Following the debut of Groovin The Moo spinoff dance festival The Plot last month, the team behind the annual regional music festival, Cattleyard Productions, turn their attentions back to organising their flagship event.
The Groovin The Moo 2014 lineup will be announced on Wednesday 29th January, but four months out from its April kick-off, the first band of the bill has already leaked, with Perth’s mighty prog outfit Karnivool letting slip of their involvement of the bill.
The news comes directly from the mouth of Karnivool (and Birds Of Tokyo) frontman Ian Kenny, who accidentally confirmed the ARIA-winning rock band’s place on the Groovin The Moo 2014 lineup in an interview with Triple J.
Currently winding their way around the country on a national co-headline tour, Kenny and Karnivool guitarist Drew Goddard took time from the road to speak to Triple J Drive host Lindsey ‘The Doctor’ McDougall yesterday afternoon.
Speaking about Karnivool’s plans for 2014, the vocalist reveals, “we have Groovin The Moo festival coming up then midyear we’re in Europe” (listen to the full chat here, the GTM reveal is around the 13:45 mark) as TheMusic points out. “We have Groovin The Moo festival coming up then midyear we’re in Europe…”
Karnivool are currently trekking around Australia with Dead Letter Circus and sleepmakeswaves as part of the Polymorphism Tour, taking in all corners of Austrlia, including two massive dates at Melbourne’s Palace Theatre last week and wraps next week with two concerts at Sydney, then Wollongong before wrapping in Karnivool’s howetown of Perth at Red Hill Auditorium.
The tour doubles as a victory lap for Karnivool following their ARIA win at the 27th Annual Awards Ceremony; their chart-topping third album, Asymmetry, taking out the Best Hard Rock/Heavy Metal category.
The hard-working five-piece’s first-ever ARIA victory came as a surprise to the band, as guitarist Drew Goddard revealed in a recent Tone Deaf interview, calling it more of a symbolic victory.
“Only because of what it sort of means to everyone else,” he explains. “It definitely means a lot to us, but it’s just one of those things where it’s almost like it validates us in other people’s eyes.” Though it did have its benefits too, “I shook Molly Meldrum’s hand so I can tick that off my bucket list…I only just realised it was there after I did it.”
Groovin The Moo were good-natured about the Karnivool leak, writing “looks like the cat’s out of the bag” in a Facebook announcement confirming the band for the bill along with news the full lineup will drop on Wednesday 29th January. Aside from Karnivool, organisers (and bands) have been pretty tight-lipped about the regional music festival’s 2014 bill.
There was conjecture that Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeroes were to be part of the lineup, following comments they would be back in Australia for April, but it turned out to be for Bluesfest 2014 rather than Groovin The Moo.
The festival is also expanding into South Australia for 2014, adding Oakbank Racecourse to its regional itinerary of the popular one-day event, as it announced the dates and venues for Groovin The Moo 2014 last year.
Read our review of Groovin The Moo 2013 in Bendigo and Maitland and view all the photo galleries for Groovin The Moo 2013 in: Bunbury | Bendigo | Canberra | Maitland
Groovin The Moo 2014 Dates & Venues
Fri 25 April – Oakbank SA
Oakbank Racecourse
Oakwood Road, Oakbank SA
Sat 26 April – Maitland NSW
Maitland Showground
Blomfield St, Maitland NSW
Sun 27 April – Canberra ACT
University of Canberra
Kirinari St, Bruce ACT
Sat 3 May – Bendigo VIC
Bendigo’s Prince Of Wales Showground
42 – 72 Holmes Rd, Bendigo VIC
Sun 4 May – Townsville QLD
Murray Sports Complex – Townsville Cricket Grounds
Mervyn Crossman Dr & Murray Lyons Cres, Idalia QLD
Sat 10 May – Bunbury WA
Hay Park
(off) Parade Rd Bunbury WA
