Music

Main stages, closing sets, releases and remixes — the sound the whole night is built on.

• Six years, one cover, and the album Lillian Albazi and Oscar Neyland had to make

  Bright Phantoms began with a Rowland S. Howard cover in 2021 and became a document of friendship, loss and the sea.

  7 October 2026

• Rowena Wise writes the footnote love forgot

  Bad Things Feel Good* unpacks non-monogamy, mental health and the slow unlearning of certainty — asterisk included.

  5 October 2026

• Tokyo pop collective f5ve and Seoul club producer THE DEEP bring first Australian shows

  Two sides of the same electronic-pop universe land in Melbourne and Sydney for all-ages debuts in October.

  2 October 2026

• NSW makes festival drug checking permanent with $4.3m funding

  Fifteen festivals a year will get on-site testing from October after a trial cut ICU admissions and reached 1,800 people who'd never touched harm reduction before.

  3 September 2026

• RocKwiz celebrates Christmas at Hamer Hall with a live trivia twist

  The beloved music trivia show swaps Easter for a festive celebration this December.

  1 September 2026