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Parklife Music Festival was an Australian music festival held between 2000-2013 in city parks around Australia in September/October.

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History

Until 2012, Parklife was one of Australia's longest running and most popular music festivals. [1]

Starting in 2000, Parklife was known for its diverse, eclectic and ground-breaking line-ups, bringing live acts and dj's to Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Brisbane and Perth.

Headline acts played in every city but the number of stages would vary from 3-5, depending on the city.

The last Parklife Festival was in 2013, when Promoters Fuzzy announced they were retiring the brand. [2] Organisers announced a new touring event called Listen Out, a national "intelligent dance event" which toured Sydney, Perth, Melbourne and Brisbane.

Artist line-ups by years

2007 [3]

  • Adam Freeland
  • Ajax
  • Busy P
  • Cajuan
  • Craze
  • Derrick Carter
  • Digitalism
  • Dj Delicious
  • Freq Nasty Soundsystem
  • Goose
  • Greenskeepers
  • Justice
  • Kid Kenobi
  • K.I.M.
  • Lyrics Born
  • M.I.A.
  • MSTRKRFT
  • Muscles
  • Riot in Belgium
  • Scratch Perverts
  • Shapeshifter
  • Stereo MCs
  • The Herd
  • The Sounds
  • Yacht
  • Yelle

2012 [4]

2011 [5]

  • The Gossip
  • Lykke Li
  • Santigold
  • Adrian Lux
  • Death From Above 1979
  • Duck Sauce
  • Katy B
  • The Naked & Famous
  • Crystal Fighters
  • Digitalism
  • Diplo
  • Duck Sauce
  • Example
  • The Streets
  • Simian Mobile Disco
  • Magnetic Man
  • Nero
  • SebastiAn
  • Mstrkrft
  • Sebastien Tellier
  • Little Dragon
  • Gold Fields
  • Mylo
  • Wolfgang Gartner
  • Joker & MC Nomad
  • Feed Me
  • Tensnake
  • Kimbra
  • Albert Salt
  • The Aston Shuffle
  • Flux Pavilion
  • Yacht Club DJs
  • Harvard Bass

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