Good Things (Australian music festival)

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Good Things
Genre Heavy metal, metalcore, alternative metal, alternative rock, and punk rock [1]
DatesEarly December
Location(s)Australia
Brisbane (2018–2019, 2022–)
Sydney (2018–2019, 2022–)
Melbourne (2018–2019, 2022–)
Years active2018–2019; 2022–present
Website www.goodthingsfestival.com.au

Good Things is a music festival held in major cities around Australia. It features a number of international and Australian music acts, from various genres including rock, metal, punk, and emo. [1] At its inaugural festival, the headline acts were The Offspring and Stone Sour. In 2019, the headlining acts were Parkway Drive and A Day to Remember, while the 2022 edition was headlined by Bring Me the Horizon and Deftones.

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History

In early-2018, music tour organiser Destroy All Lines announced a new music festival, Good Things. It would become the biggest music festival held in Australia since Soundwave in 2015. [2] The Good Things festival debuted in Melbourne, before playing at Sydney and Brisbane. On 19 November, the New South Wales Police Force issued a statement addressing accusations that they "made it impossible" for the Good Things festival to operate as all-ages in Sydney by imposing "multiple impediments" and charging "exorbitant" policing fees. The next day Destroy All Lines announced that the Sydney festival would no longer be an all-ages event, and it would restricted to 18-and-over. Under-age ticket holders for the Sydney festival were later contacted and given full refunds. [3]

Two weeks before the first festival, Destroy All Lines announced that under-aged ticket holders would have to be accompanied by a responsible adult at the Melbourne festival. The move was met with outrage as festival-goers and parents alike described it as 'unfair'. The Brisbane festival had no restrictions and was an all-ages event. [4] At the Sydney show, during Tonight Alive's set a 46-year-old security guard died due to a suspected heart attack. [5]

Good Things confirmed via their Facebook page that they would be back to host a 2019 festival. [6] On 19 August 2019, organisers announced the dates and venues for Good Things 2019. The Sydney venue was changed to Centennial Park to accommodate more people. [7]

The 2020 festival was cancelled due to the then-ongoing outbreak of COVID-19. Dates were announced for the 2021 festival for 3–5 December in Melbourne, Sydney, and Brisbane. [8] However the 2021 festival was also cancelled from an outbreak of the then-recent COVID-19 Omnicron variant. Dates and the planned lineup still stand for the 2022 festival, which was announced alongside the former's cancellation. [9]

2018

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2018 logo

The 2018 Good Things festival was headlined by The Offspring playing their 1994 album Smash in its entirety, [10] and Stone Sour. The festival marked Babymetal's first Australian tour, welcoming one of the biggest crowds of the day. [2]

The 2018 festival was sponsored by Nintendo Switch, Marshall Amplification, Vans, Uppercut Deluxe, Dangerfield, Jack Daniel's, Furphy Ale, Captain Morgan, and Smirnoff. [11]

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2019

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2019 logo

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Lineup [12]

Notes

  • A ^ Coheed and Cambria withdrew from the lineup due to sudden health concerns with drummer Josh Eppard. [13]
  • B ^ The Damned Things withdrew from the lineup due to scheduling conflicts. [14]

2022

The 2022 Good Things festival was headlined by Bring Me the Horizon and Deftones. The festival marked the reunions of TISM, who performed their first shows since 2004, and Kisschasy, who played their 2005 album United Paper People in full, their first live shows since 2015. NOFX also played their 1994 album Punk in Drublic in full. The festival marked the debut Australian concerts of Electric Callboy, Nova Twins, and Blood Command.

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Notes

  • A ^ Fever 333 withdrew from the lineup due to the sudden departure of several band members. [15]
  • B ^ 3OH!3 withdrew from the lineup due to a dispute with promoters over their allocated set time and were replaced by Ocean Grove. [16]
  • C ^ Jxdn withdrew from the lineup for unknown reasons and was replaced by Teenage Joans. [16]

2023

The 2023 Good Things festival is scheduled to be headlined by Fall Out Boy, Limp Bizkit and Devo. The 2023 edition is set to host the debut Australian performances of Hanabie., Magnolia Park, Slaughter to Prevail, and Royal & the Serpent.

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