Tool, Weezer and Garbage topped the Good Things Festival 2025 lineup, announced on 12 August 2025. The festival was scheduled as a three-city east-coast run on 5, 6 and 7 December, with 30 music acts spanning rock, punk, metal, emo and alternative music.
Who played Good Things Festival 2025?
ABC’s Double J report, published on 12 August 2025 and updated the following day, listed 30 acts on the original music lineup:
- Tool
- 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
- Bad Nerves
- Civic
- Dead Poet Society
- Fever 333
- Gwar
- High Vis
- Inertia
- Palaye Royale
- Scene Queen
- South Arcade
- Wargasm
- Windwaker
- Yours Truly
The festival’s official 2025 archive also records Thornhill and Alpha Wolf as late replacement additions. It does not identify which artists they replaced, so they are separate from the original 30-act bill.
Who headlined the festival?
Tool
Tool was returning to Australia for the first time since February 2020, according to ABC’s coverage of the announcement.
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Weezer
Weezer joined Tool and Garbage at the top of the bill.
Garbage
Garbage was returning to Australia for the first time since 2016, ABC reported.
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What were the dates and venues?
The announced schedule placed the festival at a different showground or racecourse each day:
| Date | City and venue | Traditional Country noted in ABC’s report |
|---|---|---|
| Friday, 5 December 2025 | Flemington Racecourse, Melbourne, Victoria | Wurundjeri Woi Worrong Land |
| Saturday, 6 December 2025 | Sydney Showgrounds, Sydney, New South Wales | Gadigal Land |
| Sunday, 7 December 2025 | Brisbane Showgrounds, Brisbane, Queensland | Turrbal Jagera Land |
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What kind of music and entertainment was on the program?
The lineup brought international and Australian performers together across rock, punk, metal, emo and alternative music. Australian artists included Make Them Suffer, Tonight Alive, Civic, Windwaker, Yours Truly and James Reyne.
Stage 666 was a separate alternative-entertainment program, featuring live music, circus acts, pole performers and competitions. ABC named Austin performer The Lizardman, Jacqueline Furey, Captain Ruin and Kill Your Pop Stars among its acts.
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What were the age limits and ticket dates?
Published age information conflicted. ABC reported Melbourne as 15+ and Sydney and Brisbane as 16+, while Music Festivals Australia reported all three dates as 16+. Without an official archived ticketing source resolving the difference, the Melbourne age limit should not be treated as settled.
ABC reported that tickets were scheduled to go on sale at 10 a.m. AEST on Thursday, 21 August 2025. That was the historical sale date; it is not a current ticket offer.
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Sources
- ABC News / Double J: “Tool, Weezer, Garbage to headline Good Things in 2025”
- Good Things Festival official 2025 archive
- Music Festivals Australia
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