90s alt-rock heroes Tool, Weezer and Garbage headline 2025 Good Things line-up with Aussie legend James Reyne
Some pundits who were also spot on with their call on the return of indie rock heroes Weezer for the December festival gigs.
A big surprise is another 90s altrock fave Garbage, joining the festival to play their first shows in Australia for almost a decade.
But absolutely not one person on the planet had Australian rock legend James Reyne on their Good Things bingo card.
Yet there he is, the 13th artist in the line-up list, after 'California post-hardcore genre-benders' Dayseeker and before thrash metal Texans, Kublai Khan TX.
'As one of the country's finest singer-songwriters, Australian Crawl frontman James Reyne will turn the nostalgia up to 11, as the ARIA Hall of Famer and Order of Australia recipient performs iconic pub anthems like 'The Boys Light Up,' 'Hammerhead,' and more,' the organisers declared in the line-up announcement.
Reyne landing on the Good Things bill, which leans towards hard rock, metal, punk and emo, is this year's WTF nostalgia trip.
The organisers have programmed unexpected Aussie icons since 2019 when they booked The Veronicas for the festival.
In 2022, it was a stacked line-up of 90s legends including TISM, You Am I and Regurgitator.
More blasts from the past surprises for the 2023 bill were Boom Crash Opera and Short Stack alongside Big Day Out alumni Jebediah, Spiderbait and Eskimo Joe.
And last year, you couldn't get a more jawdropping pair of bookends for Aussie rock royalty with Dragon and Killing Heidi.
So Reyne, who landed at No. 39 with Australian Crawl's Reckless on the recent Triple J Hottest 100 Australian Songs, fits the Good Things formula of programming local legends to stoke the nostalgia vibes for the festival's wide demographic of punters.
The 2025 Good Things line-up also features All Time Low, Machine Head, The All-American Rejects, Knocked Loose, Lorna Shore, Refused, New Found Glory, Make Them Suffer, Cobra Starship, Goldfinger and Tonight Alive.
The festival opens at Flemington Racecourse, Melbourne on December 5, then heads to the Sydney Showground on December 6 and winds up at Brisbane Showgrounds on December 7. All shows are for fans 16 years and older.
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