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Earlier this week Future Entertainment announced arena shows for US live hip hop icons N*E*R*D in Sydney and Melbourne for early March, 2009. Now the window of dates for the Future Music Festival’s 2009 tour has been confirmed, and it certainly adds grist to the rumour mill that N*E*R*D will feature on the bill.
In addition, it’s also believed French house producer Lifelike will make the journey down under for the festival in 2009, and the rumour mill has gone into overdrive on the ITM forums and beyond, with Faithless, the Swedish House Mafia (aka Axwell, Steven Angello & Sebastian Ingrosso), Tocadisco and Joachim Garraud also suggested. The first round announcement is expected early next week, so to get the full lowdown remember to keep a close watch over ITM’s news section.
The Future Music Festival is highly regarded amongst the inthemix community, winning the Best Event category in Adelaide and Perth at this year’s inthemix50 awards, and always proving to be a hot topic of conversation across the site. In 2009 the tour will once again visit Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, this time between February 28th and March 9th.
Can’t wait for FMF 2009? Relive the madness of this year’s tour with ITM’s photo galleries:
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yazzie says...
very excited about this one!
GrEnNo says...
future is a great festival, i loved the line up last year.
cozza147 says...
swedish house mafia wood be amasing
courdymac says...
will they have silent disco????????????????????????
samlannen88 says...
THIS IS GOIN TO BE SWEEEET
StiC MaN says...
so is future gonna give us the same mess they gave us this year. oversold tickets? trance djs being forced to play electrohouse sets? crappy drink card system? jamming our mobile signals?
thetron says...
fix the atrocious sound this year, future!
westerndog says...
Faithless. DO IT!
UberPwnage says...
I vote for a change of Syd venue!
shanes2007 says...
SWEDISH HOUSE MAFIA'S IN THE HOUUUUUUUSEEE!!!!
poonige says...
FAITHLESS, YERRRRR!!!!!
swampopolis says...
Swedish House Mafia!!! nothing beats it
funkichiken says...
please do something about the sound quality and that aweful bridge across the racetrack (sydney). it was also WAY too far between stages - i felt like i had walked a marathon by the end!
bluepeople says...
MAXIE JAZZ
zaim says...
very impressed!
mj86 says...
deep dish are back in 09. lets have em at future ( side shows)
CABANA BOY says...
FAITHLESS!!! 2nd best live act I have ever seen.
brenly says...
i believe faithless EASILY beat the swedish house mafia in any contest here. angello can't mix, ingrosso can't produce anything decent, and faithless are one of those epic long awaited industry defining groups who will provide the future music festival with a very religious experience hopefully making all those nova 100 fedde le fart fans appreciate some ACTUAL music!!! how many times have you heard insomnia played out? imagine it done LIVE!!! rant over.
illusions69 says...
Nerd show is 5 th march in melbourne so highly doubtful
van_donk says...
yew. yer randwick was pathetic last year. they can do wayyyy betta!
drdan says...
new venue for Melb pls future. and better sound.
kittykat83 says...
wooohooo!!! 1 for silent and roller disco again please!!
jeskey says...
faithless slash swedish house mafia... i think i just came... and fatboy slim at good vibes... how good
ShazzyT says...
Future was awesome this year.. cant wait for next year!
mr_doobi says...
i dont no wat u all are sayin. FMF was the worst festival i went to this year. it was a joke. chem bros sounded terrible. playground here i come. but PLEASE PLEASE faithless do a side gig :D:D
Needles says...
I was under the impression that Axwell has just had a kid and wouldn't be traveling for a while?
shann_01 says...
woo hoo cant wait
danmau5 says...
wicked - id love to see the swedish house mafia as more than just ingrosso and angello, make it the three man show with axwell :D
Space_man says...
FMF has gone lame, playground weekender ftw!!!
TheTom says...
VILLALOBOS!!!!!!!!! PLZ!!!!!!!
Inverse47 says...
I can think of about a million better things to do with $150 after last years festival and Godskitchen was bordering on a joke. Future Music events are rubbish.
Bring the beat back says...
Yes unfortunatly Axwell wont be touring Austrlalia until next summa, and yes it is because he had a kid
St_Jude says...
faithless fuck yeah!!
jay_25 says...
future have easily now pushed themselves forward ahead of any entertainment company in australia. now breaking the top 50 in brw in australia, they have the money to being out the biggest acts in dance music. good work cant wait for a mind blowing lineup! fuk fuzzy.
DJ_MANESH says...
It was great to see Sven Vath at the last FMF - This time bring Richie and the m-nus gang!
dj_elmaz says...
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NaTully says...
pls ps ps FAITHLESS!!!!
narcism says...
faithless better get a side show..... how can u sell out vodaphone arena on ur last tour and get shoved onto a shitty festival
Dance for me says...
OH MY GOD OH MY GOD!!!! i love the swedish house mafia and i dotn care how many times they play in aus they will never disappoint!
bigcookie_88 says...
WHY THE FUCK ARE N.E.R.D. AT A DANCE MUSIC FESTIVAL!!!!? All the girls might be standing in line for the bathroom but they won't be in line for FMF with that shit playing there !
trance_hall_86 says...
the house music lineup is impressive, just waiting on the trance lineup...
tben says...
