The burning sun and heat inside the tent told me it was time to get up and get going for day number two of Pyramid Rock. It was a beautiful day on sunny Phillip Island and the breeze off the ocean made for perfect festival conditions.

As we hit the second day of 2012, we take a look back at how hundreds of thousands of music fans around Australia brought in 2012 through a string of events on New Years Eve and New Years Day.

Tickets for this year’s PYRAMID ROCK FESTIVAL are flying out the door and as if you needed any more reason to stock up your campervan and head on down to Phillip Island this New Year’s season, we’ve got a whole new line-up of acts just added to the bill. Hold onto your hats, this might just blow you away…

I took a bit of time out to speak to Hanni El Khatib earlier this week. A real nice guy, making some really amazing music, while being so very humble about it all. Here is what he had to say about his up-coming trip down under.

Whereabouts are you now?

I'm in LA, home on break for this past week.

Have you been busy with shows in the past couple of days?

We were just in Europe and in Canada.

How was that?

Just announced to play Pyramid Rock Festival are Brooklyn based duo (and recent Stop Start signees) French Horn Rebellion, ready to play tracks off their album The Infinite Music Of The French Horn Rebellion. Before this announcement was made, Larry Heath caught up with the band to chat about the album, the band and much more...

Are you ready to rock this New Year’s season? Because the PYRAMID ROCK FESTIVAL sure as hell are!

Where does the time go? It feels like only yesterday that we were ringing in 2011 after three magical days of music festival frivolity on Phillip Island and already the time has come to look ahead to 2012. Well we here at PYRAMID ROCK FESTIVAL have been looking ahead for quite some time now, putting together yet another stellar line-up for Australia’s hottest New Year’s music festival, all of which will be revealed shortly…