Next up in the bandroom, we have Butternut Sweetheart taking to the stage on Saturday March 13th for an afternoon of their ‘post apocalyptic underwater indie’.
Butternut Sweetheart is the project of Melbourne based producer and multi instrumentalist, Luke Moseley. Since their debut EP in 2019, Moseley and his band have been crafting their own brand of intricate and alluring indie-rock, and have garnered acclaim from Triple J’s Richard Kingsmill (“pulled me in, sucked me under and then I floated away with it”) and Declan Byrne (“new Butternut Sweetheart reels you in with that moving push pull and lush production and it s a swirling ride that i had to go in on a few times in a row”), and received radio play around the country.
The Difference and Tame Impala s
Lost In Yesterday just behind. According to Triple J, this year s vote will be one of the closest on record, with only a handful of votes between the top two songs. According to the station, the last time the beloved listener poll was so close was back in 2007 when Muse s
Knights of Cydonia pipped Silverchair s
Straight Lines to the post with just 14 votes. Here s what we know about this year s potential winners:
GLASS ANIMALS - HEAT WAVES The hazy track came out in June last year with a video clip filmed in London which was intended as a love letter to live music and the culture and togetherness surrounding it , according to the band.