SPRING LOADED - Sydney 2021
Get Ready to Party Like it’s 1998!
Written by: Jimmy Wah - Sense Music Media
Ever wish you could go back to the 90s and re-live iconic Australian Music Festivals like HOMEBAKE, GROUNDED and BIG DAY OUT? Well now you can! After a year-long delay Empire Touring in partnership with Triple M is finally bringing SPRING LOADED to venues right around the country, kicking off at Sydney’s very own Royal Randwick Racecourse to pay homage to the bands you loved back then… by bringing you the actual bands from back then!
Pictured: JEBEDIAH playing at the inaugural Spring Loaded Festival in 2019
Venue: Sandstone Point Hotel - Bribie Island, QLD
Photo courtesy of springloadedfestival.com.au
Who’s Playing?
The Sydney leg of the SPRING LOADED Festival is being headlined by Australia’s iconic GRINSPOON supported by JEBEDIAH, FRENZAL RHOMB, MAGIC DIRT, CUSTARD, TUMBLEWEED, SCREAMFEEDER and CALIGULA. Lindsay ‘The Doctor’ McDougall from FRENZAL RHOMB will even be the M.C. at the show.
Pictured: Phil Jamieson playing at The Leadbeater Hotel - Richmond, VIC back in March 2021.
Photographer: Darcy Moore - Sense Music Media
“I’m terribly excited to be playin’ with Grinspoon at Spring Loaded. Since FireFight we have barely stepped onto stage, let alone seen each other.”
— Phil Jamieson - GRINSPOON
As the festival tours around the country the bill expands to include YOU AM I, REGURGITATOR, THE MEANIES and THE FAUVES with the line-up varying per show. One thing’s for certain even if you aren’t wearing skate shoes, an over-sized shirt, baggy jeans and uncut hair… the buzz in the air is definitely gonna make you feel like you’re living in the golden years of your youth.
Where is it?
SPRING LOADED kicks of on The Lawn at Royal Randwick in Sydney on Saturday 8 May. Below is a list of the confirmed venues, dates and bands at each show.
