The game-changing new rock, punk and metal festival for Sydney, UsFest has released the festival timetable with Big Music Bandits and Scarburrow kicking off the day! Along with the announcement of, fresh from performing at Download Festival, Newcastle pop-punksEat Your Heart will be hitting the decks for a DJ set and Taking Back Saturday will be throwing a huge “Bring Me The Horizon: On Repeat” party!

The festival is set to kick off this Saturday, April 6th, get in quick as tickets are almost sold out!

Co-headlined by pop-punk shooting stars Yours Truly and Between You And Me, the inaugural event features a paradigm-shattering rock, punk & metal bill made up of a minimum 50% bands with at least one non-male identifying member, uniting to raise funds to support the important work of Girls Rock Sydney.

UsFest was created and curated by RedHook vocalist Emmy Mack, in partnership with her childhood friend Tiana Jarvis, and they are thrilled to announce the news today in celebration of both International Women’s Day and RedHook’s final day as triple J Unearthed Feature Artist.
Mack says the inspiration behind UsFest came from wanting to turn a negative situation into a positive one.

“There’ve been a lot of important conversations happening around the issue of gender diversity on Aussie festival lineups in recent years. And the heavy scene – which has been overwhelmingly male-dominated throughout history – has come under particular scrutiny.

It’s obviously a very complex, emotional topic, but there seems to be a fundamental disconnect in the way that both sides have been discussing it in relation to our scene, and it’s created a lot of ugliness and division within the community. Last year I was actually feeling really depressed about it all, so I decided to do something to try and change it.

With UsFest, I wanted to create something positive that brought us together instead of tearing us apart. I wanted to go beyond simply ‘calling out’ the problem to offer what might hopefully be the start of a solution – creating meaningful change at the grassroots level in the hope of starting to see things shift in the treetops.

I also want to add that, while UsFest may be a new kind of event for the punk, rock & metal scene, we’re proud to be part of a new paradigm of festivals in the wider Australian music community.”

UsFest 2019 will take place at Sydney’s Oxford Art Factory this Saturday, 6th April!

CHECK OUT THE LINE UP BELOW

BETWEEN YOU AND ME | YOURS TRULY | STATESIDE | OCEAN SLEEPER | 
THE DEAD LOVE | REDHOOK | SIENNA SKIES | TERRA | STELLAR ADDICTION | ARTERIES | THE LAST MARTYR | DOWN FOR TOMORROW | GRENADE JUMPER |SCARBURROW | FANGZ | HEADSTRONG | BIG MUSIC BANDITS