Stay Gold shines bright this December with Brat summer, festival afterparties and tribute shows

Words by Juliette Salom

Stay Gold has a good-as-friggin-gold December lined up that will keep you partying all the way into the new year.

Only a fool would pass up on the month of golden gigs lined up at Brunswick’s Stay Gold this December. The iconic band room has programmed a month of epic gigs to keep the party pumping right through and into the new year.

With a bunch of headline shows, a barrel of sideshows and a bucketload of parties, you’re good as gold when it comes to how to spend your summer nights this month.

Read on to find out what Stay Gold has in store for December.

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From Ashes to New Sideshow

With special guests
Wednesday December 4
Tickets here

Good Things are abound this December with Stay Gold hosting a bunch of sideshows from the festival’s lineup. Whether you missed out on a ticket to the main event or the intimacy of a headline show at Stay Gold is more your vibe, this is your chance to catch your favourite bands from the Good Things bill. First up is Pennsylvanian rockers From Ashes to New.

Imminence Sideshow

With special guests
Thursday December 5, from 7pm
Tickets here

Stay Gold is still shining bright with another Good Things sideshow, this time from Imminence. If you’re a metalhead, it’s high time you get around Swedish heavy hitters Imminence. Their Scandinavian metal is the kind that plays in a league of their own.

AM//PM x Good Things Pre-Party Melbourne

Thursday December 5, from 11pm
Tickets here

Get the party started early for Good Things on Friday with this pre-party show at Stay Gold the eve prior. Dishing up a taste of all the good things to come the following day, there’s no better way to get you in the mood and get you hungry for the main serve.

Good Things Official Afterparty Melbourne

Friday December 6, from 9pm
Tickets here

You’ve seen the sideshows, you’ve attended the pre-party, maybe you’ve even gone to the festival itself. Now, get ready to get golden just one more time with this epic Good Things Official Afterparty at Stay Gold. Spinning emo, pop-punk, rock, metal and alternative all night, it’s nothing but good things at this epic show.

Three Cheers for Twenty Years: My Chemical Romance Night

Saturday December 7, from 11pm
Tickets here

If you’re a My Chemical Romance fan, this is a show you wouldn’t want to miss. Come along for the twenty year anniversary celebration of the band’s iconic album Three Cheers and party on with a soundtrack of all your favourite My Chemical Romance hits, plus others that are like it.

Sesame Girl

Thursday December 12, from 7pm
Tickets here

This Canberra-based dream-pop band might just be the outfit of your wildest dream-pop. Rising quickly through the local scene, Sesame Girl are taking on Naarm to show off to Victoria the kind of ethereal enchantment that they’re made of.

Fred Again… vs Skrillex: Appreciation Night

Saturday December 14, from 11pm
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If you’ve never caught Fred Again… or Skrillex play live, this is the next best thing. The songs of the DJs are going back to back for this appreciation night that will see all your favourite EDM tracks and artists dancing across the sound waves of the Stay Gold band room.

Blu Detiger: All I Ever Want Is… Australia Tour

With Juno
Sunday December 15, from 7pm
Tickets here

All the way from the Big Apple, Blu DeTiger is heading Down Under. The New York artist is making a stop into Stay Gold on her Aussie headline tour. Australian punters will also be able to catch her at Changing Tides Festival, although let’s be real – nothing beats a headline gig.

The Soft Machine Presents: Flesh Rituals & Siren Songs

Friday December 20, from 7pm
Tickets here

Art and music are colliding in this explosion of emotion, performance and ritual. The Soft Machine are presenting Flesh Rituals and Siren Songs as their last show of the year and it’s setting up to be a massive one. Expect everything from sensory dreamscapes to ethereal soundscapes and all kinds of sonic exploration that floats between.

Body Prison Debut Headline

With Hate Complex, Dead Skin and Identity Error
Saturday December 21, from 7pm
Tickets here

Body Prison are ramping things up for this headline show in December that is sure to deliver an experience like no other. Drawing on the dark corners of the human experience to create a show of frenetic energy and thrilling performance, this isn’t one to miss out on.

Charli XCX Brat NYE Party

With Superficial DJs
Tuesday December 31, from 8pm
Tickets here

Get ready to be bumpin’ that right into 2025 with this New Year’s Eve party at Stay Gold for all the Angels and Brat summer fanatics. It’s nothing but the club classics all night at this Charli XCX Brat Party, hosted by Superficial Party. If you’re a 365 party girl, this NYE bash is for you.

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This article was made in partnership with Stay Gold.

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