King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard: ‘There’s a reason why people don’t do this…it’s just sadistic’
“We’re travelling a little less this year, although still seem to be crazy busy,” he says. For the guitarist and singer of King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, that’s likely busier than most.
Having released five albums in a single year, twice in their career, the band took their time with Alien Metal. While no strangers to heavy and dark music, their 28th record leans further into electronic music than ever before. “For us, it’s probably like a longer form journey that we’ve been on,” explains Mackenzie. “We’ve spent a lot of time developing and, I suppose, immersing ourselves in the world, but also the equipment. Learning how to make music together in this format has been a really exciting adventure that we’ve been on for quite a long time.”
King Giz’ Croxton Block Party
- Where: Croxton Carpark
- When: 17, 18 September
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Guitarist Joey Walker’s love of techno led the band towards modular synths. They soon became a fixture of the band’s live shows, forming the backbone of their “rave” sets. “The shows have had a portion of the set where we’ve brought out a mountain of synths, and that’s evolved and changed over the last few years,” says Mackenzie. “That’s, in some ways, culminated in this record.”
Though the band’s genre-hopping might seem planned from the outside, Mackenzie says they usually have multiple projects on the go. Whichever is most likely to be completed becomes the next album. “Starting things is a lot easier than finishing things, I’ll definitely say that, and we’ve done a lot of starting things and never finished them too,” he says. “With six people in a band, a lot of it is getting everyone on the same page. Sometimes there’ll be something that three or four people will really want to do, but that’s not enough.”
While Alien Metal is unlike anything in the band’s discography, it doesn’t feel out of place. “You spend so long doing something that the thing that feels good is actually the opposite thing,” explains Mackenzie. “I think you tend to get pretty deep into one thing that the pendulum swings the other way, and I think that’s been a big part of why the records have swung wildly in different directions.”
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The band has recorded jams for albums before, but nowhere close to what they did for Alien Metal. “We actually spent a couple of weeks, all six of us together, just recording everything. We ended up with 50-odd hours of recordings, which is just a bad idea.”
“The first one we picked out was this long-form jam that was just Joey and I in the studio quite late, and it ended up being the blueprint for Alien Metal,” he recalls. “It was this hour-long improv between the two of us, where we were experimenting with our equipment, but it just had quite a special energy and spark.”
Even for a band known for their vast output, turning the improvisation into an album proved difficult. “We began a long, long, long, long, long exercise of just developing, refining, rewriting and rerecording,” says Mackenzie. “It was a punishing album to make, to be honest. The issue was that we were probably further away from being done than any of us realised the whole time.”
Much of the challenge came from having to relearn how to play together. Using Eurorack modular synths, the band not only had to build and patch the systems themselves, but also learn how to use them. “We’ve spent so long, 15 years or so, learning how to make music with each other with drums, guitars and bass and that sort of thing,” he says. “To throw that on its head and start from scratch was really hard, and felt like being born again.”
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With roughly 100 modules in each member’s rack, Mackenzie says they’re their own self-contained orchestra, though not easy to play in concert. “We had to reverse engineer a lot of the equipment,” he says. “Figure out ways to super reliably keep ourselves in sync, to pass the signals around without degrading, and to buffer the audio around the table.”
“One thing that I like about the format is, because you have to build your own system and because you have to make a patch yourself, everybody makes wildly different and unique instruments,” says Mackenzie. “It’s a really interesting and cool reflection of that person’s personality in a lot of ways.”
To make the instrument less intimidating, the band gave it a name. “There’s a reason why people don’t do this live, improvised electronic music with Eurorack — it’s just sadistic,” says Mackenzie. “Calling it Nathan felt like a humanising of the machine, in a way, and there was an instinctual reason to just take the edge off it. So maybe, deep down, it’s something like that. But I think we also just thought it was funny.”
Nathan will make an appearance at the Croxton Block Party, which the band also curated, in October. “It’s so good when it feels easy and aligned. We know all the folks at the Croxton, and I’ve done stuff with them for years and years. So it’s a cool, cool fit… and just nice to do a show in our backyard.”
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There’s a new sing-along cabaret in town and it wants you to be the star
Bathroom belters and car karaoke queens, get ready: Sink or SING! A Sing-Along Cabaret hits Melbourne Fringe Festival this October.
After smash-hit seasons at Adelaide Fringe Festival and Edinburgh Fringe Festival, this interactive singing party has finally landed in Melbourne.
