[MEDIA RELEASE] Victoria’s beloved surf coast festival Meadow is returning to the Bambra Bowl in March 2025, for their 10th and final installation of the event. With the full 2025 line-up announced soon, the team are thrilled to welcome American songwriter and multi-instrumentalist MJ Lenderman, who will be back in Australia for a special performance on the Meadow Stage.
From humble beginnings on the back of a delivery truck, powered by a borrowed generator, in a mate’s paddock in Bambra, Meadow has grown and developed a loyal community and reputation for presenting line-ups on the cutting edge of contemporary music each autumn. The small, and every bit iconic, stage has hosted the likes of Kurt Vile, Lucy Dacus, Confidence Man, King Gizzard & The Lizard, Angie McMahon, Stella Donnelly, King Stingray, Camp Cope, Methyl Ethel, TFS, Black Midi and many more emerging and established local artists over the last decade.
MJ Lenderman – A hero with the guitar, a poet with the pen (or perhaps the notepad app on his phone) and a songwriter for the ages, MJ Lenderman has skyrocketed to notoriety with the delivery of his near perfect fourth record, Manning Fireworks. It’s impossible to comprehend how this album carries such a throw-away insouciance but harbours some of the sharpest lyrical couplets you could encounter amidst its layers of distortion and rusted-wire guitar solos. It’s like screaming “I don’t care!” at the top of your lungs whilst carefully putting something back together that you’ve just smashed to pieces but doing it in such a way that it’s a thousand times more meaningful, beautiful and precious than it ever was before.
Following his 2022 breakout record Boat Songs, MJ was seen trotting laps around the globe in fellow breakout act Wednesday, alongside touring his own music, as his audience awaited his next release. Described by Pitchfork as ‘witty, sincere, and the mark of a songwriter finding his voice’, MJ Lenderman will be bringing all of the magic of Manning Fireworks to Bambra next year for Meadow’s final festival.
Every vehicle attending the festival will require a car pass. All proceeds support replanting native trees and shrubs across the festival site and surrounding areas (via East Otway Landcare). Hundreds of baby trees from past plantings will be starting to mature by the time punters arrive in autumn!
The “Bambra Express” bus passes are available for the 2025 event.
A $62 + BF return pass will get you from Melbourne Southern Cross Station to Bambra and back again.
With a cosy capacity of 1500 tickets, Meadow’s intimate environment provides a one off opportunity to experience an all-mighty party, guided by the finest musical programme to bid farewell to the Bambra hills one last time.
Limited Release Tickets are on sale today for Meadow Number 10.
Triple R and Forte Presents MEADOW 2025
Dates – March 21-23, 2025
Music, Camping, BYO
Location – Bambra
Lineup:
MJ Lenderman
+ More to be announced
TICKETS
- Limited Release tickets are now on sale for $278+ BF
- Teenagers accompanied by adults can join the festivities but require a full ticket, while children under 12 enter for free.
GLAMPING
- Glamping starts at $400 – $580
- Glamping for 2 with queen bed
- Glamping for 2 with single beds
- Glamping for 4 with two queen beds
- Glamping for 4 with single beds
Tickets can be purchased via www.meadowmf.com
Photo by Kirsty Renee Hill
