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WIN: We’re giving away 5 x double passes to see Dry Cleaning (UK) in Ballarat

You won't want to miss this show!

UK art-rockers Dry Cleaning are heading our way over the next couple of weeks for a slew of festival appearances and headline shows, playing both VIVID Sydney, and RISING in Melbourne. Their tour also takes them into Central Victorian goldfield region to play a special show at Civic Hall in Ballarat on Sunday 7 June, 2026.

Praised as one of the most intelligent and exciting live acts to come out of the UK, the South London, Grammy Award-winning quartet shot to international prominence in 2019 with their poetic yet unconventional lyrics and alt-rock riffs, rapidly becoming one of the most thrilling new forces in rock.

In January Dry Cleaning released their third studio album Secret Love produced by Cate Le Bon, and follow-up to 2021’s New Long Leg and 2022’s Stumpwork. Secret Love is the finest expression yet of the profound friendships that created Dry Cleaning, between frontperson Florence Shaw, guitarist Tom Dowse, drummer Nick Buxton and bassist Lewis Maynard. Here, the south London four-piece take their place in rock’s avant garde, catalysing the Reaganite paranoia of early ’80s US punk and hardcore with the dry strut of Keith Richards, stoner rock, dystopian degradation, playful no wave and pastoral fingerpicking, while Florence’s delivery, meticulously calibrated to her bandmates’ soundscapes, asserts her in a lineage of spoken-word artists stretching from Laurie Anderson to Life Without Buildings’ Sue Tompkins.

To celebrate the bands upcoming Australian appearances and ride into regional, we’ve partnered with Live Nation to give five Forte readers double passes to see Dry Cleaning live at Civic Hall Ballarat on Sunday 7 June. Take a friend to experience this once-in-a-generation act.

To enter, simply fill out the form below.

Winners will be notified via email with tickets to be collected via box office.