Hosted by award-winning vocalist and international vocal coach Amelie Peters, Sink or SING! A Sing-Along Cabaret is billed as the ultimate outlet for anyone who has ever secretly dreamed of being the star of the show.
Think Pub Choir, but make it cabaret; wholesome, hilarious and a little bit vulnerable, the 60-minute show takes audiences on a nostalgic trip through music, memories and self-discovery, tapping into that universal feeling of why singing your heart out is so satisfying.
Deep in your hot mess era or simply after a good night out, this is truly the excuse to have your main-character moment.
Sink or SING! A Sing-Along Cabaret at Melbourne Fringe Festival
- Dates: 14 – 18 October 2026
- Venue: Festival Hub: Trades Hall – ETU Ballroom
- Tickets here
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Blending comedy, storytelling and full-throttle crowd participation, the cabaret transforms into something like a joyful group therapy session, backed by a live band and a stack of pop bangers.
Since debuting in Adelaide in 2024, Sink or SING! has picked up momentum fast, following a Gluttony season during the 2025 Adelaide Fringe and an international cabaret debut at Edinburgh’s Gilded Balloon.
Now the show is ready to turn a whole new crowd of Melburnians into a late-night choir. Audiences can expect a full six-piece live band, dubbed The Hot Mess Orchestra, plus a fully stocked bar for anyone needing a little liquid courage before their solo moment.
At the centre of it all is Amelie Peters, a classically trained vocalist and cabaret artist who graduated from the Elder Conservatorium of Music in Adelaide. She has performed with the State Opera of South Australia, toured internationally and was invited to perform at New York’s Soho Playhouse.
Her background across performance, songwriting and vocal coaching has made her one of the more in-demand names in the music industry, having worked with hundreds of artists worldwide throughout her career.
The show is produced by Interactive Theatre International, a company known for audience-driven, laughter-filled theatre, cabaret and immersive experiences with a reputation for putting audiences right at the centre of the story rather than leaving them as bystanders.
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A new live dating show is taking over Brunswick Ballroom. So how does it actually work?
Dating apps got you swiping into oblivion? Human Love Quest is bringing back real, in-person romance to Brunswick Ballroom.
Dreamed up by mates Xander Allan, Conor Gallacher and The Captain, Human Love Quest is a live onstage dating show built as the antithesis of dating apps.
The format leans on the classic tension of three hopefuls competing for the attention of one solo contestant, and the whole thing is open to absolutely anyone, regardless of how they identify, their age, or what they’re actually looking for out of the night.
Human Love Quest at Brunswick Ballroom
- Doors 6:00pm, kitchen open 6:00pm, show starts 7:30pm
- 29 September, Brunswick Ballroom
- Apply here
- Tickets here
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There are two rounds of dating in total, and every paired-up couple gets a complimentary glass of bubbles and their own private table, tucked away from the main crowd but still in full view of the room.
There’s zero pressure for anyone to see their match again once the show wraps, and the team behind it says a lot of thought has gone into making sure everyone feels safe and comfortable throughout.
There’s also a live reading segment called Ahoy There, where secret admirers in the audience get their submitted love notes read out to the crowd.
Organisers say the show runs on a zero-tolerance policy toward intolerant or anti-social behaviour, and every contestant has to fill out an expression of interest form first. That form doubles as a vetting process, designed to make sure each round is made up of like-minded people heading into it for the right reasons.
If you’re over the dehumanising scroll-and-swipe cycle of dating apps, endless matches that fizzle into small talk and never actually go anywhere, Human Love Quest reckons it’s got a better way to do things.
Anyone keen to be a contestant can fill out the application form here, and organisers say they’ll do their best to accommodate as many people and preferences as they can.
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This article was made in partnership with Brunswick Ballroom.
Old Bar Country Sunday
Sunday October 4th, The Old Bar hosts country expansionists Rodeo Sideshow and dedicated purveyors of honkytonk to the gentry, Round the Outside in an afternoon of all-singing, all-dancing, good-time cryin’ in yer beer songs from 4pm. All happening in downtown Fitzroy, 74 Johnston St.
Abeny Hayes
A night of incredible local female Melbourne artists celebrating the launch of ‘Deathbed Confessional’ , a new indie alt-rock EP exploring the tension between feminine rage and acceptance.
Joining me for the night are two of the most talented acts Melbourne has to offer:
Hannah and the Heartstrings – A folk/rock force with a gripping sound and transformative live experience.
Aubany – Aubany introduces a deeply introspective sound, blending ambient electronic textures with raw vocals to explore identity and emotion.
