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It’s a 90s hero feast at Good Things 2025 with TOOL, Weezer and Garbage leading the charge.

Predictions for Good Things biggest year have been swirling around for months, and the confirmation of lineup is finally here.

Australia’s largest touring festival is going massive for 2025, offering three 90s music gamechangers as lead artists. Good Things drop prog metal giants TOOL as the headliners, and ‘Buddy Holly’ indie belters Weezer in second spot. Scottish American alternative rockers Garbage are also heading down under to bring their catalogue of hits to the Good Things crowd.

Across Friday 5 December, Saturday 6 December and Sunday 7 December, in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane respectively, the festival will see a stacked lineup of punk, metal, prog, alternative and pop rock trailblazers take to the stage. Festival favourites All Time Low join the lineup along with Machine Head, The All-American Rejects, Knocked Loose, Lorna Shore, Refused, New Found Glory and Make Them Suffer.

Good Things 2025

• Friday 5 December – Flemington Racecourse, Melbourne
• Saturday 6 December – Sydney Showground, Sydney
• Sunday 7 December – Brisbane Showgrounds, Brisbane

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
• Plus the chaos of Stage 666!

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The rumours were true as Good Things book one of the most prolific acts of the metal scene. As one of the world’s most idiosyncratic heavy music acts, TOOL are a genre unto themselves as they mark their 35th year of existence. Fusing metal, rock, and alternative sounds through gargantuan grooves, heady instrumental runs, and the hypnotic vocal refrains of enigmatic frontman Maynard James Keenan, the group’s intimidating back catalogue features five studio albums: Undertow (1993),  Ænima (1996), Lateralus (2001), 10,000 Days (2006), and Fear Inoculum (2019).

With each offering raising the band’s—Danny Carey (drums), Justin Chancellor (bass), Adam Jones (guitar)—conceptual pedigree to dizzying new heights, their storied career includes numerous world tours and four GRAMMY® Award wins. TOOL’s coveted appearance as part of Good Things Festival in 2025 will be their first Australian festival headline since their Big Day Out performance in 2011, and their first Australian tour in over five years.

Olivia Rodrigo recently got them up on stage with her and claimed them as one of her favourite bands but the history of Weezer is one that is deeply cemented in shaping the sounds of the 90s. ‘Buddy Holly’ built them along with ‘Undone (The Sweater Song)’, ‘Say It Ain’t So’, ‘El Scorcho’, ‘Hash Pipe’ and of course ‘Island In The Sun’. Blue Album became a cult classic in 1994 and Pinkerton of 1996 shot them to stardom, gaining GRAMMY Award nods and MTV Video Music Award wins. They’ve continued to strike the scene, being pivotal players in the establishment of scenes including indie rock, emo and power-pop.

It’s been nearly a decade since they’ve stepped onto our shores but Garbage are back. Headed by the unapologetic badass frontwoman and 90s icon Shirley Manson, and rounded out by Duke Erikson, Steve Marker, and drummer/famed producer Butch Vig (who single-handedly is responsible for some of the biggest albums of the 90’s and early 2000s), Garbage are the complete opposite of their name. ‘Stupid Girl’, ‘Only Happy When It Rains’, ‘Cherry Lips (Go Baby Go!)’, ‘Why Do You Love Me’ and ‘I Think I’m Paranoid’ are massive hits for the band whilst songs like ‘#1 Crush’ and ‘The World Is Not Enough’ live in film history.

The lineup is boosted by the inclusion of pop punk powerhouses All Time Low, Machine Head, The All-American Rejects, and New Found Glory, current scene heroes Knocked Loose, Make Them Suffer, Dayseeker, High Vis and Kublai Khan TX and sees the massive reunion of Australia’s own Tonight Alive.

More acts on the lineup include Lorna Shore, Refused, James Reyne, Cobra Starship, Goldfinger, Bad Nerves, Civic, Dead Poet Society, Fever 333, Gwar, Inertia, Palaye Royale, Scene Queen, South Arcade, Wargasm, Windwaker and Aussie pop punk favourites, Yours Truly.

It’s stacked from head to toe!

Pre-sale tickets on sale Tuesday 19 August at 10am AEST Time. Sign up now for pre-sale tickets at www.goodthingsfestival.com.au. General Public tickets on sale Thursday 21 August at 10am AEST Time
here.

For more information head to www.goodthingsfestival.com.au