It’s the news we’ve been needing to hear! UNIFY Gathering is set to return in 2021 but this time featuring an all-Australian lineup.
Since the heavy festival launched in 2015 with a lineup of entirely Aussie artists, UNIFY Gathering has had pretty much every heavy artist in the country perform across their six events. Due to the current situation and the impact it has had on the music industry especially, UNIFY is heading back to their roots and inviting all the past Aussie artists back for a huge celebration in Tarwin Lower from January 21 – 24 2021.
“In all of this chaos, one message stands as true as ever: music saves lives. It’s the inspiration in our lives and it’s the basis of communities that can band together to survive through tough times. We wanted this announcement out now to declare our intentions, and give the people in our community something to look forward to,” a festival statements reads.
“While UNIFY prides itself on connecting with the global heavy music community, it was with the local community of artists, crew, agents and managers that we launched our festival in 2015. In that first year, it felt like most of the Australian heavy music community got together to create one of the most memorable weekends of our lives. At the time, Australian heavy music artists were mostly unable to play festivals in AUS. We launched UNIFY because we wanted to see what it would be like for The Amity Affliction, Northlane and In Hearts Wake to play 40 minute sets at night at a festival. Looking at that lineup, it included many of the bands that defined the next half decade of Australian music, and that poster has become an iconic moment in the history of this community.”
The festival also announced that there will be no restrictions placed on artists wanting to do tour dates surrounding UNIFY Gathering dates, and while the lineup is yet to be announced, it’s looking like they aren’t fazed about putting through artists that played last year or the year before, with community truly at the heart of the 2021 edition.
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