To celebrate their 15th birthday, Homebake are inviting old friends and new friends to the party. They’ve even resurrected a few friends from the grave!
Tumbleweed, a band that defined the 1990s Australian grunge movement, will be reforming and performing at this year’s Homebake with the original line up!!! Excited doesn’t even cover what we are feeling right now with memories and the emotions of Homebake 1998 coming flooding back. It’s the moment we’ve been waiting for, the return of grunge. The return of gaffa tape (to tape down shoe laces for the grunge-fest mosh pit) and army shorts (possibly too hot for flannels?). We only hope that time has been kind to Tumbleweed.
Also reforming for Homebake 2009 is another alternative 1990s band, Underground Lovers. Some of the newish bands on the line up include Decoder Ring, Eddy Current Suppression Ring, The Middle East, and Bumblebeez. The rest of the line up is somewhat predictable and for obvious reasons will draw a crowd. Powderfinger, Eskimo Joe, Hilltop Hoods and Jet, all very popular bands have been included and will no doubt be the headliners on the main stage.
Hopefully some more of our fav 90s alternative bands will be added to the line up in future announcements, like comeback kings Frenzal Rhomb, Regurgitator, and Jebediah. And maybe a few more bands can be brought back from the dead, like Ammonia and Custard. 90s Australian grunge-fest? We have fingers and toes crossed.
1st line up annoucement: Powderfinger, Jet, Hilltop Hoods, Eskimo Joe, Sia, Daniel Merriweather, Midnight Juggernauts, Sarah Blasko, Tim Finn, Closure in Moscow, Tiki Taane (NZ), Short Stack, Underground Lovers (original line-up), Phrase, Decoder Ring, Bumblebeez, Tumbleweed (orginal line-up), Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Rowland S Howard, The Funkoars, The Middle East, The Aston Shuffle, Sugar Army, Record Producer, Shockone, + many more to be announced.