Good Things 2026 sideshows announced

Good Things Festival has confirmed its 2026 sideshow slate, with fourteen acts from the festival bill branching out into standalone headline shows across Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth and New Zealand. Tickets go on sale Friday 18 September at 10am AEST through goodthingsfestival.com.au.

The Melbourne-only show from The All-American Rejects marks the band’s first Australian shows in over seventeen years, arriving off the back of Sandbox, their fifth studio album and first new material in over a decade. Millencolin head to Melbourne and Brisbane to play 2000’s Pennybridge Pioneers front to back, while Ministry‘s Sydney and Adelaide dates have been billed as the industrial veterans’ final Australian performances.

Bilmuri cross the Tasman for shows in Wellington and Auckland off the back of a run that’s kept them near-constantly on festival bills this year. P.O.D. return with support from Ocean Grove across Brisbane, Adelaide and Melbourne, their first Australian shows since 2018 and a chance to hear Youth of the Nation and Alive played live again. The Devil Wears Prada bring Future Palace along for Adelaide and Brisbane dates and All Them Witches round out the heavier end of the bill with Adelaide and Melbourne shows.

The rest of the announcement leans into the undercard that’s made this year’s Good Things lineup as deep as it is wide. The Home Team play Perth, Sydney and Melbourne, House of Protection take Brisbane and Melbourne, and Kami Kehoe and LØLØ share a run through Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne (LØLØ sitting out the Sydney date). ivri plays a single Melbourne show, The Black Queen mark ten years of Fever Daydream in Perth and Melbourne, Locked Shut hit Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney, and Vianova close things out across Sydney and Melbourne.

The All-American Rejects

• Tue Dec 8 – Melbourne, Northcote Theatre

Millencolin (performing Pennybridge Pioneers in full)

• Wed Dec 2 – Melbourne, Northcote Theatre
• Tue Dec 8 – Brisbane, Tivoli

Bilmuri

• Tue Dec 8 – Wellington, Meow Nui
• Wed Dec 9 – Auckland, Powerstation

Ministry (‘Farewell Australia’)

• Tue Dec 8 – Sydney, Liberty Hall
• Thu Dec 10 – Adelaide, Hindley Street Music Hall

P.O.D. (w/ Ocean Grove)

• Sun Nov 29 – Brisbane, The Triffid
• Tue Dec 1 – Adelaide, The Gov
• Wed Dec 2 – Melbourne, 170 Russell

The Devil Wears Prada (w/ Future Palace)

• Wed Dec 2 – Adelaide, Lion Arts Factory
• Tue Dec 8 – Brisbane, The Triffid

All Them Witches

• Tue Dec 1 – Adelaide, Lion Arts Factory
• Wed Dec 2 – Melbourne, Corner Hotel

The Black Queen

• Mon Nov 30 – Perth, Lynott’s Lounge
• Wed Dec 2 – Melbourne, Leadbeater

The Home Team

• Sun Nov 29 – Perth, Lynott’s Lounge
• Tue Dec 1 – Sydney, Oxford Art Factory
• Wed Dec 2 – Melbourne, The Espy

House of Protection

• Wed Dec 9 – Brisbane, The Brightside (Outdoors)
• Thu Dec 10 – Melbourne, Howler

IVRI

• Thu Dec 3 – Melbourne, The Espy

Kami Kehoe (solo)

• Wed Dec 2 – Sydney, Oxford Art Factory

Kami Kehoe & LØLØ 

• Tue Dec 8 – Brisbane, The Brightside (Outdoors)
• Wed Dec 9 – Melbourne, Corner Hotel

Locked Shut

• Tue Dec 1 – Adelaide, Jive Bar
• Thu Dec 3 – Melbourne, Leadbeater
• Tue Dec 8 – Sydney, Lansdowne Hotel

Vianova

• Tue Dec 8 – Sydney, Burdekin
• Wed Dec 9 – Melbourne, Northcote Social Club

TICKETS ON SALE FRIDAY 18 SEPTEMBER, 10AM AEST – goodthingsfestival.com.au

Words by Aidan Willis.