KEY DETAILS: SUNDAY, 25 SEPTEMBER AT MELBOURNE'S MARGARET COURT ARENA (MCA) (11AM AND 6PM)
FRIDAY, 30 SEPTEMBER AT SYDNEY OLYMPIC PARK SPORTS CENTRE (11AM AND 6PM)
TX PREMIERE: FRIDAY, 30 SEPTEMBER AT 6PM ON NICKELODEON
2016 is the year of SLIME, MUSIC and total MAYHEM! Nickelodeon's annual SLIMEFEST event is back and bigger than ever with THREE international acts announced today. Headliner, OMI, will be joined by Australia's hottest export HAVANA BROWN, international act G.R.L., as well as boy band IN STEREO, DJs MASHD N KUTCHER and U.S. YouTubers KIAN & JC for the most popping SLIMEFEST yet. Tickets are on-sale now via SLIMEFEST.COM.AU from $55.
Now in its fifth year, Nickelodeon's SLIMEFEST is the only family-friendly music festival of its kind in Australia, featuring live performances, crazy stunts and tonnes of Nickelodeon's trademark green slime. SLIMEFEST will be heading to Melbourne on Sunday, 25th September for two shows – 11am and 6pm and Sydney on Friday, 30th September for two shows – 11am and 6pm. The event will also include an outdoor carnival experience before and after the show, featuring rides, games and merchandise available to purchase.
With over 500 million combined video views, six consecutive weeks at #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart and over 400 million plays on Spotify, SLIMEFEST's 2016 headliner, OMI is looking forward to performing his mega hits "Cheerleader" and "Hula Hoop" at the massive slime party.
"SLIMEFEST is going to be crazy fun – I can't wait to perform to an audience that is covered head to toe in green slime and ready to party! Australia – you better get ready to dance!" said OMI.
Joining OMI is home-grown superstar, HAVANA BROWN and international girl group, G.R.L., who will be hitting the SLIMEFEST stage in their first confirmed performance after a year's hiatus. Australia's IN STEREO, and MASHD N KUTCHER will perform their latest and greatest hits and YouTube duo, KIAN & JC will keep the thousands of families entertained with a series of slime-worthy skits and stunts.
"It's so nice to come back to Australia and be a part of an epic family event like SLIMEFEST. I can't wait to get out there, get slimed and dance like crazy with all the Aussie kids and families. There's no other event like it so it's going to be a brand new experience for me – bring it on!" said HAVANA BROWN.
Tickets are on-sale now for both Sydney and Melbourne's 11am and 6pm shows via SLIMEFEST.COM.AU. Ticket options include: Premium Mosh (mega-slime-action), Standing Floor (moderate-slime-action), Seated (no-slime-action), with upgrades including merchandise packs and VIP celebrity meet and greets available. Hosts and celebrity guests will be announced in the coming weeks.
To produce SLIMEFEST, Nickelodeon partners with Nice Events, who specialise in family and youth entertainment.
The SLIMEFEST 90 minute special will air exclusively on Nickelodeon on Friday, 30th September at 6pm.
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ABOUT NICKELODEON'S SLIMEFEST
Now in its fifth year, Nickelodeon's SLIMEFEST is a family music festival made especially for kids, featuring headline talent, DJs and a showground festival. SLIMEFEST has grown to become the most anticipated event for families in Australia, attracting thousands of kids to experience the 'slime of their lives' at the Sydney and Melbourne events. SLIMEFEST is a multiple Astra Award winner, most recently for Most Outstanding Music Program for SLIMEFEST 2014.
OMI
Omi was born in Clarendon Jamaica and grew up singing at every occasion that provided an audience – the church, school concerts or any other community gathering. His global smash hit "Cheerleader" was officially hailed as "Song of the Summer" by Billboard after a six week reign at #1. "Cheerleader" has achieved an incredible 500 million combined video views, streamed over 400 million times on Spotify and is recognised as one of this year's biggest smashes. Omi's 2015 album, ME 4 U, introduced the incredibly catchy "Hula Hoop" as its first single.
HAVANA BROWN
LA-based pop artist and DJ, Havana Brown has steadily taken over the charts as well as the world's dance floors. She has amassed almost 1 Million loyal Facebook fans, sold over 2.5 million singles worldwide, and amassed over 40 million streams. Havana's single "We Run the Night" reached Triple Platinum in Australia and debuted on the ARIA Singles Chart at #7. The single went on to sell over 1 million units in the U.S., and hit the Top 30 on iTunes in over 30 countries across the globe. Her debut album "Flashing Lights" debuted on the ARIA Albums Chart at #6 and contained "We Run The Night" as well as Double Platinum single "Warrior" and Platinum Single "Big Banana."
G.R.L.
G.R.L. is an American-British-Canadian girl group formed by Robin Antin. The group enjoyed huge success in Australia with their debut single "Ugly Heart" going four times platinum and their hit with Pitbull "Wild Wild Love" landing straight in the Top 10.
The band tragically lost their member Simone Battle in September 2014. After a brief hiatus the group re-emerged and continued as a quartet releasing "Lighthouse" as a tribute to Simone. The single went on to chart in the Top 40 in Australia. The band is now back with a new line-up which includes original members Lauren Bennett and Natasha Slayton.
IN STEREO
In Stereo is an Australian boy band consisting of members Jacob Delgado, Efan Karpathy and Christopher Lanzon. The group took Australia by storm with their debut performance on the 2015 X Factor auditions, winning the hearts of teenage girls all over Australia and garnering over 2 million views online. The band's audience continues to grow at an extremely rapid rate via weekly episodes of 'The In Stereo Show' (a web series exclusively supported by Facebook), which now reaches over 350,000 fans each week. The band's debut EP "She's Rock N Roll" reached #11 ARIA ALBUM DEBUT and #2 AUSTRALIAN ALBUM DEBUT in the week of release and saw the band selling out venues across the country.
MASHD N KUTCHER
Mashd N Kutcher are definitely NOT your average DJs! Combining their love for music and skills in drumming and keyboard playing, their first single "Do It Now" achieved gold status and gained support from radio stations across the country. They have become the fastest growing online DJ brand in the Australian music industry this year, with hundreds of thousands of followers across Facebook, YouTube and social networks.
KIAN & JC
Kian & JC is the brainchild of two former members of the now legendary YouTube supergroup Our2ndLife (AKA "O2L"), Kian Lawley and Jc Caylen. Jackass antics and cinematic comedy shorts define this epicenter of millennial comedy where high production values clash with male hilarity. After just two weeks of programming in mid-January 2015, the channel had amassed over 600K subscribers, making it one of the fastest growing channels on YouTube, as well as one of the quickest expanding IPs in digital. The duo also have a new book titled "Kian and JC: Don't Try This At Home!" available June 28 and are currently on a summer 2016 world tour.
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Did you hear? Jordan Banjo and Perri Kiely will be hosting Nickelodeon's first-ever SLIMEFEST in the UK in Blackpool in September 2016!
Additional sources: Billboard, havanabrownmusic.com, News Local, Hype.
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