Frank Ocean to rock Splendour 2013
Grammy award-winning RnB superstar Frank Ocean will make his Australian debut at Byron Bay’s Splendour in the Grass Festival.
He will be joining other big names including Mumford & Sons, The Presets, Of Monsters and Men and Empire of the Sun on 77 act line up.
The same-sex attracted rapper took out Best Urban Contemporary Album at the Grammy’s this year for his debut studio album Channel ORANGE which was met with a widespread standing ovation.
Audience attendance at the weekend-long camping festival will capped at 25,000. Tickets sold out to last year’s festival within minutes of going on sale.
The festival is held at the North Byron Parklands over July 26-28.
Some of Australia’s queer community took to Twitter Wednesday morning over the Splendour announcement.
FRANK OCEAN COMING TO AUSTRALIA. [swiftly has heart attack] abc.net.au/triplej/musicn…
— Benjamin Law (@mrbenjaminlaw) April 23, 2013
Jake Bugg, James Blake, Frank Ocean, Robert Delong, The National & You Am I performing Sound As Ever & Hi-Fi Way! I’m liking this #splendour
— Monique Schafter (@MoniqueSchafter) April 23, 2013
