A three-day gig-crawl around various venues with all your favourite folk-punk bands, headlined by The Taxpayers

The hobos are back at it again and preparing for their eighth (or ninth if you count 2020’s semi-locked down version) annual gathering of all things folk-punk at HOBOFOPO 2024 (HOBart’s Original FOlk Punk Orgy).

For one weekend in November, nipaluna/Hobart is taken over by some of the finest acoustic punk, celtic rock, anti-folk, boozy bluegrass (and whatever other subgenre fits in between punk and folk) musicians.

Having hosted some of the biggest names in folk-punk over the last decade, including; AJJ, Days N Daze, Apes Of The State, Crywank and Pigeon Pit, this year is no exception, with the announcement of legendary act, The Taxpayers making their first visit to Australia.

The Taxpayers are a long-running experimental DIY genre-bending punk band that started in Portland, Oregon in 2007. After an eight year hiatus, The Taxpayers are back, and 2024 has been massive for them so far, selling out shows all across the USA and seeing their spotify stats grow from 500k monthly listeners to 1mil.

Also on the HOBOFOPO bill is;

Gusto Gusto, providing lively and danceable manouche jazz and manic folk, recently returned from Glastonbury festival, they are preparing to be the best dressed band at a folk-punk festival.

The Stragglers, will reunite from several states and countries for their annual HOBOFOPO serenade of boozy bluegrass and ratbag country-folk.

Quinton Trembath will once again assemble a supergroup band to rock out with his posi-emo indie-folk-punk bangers that’ll have you toasting to life, and singing along.

Operation Ibis, because you can have some ska, as a special little treat.

Plus also; Whiskey Dram, The Dead Peasants, Billy Puntton, Crusty Fox and the Deadman's Undies, BrodyGreg, sooze, The Crop Tops, Zac Henderson, Impeach Churchill!, Hannah Morrell, Ragged Hollow, Captain O'Brien's Craic, Alegria, Willow Nischler, Tribute Sets, Late night open mic, and many more TBA.

This ticket will get you a wristband that you can flash to the door staff at each venue and walk right on in. It will also get you the address of the secret opening party location, and it will get you priority entry for the (limited capacity) late night club. So go on and make a weekend of it.

Friday 22/11

5.30-9pm - opening party, address provided to ticket holders only (somewhere between CBD and Republic Bar). This is where you can come and get your name ticked off the list in return for the wristband that'll get you into all gigs. (with Samara Cullen, Impeach Churchill, Crusty Fox and the Deadmans Undies, Zac Henderson)

9.30pm-12.30am - The Republic Bar, North Hobart (with The Dead Peasants, Ragged Hollow, Operation Ibis)

1am-death - Twisted Lime late night club, CBD. (with Whiskey Dram)

Saturday 23/11

2.30-10.30pm - The Red Square*, waterfront (with The Taxpayers, Gusto Gusto, Muttley, Captain 'Brien's Craic, Alegria, Willow Nischler, and heaps more)

11pm-death - Twisted Lime late night club, CBD (with Billy Puntton, tribute sets and late night open mic)

* note, we have moved from The Goods Shed to The Red Square (literally next door - it's the courtyard between Goods Shed and Hobart Brewing Co.). If you bought a ticket for the Goods Shed it will be valid for the Red Square. The Red Square is a licenced area that will allow u18 year olds if supervised by a parent or legal guardian, we have made u18yo tickets cheaper, but you will need to bring a parent and the parent will need to buy a ticket too.

Sunday 24/11

2.00-4.00pm - Preachers, Battery Point (with; sooze, The Crop Tops, The Sketches(acoustic))

4.30-9.00pm - The Mayfair, Sandy Bay (with; Anthony Dang, Elkie Kershaw, BrodyGreg, The Stragglers, Quinton Trembath(band)) then unplugged jams until they close the bar at midnight.

Accessibility;

The Red Square +  Secret opening party – fully accessible

Republic Bar - Wheelchair = steps at the front, ask staff for rear access. Toilets = may be hard to access, nearby public toilets may be closed. Chill = quieter areas are likely to be present, seated areas may not have line of site to the stage depending on size/shape of the audience.

Preachers - Wheelchair = steps at the front, ask staff for alternative access to lift over a step in rear entrance. Toilets = accessible. Chill = quiet areas are present, and seating with line of site of the performers is available.

Mayfair -Wheelchair = two steps at the front, staff can help lift into the venue. Toilets in the venue are downstairs, but an accessible public toilet is nearby (in the same complex). Chill = quiet areas may be present, seated areas with line of site of the performers is available.

Twisted lime - not accessible, it's up a flight of stairs.

We want HOBOFOPO to be a safe space. No racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, or any other general dickheadness. So if you see anything wrong tell someone, then tell someone else.

We are on stolen land, sovereignty was never ceded. We pay our respects to elders past present and emerging.