Melbourne is getting a 13-storey mural opposite Flinders Street Station
The 13-storey artwork is going up on Clement House at 238–242 Flinders Street, with Adnate suspended on a swing stage over one of the busiest corners in the city. Juddy Roller is commissioning, curating and producing the piece for Mushroom Creative House, and the whole thing has been pulled together in roughly 21 days from the first phone call to the intended finish line.
That timeline gets even sharper when you clock where it started. The original pitch was a modest two-storey mural, and there wasn’t even a wall locked in for it. A drive through town shifted the plan, attention landed on the towering blank facade of Clement House, and a small commission became a 13-storey proposition with the clock already running.
The Melbourne Flinders Street mural
- Who: Adnate, produced by Juddy Roller for Mushroom Creative House
- Where: Clement House, 238–242 Flinders Street, Melbourne, opposite Flinders Street Station
- When: Underway now, with completion targeted for 20 September
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Getting Adnate onto the building took a lot more than a ladder and some paint. Engineering had to be finalised and signed off, permits secured, and a suspended swing stage designed, mobilised and installed before a single brushstroke could land. Michael Griffin and the crew at Rigid Scaffolding fast-tracked the swing-stage engineering, while the neighbouring Lendlease construction site proved crucial, with site manager Gavin Sheane-Smith craning the equipment into position and rescuing days nobody had to spare. Backing also came from the Victorian government, the Victorian Infrastructure Delivery Authority and the City of Melbourne.
Adnate’s Melbourne pedigree
This isn’t Adnate’s first vertigo-inducing job for Juddy Roller. Back in 2018 the pair covered a 20-storey tower at the Collingwood Housing Estate with portraits of four residents, at the time the tallest mural in the Southern Hemisphere. Clement House brings a fresh test, with thousands of commuters watching each field of colour appear in real time and precisely nowhere to hide a slip.
Juddy Roller founder and creative director Shaun Hossack has called the commission one of the most intense the studio has taken on, noting that work of this size would normally get months of planning rather than weeks, and that the weight has fallen especially hard on Adnate. As for the subject, the face at the centre of it all is still firmly under wraps, with the studio only confirming that it celebrates an Australian icon landing ahead of one of the most cherished weekends on the national calendar. Until those abstract blocks of colour resolve into something recognisable, the city will have to keep guessing.
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Melbourne just scored a brand new green space right outside ACCA
The City of Melbourne has converted more than 900 square metres of paving outside the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art into landscaped public grounds. Where a sandy, hard-surfaced forecourt used to sit, there are now native trees and wildflowers, fresh lawn, spots to sit, a mural and new lighting, all opened up for anyone to wander into.
You’ll find the new pocket on the corner of Sturt and Grant streets, right on the doorstep of one of the city’s busiest arts venues. It’s the freshest green space to land in Southbank since the Dodds Street Linear Park, in a suburb where breathing room has long been scarce. For workers, gallery-goers and locals, it’s somewhere to sit down for five minutes rather than cut across another stretch of pavement.
ACCA forecourt green space
- What: New public green space on the ACCA forecourt
- Where: Corner of Sturt and Grant streets, Southbank
- Opened: 17 September
- Entry: Free
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The revamp is one slice of the council’s plan to grow Melbourne into a garden city, adding parkland in a neighbourhood that already ranks as its most densely packed and keeps getting busier. Swapping concrete for greenery is also meant to pull a little heat out of a part of town that soaks up plenty of it.
Cash for the work came through the Victorian government’s Better Parks and Playgrounds Program and its Community Support Fund. The forecourt now joins wrapped-up projects such as Boyd Park and the Dodds Street Linear Park, while a bigger overhaul of Southbank Boulevard rolls on nearby.
And the council isn’t done with Southbank yet. City Road Undercroft Park is on the cards, alongside expansions of the Miles and Dodds Street Reserve and the Normanby Road Reserve, as it keeps nibbling away at the suburb’s long-running shortage of open space.
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This punk fundraiser wants to save Melbourne’s public housing towers
Punks for Public Housing is crashing into the Corner Hotel with a huge bill and a properly serious cause.
Presented by Double Time Touring, Stop The Demo and 44 Flats United, Punks for Public Housing pulls a wildly eclectic run of acts together under one loud, punk-minded banner. Teaser Pony, FROB, Dragnet, Screensaver, Loose Tooth, Ausecuma Beats, Tongue Dissolver and Banoffee are all on the roster, alongside a secret headliner the organisers are refusing to name until the doors shut behind you. Once the bands clear the stage, DJ sets from DJVM, Shouse and Total Giovanni will keep the room moving well into the small hours.
