Poison City Weekender 2012 – 14th-16th September 2012

Still at the ripe young age of four-years-old, Poison Records annual Weekender fest is set to converge on Melbourne again this September for 3 days of friendship, punk-rock, bar hopping, hugs and high fives! Taking place at The Tote Hotel, Collingwood on Friday September 14th, Corner Hotel on Saturday September 15th and new venue The Liberty Hotel on Sunday September 16th, this year we’ve reached far and wide to assemble the event’s biggest line-up yet! If punk-rock is your game, and you want to play, then we’ve just banished any plans you already had because this is where you need to be this weekend!

Heading up the festivities is none other than New York post-hardcore supergroup Rival Schools, returning to Australia for the first time since the release of their 2011 comeback album ‘Pedals’. Also making the journey down under for the first time is Philadelphia’s Restorations, who’s recent ‘S/t’ debut continues to win the hearts of ‘older punks’ everywhere, their music being described as everything from angsty 90?s indie-punk, to shoegaze, to a melding of Lucero and Explosions In The Sky.

They’ll be joined by The Smith Street Band, A Death In The Family (Final Show!), Extortion, Luca Brasi, I-Exist, Hoodlum Shouts, Paper Arms, Jamie Hay, Grim Fandango, Milhouse, Jen Buxton, Between The Devil & The Deep, Outsiders (NZ), Let Me Down Jungleman, Chinese Burns Unit (members of Frenzal Rhomb, Lawnsmell, The Optionals), Toy Boats, Lincoln Le Fevre, Run Squirrel and White Walls.

Tickets are scarce, but if you want to go we believe that if there’s a will, there’s a way!

What: Poison City Weekender 2012
Where: The Tote Hotel, The Corner Hotel, The Liberty House, Melbourne
When: 14th-16th September
Price: $20 for bountiful offerings of punk-rock sounds