Bliss N Eso to headline Shakafest as festival farewells Miami Shark Bar for new home in Southport

SOUTHPORT’S Broadwater Parklands has cemented its reputation as the home of outdoor concerts on the Gold Coast after locking in another major music festival, this one starring Bliss N Eso.

SOUTHPORT’S Broadwater Parklands has cemented its reputation as the home of outdoor concerts on the Gold Coast after locking in another major music festival, this one starring Bliss N Eso.

The third annual Shakafest will bring skateboarding and hip hop/rock music acts including Bliss N Eso, Last Dinosaurs, Alex The Astronaut, Bec Sandridge, Frenzal Rhomb and The Chats, Carmouflage Rose, Gold Coast local Jesswar and Frenchy & The Talent to the popular venue on the banks of the Broadwater on November 24.

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Gold Coast artist Jesswar will perform at the 2018 Shakafest at Broadwater Parklands on November 24.

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The event will feature two stages — a main stage and a smaller stage curated by Rabbit Radio with acts including punk favourites Clowns and VOIID.

More acts will be announced in the lead-up to the event, which heads to Broadwater Parklands after outgrowing its original home at the Miami Shark Bar.

Bliss N Eso will headline Shakafest when it debuts at its new home at Broadwater parklands in Southport. Picture: Adam Yip/ The Manly Daily

Shakafest’s new home will allow organisers to bring back the famed Shakafest half-pipe, with an impressive line-up of skateboarding talent to be announced in coming weeks.

The 18+ festival will bump into the Southport site just weeks after it hosts the Gold Coast 600 Supercars race weekend’s Broadwater Sounds concert with international rock acts Foreigner and Live and chart-topping Brisbane favourites Sheppard on Saturday, October 20.

An aerial view of Broadwater Parklands in Southport, the southern end of which has become a popular venue for outdoor music events. Image: AAP/Dave Hunt.

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Broadwater Parklands is also the site for two big summer music festivals — Under the Southern Stars on January 19 and a new local stop on the Hotter Than Hell festival tour on January 27.

The Under the Southern Stars bill will see headliners The Hoodoo Gurus and You Am I joined by The Superjesus, British India, The Getaway Plan and indigenous indie Aussie rocker Scott Darlow before Hotter Than Hell brings Spiderbait, Shihad, Killing Heidi, Bodyjar, 28 Days and Area 7 to the waterfront venue a few weeks later.

Crowds at Cold Chisel's 2015 Gold Coast 600 Supercars race weekend concert at Broadwater Parklands.

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Area councillor Dawn Crichlow said the Gold Coast light rail had made the site in the southern section of Broadwater Parklands a popular choice of venue for a growing number of promoters.

“With the circus shows and big tops and those sorts of things and the concerts we’ve had there the industry is starting to talk about it among themselves and people hear about it and are interested to come,” she said.

Tickets for Shakafest go on sale on Friday at 1pm via Oztix and the event website.