Cake

If as a band you could be represented visually by any artist in the world – painter, sculptor, animator, fimmaker, anyone – who would it be?

‘The Matisse cut-outs are similar in style; roughly graceful and assertive, and finding balance on topsy-turvy ground. Then again, sometimes life on the road feels a lot like a Wes Anderson movie.’ Vincent DiFiore, Cake.

Formed in the early nineties as a somewhat antagonistic answer to grunge,
which they saw as just another form of big, dumb American rock, CAKE’s
democratic processes, defiant self-reliance, and lucid yet ever-inventive
music has made them a nation-state unto themselves, with no obvious peers,
belonging to no school.

Having succeeded beyond their twentieth anniversary, CAKE’s adherence to
their original guiding principles has only grown stronger. Last year the
personality-laden, culturally-aware and academically-endowed outfit
released their 6th album – entitled Showroom of Compassion – brimming with
the deadpan brilliance that has seen them step over the exhausted bodies of
many of their peers and continue into the twentieth century, not just
surviving but thriving.

In November 2012, Cake will astutely command not only the festival stages
of Harvest but their own as well; playing ADELAIDE and SYDNEY at their ONLY
Australian sideshows.

This is an 18+ event.