DANCE MUSIC FANS TO GET PARTY STARTED
THE Gold Coast is hosting Australia’s – if not the world’s – largest electronic dance music festival since the COVID pandemic swept the globe and decimated live music.
A sold-out event attracting 8000 revellers, Lunar Electric Music Festival starts at Doug Jennings Park at The Spit on Saturday at 11am.
Founder Simon Leigh said the event was moved from Port Macquarie so it could be opened to a bigger audience. “It was an easy choice as the Gold Coast is undoubtedly the entertainment mecca of Australia with a youthful population and amazing weather,” he said.
“We have curated a lineup featuring the biggest names in Australian electronic music such as Timmy Trumpet, Will Sparks, Joel Fletcher and Havana Brown as well as hip-hop and bass performers such as Hooligan Hefs, Masked Wolf and HP Boyz.”
Up-and-coming artists, vocalist, dancers and performers are also getting the chance to boost their careers on a festival scale, something that’s been lacking for the past year.
“Due to the success of this festival, we have been working behind the scenes to bring another one to the Gold Coast in September, with a date to be announced next week,” he said.
The economic impact is expected to be huge, not just in accommodation nights and guests going to attractions, restaurants, clubs and bars, but with the hiring of hundreds of local suppliers, contractors, security, bar staff and more.
“We had a ‘we did it’ feeling when we sold the last ticket more than two weeks before the event. It’s been an extremely tough year or so for a lot of people in the industry so to be able to bring a festival of this magnitude to the Gold Coast is absolutely amazing,” he said.
The full line-up is at lunarelectric.com.au