The Alternative Stage is now in its third year and continues to serve up a veritable feast of comedy, music, spoken word and film.

The Alternative Stage line up is as follows:

COMEDY

JACK WHITEHALL (Friday)
JUNIOR SIMPSON (Friday)
MC MARTIN BIGPIG (Friday)
KEVIN BRIDGES (Friday)
MARKUS BIRDMAN (Friday)
STUCKEY and MURRAY (Friday)
DAN NIGHTINGALE (Friday)
MARK OLVER (Friday)
JOEY PAGE (Friday)

TIM MINCHIN (Saturday)
BRENDON BURNS (Saturday)
TOM STADE (Saturday)
HUGH LENNON (Saturday)
HOLLY WALSH (Saturday)
STEPHEN GRANT (Saturday)
DANIEL TOWNES (Saturday)
MC DAVE TWENTYMAN (Saturday)
DOC BROWN (Saturday)

DOUG STANHOPE (Sunday)
SARAH MILLICAN (Sunday)
MC MATT READ (Sunday)
STEVE GRIBBIN (Sunday)
JESSICA DELFINO (Sunday)
GARY DELANEY (Sunday)

SPOKEN WORD

AIDAN MOFFAT (Friday)
THE PETEBOX (Friday)
KATE TEMPEST (Friday)
MIK ARTISTIK (Friday)
JOHN BERKAVITCH (Friday)

DEBATE

ID POLITICAL DEBATE (Friday)

LATE NIGHT ENTERTAINMENT

SWAP-A-RAMA (Thursday)
SMASH n GRAB (Saturday)
TRANSGRESSIVE RECORDS (Sunday) – Two Door Cinema Club and Pulled Apart By Horses

FILM

3D NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (Thursday)
LE DONK (Saturday)
THIS IS SPINAL TAP (Saturday)
ANVIL! THE STORY OF ANVIL (Sunday)