Hotter than Hell announces scorching 2024 line-up
Hotter Than Hell music festival has announced its return in 2024 and will bring a scorching line-up of rock artists to Western Australia, Victoria, South Australia and Queensland this spring.
The tour kicks off at Dunsbrorough Tavern on Saturday, October 12, featuring Brisbane electro-punks Regurgitator, California punk rockers Unwritten Law, hometown heroes Jebediah, indie favourites Little Birdy, and emerging Perth indie rockers The Kickons.
US ska punks Less Than Jake, Magic Dirt frontwoman Adalita, and punk-rock party starters The Bennies are set to join the line-up on selected east coast dates.
Forming in Brisbane in the early 90s, Regurgitator have won multiple ARIA Awards, toured Australia, New Zealand, Japan, the UK, Europe, North America, Asia, and the Middle East, and played with Weezer, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Prodigy and Silverchair. Armed with ten studio albums, including their groundbreaking 1996 debut album Tu-Plang, through to their recent 2024 opus Invader, Regurgitator remain a cultural force to be reckoned with.
“We were pretty set on taking a decent break after the high-paced energy of making our latest album, Invader,” said Regurgitator. “As we rolled along over this great land and saw how much you poured your hearts into enjoying our Invasive tour performances, the Hotter Than Hell folks reached out, wanting us to continue the momentum for another run of their festival dates at the end of the year. We took a deep breath and said, ‘What the hell’… let’s keep the heat on eleven.”
Exclusively performing in Western Australia and Victoria this year as part of Hotter Than Hell, punk rock mainstays Unwritten Law emerged onto the scene in the early 90s, welding classic punk with melodic hardcore elements. Finding chart and global success via their breakthrough 1998 self-titled record, Unwritten Law have since released seven full-length albums, toured extensively at home and abroad, and generated millions of streams and video views along the way.
Immediately snatching attention with their 1996 hit Jerks of Attention, Jebediah swiftly cultivated heavy airplay on triple j and ticked off performances at both Homebake and Big Day Out before solidifying their legendary status with their debut studio album Slightly Odway, boasting the beloved anthem Leaving Home. Appearing at all five Hotter Than Hell events later this year, Jebediah will also arrive armed with their hit new 2024 album, OIKS.
Storming onto the Aussie alternative radar back in the early 2000s, Perth rockers Little Birdy packed a punch throughout the decade, including three albums, 2004’s BigBigLove, 2006’s Hollywood, and 2009’s Confetti, five ARIA Award nominations, tours with R.E.M., and popular singles Relapse, Beautiful to Me and Tonight’s the Night. This will mark Little Birdy’s first return to a festival stage in well over a decade, with BigBigLove set to be performed in its entirety! “It’s been a long time since we played those youthful songs as a band, so we are all excited by the idea of revisiting them,” shares Little Birdy vocalist and guitarist Katy Steele. “I also love the concept of us playing the record in its entirety. These shows should be so much fun!”
Perth indie pop rockers The Kickons released their new single In the Cold earlier this year. The group wield a formidable social media following, with 3.2 million likes on their TikTok channel alone. “This is our first big festival, and to be on the Hotter Than Hell line-up is just unreal,” shared The Kickons. “We can’t wait to get out there and show everyone what we’ve got.”
Hotter than Hell festival hits Dunsborough Tavern on Saturday, October 12, 2024. For more info and to buy tickets, head to oztix.com.au
