Australia Good Things Festival Tool Weezer headliners

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Australia’s Good Things Festival lines up headliners Tool and Weezer, with performances from Garbage, The All-American Rejects, Machine Head, and more.

The highly-anticipated Aussie festival Good Things returns this year with headliners Tool and Weezer. The occasion marks Tool’s first Australian outing in over five years. The group is celebrating 35 years together, joined at the festival by alt-rock veterans Weezer.

The rest of the bill is a cornucopia of alt-rock, punk, metal, and nostalgic ensembles. Garbage returns to Australia for the first time in nearly a decade. They are joined by groups like All Time Low, Machine Head, The All-American Rejects (in their first Aussie show in 16 years), Knocked Loose, Lorna Shore, New Found Glory, and Swedish hardcore darlings Refused, who will play their final Australian shows.

The lineup is rounded out by Fever 333, Make Them Suffer, Tonight Alive, Kublai Khan TX, Palaye Royale, GWAR, Yours Truly, and more. Sideshow act Stage 666 also returns this year, with a combination of burlesque, sword-swallowing, fire-breathing, and other death-defying stunts.

Pre-sale kicks off on Tuesday, August 19, at 10 AM AEST, while the general on-sale begins Thursday, August 21, at 10 AM AEST. The festival takes place on Friday, December 5 (Flemington Racecourse, Melbourne), Saturday, December 6 (Sydney Showground, Sydney), and Sunday, December 7 (Brisbane Showgrounds, Brisbane). Attendees must be 16 or older.

“I’ve never seen a more challenging festival environment in my life and have never seen so many festivals cancel in such a short space of time,” said Chris O’Brien, head promoter at Destroy All Lines, which organizes Good Things Festival.

“Programming festivals is incredibly difficult as so many of our costs have skyrocketed over the past two to three years. The flow-on effect is that the artists’ cost has also exploded, and it makes it harder for them to come to Australia, so we have to pay more money to get them here. In the same breath, we have to be conscious of our ticket prices, but our market has proved that if we keep delivering a quality lineup and a great day out, they will continue to support Good Things.”

“2024 was another incredible year for us, and we have managed to stay ahead of the curve and buck the trend,” O’Brien concludes.