Impossible Music Festival
The Impossible Music Festival was a recurring event broadcast on Australia's Triple J radio station over 55-hour periods in 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008. Each event comprised 55 live music recordings from Triple J's music archives. The first went to air over 26–29 August 2005, to celebrate the 30 years worth of live music recorded by Triple J. The second was broadcast over 6–9 October 2006. The third was aired over 25–27 May 2007. The fourth and most recent was aired across 19–21 September 2008.
The lineup was selected by Triple J listeners voting for over 1000 live recordings made by Triple J. The recordings included music from festivals, concerts, smaller pub gigs, bands playing live in the studio, and some special events where listeners were able to win tickets to see the band for free in a secret location.
2005
One live set was played every hour between 6pm on Friday 26th, and 1am on Monday 29 August. The following is the order in which the broadcasts went to air; the details in the brackets denotes the location and date in which the live recording was made.Lineup
Friday
Saturday
- The Smashing Pumpkins
- Split Enz
- The Mars Volta
- Grinspoon
- Green Day
- The Strokes
- John Butler Trio
- The Flaming Lips
- Red Hot Chili Peppers
- Missy Higgins
- Beastie Boys
- INXS
- Jeff Buckley
- The Cat Empire
- Queens of the Stone Age
- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
- Coldplay
- Foo Fighters
- Hilltop Hoods
- Rage Against the Machine
- AC/DC
- The Chemical Brothers
- The Ramones
- Shihad
Sunday
- Michael Franti and Spearhead
- Powderfinger
- Beck
- The Cure
- The Dandy Warhols
- Interpol
- The Killers
- Ben Folds Five
- Crowded House
- At the Drive-In
- PJ Harvey
- Pearl Jam
- Frenzal Rhomb
- Fatboy Slim
- Ben Harper
- You Am I
- Midnight Oil
- System of a Down
- Faithless
- Nirvana
- Placebo
- Garbage
- Faith No More
- Metallica
Monday
Announcers
- Friday 6pm – 10pm - Rosie Beaton
- Friday 10pm – Saturday 1am - Robbie Buck
- Saturday 1am – 6am - Nicole Foote
- Saturday 6am – 10am - Scott Dooley
- Saturday 10am – 2pm - Zan Rowe
- Saturday 2pm – 6pm - Maya Jupiter
- Saturday 6pm – 10pm - Gaby Brown
- Saturday 10pm – Sunday 1am - Nicole Foote
- Sunday 1am – 6am - Dave Callan
- Sunday 6am – 10am - Scott Dooley
- Sunday 10am – 2pm - Zan Rowe
- Sunday 2pm – 5pm - Maya Jupiter
- Sunday 5pm – 9pm - Richard Kingsmill
- Sunday 9pm – Monday 1am - Fenella Kernebone
2006
The 2006 Impossible Music Festival was broadcast over the weekend of 6 October-8 October.Lineup
Friday
Saturday
- Groove Armada
- Foo Fighters
- The Waifs
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs
- Crowded House
- Butterfingers
- The Whitlams
- The White Stripes
- Rose Tattoo
- The Shins
- Kaiser Chiefs
- Ben Folds Five
- Nirvana
- Muse
- Cog
- Eskimo Joe
- Regurgitator
- silverchair
- The Grates
- Jurassic 5
- New Order
- Bloc Party
- N*E*R*D
- Basement Jaxx
Sunday
- The Flaming Lips
- Pearl Jam
- Gyroscope
- The Strokes
- The Ramones
- Custard
- The Black Keys
- Ween
- The Tea Party
- Death Cab for Cutie
- Jeff Buckley
- Talking Heads
- Powderfinger
- Blur
- Xavier Rudd
- AC/DC
- Machine Gun Fellatio
- Gomez
- The Herd
- Kings of Leon
- The Smashing Pumpkins
