Spilt Milk lineup 2026: Lewis Capaldi and RAYE headline new Geelong home

Kicks Entertainment has revealed the full Spilt Milk lineup alongside a significant change of address, with the Victorian leg moving from Ballarat to the Kardinia Park Precinct in Geelong on 19 December. Canberra, the Gold Coast and Perth complete the run.

Capaldi and RAYE are appearing exclusively at Spilt Milk, with no other Australian festival dates attached to either. Beneath them sit KETTAMA, Baby Keem, Maisie Peters, Remi Wolf, DMA’S, STÜM and Tobiahs, with 23 acts announced in total.

Spilt Milk lineup for 2026

• Lewis Capaldi
• RAYE
• KETTAMA
• Baby Keem
• Maisie Peters
• Remi Wolf
• DMA’S
• STÜM
• Tobiahs
• Aleksiah
• Becca Hatch
• Borderline
• F3miii
• Fat Papi
• Harry Hayes
• jigitz
• Leyla Ebrahimi
• Miss Kaninna
• Pash
• Samara Cyn
• The Moving Stills
• The Terrys
• Yes Boone

Spilt Milk dates and venues

• 12 December, Exhibition Park, Canberra/Ngunnawal
• 13 December, Gold Coast Sports Precinct, Gold Coast/Kombumerri
• 19 December, Kardinia Park Precinct, Geelong/Wadawurrung
• 20 December, Claremont Showground, Perth/Whadjuk

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Geelong becomes Spilt Milk’s long-term Victorian base

The Victorian leg shifts from Ballarat to Kardinia Park this year, with the 2026 Spilt Milk lineup arriving ahead of presale on 30 July.

Kardinia Park Stadium Trust has confirmed the precinct will hold the Victorian date until at least 2030, under a five-year arrangement backed by Visit Victoria and the City of Greater Geelong. The event first came to the state in 2019 and staged four editions in Ballarat before the shift down the highway.

The trust puts the economic contribution across those four Ballarat years at more than $46.7 million. The 2025 edition accounted for $17.2 million of that on its own, drawing 34,100 people from outside the region and filling every commercial bed in town over the weekend.

Attendance has climbed steadily too, from 28,602 in 2019 to 38,729 last year. Close to 116,000 out-of-town visitors have now made the trip across the four Victorian editions, with demand spilling into surrounding towns each December.

Why the move matters for Melbourne punters

Kardinia Park sits roughly an hour from the CBD by road, and South Geelong station puts the precinct within a short walk of the V/Line network. For anyone who has previously committed a full day and a hotel booking to get to Ballarat, that’s a meaningfully shorter trip.

It also lands Australia’s largest single-day music event inside a purpose-built stadium precinct rather than a park, which opens up infrastructure most regional sites can’t offer. Geelong has been steadily building an events calendar beyond football, and this is the most substantial music booking it has secured.

The regional angle remains the point. Victoria’s summer schedule is dense with large-scale electronic events and boutique regional programming, but very few operate at this scale outside a capital city.

Who else is on the bill

RAYE shares top billing on the 2026 Spilt Milk lineup, playing no other Australian festival this summer.

The undercard leans heavily Australian. Yorta Yorta, Dja Dja Wurrung, Kalkadoon and Yirendali woman Miss Kaninna appears alongside Kamilaroi and Samoan artist Becca Hatch, Adelaide four-piece Pash, Central Coast group The Moving Stills, The Terrys, producer Harry Hayes and Yes Boone. Melbourne-raised, London-based producer STÜM handles the club end.

International names filling out the roster include Dublin’s F3miii, Kurdish-Kiwi artist Fat Papi, Brooklyn producer jigitz, Persian-American songwriter Leyla Ebrahimi, American rapper Samara Cyn, South Australia’s Aleksiah and New Zealand indie outfit Borderline.

That balance is consistent with recent programming. Of the 43 acts booked for the 2025 edition, 33 were Australian and 15 were Victorian, five of them based within 100 kilometres of the site. Local triple j Unearthed winners will open each date this year, with those names still to come.

The art program continues as well, curated with socially conscious studios and featuring artists from the Victoria Park Centre for the Arts’ Create Connect Art initiative, which runs structured workshops for artists with disabilities. Full venue detail for the Geelong date is available via Kardinia Park Stadium Trust.

How to get tickets

A Moshtix Ticket Request window is open now and closes at 4pm AEST on 27 July, letting punters lock in a fixed price ahead of general release. Presale follows on 30 July, staggered by city: Canberra at 8am AEST, Geelong at 9am AEST, the Gold Coast at 11am AEST and Perth at 8am AWST.

General public tickets go on sale at 10am AEST on 31 July across all four cities. Payment plan options will be available at checkout. Presale access requires registration at spilt-milk.com.au.

Every Victorian edition since 2019 has sold out, and the 2023 Ballarat date required an additional capacity release to meet demand. If you have watched Laneway or Dom Dolla tickets evaporate in the last few years, plan accordingly.

With the 2026 Spilt Milk lineup now public and a new home locked in until the end of the decade, the Geelong date shapes as the biggest single day of live music regional Victoria will see this summer.

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