Golden Plains has unveiled its next wave of talent for 2026, welcoming Canadian jazz outfit BADBADNOTGOOD and local legends The Gnomes plus more.
Heading back to the Supernatural Amphitheatre are some certified contemporary masters. Canadian jazz-tronauts badbadnotgood return to Golden Plains a full decade after their last appearance, bringing Alexander Sowinski, Chester Hansen and Leland Whitty plus an expanded touring ensemble. While jazz fuels their rocket ship, the trio made their name criss-crossing genres with abandon. Hip hop collides with prog, samba tangles with rock in their innately collaborative engine room for psychedelic instrumental ecstasy.
Golden Plains Eighteen
- Where: Supernatural Amphitheatre, Meredith
- When: March 7,8,9 2026
- Tickets: here
The lineup:
- Basement Jaxx (Live)
- Marlon Williams and The Yarra Benders with Ngā Mātai Pūrua
- Smerz
- Cut Copy
- BADBADNOTGOOD
- Jalen Ngonda
- Ty Segall
- Obongjayar
- François K (Live Stems)
- Water From Your Eyes
- Frost Children
- Djrum
- Bleak Squad
- Nourished by Time
- Crazy P (DJ)
- This Is Lorelei
- OK Williams
- Upchuck
- Kee’ahn
- Georgia Knight
- Paquita Gordon
- Becca Hatch
- Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek
- Sidney Phillips
- Public Figures
- The Gnomes
- Devaura
- Way Dynamic
- Hybrid Man
- Storytelling with Uncle Barry
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Their scope of collaborators reads like a who’s who of modern music. Arthur Verocai, Laraaji, MF DOOM, Turnstile, Tyler, Frank Ocean, Charlotte Day Wilson, Samuel T. Herring, Kaytranada and Kendrick Lamar have all entered their orbit. Each name feels completely unsurprising yet the full list remains mindboggling.
Joining the Golden Plains 2026 lineup are Frankston’s finest rock and rollers The Gnomes. Garden dwelling garage pop enthusiasts who’ve caught the beat in a big way, the four-piece emerged from the Singing Bird scene fully formed. Their debut LP arrives chock-full of hits, dipped in classic aesthetics but infused with ragged youth and unapologetic zeal. Chiming guitars meet harmonised vocals across tracks that stay lively and loud, already packing out venues across Melbourne.
Also announced is magnetic emcee Devaura, the Aotearoa-born, Eora-based artist known for leaving everything on stage and in the pit. Her deeply autobiographical material sets internal monologue against chaos and transformation, building across themes of resilience over beats spanning dance-rap, punk, pop, house and gqom. Following the almighty Kamikaze announcement, Devaura is Learning in Public on her debut EP.
Dylan Young and company bring Way Dynamic to Golden Plains 18, fresh off last year’s Duck with their best album yet in Massive Shoe. Young’s exploration into minimalist folk-pop, baroque pop and art rock has created something so stacked with melodic ingenuity that everyone claims a different favourite, from Waxahatchee picking Miffed It to Sir Elton John championing Ibiza.
Hybrid Man, the project of Julien Huynh and Will Holden, delivers alchemically pleasing music that fuses IDM, 90s trance, dubbed-out house, techno and beyond, all bedded in ambient soundscapes and environmental recordings. Their hardware-based union pursues the all-immersive and timeless across tracks like Dust and Liquid, Drummond Bass and Overgrown Echos, with the Lyrebird singing before Silence Is Golden.
Golden Plains continues its tradition of broadening horizons across two days and two nights at the Supernatural Amphitheatre. Heaven-sent and custom-cut for an epic long weekend, the wonderland has been refined over 30-odd years for hosting something truly remarkable. Infinite delights await punters looking to find themselves, lose themselves and lose themselves again with friends and lovers.
Eighteen forever remains the rallying cry as one of earth’s best places to spend a long weekend prepares to host another unforgettable gathering.
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