ANT ENOCH 12:30 - 1 pm Presented by: THE AUSSIE BBQ (Sounds Australia) For the comedown after a night of drinking, for the rainy bus ride after a difficult farewell, Ant Enoch has a tailor-made soundtrack with therapeutic qualities up his sleeve. The DIY producer from Bankstown, a suburb of Sydney, combines melancholy and the aesthetics of popular 80s dance ballads to create a touching melange for the dreariness of the post-pandemic present - as an antidote, a sedative, a comforter. Recorded in the back room of a mattress factory, the debut EP "Big Talk Big Party" (2024) is the best proof of the extraordinary skills that Ant Enoch knows how to use with a few Japanese vintage drum machines, his inherited piano and his voice. Produced in Bankstown and mastered in Berlin by none other than Julia Borelli (Rüfüs Du Sol, Monolink), singles such as "Television" and "Tunnel Road" show an impressive level of stylistic confidence with which Ant Enoch realizes his artistic vision. Anyone looking for emotional authenticity and auditory soul balm will not be disappointed by his live show. DIVEBAR YOUTH 1:30 - 2:00 PM Presented by: THE AUSSIE BBQ (Sounds Australia) Growing up with a need to adapt, Vinnie Barbaro learned from an early age what it means to react flexibly to changing circumstances. This serves him well as a musician, as he has no problem constantly redesigning his dark, shimmering alt-pop and rolling it up in the ears of his audience. Sometimes it's more of a leaned-back indie reverie like on "Clueless", then again the driving nostalgic pop of a "Vertebrae" (2023) or "Idioms" (2024) and in between always that vibe that fits just as well at a festival in the depths of summer as it does after a first date with a loved one. So it's no wonder that Robert Smith (The Cure) is just as much a supporter as Angus and Julia Stone, Rolling Stone and an audience of millions on all popular streaming platforms. Although they have already reached the top, Divebar Youth have clearly not yet reached the end of the road. That's why they're heading to Hamburg in September for their next kick-start. ROWENA WISE 2:30 - 3:00 PM Presented by: THE AUSSIE BBQ (Sounds Australia) Her mother is a folk musician from Chicago, her father an instrument maker specializing in guitars and the whole family on tour together: Rowena Wise could hardly have grown up more musically inclined. So it's hardly surprising that the young singer-songwriter from Western Australia soaked up all the music that came her way from an early age. Above all: the female folk icons of the 60s and 70s - from Joan Baez to Janis Joplin, from Patti Smith to Bobby Gentry. The music of this unconventional artist, who has already been awarded the title "lyrical assassin" by the Triple J community, is characterized by astute lyricism and a profound sensitivity for reduced harmonies, compositional understatement and the nuances of outstanding songwriting. Her debut album "Senseless Acts Of Beauty" (2024) sums up the sound language of her style right from the title and, between dreamy vocals and drifting guitars, offers something that has become rare these days: a lust for life. JUDE YORK 3:30 - 4:00 PM Presented by: THE AUSSIE BBQ (Sounds Australia) His mother is an opera singer, his father a music fanatic - it's hardly surprising that Jude York showed great creative ambition at a young age. The Australian singer-songwriter was born with a lot of talent and a musical socialization in which dedication to art always played a major role. What he has made of it is being watched with wide eyes by the international music press. Tens of millions of streams on relevant platforms, sold-out shows in the UK and Down Under, highly acclaimed concerts at SXSW Sydney and the Mighty Hoopla Festival in London and then the prestigious Queensland Music Award for "Best New Artist": York is regarded as one of Australia's really big up-and-coming talents thanks to a powerfully variable voice and this irresistible mixture of driving house beats, electropop and brilliant production values. Tracks he arranged himself, such as "Those Were The Days" and "Monaco" (2024), have brought him to the attention of a global audience, especially in the past year. Now, of course, he's coming to Hamburg on his first extensive festival tour. BLUSHER 4:30 - 5:00 PM Presented by: THE AUSSIE BBQ (Sounds Australia) Blusher have used the pandemic like no other all-female combo to turn their three solo careers into one and kickstart it successfully. This began with the debut single "Softly Spoken" (2022) and subsequent songs such as "Dead End" (2023), which quickly earned the trio from Melbourne sympathy from Australian tastemakers Triple J Unearthed. After the first EP "Should We Go Dance?" went through the roof shortly afterwards and sealed the deal with Atlantic Records, the highly catchy and danceable rave pop of the three thoroughbred musicians found its way into playlists around the globe. Millions of streams later, Blusher can boast airplay on all major stations Down Under and support shows for Aurora, Kylie Minogue and Sugababes - and there's no slow down in sight. On the contrary: with the new EP "RACER" (2025), Miranda, Jade and Lauren continue to pick up the pace, but still keep the songwriting and production largely in their own hands. A rare quality in the international pop business that is rightly celebrated by fans and feature pages alike. THE BUOYS 5:30 - 6:00 PM Presented by: THE AUSSIE BBQ (Sounds Australia) In a world of office drama and botched dates, The Buoys manage to do exactly what many can't: they make lemonade out of lemons. The four musicians from Sydney don't need a grand gesture - they take their inspiration from real life and create a no-frills sound. It moves between indie rock, grunge and garage pop. With their lyrics, The Buoys tell of moments when everything is somehow too much - or too little. It's about disorientation, disappointment, defiance and the unshakeable feeling that something is still possible. What remains is a mix of bite, wit and the energy of a band that knows exactly what it wants. GUT HEALTH 7:45 - 8:35 PM Presented by: THE AUSSIE BBQ (Sounds Australia)DISCOJackson Irvine Decidedly dissonant, often with more than a wink in the lyrics and certainly completely non-conformist, Gut Health present a modern kind of punk that makes you want to dance and listen. Even in parallel. The quintet from Melbourne was founded by singer Athina Uh-Oh and bassist Adam Markmann during the 2021 coronavirus lockdowns and was able to establish itself as an unconventional project in the experimental underground of its home city with its first EP "Electric Party Chrome Girl" (2022) - and was celebrated as such. Crazy guitars, cheeky vocals, danceable yet quirky songwriting characterize the sound signature of the band, which most recently made a name for itself last year with its first studio album "Stiletto" (2024) and was celebrated by gatekeepers of good taste such as Clash, NME and Rolling Stone. But instead of resting on their laurels, Gut Health continued to work on their indefinable thing at the beginning of this year and immediately began work on the follow-up to their debut. The next punk reform has already been decided, because nobody sounds like this band at the moment. HACHIKU 9:45 - 10:30 PM Presented by: THE AUSSIE BBQ (Sounds Australia) She has been a globetrotter from birth: Anika Ostendorf was born in Michigan in 1994, grew up in Germany, then moved to London to study and finally landed in Melbourne after a year abroad. The open and experimental music scene in the Australian metropolis is a pool of unconventional ideas in which she quickly learns to swim as a hachiku. Her debut album "I'll Probably Be Asleep" (2020) is as quickly physically out of print as it is artistically on everyone's lips, turning her dreamy indie art pop into a musical kaleidoscope that suddenly makes the crisis-ridden present seem less bleak - for softies and hard-boiled alike. Whether this is due to the quiet but powerful understatement of her voice, the excellent guitar work or the electronically underpinned goosebump melodies - who knows? The fact is: the second album "The Joys Of Being Pure At Heart" (2025) also shows Hachiku as a singer-songwriter with an idiosyncratic sense of style and the will to expand sound colors and production features in every conceivable direction. If explorative pop music can still be celebrated in the age of AI bands and streaming exploitation logic, then please do it like this.