Good Things festival is back this December, and it’s not messing around. The country’s biggest alternative, punk and metal party will take over Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane across the first weekend of the month, with a 2025 lineup stacked full of nostalgia, riffs and some of the genre’s heaviest hitters.
Since storming onto the scene in 2018, Good Things has cemented itself as Australia’s go-to one-day festival for moshpit-friendly chaos. This year’s edition doubles down on that reputation, pulling in some of the biggest names from the 90s and 2000s while giving the stage to a new wave of acts keeping heavy music alive.
Four-time Grammy-winning titans Tool will headline – their first Australian appearance in over five years, and first festival slot here since Big Day Out 2011. Joining them are Weezer and alt-rock royalty Garbage, who released their latest album Let All That We Imagine Be the Light in May.
Other major names on the bill include pop-punk mainstays All Time Low, thrash veterans Machine Head, The All-American Rejects (back after more than 15 years), hardcore bruisers Knocked Loose, death-core giants Lorna Shore and Swedish punks Refused, who will be playing their final Australian shows.
Local representation comes from Perth’s metalcore exports Make Them Suffer, pop-rock heroes Tonight Alive, and the one-and-only James Reyne of Australian Crawl fame. The global cast is just as stacked: New Found Glory, Dayseeker, Kublai Khan TX, Cobra Starship, Goldfinger, Bad Nerves, Civic, Dead Poet Society, Fever 333, Gwar, High Vis, Inertia, Palaye Royale, Scene Queen, South Arcade, Wargasm, Windwaker and Yours Truly.
Pre-sale tickets open Tuesday 19 August at 10am AEST, with general sale on Thursday 21 August at 10am AEST via Oztix.
Good Things 2025 will be at Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne on Friday 5 December 2025.
