Strawberry Festival 2017 Line-Up Announced

By Erica Martin, April 5, 2017

Modern Sky have announced the first wave of headliners for Strawberry Festival 2017, which goes down as usual over the three-day May holiday at Expo Park.

British pop star Charlie XCX is one of the bigger names on the bill and will perform on May 1, the final day of the festival. Two notable post-rock bands, the UK's The Vaccines and American instrumental troupe Caspian are slated for April 29, while Japanese glam metal band Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas will play on the 30th.

The line-up spans the gamut of genres, and because Modern Sky's electronic-focused MYTH Festival is on hiatus this year, several major DJs will be headlining at Strawberry, including American big room house producer KSHMR, who performed at MYTH last year, and Brazilian DJ duo Tropkillaz.

A solid swath of Chinese bands and Strawberry Festival veterans round out the line-up, including quirky pop punk group New Pants (新裤子), top-notch electronic rock act Re-TROs (重塑雕像的权利) and two old-school stalwarts of Beijing rock, Miserable Faith (痛仰) and Xie Tian Xiao (谢天笑).

Here is the complete line-up thus far:

April 29

• The Vaccines (UK)
• The Drums (US)
• Xie Tian Xiao (谢天笑)
• Headhunterz (NLD)
• Caspian (US)
• Tomahawk + Xiao Juan and Residents From the Valley (战斧 + 小娟&山谷里的居民)
• Vinida (万妮达)
• Violet Youth (UK)
• Holy Bouncher (ES)
• Carta
• M3ssiah
• Marsix
• Jeno Liu
• Asuka

April 30

• KSHMR (US)
• Miserable Faith (痛仰)
• Re-TROs (重塑雕像的权利)
• Micrazy (李志)
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (JP)
• Krush (JP)
• Chen Hongyu (陈鸿宇)
• Tropkillaz (BRA)
• Less Acrobats (IL)
• Dirty Class
• Conrank (UK)
• Haze

May 1

• Charli XCX (UK)
• Marky Ramone's Blitzkreig (US)
• New Pants (新裤子)
• PG. Lost (SE)
• Big John Blues (张岭)
• Supermarket (超级市场)
• Mr Sea Turtle (海龟先生)
• Hua Chenyu (华晨宇)
• Zhou Fengling (周凤岭)
• Simina GrigoriuI (GE) + BB Deng (TW)
• The Animen (CH)
• Cottilon (US)
• Bass Guo
• Halo
• Diamond Lil
• Mateo (SWE)
• Blanes