The alternative music will cater to different types of music fans, including blues, rock, acoustic, rap and hip hop. 

“We have got some positive feedback from the community about the whole line up which is great,” organiser Greg McManus said. 

Over the 12 hour festival, each band will have a set time to play, with headline acts getting an hour each. 

“There will be two stages running at the same time, set up quite far away, and we have a plan to not have them facing the same way, there is a lot of work to do with that, but hopefully it will come together,” he said. 

The initial concept of the festival started 12 to 18 months ago but Mr McManus only started pushing for artists since February. 

“It takes a long time, but also I had to learn the process of how to book bands so it was quite the learning curve,” he said. 

“Our top three bands have been touring overseas this year, including doing the Warped tour in the USA.” 

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“Hellions have recently come back from touring in Europe playing festivals so we managed to get some quite big names.

“There will also be a few Lithgow local bands who will get a chance to show off their music as well.” 

The positivity has been overwhelming as Mr McManus said he had been inundated with messages from services which wanted to get involved. 

“It is for the town, so we want to raise cash and donate it back into Lithgow,” he said. 

The money raised won’t be going directly to community mental health organisations but rather to projects that are going to work long term towards helping people, Mr McManus said. 

People have already been hitting the organisers up for another crack at it next year and Mr McManus said they may look at that in the future. 

As well as having Lithgow residents attend, Mr McManus wants to bring tourists, especially those from Sydney, to Lithgow. 

“I’d like four thousand, maybe five thousand attendees, that would just be insane, it’d be huge,” he said. 

Mr McManus explained that the earlier people buy tickets, the more it helps the festival be able to pay for extra costs. 

They will also be offering physical tickets for sale in Lithgow and Penrith, at places to be announced in the coming months. 

Tickets are $40 plus booking fee. You can purchase tickets through the website www.resilience2018.com.  

“It has been a lot of hard work but once it is done we will be able to look back at what we will have achieved,” Mr McManus said.