The Temper Trap announced their return in 2025 with two new singles and a couple of massive remixes.
Tickets to this year’s Beyond The Valley sold out in under an hour, confirming the New Year’s bash is now Australia’s most in-demand summer festival.
The four-day event features a diverse lineup with an emphasis on dance music. BTV veteran Dom Dolla will take care of the NYE countdown slot, while The Temper Trap will be on stage just prior, capping off their biggest 12 months in close to a decade.
The Temper Trap Australian tour
- 28 December 2025 to 1 January 2026, Hesse, Beyond The Valley 2025
- 2 January 2026, Kingscliff Beach Hotel, Kingscliff
- 3 January 2026, Jetty Beach House, Coffs Harbour
- 4 January 2026, The Recky, Elizabeth Beach
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Seventeen years after its release, The Temper Trap’s breakout single Sweet Disposition continues to flourish. An official remix by Belgian DJ Lost Frequencies, titled Sweet Disposition (A Moment, a Love), went viral earlier this year, and in July, the original placed at #11 in Triple J’s Hottest 100 of Australian Songs.
Given the self-sufficiency of their best-known song, The Temper Trap will always inhabit multiple worlds at once. They can play a marquee slot at the country’s biggest New Year’s festival despite the bulk of the lineup being dance, pop and hip hop acts. Their back catalogue precedes them, but they’ve also got a new album in the works.
In September, The Temper Trap released Lucky Dimes, their first new single in nine years. The track is something of a curveball, featuring heavy, distorted drums and speaker-busting electric guitars.
“We thought that Lucky Dimes would be a way of dropping a bomb in the middle of the room and hopefully getting everyone’s attention,” drummer Toby Dundas tells Beat. “We don’t want to just put out stuff that sounds like what we sounded like 15-20 years ago.”
The enormous drum sounds in Lucky Dimes were created from a combination of samples and Dundas’ acoustic drumming. “Actually, when we were working on it, I got laid out with the flu for most of that week,” he says. “And so it got initially built with some samples and then I played over the top of it.”
The result is reminiscent of big beat acts like The Chemical Brothers and Basement Jaxx.
“Big beat stuff has definitely been a real influence on this record,” Dundas says. “I was like 15, 16 when that was all happening in the late 90s – Propellerheads and all these other bands that we were seeing in skate videos and stuff like that. It’s deep, deep, deep in the bones.”
The band – which also features vocalist Dougy Mandagi, bass player Jonathon Aherne and guitarist Joseph Greer – released a second single, Giving Up Air, in October. Giving Up Air is more in tune with the band’s classic material, featuring four-on-the-floor kick drum patterns and an anthemic chorus.
“A song like Giving Up Air builds more of a bridge that can allow the fans that are used to some older stuff to come with us on this next part of the journey,” Dundas says.
They’ve just released an official remix of Giving Up Air handled by melodic house DJ Solomun. “We’re big Solomun fans,” says Dundas. “When Solomon first was coming out and doing indie band remixes, I’d play them at Onesixone at Shake Some Action and stuff. It’s kind of full circle for it to come around like that.”
The Temper Trap completed a sold-out east coast tour in October before heading to London and New York for their first overseas headline dates since the tour behind their third album, Thick As Thieves, in 2016. The setlists have featured several new songs as well as a cover of Moby’s Extreme Ways and a snippet of Underworld’s Born Slippy (Nuxx).
“Dougie and I in particular have both been massive electronic music fans for a long time,” Dundas says of the band’s recent embrace of dance music influences.
You can expect to hear all the hits during The Temper Trap’s New Year’s Eve set at BTV. Dundas is looking forward to checking out several other acts on the lineup.
“Dom Dolla is playing after us on the New Year’s Eve night, so we’ll be front and centre for that,” he says. “I’ll be keen to see Turnstile. I missed them at Laneway a couple of years ago, so it’ll be a good chance to see them this time.
“I love the mix of genres that they’ve got in there. Having lost so many great festivals over the last four or five years, it’s cool to see some really kicking goals. And yeah, the lineup’s amazing.”
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