Listen up rockabilly fans and hot rodders, here comes the rundown for the heppest kustom kulture event in Australia - GreazeFest!
This is the eighth year of the GreazeFest and the event keeps getting bigger and better. We have listened to your feedback, to make improvements and to give you just what you want over the GreazeFest weekend.
If you haven't been to GreazeFest before, the festival runs over a four day period, over the first weekend in August every year, in Brisbane.
Thursday night is a pre-party; Friday night is The Sinners Ball; Saturday afternoon is the Street Cruise and Greazy BBQ; Saturday night is the Greazers Ball; Sunday has the huge Hot Rod Show, Lowbrow Art Show, Vintage Markets and 12 hours of live rockabilly music.
The festival kicks off on Thursday night with the GreazeFest Pre-Party at Ric’s Bar in Fortitude Valley (just across the Mall from the Troubadour). Live bands include The Throttle Zombies and Corn Liquor. Entry is free. This is the gathering point for out-of-towners and local greazers, so they can get acquainted in time for the big weekend.
GreazeFest Pre-Party - Throttle Zombies, Corn Liquor; Ric's Bar (free)
Friday August 3
The Sinners Ball on Friday night is set to unleash the darker, seedier side of rockabilly. New Zealand’s Voodoo Kreepers will be our very special guests on the evening, bringing you’re their in-your-face rockabilly sounds on their first ever visit to Oz. Sydney’s Nervous Wreckers will be returning to GreazeFest after their top performance last year and at the recent Rockabilly Psychosis. The No Nos from Tasmania are ready to show us how they like to rock’n’roll waaaay downunder. Brisbane’s own Ten Fours will be grinding the gears with their high hawlin’ tunes and we’ll see the return of fav rockabilly guru, DJ Mike da Moocha. All the action is a t Souths Leagues Club. Tickets are $22 in advance or $26 at the door, unless sold out prior.
Sinners Ball:
- The Voodoo Kreepers
- The Nervous Wreckers
- The No Nos
- The Ten Fours
- DJ Mike da Moocha
Souths Leagues Club 7pm – 1am; $22 / $26 www.greazefest.com
Saturday August 4th
After an essential sleep-in, the hot rod action kicks off early Saturday afternoon with the return of the GreazeFest Street Cruise. It’s been a couple of years since GreazeFest has held a car cruise and its being welcomed back with stick-shifts and gas-peddles at-the-ready. Long time GreazeFest supporters, The Eliminators car club, will be hosting the cruise, which will assemble and depart from their headquarters in Loganholme at 2pm on Saturday.
Once the Street Cruise arrives at Souths on late Saturday afternoon, drivers can fuel up at the Greazy BBQ, being held downstairs in the courtyard at Souths. There’ll be sizzling tunes at the barbie, so you can eat to the beat and get yourself primed for the Greazers Ball that night.
The Greazers Ball features non other than Mr Fabulous himself, Wes Pudsey and his Sonic Aces from Sydney. I’ve never seen a Sonic Aces show I didn’t dig and they’ll be pulling out all stops for the rockers at GreazeFest. Everyone’s talking about the hot rockabilly trio from Newcastle, The Flattrakkers and they’ll be heading up for their first visit to GreazeFest, so bring you dancing shoes. You’ll also find yourself two-stepping to The Lucky Shots from Sydney with their boot scootin’ blend of vintage country, rockabilly and blues. Certain to keep the dance floor pumping are Brisbane’s very own West Texas Crude and resident DJ, Mike da Moocha. The G reazers Ball is being held at Souths Leagues Club and tickets are $22 in advance or $26 at the door, unless sold out prior.
GreazeFest Street Cruise from 2pm
- free event - meet at The Eliminators Clubhouse, Loganholme.
Greazy BBQ
Downstairs at Souths from 5.30pm – food and drink on sale.
Greazers Ball
- Wes Pudsey & The Sonic Aces
- The Flattrakkers
- The Lucky Shots
- West Texas Crude
- DJ Mike da Moocha
Souths Leagues Club 7pm – 1am; $22 / $26 www.greazefest.com
Sunday August 5
The GreazeFest Hot Rod Show on Sunday August 5 has grown into a 12 hour event, running from 9am to 9pm. The Hot Rod Show will be the first order of the day, with prime parking for hundreds of rods, customs, beaters, stockers, rats, bobbers and lowrider cycles. The music will be pumping all day and into the evening with more live bands than you a poke a Strato-fin antenna at, plus plenty of room for dancing.