Faithless! Hells yeah (meh to everything else considering the notorious Future budget)!
eon82 says...
awesome lineup - let's hope the rumours are true! this festival keeps getting better each year.
bogz says...
faithless :D
myz tic says...
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE let it be true about FAITHLESS!
NickDunstan says...
From brissy went to sydney cause i had work down there at the same time last year for the future, totally agree with the bridge comment absolute joke and just overall poorly setup, im going to go to brissy i hope they can do better...
StiC MaN says...
lol ppl can knock chemical brother as much as they want. u gotta remember, they played at a shithouse festival and in front of a crowd who didnt appreciate them. for fuk sake, ppl were gettin pissed off 'cause they were expecting the crookers remix of salmon dance. i more pissed off they didnt play "block rockin beats" or "setting sun". lets get real, most aussies lack understanding of dance music 'cause of all this nova 100 bullshit and terrible aussie produces who create repetitive fart noises.
frangahouselover says...
woooooooooooooooo axwell seen him a few years ago at summmadayze nd he went off
qantasq says...
Let's see the trance side to it...better be good...in the next couple of months there are massive line-ups... so we will see what FMF tops up next year :D Can't wait!!!!
Spekman says...
F#CK YEAH!!!!!
The3rdPlumpDj says...
Angello and Ingrosso were crap at the last field day, really boring cheese… they were just standing there going track for track playn somink off a ministry of sound annual disc. Don’t get me wrong I saw em do a 5 hr set the year before and it was magic, but after the last effort, not thanks. Someone said Deepdish… hell yeh… but my vote is for TIGA !!!
black_budha says...
whooop whooop
Rob Flaye says...
I vote for a change of venue too, quietest festival ever, I remember people shouting at Evil Nine and him pointing at the sound engineers and shaking his head.Faithless I doubt but Swedish house mafia would be great!
beanbagdan says...
Bring back Markus Schulz pleeeze! He was the highlight of FMF08
Spekman says...
F#CK YEAH!!!!!
Mycall says...
when do tickets go on sale
moky says...
Futuremusic festival 2008 was just awsoome.. still remember how chemical brothers called me snowman.. lmaoo newayz futuremusic 2009 will be some waht interesting, looking foward to it...
NIGZY says...
What so NERD arnt gonna be at brissy.thats not cool
TThumb says...
So Pissed off Deadmau5 isnt at Future. Means I gotta head interstate. And with Fatboy at Good Vibes, future needs a couple of big drawcards. Saw Faithless at Global in UK- best shit ever. Everyone check out no1 track on beatport at mom. EDDING 850-Format B. Nice
babbibelle says...
drool drool drool i am all over this lineup yay for future!
trancEEEEEEEElectro says...
ingrosso n angello! yes pls!!!!!! future can sell as many tix as they want, they just need to make sure that u enter the bowl/main floor down the sides.. the same way they organised summadayze. Not at the back of the bowl in front of the bar , thats what made future 08 too conjested and uncomfortable fingers r crossed for global :S
evo31 says...
BRING BACK TWO TRIBES!!!! please both crowds by having 2 arenas a house 1 and a trance one!! not 50 million outdoor arenas!!! gezz so over the bowl
ness ness says...
YEah! NERD!!!!
Mickey1 says...
N*E*R*D pfft Joachim Garraud Pfft Disgraceful i see i was not the only one that noticed the awful sound systems they had, well it looks like its Nation wide as i was at the Melbourne Gig and Markus Schults was forced to turn his Monitor speakers (Booth) to face them towards the crowd as they were clearer and louder than the main speaker stacks and put sad sorry excuses on the mainstage and all the talent on stages as bug as my lounge room. The music Bowl is a terrible future really have to work closer with these production companies they use just to beef up quality Control with the Production Companies. But there is one other Solution to this Looming Mess that can be Averted and that is Hardware and Future Get back in bed together, for the sake of the public that is willing to pay good money for a quality event ( Two Tribes ) something along that path
soccer_chris_1989 says...
gotta love the swedish house mafia!!!
Bronson23 says...
n*e*r*d would make my day.
LavyP says...
NERD sounds awesome. FMF 08 had the sickest line up, all my fav djs. I hope they can top it this year.
beats says...
Having a primary headliner that is well known amongst a mainstream audience always wrecks a large festival because you get an influx of ice-head bogans who suddenly decide that the ticket price is worth it. Each FMF has been worse than the one preceding it, and yes I have been to all of them. I have also been to all of the Sydney Two Tribes (and some of the Melbourne ones) as well as many many other festivals, and it's just a sad fact that festivals often start out awesome, then over the years they become bigger, bloated with more mainstream artists and as many names as they can fit on the poster, with the clear intention of the promoters maximising the profit derived from the brand they have created. I for one will not be attending the next, or any future (pardon the pun) FMF.
Mycall says...
when do tickets go on sale
Smorgy says...
FAITHLESS ... HUGE!!!
sp33d_d3mon says...
bought my pre-sale tix today... 13 of my mates already going!! looking forward to seeing paul oakenfold!!!
zedg says...
Saw Oakenfold last year at Space closing party Ibiza... No.1
jordan anthony says...
do u know when the timetable is being released?