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Fontaines DC, PJ Harvey and Hania Rani announced as first acts for Perth Festival 2025

Contemporary music will play a significant role in the 2025 Perth Festival, judging by the first three acts announced for new Artistic Director Anna Reece’s debut program.

23 Oct 2024 13:47

Richard Watts

support of their latest album, 'Romance'.

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Irish post-punk band Fontaines DC play Perth Festival 2025 as the start of an Australian tour in support of their latest album, ‘Romance’. Photo: Theo Cottle.

Irish post-punk band Fontaines DC, acclaimed English singer-songwriter PJ Harvey and Polish pianist, composer and singer Hania Rani have been announced as Perth Festival’s first acts for 2025.

The Festival’s 2025 edition is the first Perth Festival for Artistic Director Anna Reece, who says she is “so thrilled to offer this sneak peek into the Festival program”.

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Richard Watts

Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's former National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the 2019 Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in early 2020. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association in 2021, and a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Photo: Fiona Hamilton. Follow Richard on Bluesky @richardthewatts.bsky.social and Instagram @richard.l.watts

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