Lime Cordiale launch climate-focused initiative Lime Green Festival

Lime Cordiale are rewriting the festival rulebook, and they are doing it with purpose.

Today, the beloved brotherly duo announced the launch of Lime Green Festival, a bold, climate-focused live music event that places environmental action at the very centre of the experience. Set to take place on 18 April at Point Malcolm Reserve in Adelaide, Lime Green is being billed as a world-first experiment in what live music can look like when sustainability is not an afterthought, but the main act.

For Oli and Louis Leimbach, the idea has been years in the making. Known for their joyful, high-energy live shows and colourful indie-pop sound, the brothers are equally passionate about the environment. “From the accelerating loss of polar ice to the devastating algal blooms currently choking the South Australian coast, it is impossible to ignore that our climate is at a breaking point,” they shared. “For the last five years, we’ve wrestled with a deep, personal dilemma as environmentalists. Is our touring contributing to the problem? Should we continue to tour at all?”

Their answer is not to stop, but to change.

LIME GREEN FESTIVAL

When: 18 April 2026

Where: Point Malcom Reserve, Semaphore, Adelaide, SA

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Delivered in partnership with Chugg Music, Lime Green Festival is designed as a 100 per cent off-grid event, powered by renewable and low-impact energy solutions. Through a partnership with Aggreko, one of the world’s largest providers of mobile industrial-scale batteries, the festival aims to run its main stage and potentially the entire site off-grid using battery power supported by vegetable-oil generators. It is an ambitious move, and one the band believes could be replicated across regional South Australia and beyond.

But Lime Green is about more than infrastructure. The festival has been carefully curated as a community-driven platform that blends live music with talks, workshops and interactive activations spotlighting leaders and innovators from the regenerative movement. Audiences are invited not just to attend, but to engage, learn and imagine new possibilities for how live events can operate more responsibly.

The music line-up balances established Australian favourites with emerging and local talent. Lime Cordiale will headline alongside indie-folk favourites The Dreggs, Adelaide pop star aleksiah and rising local four-piece PASH. Additional slots will be filled by a hand-picked artist chosen by Lime Cordiale, a triple j Unearthed winner and a local act selected through event sponsor City of Charles Sturt, reinforcing the festival’s commitment to nurturing the next generation.

Green initiatives extend across every element of the day. Expect a strong focus on eliminating single-use plastics, encouraging low-emission transport options, solar and bike-powered device charging stations, and upcycled merchandise, including pieces made from seaweed. Food and beverage vendors have been selected for their commitment to local, organic and carbon-neutral practices, with free drinking water available and surplus food donated to charity.

At the heart of Lime Green’s impact is the Solar Slice initiative. Through this world-leading environmental ticketing model, $1 from every ticket sold funds science-backed climate and nature projects. Lime Cordiale have already applied Solar Slice across multiple national tours, supporting electric touring vehicles, biodiesel-powered buses and major conservation efforts. For Lime Green, every dollar raised will support a South Australian community-led response to the current algal bloom affecting the coast.

South Australian ministers have welcomed the initiative, praising both its environmental ambition and its potential economic and community benefits. The festival will honour the land and waters of the Kaurna people, traditional custodians of the Adelaide Plains, grounding the event in respect and responsibility.

“We aren’t claiming to be perfect,” Oli and Louis said. “We will make mistakes along the way, but we are trying. We’re inviting you to be part of this experiment. Come and hear some incredible Aussie music, but also come to see what a different future looks like.”

Presale tickets go on sale at 9am AEDT Wednesday 21 January 2026, with general tickets available from Friday 23 January. Lime Green Festival is licensed and all ages.

All ticketing and festival information can be found here. Sign up for presale here.