Punks for Public Housing
- Corner Hotel, Richmond
- 6 November 2026
- Doors 4pm
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The whole thing exists to raise money for 44 Flats United, a grassroots collective of current and former public tenants working to organise residents across the city’s high-rise towers. Expect the day to blur the line between gig and rally, with a shot at meeting the people steering the campaign, or simply rocking up for the music and having a boogie.
The demolition fight has been simmering since 2023, when the Victorian government revealed plans to tear down all of the state’s high-rise public housing towers. A parliamentary inquiry has since called for an immediate stop to the works, yet the schedule has rolled on regardless. Campaigners behind the event say the plan will uproot more than 15,000 Victorians, and that swathes of the freed-up land are set to be leased to private developers for as little as $1 a year.
Stop The Demo, one of the presenters, describes itself as a coalition of workers from across the social and community services sector pushing to keep public housing in public hands. The night sits squarely inside that broader wave of community resistance to the tower rollout.
Doors open at 4pm, and the early birds are the ones with the best shot at the raffle, which is loaded with prizes and sold only in the room on the night. First Nations people and social housing tenants can claim free entry by emailing [email protected]. The gig is billed as an accessible event, so contact the Corner Hotel directly for any access details before you head down.
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The Hayley Williams Show is landing in Australia for two intimate nights
Emo kids and Paramore lifers, mark your calendars: Hayley Williams is finally bringing her solo show to Australia.
The Hayley Williams Show gathers up tracks from all three of the singer’s solo records, along with what’s being teased as a handful of surprises. It kicked off in Florida this month and has already sold out marquee US spots including New York’s Forest Hills Stadium and the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, part of a wider run of North and Central American dates stretching into 2026 and 2027.
This won’t be Williams’ first Australian visit. She was last here in 2023 fronting Paramore’s east coast dates, including a Domain show in Sydney that pulled upwards of 25,000 heads, the band’s biggest headline crowd to date.
For the Australian leg, Williams is keeping the rooms small. Rather than the arenas Paramore filled last time round, the show heads into the Forum in Melbourne and the Enmore in Sydney, a pair of theatres that top out well short of stadium capacity.
The Hayley Williams Show
- 10 February – Enmore Theatre, Sydney (licensed, all ages)
- 17 February – Forum, Melbourne (18+)
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Tickets aren’t going the usual way for this one. Frontier Touring has set up a verified registration to keep seats out of the hands of bots and resellers, and it’s live right now. Registration opened at 8am AEST on 18 September and shuts at 8am AEST on 20 September, with every entry weighted the same no matter when it comes through.
Fans picked at random will be sent a unique unlock code by 5pm AEST on 21 September, and anyone who misses out will hear back by the same deadline. From there, the chance to purchase opens at 10am AEST on 22 September. Registration is happening over at hayleywilliams.hq.fan/thws-australia.
Away from Paramore, Williams has three solo albums to her name. The latest, Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party, arrived on her own Post Atlantic Records (through Secretly Distribution) and its 20 tracks picked up four nominations at the last GRAMMYs. She’s a three-time GRAMMY winner across her Paramore years, and once ranked 13th on Billboard’s 50 Greatest Rock Singers list.
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Victoria’s Pride returns with 15 regional events and a massive street party
Victoria’s Pride is back for 2027 with 15 regional events statewide and a street party sprawling across Fitzroy and Collingwood.
The Regional Events Program pulls together 15 locally led projects commissioned by Victoria’s Pride, each spotlighting LGBTQIA+ life well beyond the inner city. Expect queer songwriting and poetry in Beechworth, cosplay and creature creation in Bendigo, photography out in the Mallee and a dive into LGBTQIA+ history across the Wimmera.
Victoria’s Pride 2027
- Victoria’s Pride Street Party – 7 February 2027, Gertrude and Smith streets, Fitzroy and Collingwood
- Midsumma Pride March – 31 January 2027, Fitzroy Street, St Kilda
- Midsumma Festival 2027 – 17 January to 7 February 2027
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The idea is to hand the mic to regional artists, creatives and communities so they can build new work, swap stories and celebrate queer life close to home, rather than trekking to the capital for it. Those projects all funnel towards the big one: the annual Victoria’s Pride Street Party, taking over the Gertrude and Smith Street precinct that straddles Fitzroy and Collingwood, and closing out the Midsumma Festival 2027 calendar in early February.
