Sixteen Hands High Presents...
Next year's stellar line up has been revealed and discounted early bird tickets are on sale now!
Round up your friends for a dreamy road trip to the hills. It's gonna be a mighty high time...
First forming in 2022 as a temporary supergroup, The Sundials quickly captivated audiences with their high energy rock performances and immaculate garage rock tunes. Recently, The Sundials have gone from strength to strength: from headlining the regional SA "Daydreamers Festival" in KI, to both a sell-out single launch in Adelaide and sell-out support spot in Melbourne, with New Delica. Their most recent single, Live for You was in the top 5 of the AMRAP community radio metro charts for 3 weeks straight. If the music of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young had powerful, gorgeous, unprotected sex with the Godfather of Soul James Brown, The Sundials would be the explosive result!
Adelaide/Kaurna songwriter, Ella Ion, has quickly become one of the most exciting voices in Australia’s folk-rock scene. Fresh off the back of a run of UK/EU shows, she's landed back home with momentum behind her and a stunning new release, Blue Black Crows. Ella fuses soft, heartfelt folk with the intensity of post-rock, crafting songs that move seamlessly between reflective calm and soaring energy. Her music carries a sense of honesty laced with subtle playfulness, inviting listeners into a world of emotion that feels both immediate and deeply personal.
Experimental South Australian band SONS OF ZÖKU are known for their raw, world-influenced psychedelic sound, transcending the mainstream by blending elements of rock and folk with global music traditions, folding sitar and flute melodies into distinctive vocal hooks, rhythmic chanting, and upbeat, layered percussion. The 6-piece Adelaide collective features Portuguese-born Ricardo Da Silva and Ica Quintela, along with Australian-born Jordan Buck, Oscar Ellery, Hannah Yates and Luke Swann. In their recent new release of their sophomore album ËNDLËSS, SONS OF ZÖKU explore dynamics and repetition, drawing listeners deeper into their cohesive yet kaleidoscopic sound. The result is a modern, manifolded album that teems with the energy of change.
Unabashedly emotional, eclectic and full of the mortal notions of risk, love and loss – Grace Vandals delivers you into a rich and gritty world of sound, coated in an unexpected outer layer of tenderness. Her debut release, ‘What Can I Burn Here?’, invites you into a melting pot of Indie rock and folk influences, replete with visceral imagery, prickly emotions, ugly truths and childlike curiosity. Drawing inspiration from the illustrious creative minds of Jeff Buckley, Patti Smith and the like, Vandals and her band share an open desire for unravelling perfection and embracing the unusual. Liberation to dive deep, explore sounds, make mistakes and enjoy the process is what drives her.
Having formed in the twilight of 2021, Badland Caravan are a Psychedelic Occult-Blues band based in Kaurna country (Adelaide, South Australia). Their music offers a caduceus-like movement between the Dionysian-Solar Mysteries and a kind of Hermetic Alchemy of sound, permeating an aura of intense sonic mysticism. Those engaged are initiated into the forthcoming Aeon; the threshold between the inner arcanum and the external world of appearances is bridged wholly by Joining The Caravan.
A self described groovy and feral band, their origins track back to Northern Sound System, for their first performance live. This lively four-piece takes a heavy hand in electric guitar and killer vocals, and is perfect for having a bumping night.
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High Fever Festival Vol II
Sat 7 Feb 2026, Gates Open 4pm
Three Brothers Arms, Macclesfield South Australia.*Come together for a festival of psychedelic rock, indie-folk
and alternative vibes in the Adelaide Hills.
Free camping at the venue.
Early bird tickets on sale now.
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