Grinspoon ready to Rock Mount Panorama!

An all Australian music lineup is set to take to the Skyline Stage on both days of Newton?s Playground - Mount Panorama?s gravity fuelled festival March 7-9 2008, headlined by hard rocking group Grinspoon.

Enormously popular and a perfect band fit for an adrenaline charged, gravity fuelled weekend, Grinspoon will play all their classics including It?s a Hard Act to Follow, Thrills, Kills and Sunday Pills, Champion, Lost Control and Chemical Heart as well as hits from their new album including What You Got and Black Tattoo and Alibis and Other Lies.

"Grinspoon are enjoying a strong following in the festival scene and having them headline our event seemed like a natural fit," said Newton?s Playground Event Director, Simon Rollin.

"Add to that some of the hottest Aussie bands of the moment Gyroscope, Urthboy, Kid Kenobi and MM9 - Many Machines on Nine all confirmed to take centre stage during the weekend alongside ncludingsome of the country?s biggest up and coming new talent including Tonk, Bowser, Switch 3, The Funky Punks, Chaos Math and electro-breakbeat DJ James Taylor."

"We have split stage performances over the Saturday and Sunday of the Festival to ensure Newton?s Playground remains fully charged all weekend. We think spectators will get a pleasant surprise at our ticket prices given the standard of high adrenalin sporting action and live music on offer ? it?s great value," Rollin said.

The live music event backs up a massive variety of competitive and demonstrative gravity fuelled extreme sports across Saturday 8th March & Sunday 9th March 2008. On-track disciplines include street luge, speedboarding, slalom skateboarding and gravity bikes while off-track disciplines feature the BMX Big Air Dirt Dance, Mountain Bike Dual Slalom and a Skate Miniramp Jam. Meanwhile, overhead, Swooping and Wingsuit Flying demonstrations will be taking place above the festival site.

By the time Newton?s Playground opens in March, Gyroscope will have played their typically highly charged performances in front of sell-out crowds across Australia on their Snakeskin single tour, and will launch the band?s new album Breed Obsession at Bathurst after performing at the sold out Big Day Out.

More mountain moving sounds will come from Aussie hip hop legend, Urthboy, whose recent album release, The Signal, shows Urthboy?s deserved reputation as an MC and a unique songwriting talent. Hailing from the Blue Mountains in NSW, Urthboy has also enjoyed success as co-founder of one of the premier hip hop bands in the country, The Herd.

Joining Urthboy on the Sunday of Newton?s Playground will be arguably Australia?s # 1 DJ, Kid Kenobi, who has topped Australia?s premier DJ poll - TechnicsInTheMix 50 three years running from 2003-2005. Since then Kid Kenobi has had a number of releases including Ministry of Sound compilations, internationally renowned remixes and his debut original release "The Bump" which was nominated for an ARIA award for Best Dance Release this year. Kenobi will be joined on stage by MC Shureshock.

The electric sounds of DJ?s the Funky Punks will also make their much anticipated return to Bathurst after having been voted best act of the 2007 Charles Sturt University Village Fair.

Newton?s Playground will also feature a handful of local acts including The References with more soon to be announced. Additionally, the festival is supporting a new initiative of the Mitchell Conservatorium called the Living Sound Festival. This Festival seeks to ?unearth? hip hop talent from secondary schools in the region with the finalists getting their chance to perform on Skyline Stage as support acts to successful local hip hop group, Chaos Maths.

"Incorporating the Living Sound Festival finalists into Newton?s Playground was a way in which we could support local youth initiatives and encourage them to pursue their goals" said Rollin said.

Both Triple J and subscription music station Channel [V] have thrown their support behind Newton?s Playground having both confirmed their involvement today.

Tickets for Newton?s Playground go on sale Monday 3rd December 2007 from Moshtix with a special release of 2,000 festival passes available at a special early bird/pre-Christmas price.

Check out www.newtonsplayground.com.au for further event information and details on the full band lineup.