The Temper Trap to headline Parklife Festival

The Temper Trap

The Temper Trap have sold more than one million albums and their songs have been streamed more than 200 million times on Spotify and 20 million times on YouTube. They first came to prominence in 2009 with their acclaimed debut album Conditions, which, propelled by the global hits Sweet Disposition, Fader and Love Lost, saw them crash land into the charts in their native Australia and worldwide. The band’s self-titled second album, The Temper Trap, spawned the hits Trembling Hands and Need Your Love, and saw them catch the attention of the likes of Coldplay, Africa Express and the Rolling Stones, all of whom asked the band to join them on tour, whilst they also graced the stages of major festivals including Glastonbury, Lollapalooza, Leeds, Reading and Coachella. In between they were nominated and won a number of prestigious ARIA Awards in Australia, as well as receiving a nomination for best international group at the BRIT Awards.

Lineup

This year Parklife will have two stages hosting live acts throughout the day. Joining The Temper Trap is American guitarist and composer Kaki King, Jeremy Loops, Francois van Coke, Matthew Mole, Guy Buttery, Medicine Boy, and Opposite The Other. More acts are yet to be announced.

Kaki King

Hailed by Rolling Stone as “a genre unto herself,” composer and guitarist Kaki King is a true iconoclast. Over the past 13 years the Brooklyn-based artist has released eight extraordinarily diverse and distinctive albums, performed with such icons as Foo Fighters, Timbaland, and The Mountain Goats, contributed to a variety of film and TV soundtracks including Golden Globe-nominated work on Sean Penn’s Into The Wild, and played to an increasingly fervent following of music lovers on innumerable world tours.

Her latest work, “The Neck Is A Bridge To The Body,” is Kaki at her visionary best: deconstructing and redefining the role of solo instrumental artist though virtuoso technique, insatiable imagination, and boundless humanity.

Placing a strong emphasis on great food, The Village will offer a variety of gourmet food stalls with options for all tastes.

Festival-goers are welcome to bring blankets and camping chairs, and there will be a designated area for umbrellas.

Ticket options

Early Bird tickets are on sale now at R295 and available from breakout.nutickets.co.za
Second Phase tickets cost R395.
Ticket prices exclude a R25 ticketing service fee. Tickets are non-transferable and T&C’s apply.

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