Peats Ridge 2009

The Australian Peats Ridge Festival takes place at Glenworth Valley, New South Wales, in Australia, and offers ten stages of music from Tuesday 29th December 2009 until Friday 1st January 2010. The whole festival runs entirely on renewable energy.

Line-up

The major artists confirmed include Lamb, Sarah Blasko, The Panics, Blue King Brown, Liam Finn, Dappled Cities, Whitley, Bertie Blackman, Jeff Lang, Ash Grunwald, Leader Cheetah, Jack Ladder, and Astronomy Class. See the bottom of this listing for the full list of confirmed acts.

Tickets

An adult ticket for the whole event is priced at $285 (approx £160), a youth ticket (aged 13 -17) is priced at $70 (approx £40), a child ticket (aged 6-12) is $20 (approx £11) with children under 6 able to attend for free. To buy tickets, click here.

Camping

Onsite camping is included in the cost of a season pass, gates open at 9am on Tuesday 29th December. There are two main camping areas - one is vehicle free and one area that is vehicle friendly where you can camp next to your vehicle. There is also family camping available set slightly away from the main campsite for the sleeping babies. Drummers camping set slightly away from the main camping, is also available for those wanting to be able to make as much noise as they want. There is also provision for caravans and campervans in the vehicle friendly campsite.

Early bird camping

Early bird camping is offered a day early on the 28th, at price of $30 (approx £20) per person and can be purchased on the ticket link above.

Other entertainment

As well as the music the festival offers a New Years Eve Fancy Dress Masquerade, performance arts, site-specific installations, healing area, international cuisine, as well as a full programmes of theatre, cabaret, comedy, free workshops, and a children's festival.

Accommodation

For those festival goers not wishing to camp there is accommodation available in local hotels near to the event.

Green ethos

A major part of the Peats Ridge experience is finding out how to live more sustainably and therefore reduce our impact on the beautiful Glenworth Valley and the planet as a whole. There are many ways to experience this in action at the Festival with initiatives to minimise human impact on the festival site with 100% biodiesel generators, odour free composting toilets, grey water management, container deposit system, organic waste composting, reclaimed materials for decoration, certified organic food at the stalls, biodegradable cutlery, onsite bike couriers, natural ink printing and chemical free cleaning products.

Getting there

There are good international transport links to the main airport Sydney. The festival has car pooling programmes and is accessible by public transport using trams or trains. The closest train station is Gosford. There will be a shuttle bus running from Hornsby station to the Festival. Follow the signs from the station to the bus pick-up point.

Confirmed acts for 2009 are: Lamb; Sarah Blasko; The Panics; Blue King Brown; Liam Finn; Dappled Cities; Whitley; Ash Grunwald; Jeff Martin; Bertie Blackman; Jeff Lang; Lost Valentinos; Telepathe; Mount Mocha Kilimanjaro; Astronomy Class; Leader Cheetah; Ripperton Live; Jack Ladder; Jen Cloher and the Endless Sea; The Bird; Mama Kin; Passenger; deepchild; Circle Of Rhythm; Lentic : Ember Swift; The Barons of Tang Diafrix; Christian Vance Live; The Nomad; Mark Pritchard:Harmonic 313; The Tongue; OKA; The Jezabels; Tijuana Cartel; Kid Sam; The Kin; Steve Poltz; Tom Ugly; Dead Letter Chorus; Dan Mangan; The Strides; The Last Kinection; Declan Kelly and the Rising Sun; Sherlocks Daughter; Spoonbill; Dizz1; Deep Street Soul; Zennith; Young Heretics; Oakley "OG" Grenell; Thundamentals; Tinpan Orange; Sacred Earth; Mic Conway's National Junk Band; Greg Sheehan; The Bakery; Seekae; The Crooked Fiddle Band; Lions At Your Door; Marshall and the Fro; Fergus Brown; Saritah; Deep Sea Arcade; Brian Campeau; Castanets; Ernest Ellis; Jack Shit; Monkfly; Meem (DJ); The Medics; Kira Puru and the Very Geordie Malones; Chase the Sun; Darth Vegas; Emma Davis; Peret Mako; Pan Electric; Ghoul; Sarah Humphreys; Melatonin; Abbie Cardwell; Royal Chant; Bushwalla; The Paper Scissors; The Levitators; Tommee; Goldie Feather; Leroy Lee; Mick Hart:Monkey Boy; Jason Lowe; Cabins; Cameras; Miso; Leena; The Sins; Seagull; The Animators; One Mouth Band; Austin Busch and the Good Reasons; Noel Boogie; Fuji Collective; The Snowdroppers; FisherKing; Tiger Saw; Georgia Fair; Barrel House; Flatwound; Danimals; Killed Two Birds; The WooHoo Revue; Vanessa Jade; We Say Bamboulee; WIM; Deya Dova; Mortlock; Fear of Monsters; Pluto Goneski; Audio Shaman; Geoff Turnbull; Favourite Son; Benjalu; Billygoat & the Mongrels; Bonjah; Alps; Leigh Wood; Michael Peter; Saving Grace; Dale Stephen; Daniel Lee Kendall; The Longest Day; The Professor; And Then to Bed; Ichabods Crane; Jess Chalker; Lanie Lane; Aleesha Dibbs; Apex Breed; Brackets Band; BRYNSTAR; John Vella; James Edgar Francis; Deb Bond; DJ Blair Stafford; Ellen Kibble; Gail Preist; Jalu; Know-U; True Vibenation; M Carney; Madelaine Hudson; Master Of Ribongia; One Jonathan; One On One; Sir Booya; Sleep; Camilla & James; Mark Pritchard; The Versionaries; Flippo; 3rd Eye; Victim; Lorna Clarkson; Foreigndub Crew; Sofie Loizou; Westernsynthetics; Shamik (Canada); Paul Fraser; Gentleforce; Red Bantoo; Basslines; Semper Fi; Zerodub; Prize; Gambeta; Vice Versa; ALF; Sweet Az Soundsystem; Shane Kellahan; Ibo Jah; Sam the Chemis; Papa Richie; Live; Disjunction Reunion; DJ Stuart Coope; DJ Seltay; Mr E; M_Phonik; Freedom Sounds.

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