BITG local act Semishigure, L-R: Kylie Smith, Yusuke Fukuda & Yogo Kiminami.

Congratulations to NT bands Sweet Amber, Semishigure, Sleeveheads and artists Leigh Chisholm and DJ Fish! They are the local acts selected for this year’s BASSINTHEGRASS!

BASSINTHEGRASS is an 11-hour music festival, and the biggest live music event in the Northern Territory. The bands will play in front of a huge crowd at the Darwin Amphitheatre, Darwin Botanic Gardens, Saturday May 22. Doors open at 11am.

They will represent the NT alongside interstate acts Silverchair, Empire Of The Sun, Horrorshow, Children Collide, Territory diva Jessica Mauboy – and more.

Sleeveheads from Nhulunbuy won their place at the inaugural Battle Of The School Bands competition. Semishigure (pictured) are “the only Japanese band in Darwin” with a unique pop-punk-rock sound; Sweet Amber are one of the hardest working – and hardest-rocking – young bands on the live circuit;  and DJ Fish is a 16 year-old Darwin high student, and quite possibly  the youngest professional DJ in the Territory!

And Leigh Chisholm is one of the NT’s most talented young blues guitarists. He will team up with fellow musicians bass guitarist Jamaica Richards and drummer Jason Irvine (all pictured right), to perform a great set of local music – an incredibly talented young band of NT musicians who’ll show the crowd just what they’re made of!

Read all about the full line up – and more about the bands – on the BASSINTHEGRASS website.