Heavy Music Camping Festival Thrashville Returns To Hunter Valley This September With Killer Line-up

Thrashville, a ‘slightly heavier’ multi-day music festival, returns to Wonnarua, Hunter Valley, NSW on Friday, 8 and Saturday, 9 September with its biggest line-up ever.

Since its inception in 2017, Thrashville has provided punters with a new key pilgrimage for the heavy music community.

The one-of-a-kind regional all-inclusive heavy music festival has received an overwhelmingly positive response from the supportive and active heavy music community, annually gaining a mountain of applications from punk, metal, and rock performers across Australia eager to perform on the bushland stage.

This year’s event is headlined by none other than heavyweight progressive rock trio COG. The Sydney outfit are topping the jam-packed Saturday program, while the Friday will be headlined by another familiar heavy rock act, Mammal.

Also appearing on the stellar line-up spanning metal, progressive rock, punk, and more are Melbourne’s proto-punk outfit CIVIC, Sydney experimentalists SHADY NASTY, garage rockers CROCODYLUS, femme soul punkers DOWNGIRL and Queensland’s melodic hardcore band Wildheart. 

You can check out the first announcement of the line-up below, with more to come.

As well as two days of awesome music, Thrashville will host extra activities like tattooing, live graffiti art and pro-skateboarding displays.

THRASHVILLE 2023

8 & 9 SEPTEMBER

WONNARUA, HUNTER VALLEY, NSW

COG + MAMMAL + CIVIC + SHADY NASTY + CROCODYLUS + DOWNGIRL + WILDHEART + DANE BLACKLOCK & THE PREACHER'S DAUGHTER + FIFTH DAWN + BLOODY HELL + DUST + FUNGAS + WHERE’S JIMMY + PRIVATE WIVES + BOUDICCA  + TELURIAN + DORIS

+ MORE TO BE ANNOUNCED

We caught Cog at Monolith Festival in August last year and noted, “The whole crowd is belting out the lyrics to these beloved tunes, and it’s clear there are a lot of lifetime fans here. I’m in awe of the musicianship shown here, with the effortless yet epic uneven time signature drumming from Lucius Borich, the huge bass grooves from Luke Gower, and Flynn’s skill and presence as a frontman. The overall experience creates a beautiful energy that radiates through the crowd, and it feels like a very special moment in time.”

Downgirl are another band you can’t miss. Last month, they released the music video for their scathing new number, 2006. The band – Skarlett Saramore, Lou Harbidge, Kristen Adams and Alex Neville offer a satirical take on the “dickheads” who have previously run the country.

Full of punchy bass lines and roaring in-your-face guitars, 2006 is true Australian punk. Armed with a message that showcases the country’s past leaders' poor treatment of Indigenous people and ripping past Prime Ministers a new one, DOWNGIRL don’t hold back.

Poking fun at Scott Morrison’s little trip to Hawaii while Australia was burning and featuring an onion-eating Tony Abbott, the members of DOWNGIRL dress as politicians in a rambunctious music video, drinking until they’re blind drunk, tripping over each other, pants down and covered in vomit. You can check out that music video below.

Tickets for Thrashville 2023 are available now. You can buy them here.