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7NEWS
19 hours ago
- Entertainment
- 7NEWS
Good Things 2025 line-up: Tool, Weezer, Garbage, James Reyne to perform in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane as festival unveils bill
Australia's premier rock and metal festival has announced a monster bill to hit stages in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane in December. Good Things 2025 will be headlined by prog metal titans Tool, visiting Australia for the first time since early 2020. The Los Angeles quartet — fronted by the enigmatic Maynard James Keenan — have performed only sporadically in 2025, most recently at Ozzy Osbourne's Back to the Beginning farewell show last month in Birmingham just weeks before the Black Sabbath icon's death at 76. A healthy dose of Nineties nostalgia will be on offer courtesy of Weezer and Garbage, the latter returning to Australia for the first time in more than a decade. Traditionally one of their strongest markets, the foursome of Shirley Manson, Butch Vig, Steve Marker and Duke Erikson head down under on the back of their eighth studio album Let All That We Imagine Be the Light with hits from their multi-platinum albums Garbage (1995) and beautifulgarbage (2001) in tow. Elsewhere, following in the footsteps of fellow Aussie pub rock icons Boom Crash Opera and Dragon, former Australian Crawl frontman and ARIA Hall of Fame member James Reyne will bring classic tunes such as Reckless, The Boys Light Up and Slave to the festival stage. Fans of legendary punk outfit Refused, meanwhile, will get a chance to see the band on their farewell tour. Originally forming in 1991, the Swedish band first split seven years later while touring the US in support of their seminal 1998 album The Shape Of Punk To Come before reforming in 2012. The travelling circus kicks off on December 5 at Melbourne's Flemington Racecourse before heading to Sydney and Brisbane on December 6 and 7 respectively. The Sydney leg will head west to the Showground at Olympic Park — previously home to spiritual predecessors Soundwave and the Big Day Out — for the first time, having been staged in the eastern suburbs' Centennial Park since 2019. Tickets for all shows go on sale from 10am on Thursday, August 21, with a pre-sale on Tuesday, August 19 accessible by signing up at Weezer Garbage | All Time Low | Machine Head | The All-American Rejects Knocked Loose | Lorna Shore | Refused | New Found Glory | Make Them Suffer Dayseeker | James Reyne | Kublai Khan TX | Cobra Starship | Goldfinger | Tonight Alive In Alphabetical Order: Palaye Royale | Scene Queen | South Arcade | Wargasm | Windwaker | Yours Truly Plus the chaos of Stage 666.
News.com.au
19 hours ago
- Entertainment
- News.com.au
90s alt-rock heroes Tool, Weezer and Garbage headline 2025 Good Things line-up with Aussie legend James Reyne
Many fans had American rock icons Tool on the top of their list of predictions to headline the 2025 Good Things festival. 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.