The party isn’t the only date worth circling. Midsumma Pride March marches back into St Kilda on 31 January, sending more than 10,000 people down Fitzroy Street while spectators pack the footpaths and balconies to cheer the whole thing along.
Registration for Pride March 2027 is open now and it won’t cost you a cent, whether you’re rocking up as a group or flying solo. Sign-ups stay open until November 2026, giving you a decent window to wrangle your crew and lock in a spot.
The lot sits inside Midsumma Festival 2027, running from 17 January to 7 February, with the Collingwood and Fitzroy street party bringing the curtain down on the season.
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Cult NZ favourite Princess Chelsea is finally touring Australia this October
Princess Chelsea is finally crossing the Tasman for her debut Australian shows, seven-piece band The Dream Warriors in tow.
A songwriter, producer and visual artist, Princess Chelsea has spent years building a world of her own out of Auckland, folding orchestral flourishes and off-kilter pop into a sound she calls baroque-pop. Her homemade music videos do half the work, handing her a DIY look that’s become instantly recognisable. For plenty of listeners she’s still the voice behind viral hit The Cigarette Duet, though the show has grown well past any one track.
The awards have piled up to match. She recently collected Best Alternative Artist at the New Zealand Music Awards, along with the Taite Music Prize, her country’s answer to the Mercury Prize. Runs through Europe, the United States and Mexico have earned The Dream Warriors a name as one of New Zealand’s most gripping live acts, with a set that’s performed start to finish without backing tracks and rarely lands where you’d guess.
Princess Chelsea
- The Lansdowne Hotel, Sydney – 1 October
- The Thornbury Theatre, Melbourne – 3 October
- Yours & Owls Festival, Wollongong – 4 October
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The Melbourne date lands at The Thornbury Theatre on 3 October, one of the roomier spots in town for a show like this. It’s an 18+ affair, so plan accordingly.
Before that, Princess Chelsea kicks the tour off at the Lansdowne Hotel in Sydney on 1 October, then wraps at Yours & Owls Festival in Wollongong on 4 October. The whole run is presented by Yours & Owls, the outfit behind the festival and a string of independent venues dotted up the east coast.
There’s already a taste of what’s coming. The band recently filmed a live session inside Abbey Road Studios in London, cramming the famous Studio Two with hundreds of balloons and the kind of technicolour staging Princess Chelsea builds everything around. Expect that same over-the-top spirit to travel south.
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A mysterious new four-room techno club just opened in Melbourne
Sitting at 2 Geddes Lane in the heart of naarm, ark keeps things refreshingly lean: one room, one night each week, entry from $15 and a 10pm start that pushes til late. There’s a members’ list, a birthday list and a group chat for the people who keep turning up, plus a low-key nudge for first-timers to scope out the lane before they rock up.
ark
- Where: ark, 2 Geddes Lane, Melbourne
- When: weekly, 10pm til late
- Tickets: from $15
- 19 September – Claire O’Brien, Human Movement, Prizefight, Tangerine, Afrodisiac
- 26 September – Cotto, Luke Hovey, Papa Nugs, Black Dave, Eva
- 3 October – TWIENA, Mikalah Watego
- 31 October – Guy Contact, DJ Luv You
- 7 November – Crÿbaby, MASSI., Harry Connell
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The history
- Basement
- Section One
- Skyline
- Helm
The bluestone building on Geddes Lane dates to the 1850s and has cycled through several lives, most famously as the Grainstore Tavern, a live music institution that ran through the 80s and into the 90s. Tina Arena, INXS, Daryl Braithwaite and Little River Band all worked the stage there, and it’s the spot where John Farnham launched Whispering Jack, with the Chain Reaction clip shot on site.
From there the room swung in a very different direction, spending years as adult venue Showgirls Bar 20 before chef Shannon Bennett and developer Lorenz Grollo took it over in 2018 and relaunched it as live music space Geddes Lane Ballroom. ark is the newest chapter, handing the same walls over to a weekly club night.
The program
The bookings spread across the coming months, mixing local names with a few flown in from further afield. ark has already locked in Papa Nugs from the UK and TWIENA out of the Netherlands, sitting them alongside a rotating cast of homegrown DJs. Its booking policy is charmingly blunt too, inviting artists to send three links with the promise that the people behind the decks read every single one. A couple of upcoming bills are still sitting under question marks, which only adds to the after-dark intrigue.
