Feeling all fest’d out? Still tired from last week’s Impose showcase? Get bummed out by one of the hundreds of other summer music festivals this year? Well too bad, because the Meltasia Music Festival is coming to Georgia this Sept 5-7, and its lineup is stacked. Among the bands slated to play the three-day extravaganza are Georgia’s own Black Lips, legendary space-rock group Hawkwind, prog-rockers Danava, and more than 70 other acts.
The Meltasia Music Festival started as a birthday party for Stalkers frontman Andy Animal in 2009, and has now morphed into its current form—a veritable psych and garage rock happening. This year, the festival is being held on Cherokee Farms, a 270-acre tract of land about 90 minutes north of Atlanta. In addition to the crazy long list of bands, festival-goers will be able to cool off in the lake located on the property, take in some curated art installations and, as the poster promises, use “bathrooms” and generally have “fun.” All in all, it’s probably the least dangerous way to have a good time while camping in the backwoods of Georgia.
A three-day pass to Meltasia is available now through ticketfly for $125. A Saturday and Sunday pass is also available $100, and a solo pass for Sunday is available $80. You can purchase tickets here.
LINEUP
Friday
Nik Turner’s Hawkwind
Cherie Currie (The Runaways)
Biters
The Coathangers
Ice Balloons
Cheap Time
Witch Mountain
Dinos Boys
Dirty Fences
Liquor Store
Shine Brothers
Paint Fumes
Hedersleben
Zoners
Flecher C Johnson
Bummers Eve
Deadly Lo-Fi
The Neighbors
Turf War
Rattlesnake Milk
Mumzees
Small Reactions
Saturday
Black Lips
Bloodshot Bill
Quintron & Miss Pussycat
Vockah Redu
Gringo Star
Daddy Long Legs
Apache
Ravi Shavi
Barreracudas
Atlantic Thrills
Predator
GG King
Birdcloud
Classhole
Expo 70
Apache
Rapturous Grief
T3rd
The Wildtones
Tight Genes
The Birdwings
GHB
Corners
Dancer
Gymshorts
Cy Barkley & The Way Outsiders
Sunday
Black Oak Arkansas
Shannon and The Clams
Danava
Lecherous Gaze
Hank Wood & The Hammerheads
Shazzula
Weather Warlock
Golden Pelicans
Crazy Spirit
White Mystery
Dawn of Humans
JP5
Birdcloud
Citizen Blast Kane
Ecstatic Vision
The Mold
Froth
Mr. Elevator & The Brain Hotel
Black Linen
Gorgeous
Scully
Nest Egg
Abdominal Snowman
Golden Grass
Las Rosas