LILYWORLD’S ENCHANTED GARDEN
AT THE 2009 BIG DAY OUT
Wander through the enchanted garden of Lilyworld and join the four green stooges Duckpond, Larry Kronick Jr, Heavy G and Christo as they take you on a journey thru topiary and into a lost psychedelic garden of unearthly delights.
In 2009 LILYWORLD is proud to present a green oasis of new musical genres and swinging styles. Enchanting and delighting bewildered individuals who dare to wander past this madness within the world that is , the BIG DAY OUT.
The merry men of the sherbet forest have been busy propagating a green oasis of buffoontrees, gagvines, goonflowers and oversized discopumpkins right in the heart of the BIG DAY OUT to freak-out and confuse lost souls..
The 2009 LILYWORLD proudly presents …
Funkabilly’s best kept secret, BARRENCE WHITFIELD (USA) is outta the bag and set to shake Lilyworld to its very foundations at BIG DAY OUT 2009. He grew up on gospel but in Boston he found the truth in rock ‘n’ roll. He’s got the funk, he’s got the soul… basically, he’s got Little Richard covered. But wait, there’s more – BARRENCE will be backed by the ROCKWIZ ORKESTRA, as seen on SBS TV! (All Australian Shows)
Who is that man in the three-piece suit and the natty brogues? He is SON OF DAVE, and to witness him at BIG DAY OUT is to witness the blues dragged kicking and howling into the 21st Century. It all began one Christmas in Manitoba, Canada, when father gave young Benjamin Darvill a harmonica and a shaker. Now he stirs thoughts of Beck, the White Stripes and Tom Waits all rolled into one. (All shows)
Sultry Melbourne songstress PARIS WELLS has built up an incredible street-level buzz throughout underground circuit – helped along a little by her tour support spot for Justin Timberlake! PARIS has released a debut EP, Mum Hasn't Slept Yet, followed by an album Keep It (2008). With infectious, songs infused with a jaded swagger and she’ll be scorching your soul with her wild show at LILYWORLD. (Gold Coast, Sydney, Melbourne, Perth shows
From the South African countryside to the wilds of Lilyworld at BIG DAY OUT comes RISENGA’S BUSH TECHNOLOGY who will catapult you into an ocean of rhythms.
With an extraordinary range of music and musical instruments, Risenga Makondo straddles the diasporas from Africa to North and South America and over to Europe. Dance, drum and delight in his energy, charisma and versatility! (All shows)
Gardening in Dubbo is a bit like playing the poker machines at the Dubbo RSL Club. You probably won’t get a payout, but there is nowhere else to go. Unlike the enchanted gardens of LILYWORLD, where THE REELS will be hoeing and weeding in January 2009, and presenting 80s pop as it really was, not without the chicken shit dynamic lifter. (Sydney & Melbourne shows)
LILYWORLD also welcomes DEMOLITION B GIRL (Demi Sorono) who will step it up a notch or two on the LILYWORLD stage. Finalist on “So you Think You Can Dance”, DEMI is set to shake her groove thang many times over in the garden of So you Stink You Can Prance, where punters (preferably bogans) will step up and display their dancing skills to have a shot at the LILYWORLD title. (East Coast Shows)
MILES CLERET (UK) will send the beard scratching folkies running for the hills (Looking for some bush weed) as he swings Lilyworld into a tropical party with rare (and not so rare), upbeat tropical dance music from Latin America, Africa, Brazil and the Caribbean. Remixes with a baking-hot flavour – anything from Nigerian Afrobeat & Ghana Highlife to Colombian Cumbia, Samba from Brazil, Reggae, Calypso, Latin broken-beat, Dancehall and African Hip Hop - from the 1950’s to 2009. Dancing Wellies and rakes will definitely be required. (All Shows)
WHAT MAKES MEN BLUSH (WMMB) straight out of a glass cube inside a Sydney nightclub, this performance collective has hijacked Burlesque as an artform to push boundaries, challenge expectations and stereotypes, as well as highlight injustice. Embodying hyper-realities their tactile performance inspires, undresses and ravages the world that we have become accustomed to. WMMB celebrates the ugly to realize the beautiful and celebrates the beautiful to re-define the ugly.
With an act that'd see him get the crap beaten out of him if he wasn't so entertaining, TOMAS FORD serves up an unsettling, unique spectacle…edgy, dark, deeply funny. Ever since we sacked St Matthew for not swallowing the Tarago in 1996, we’ve been looking for someone from WA, and now we think we’ve found him! (All Australian Shows)
Along with many more weird and wonderful surprises , Superstar DJ’s , and the weirdest loons and goons , the Ice Cream van returns after a trip to white rabbit , white rabbit , white rabbit, with a cocktail of surprised guests to keep the madness flowing till you can take it no more and you beg for your cornetto. All very speculative, dubious and non confirmed guests like the Hard Boiled Egg and Fake Duckpond will have you pleading for less ! ( east coast)
Just when it’s looking like its all gone feral, the lads from “Larry’s Mowing” will buzz through with whipper snippers giving free on the spot Brazillians to the most diehard greenie, and leaf-blowers to blow away any chance of skinning up a 3 paper trumpet, hotly pursued by the remaining members of the “Odour police “ who will take any and all remedial action to insure that NO hygenine challenged punter stinks out the area!
Bill and Ben want a Little Weed ?
With more musical and metaphorical twists and turns than previously thought possible, come Lilyworld very own ”Cynical Brothers” Heavy G “ and “Needy Man” (Christo) who return with this season’s range of laughs and double entendres’ for the Kate moss who gathers the stones.
Blow, grow, and hang low at LILYWORLD for the ultimate garden party of 2009.
