Vacations announces they will bring their Mates Festival to Los Angeles on November 16th at The Bellwether. The inaugural lineup will feature Vacations, Puma Blue, Claud, Yot Club, Ian Sweet, Kacy Hill, Jaguar Jonze, and Waax. It will utilize the venue’s numerous stages and rooms to create an indoor festival experience over the course of one evening. The festival is curated to create community across continents, highlighting other artists that the band admires. Tickets will go on-sale on August 30th at 10:00am PT.

MATES was first launched by the band in July 2022 in Australia as a way to reunite their local music scene after the pandemic with a strong focus on community and inclusivity. The ethos remains the same in 2024, with the location inspired by lead singer Campbell Burn’s partial relocation to Los Angeles (the rest of the band remain based in Newcastle).

Burns explains, “MATES goes back to where we started as a band. The festival taps into our DIY-ethos and love for fostering community. We’ve thrown events similar to this before, but nothing to this scale. For myself, personally, I truly do want to bridge the gap between different scenes around the world simply because I care, because there’s so much music that needs to be heard. If we can use our platform to bring people together, and have a good time doing it, then why not?”

The festival follows the wrap of their No Place Like Home World Tour earlier this month which included sold-out shows in Los Angeles (the Novo), New York (Brooklyn Steel), DC (9:30 Club), Chicago (The Vic), San Antonio (Aztec), San Diego (The Observatory) and more.

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