NT's Wide Open Space adds a stack of extra artists to its 2020 lineup

Sampa the Great, Briggs, Black Rock Band and Opiuo led the first music announcement for this year’s Wide Open Space festival. The organisers have now added more than a dozen names to the already teeming lineup.

Wide Open Space takes place at Ross River Resort in Central Australia. It’s 80kms east of Alice Springs on the land of the Arrernte people. For three days this May it will become a festival that values connection with nature, a community atmosphere, and lineup diversity.

They’re really delivering on the latter this year, and the festival’s second lineup announcement is a doozy. New Zealand dubstep duo TRUTH lead the pack, along with San Francisco via Melbourne DJ Hypnotech. Theatrical electronic duo The Ironing Maidens will bring the satire, while Melbourne hip hop-infused bass producer Kodiak Kid is also heading out to the desert.

Watch: The Ironing Maidens – Do You Get Enough?

Southeast Desert Metal call themselves the most isolated metal band in the world, but they’ll be a lot closer to home than the rest of the WOS artists. Wirangu woman Kirra Voller is also locked in for the three day event, along with Tutup Mulut, Big Fucking Robots, D-sens and a bucketload more.

Watch: WOS2020 first artist announcement

The event is now in its 11th year and they’ve got a handle on how to put together a lineup. “We take a very wide approach to programming the WOS music experience,” said festival director Scott Large. “All of us behind the scenes have restless tastes in music and we like the festival to introduce people to acts they may not normally check out.

“We definitely put a lot of time into getting the flow right so each stage is a journey through various styles each day.”

Wide Open Space second music announcement

TRUTH
Hypnotech
The Ironing Maidens
Southeast Desert Metal
Potential NRG presents: Astral Rising Pool Party featuring Alex Pye & Whiskey Houston
Kodiak Kid
Tutup Mulut
Big Fucking Robots
D-sens
Kirra Voller x Anders Pfeiffer
Soundfood
Casii Williams
Billsbry
Unbroken Expanse
Chris Munky x P.Smurf
Whichway Z.i.V
Brekky Boy
Daddy Longlegs
X A V I A
Cloud Sequence Docker River Band
River & Isles
The Back Creek Stevedores Union
The Neeko System
Mustaphaa
DroomData V Cooperblack
DJ Missfit
Liam Niko
Dipterra and VJ GRROWLZ
Mras Nitzi
oJae Adjuster
Aphrodite’s Nightie
Concierj
Black Finch
Grug Slunt
sir dj atten-bro