- The Killers
- Beastie Boys
- Underworld
Monday
Announcers
- Friday 6pm – 10pm - Rosie Beaton
- Friday 10pm – Saturday 1am - Sharif Galal
- Saturday 1am – 6am - Nicole Foote
- Saturday 6am – 10am - Scott Dooley
- Saturday 10am – 2pm - Zan Rowe
- Saturday 2pm – 6pm - Gaby Brown
- Saturday 6pm – 9pm - Dave Callan
- Saturday 9pm – Sunday 1am - Nicole Foote
- Sunday 1am – 6am - Kara Kidman
- Sunday 6am – 10am - Scott Dooley
- Sunday 10am – 2pm - Zan Rowe
- Sunday 2pm – 6pm - Gaby Brown
- Sunday 6pm – 10pm - Kirileigh Lynch
- Sunday 10pm – Monday 2am - Fenella Kernebone
2007
The 2007 Impossible Music Festival was broadcast over the weekend of 25 May-27 May.Lineup
Friday
Saturday
- Futureheads
- Apollo 440
- The Herd
- Warumpi Band
- Primal Scream
- Martha Wainwright
- Snow Patrol
- Ian Dury and The Blockheads
- Resin Dogs
- Ash
- Missy Higgins
- Radio Birdman
- The Cat Empire
- Arctic Monkeys
- Billy Bragg
- Blues Explosion
- Carl Cox
- Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
- Black Keys
- The Grates
- AC/DC
- Basement Jaxx
- Iggy & The Stooges
- Mars Volta
Sunday
- Fatboy Slim
- Lily Allen
- Downsyde
- Hoodoo Gurus
- Interpol
- John Cale
- Bright Eyes
- Moby
- Tegan and Sara
- XTC
- Wolfmother
- Mylo
- Faith No More
- Hilltop Hoods
- Bernard Fanning
- Moloko
- Midnight Oil
- The White Stripes
- Faithless
- Gary Numan
- Metallica
- The Bens
- Hole
Monday
Announcers
- Friday 6pm – 10pm - Rosie Beaton
- Friday 10pm – Saturday 1am - Jem Gold
- Saturday 1am – 6am - Nicole Foote
- Saturday 6am – 10am - Scott Dooley
- Saturday 10am – 2pm - Vijay Khurana
- Saturday 2pm – 6pm - Gaby Brown
- Saturday 6pm – Sunday 1am - Liza Harvey
- Sunday 1am – 6am - Sam Simmons
- Sunday 6am – 10am - Scott Dooley
- Sunday 10am – 2pm - Vijay Khurana
- Sunday 2pm – 6pm - Amy Blackmur
- Sunday 6pm – 10pm - Richard Kingsmill
- Sunday 10pm – Monday 2am - Fenella Kernebone
2008
The 2008 Impossible Music Festival was broadcast over the weekend of 19 September-21 September.Lineup
Friday
Saturday
- Ben Folds Five
- Franz Ferdinand
- Blink 182
- Propellerheads
- José González
- The Shins
- Cold Chisel
- Amy Winehouse
- Cold War Kids
- Pixies
- Beastie Boys
- The Triffids
- Nirvana
- Klaxons
- Silverchair
- Crowded House
- Tegan and Sara
- Hilltop Hoods
- Fatboy Slim
- Bloc Party
- James Murphy
- Busy P
- Muph and Plutonic
Sunday
- The Cat Empire
- Arctic Monkeys
- Aphex Twin
- Died Pretty
- Xavier Rudd
- Air
- Sunnyboys
- Björk
- Radiohead
- Foo Fighters
- New Order
- N*E*R*D
- Muse
- Hunters and Collectors
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs
- The Presets
- Arcade Fire
- The Chemical Brothers
- The Cure
- The Verve
- Cut Copy
- Talking Heads
- Jeff Buckley
Announcers
- Friday 6pm – 10pm - Rosie Beaton
- Friday 10pm – Saturday 1am - Will Styles & Learned Hand
- Saturday 1am – 6am - Nicole Foote
- Saturday 6am – 10am - Sam Simmons
- Saturday 10am – 2pm - Brendan Maclean
- Saturday 2pm – 6pm - Rosie Beaton
- Saturday 6pm – 9pm - Kirileigh Lynch
- Saturday 9pm – Sunday 1am - Nicole Foote
- Sunday 1am – 6am - Dave Callan
- Sunday 6am – 10am - Sam Simmons
- Sunday 10am – 2pm - Brendan Maclean
- Sunday 2pm – 6pm - Rosie Beaton
- Sunday 6pm – 10pm - Richard Kingsmill
- Sunday 10pm – Monday 1am - Fenella Kernebone