The opening run is already stacked. 19 September brings Claire O’Brien, Human Movement, Prizefight, Tangerine and Afrodisiac across the venue, with a separate basement programme rounding out the night. The week after, Cotto, Luke Hovey, Papa Nugs, Black Dave and Eva take the reins on 26 September.
October keeps the pressure on. TWIENA and Mikalah Watego land on 3 October, before a fully mystery bill on 24 October that ark is holding back for now. Guy Contact and DJ Luv You then see out the month on 31 October, closing a busy stretch of programming.
Looking a little further down the track, 7 November pairs Crÿbaby, MASSI. and Harry Connell with one more name still to be revealed. With a fresh lineup each week and the calendar already stretching into November, ark is quietly adding another destination to Melbourne’s late-night map.
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The Temper Trap and BENEE lead Good Gumnuts as it turns five
The birthday edition of Good Gumnuts Festival sets up at the Agriplex in pataway/Burnie from 5 to 7 March 2027, cramming three days of live music, art and camping into one coastal weekend. Dune Rats, Example, Luca Brasi, Meg Mac, Vera Blue and Winston Surfshirt fill out the top of the bill.
It’s a long way from where things kicked off. Directors Harry Badcock and Charlotte Grey first threw a small do for their wedding anniversary, roped in friends and family, and watched a supposed one-off snowball into an annual fixture on the Coast.
Good Gumnuts Festival 2027
- What: Good Gumnuts Festival 2027, headlined by The Temper Trap and BENEE
- When: 5 to 7 March 2027
- Where: Agriplex, 329 Ridgley Highway, Romaine, pataway/Burnie, lutruwita/Tasmania
- Presale: 23 September 2026, 9am AEST, for registered punters
- General sale: 28 September 2026, 9am AEST
- Tickets and registration: goodgumnutsfestival.com.au
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The middle of the poster stacks up nicely too, with Babe Rainbow, Betty Taylor, Dear Sunday, Kinder, PARK RD, Press Club, The Slims, Sycco, Teenage Joans, Vanilla Gorilla and WAAX all making the trip south.
Keep scrolling and you’ll find Big Alcatraz, BOCCE, Charlie Woods, Chatters, CHEAP-SKATE, COFFEY, DENNI, Exit Plan, Iris and The 99 Bends, LOVELOVELOVE, Lune Ranger, Panned To The Sloman, Runyamouth, Saint-Tropez, Shorehaven, Spici Water, Spooky Eyes, STRAY, Swords Bros., Tasha Zappala and Woolton. Badcock and Grey shaped the roster from top to bottom, and flag Betty Taylor, The Slims and PARK RD as names worth circling.
For the uninitiated, Good Gumnuts is an independent, all-ages music and arts event, so there’s plenty to stumble across between sets and camp among for the weekend. This edition also brings a first for the festival: a limited run of VIP tickets for anyone chasing a comfier way to do the three days.
Presale opens 23 September 2026 at 9am AEST for those who’ve registered, before general sale lands 28 September 2026 at the same hour. The whole thing rolls out with triple j in its corner.
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Gavin Wanganeen is heading to Brunswick Ballroom for an intimate footy chat
Brunswick Ballroom is hosting Premierships, Purpose & Family: Gavin Wanganeen, an intimate lunch event with the AFL legend.
Held on 25 September, Premierships, Purpose & Family: Gavin Wanganeen will see the dual premiership player and Brownlow Medallist reflect on his journey through September football, leadership and life beyond footy.
Guests can expect stories from Wanganeen’s remarkable career, covering everything from the highs of grand final glory to the pressure and grit required to succeed at the top level.
Premierships, Purpose & Family: Gavin Wanganeen
- 12pm, 25 September, 2026
- Brunswick Ballroom, Melbourne
- Tickets here
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Beyond the footy talk, the conversation will also dig into leadership, courage and what it takes to balance a high-profile career with family life.
The event will be followed by an audience-curated Q&A session, with punters encouraged to submit questions when purchasing tickets, or flag one down with the team on the day.
Ticket options include General Admission, or punters can go all-in with a luncheon package, which comes with a three-course meal and a spot of pre-show footy trivia to get the room warmed up before Wanganeen takes the mic.
It’s all for a good cause too, with every dollar raised going to Berry Street, an organisation supporting mothers, children and families in need, along with disability services across the state. So along with a laugh, a feed and some serious AFL storytelling, guests will be putting money toward a cause doing real work in the community.
Whether you’re a die-hard footy fan or just after a fun midweek lunch with a bit of substance behind it, this one’s shaping up to be a beauty.
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This article was made in partnership with Brunswick Ballroom.