Festival of sounds and surf

THE 25th anniversary of the Noosa Festival of Surfing will host almost as much entertainment out of the water as it will in the waves.
With a host of musical acts lined-up to join the 8 Days of Pure Stoke, the festivities of the world’s largest surfing event will continue long after the sun goes down.
After its inaugural success this year, the Noosa Festival Surf Unearthed will return in 2016 throwing the stage open to the next generation of surf-inspired musicians.
To help celebrate and showcase unearthed talent, the festival is inviting bands to compete in a series of heats at Surf Unearthed venue, Cafe Le Monde.
Sons of the East will be welcomed to the stage for the first time in March, the band drawing the attention of Australia’s surfing community after featuring in a short film by Spencer Frost.
The young Sydney-based band, who have just released their latest EP Already Gone, are a perfect fit for the festival – their folk-inspired mellow vibes featuring influences from Of Monsters and Men to Kings of Leon, but also harking back to the G. Wayne Thomas sounds of The Morning of the Earth.
Also joining the festival line-up all the way from the UK are Z-Star Delta. With their unique blend of soul, funk, blues and rock, the celebrated band is going to bring the vibes, returning to Australia in 2016 after an extensive and highly successful tour this year.
Also featuring on the line-up are impassioned surfers Old Man Friday, who take influence from the classic surf music genre of Bruce Brown movies, plus Tropical Zombie, who deliver upbeat, light-hearted, gentle rock.
The award-winning kings of swamp rock, the Mason Rack Band, will also perform to round out an already impressive line-up.
To find out more or to see the line-up in full, visit www.noosafestivalofsurfing.com