DJ Leapin’ Lawrie will be treating you to an earful of rockabilly delights from his enormous rockabilly record collection. Visiting bands including the fantastic Firebird trio from Melbourne, whose bass player Chris Nomad recently enjoyed a stint playing in Brian Setzer’s Orchestra in Miami – nice work if you can get it. The Casino Rumblers from Sydney will be bringing you a psychotic cocktail of rockabilly, ska and rock'n'roll. Brand new outfit Monster A Go Go will have you bopping in a straight line and going through a time warp to their full-tilt rockabilly versions of 1980s classics. Brisbane bands Bad Moon Company, Miss Teresa & Her Rhythmaires, Men into Space, Duke Wilde & The Shotgun Hillbillies and the Quick Draw McGraws will be bringing you the best of rockabilly, country and psychobilly all day long.
Also on Greazy Sunday are the tempting GreazeFest Markets, the Lowbrow Art Show and a special Skateboard Art Display. There’ll be food and drink on sale, with licensed and unlicensed areas. Please don’t bring any BYO. Sunday events are all-ages, so all generations will have their chance to take part in our kustom kulture.
Sunday August 5
- Hot Rod Show
- Lowbrow Art Show
- Skateboard Art Show
- Vintage Markets
- Firebird
- The Casino Rumblers
- Monster A Go Go
- Bad Moon Company
- Miss Teresa & Her Rhythmaires
- Men into Space
- Duke Wilde & The Shotgun Hillbillies
- The Quick Draw McGraws
- DJ Leapin' Lawrie.
Davies Park, West End.
$16 adults, $10 drivers, under 12s free. All ages welcome. www.greazefest.com
New ‘Driver’ Ticket
One of the improvements this year is a discounted ticket for drivers who enter a car or motorbike into the Hot Rod Show. Once again, we’ve listened to your feedback and we reckon this is a good idea.
Drivers of cars or motorbikes who enter a vehicle into the Hot Rod Show will receive $6 off the entry price, so it’s just $10 for drivers on Sunday! The driver ticket is not available to passengers, bicycles, artists, skateboarders, or vehicles unable to fit once the show reaches capacity. This special priced ticket has the potential to sell out in advance, so if you’re driving your beauty or your beater to GreazeFest, get in early and get your Driver entry ticket. www.greazefest.com/tickets.htm
Please note that vehicles must be pre-1970, must enter the show between 8am and 10am, and must remain stationary until 1pm. Trophy presentation is around 12pm.
Remember that there are still nine hours of fun after the trophy presentations. Drivers are very welcome to stay on into the afternoon. Most entrants would realise that GreazeFest is not a trophy-chasing show anyway; the trophies are just a fun highlight in a very eventful weekend. The ‘trophy’ categories this year include:
+ King Rat
+ King Rod
+ King Kustom
+ King Ride [motorbike]
+ Trophy Queen [gal entrants]
+ King Lowrider [bicycle]
+ King Kroozer [longest distance]
Lowbrow Art Show
The Lowbrow Art Show will be on again and it's expected to be the biggest show yet. You can be part of the art show by displaying your latest creation, be it pinstriped, a tiki carving, a pinup painting, auto art, or tattoo art. Your art can be at garage standard or art studio standard. It’s up to you.
Simply bring up to four pieces (fewer if they are real big) in a ready to hang condition, to GreazeFest on Sunday at 9am.
Artists, especially pinstripers, are welcome to continue works in progress at the festival. For those of you who are not-so-creative, bring along a piece to GreazeFest to get pinstriped – from your tool box to your double bass, there’ll be plenty of creative artists with brushes at the ready.
This year we are also presenting a special skateboard art display in conjunction with Kwala Skateboards, stay tuned for more details on this new project.
GreazeFest tickets are now on sale on the GreazeFest web site. Earlybirds will receive $4 cash back on all evening tickets purchased before July 20. Hot Rod Show tickets are available too, including the $6 discount for show car drivers. So get your ticket orders in and get yourself ready for the biggest GreazeFest ever.
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