Adam Brand shares four favourite Gold Coast attactions to check out while you're in town for the Groundwater Country Music Festival.
Now a Gold Coast resident, where he has called home "on and off" since the age of 17 and has "very firmly dug roots now", Brand is looking forward to performing a 'home town' festival when Groundwater Country Music Festival hits Broadbeach this weekend.
"I think it's just such a great thing for fans, and the artists alike," he says.
"For fans to be able to come down there, wander around for free, see multiple artists on heaps of different stages at all different times during the day, the streets are blocked off, you can stay in apartments looking down at it – I mean, I don't even know how many hundreds of different restaurants and eating things there are, but, everything is there, at your fingertips.
"You couldn't get a better scenario for a festival. I just think it's amazing."
For Brand, headlining a festival with the likes of The Wolfe Brothers will be a reminder of just how much of an industry veteran he is. "The Wolfe Brothers are good mates of mine, I'm looking forward to catching up with the boys," Adam says.
"Probably about a year and a half or so ago I got a text from Tommy [Wolfe] with a photo of him when he was 15, getting a photo with me at a signing line at one of my gigs down in Tassie.
"First and foremost, now that I'm telling you this it makes me feel old. But second of all, it makes me feel incredibly proud that these artists that are just taking the ball and running with it, taking country music into the future, that I may have had a little influence back then when they were younger."
Read our complete interview with Adam Brand.
Groundwater Country Music Festival (Gold Coast) takes place 12-14 November.
Groundwater Country Music Festival 2021 Line-up
Adam BrandArlington
Brad Butcher
Brook Chivell
Brooke Supple
Caitlyn Shadbolt
Camille Trail
Casey Barnes
Chloe Styler
Col Finley
Dana Gehrman
Graeme Connors
Halfway
Haystack Mountain Hermits
Hillbilly Goats
Hinterland
Jade Holland
Josh Setterfield
Lily Grace
Martini Mayhem
Matt Ward
Melanie Dyer
Melody Moko
Montana
Natalie Pearson
Open Season
Pete Cullen & Salliana Cambell
Round Mountain Girls
Route 33
Ruby Gilbert
SaltbushSix
Sammy White
Sara Storer
Sarah Savannah
Sue Ray
Suga Owens
Taylor Moss
Teak
The Audreys
The Honey Sliders
The Tony Q Band
The Whiskey Mountain Boys
The Wolfe Brothers
These Idle Hands
Troy Cassar-Daley
Will Day
