TYGA, SHARK ADD BITE TO COAST FESTIVAL LINE-UP

AMERICAN rapper Tyga will jet to Queensland to headline the state’s bumper music festival, The Grass Is Greener, which has expanded from Cairns to the Gold Coast.

The 29-year-old rapper and actor, whose real name is Micheal Ray Stevenson, will join a line-up of Queensland music stars including Amy Shark, The Veronicas, Mallrat and The Kite String Tangle.

Launched in Cairns in 2016 by festival owners Simon Coyle, Oli Frost and Hugh Foster, The Grass is Greener has added its first Gold Coast date this year, kicking off the festival run at the Broadwater Parklands on October 19.

The Gold Coast show will also feature one-off performances by Aussie hip hop duo Hermitude and Peking Duk.

The rest of the artists will then travel to the Cairns Showgrounds on October 26 where Golden Features will be added to the line-up.

Frost said the festival aimed to support homegrown acts with a platform in their own backyard.

“For us, our name pokes fun at the age-old saying, ‘The Grass is Greener on the other side’, a saying implying that things would be better somewhere else,” Frost said.

“Instead, TGIG is committed to supporting local talent in our very own backyard, to prove the grass is plenty green on the Gold Coast and Far North Queensland.”

The line-up also includes Crooked Colours, Habstrakt, Holy Goof, The Aston Shuffle, Kolombo, Graace, Jordan Burns, Choomba, Sophiegrophy, Taleena, Reynier, Jake Carmody and SVLT.

Presale tickets starting at $99 will be available from thegrassisgreener.com.au