Lardner Park is about to get very loud — A3 Festival has announced its 2026 lineup and it's mega.
A3 Festival is heading back to Lardner Park in Victoria for its third edition, running 27–30 November 2026.
The electronic music festival, presented by Novel, has built a reputation for treating the entire weekend as one cohesive environment: sound, lighting, spatial design and movement all working together rather than music just happening on stages in a paddock.
This year’s edition pushes that further with expanded infrastructure and a bigger focus on the physical experience of moving through the site.
A3 Festival 2026
- 27-30 November
- Lardner Park, Victoria
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Four stage environments return: Main, Hangar, Forest and Pavilion, each with its own distinct energy and sound direction. Studio John Fish is back overseeing stage design, lighting and spatial direction across the grounds, alongside large-scale visual installations from REELIZE.STUDIO, and works by Lucas Gauci and Merinduh-Gunya x Rose Staff scattered across the festival site.
The 2026 lineup brings together an international cast across techno, house, trance and everything that blurs between them.
Kerri Chandler makes his first Australian return in almost a decade, bringing more than 30 years of deep house mastery to the Lardner Park dancefloor.
Nina Kraviz joins as one of electronic music’s most distinctively singular and globally recognisable selectors. Skin On Skin, whose trajectory spans South Sudan, Cairo, Brisbane and now a life split between Paris and Tokyo, returns for his first Australian camping festival since 2022, with a sound drawing from techno, house and alternative hip-hop.
UK duo LF System bring their groove-led, peak-time house energy off the back of widespread recognition following Afraid To Feel. Morgan Seatree and Max Dean and Luke Dean round out the UK contingent following strong international momentum across Europe and Ibiza.
Also on the bill: VTSS, whose sets drag hard techno into trance territory and back again without warning; Melbourne-London crossover STÜM, bringing his cinematic, festival-scale club sound; Sim0ne, whose trance and techno-leaning sets carry real emotional weight; and Rene Wise, whose groove-led techno approach has been refined across rooms like Berghain and Bassiani.
Ballot Stage One has already sold out.
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