paak himself, the album earned them two Grammy nominations including Best New Artist.

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d4vd

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d4vd

Presented by Handsome Tours & triple j

d4vd, born David Burke, emerged as a visionary artist only one year after he began writing and recording heart-piercing tracks alone in his sister’s closet in Houston, Texas. d4vd gained his now-eclectic taste in rap and indie music from internet wormholes and fan-made Fortnite videos on YouTube,  which he began creating as a homeschooled teenager. Sick of running into copyright issues, he taught himself the basics on BandLab and started to record music to soundtrack his gaming videos. In 2022, after sharing the moody indie pop song ‘Romantic Homicide’ – which he recorded entirely on his iPhone – the penny dropped. The viral track landed him a deal with Darkroom Records while he was still in high school, the same label to sign Billie Eilish in her teens. Petals To Thorns, d4vd’s debut EP established him as a genre-defying newcomer and one to watch. After wrapping up his support slot on SZA’s North American tour, he’s heading to Australia – don’t miss these shows!

DATES:

Friday Feb 2, 2024 – Sydney – Liberty Hall
Thursday Feb 8, 2024 – Melbourne – Croxton Bandroom

Ticket info HERE

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HEMLOCKE SPRINGS

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Hemlocke Springs

Presented by Laneway Presents & Handsome Tours

24-year-old North Carolinian Hemlocke Springs is one of the most talked about newcomers breaking into the alt-pop scene right now, but becoming a musician wasn’t always part of her plan. In 2022, Hemlocke Springs took an unexpected detour while studying bioinformatics at Dartmouth and ended up with two back-to-back TikTok viral singles ‘gimme all ur love’ and ‘girlfriend’. Then she backed it up on 2023 track ‘sever the blight’, an era-eschewing pop song that shows the full extent of her experimental ambition. With millions of streams to her name, praise from Grimes, and Bella Hadid, a slot at Pitchfork Music Festival Berlin and a debut EP going…going…GONE! out in the world, Hemlocke Springs has a fiery future ahead.

DATES:

Friday Feb 2, 2024 – Melbourne – Night Cat
Wednesday Feb 7, 2024 – Sydney – Oxford Art Factory

Ticket inspo HERE

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RAYE

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RAYE

Presented by Laneway Presents, Handsome Tours & triple j

25-year-old South Londoner RAYE is an artist in hot demand. And the temperature dial is only going up. The highly anticipated release of her debut album My 21st Century Blues in February, following an exit from her record label, heralded RAYE’s arrival as an independent artist making music on her own terms. She refused to be pigeonholed into a single genre; and with the release of her debut album RAYE unknowingly shared the song that has become synonymous with 2023 – the viral, chart-topping smash hit ‘Escapism.’ ft. 070Shake. With more than 540 million streams on that single alone, her international achievements and accolades are now too long to list. New tickets have been added to Raye’s previously announced headline shows in Sydney and Melbourne, but they won’t last.

DATES:

Wednesday 31 Jan 2024 – Sydney – Enmore Theatre
Thursday 1 Feb 2024 – Melbourne – Forum

Ticket info HERE

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