Good Things Festival is a Australian alternative music festival which has shows in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane over the 1 weekend in December. Established by a team of industry stalwarts who have promoted, booked and managed almost all of the big music festivals which have happened in Australia over the past 20 years. Good Things aims to fill the gap in the market and showcase the best local, national and international bands, in world class venues with a high level of production.
Good Things established itself on the Australian festival calendar in 2018 bringing forth a new era for Australian alternative music fans, ushered in by an unstoppable army of some of the heaviest, and most alternative bands the universe had on offer.
The 2018 festival featured The Offspring, Stone Sour, All Time Low, Dropkick Murphys, Bullet For My Valentine, The Used, BABYMETAL, The Smith Street Band, Dashboard Confessional, Mayday Parade, La Dispute, Northlane, The Wonder Years, Waterparks, Tonight Alive, Scarlxrd, Emmure, Palaye Royale, Make Them Suffer, Waax, Boston Manor, Void Of Vision & Ecca Vandal.
After its successful launch in 2018, good things once again returned for 2019 and saw the
Sydney event move to its new venue of Centennial Park. The festival featured Parkway Drive, A Day To Remember, Violent Soho, Simple Plan, Bad Religion, Trivium, Skegss, Simple Creatures, Karnivool, The Veronicas, Falling In Reverse, Enter Shikari, Dance Gavin Dance, Reel Big Fish, Poppy, Ice Nine Kills, Thy Art Is Murder Slowly Slowly, Man With A Mission, The Bennies, Voyager, Yours Truly, Windwaker, The Beautiful Monument, Gravemind
The 2020 event, like most festivals around the world was not able to go ahead due to the coronavirus pandemic.
2022 saw good things return bigger and better than before with the 2022 lineup featuring Bring Me The Horizon, Deftones, NOFX (performing Punk In Drublic in full + all your favourites), TISM (exclusive first shows in 19 years), The Amity Affliction, Gojira, One Ok Rock, Sabaton, Polaris, Millencolin, Blood Command, Chasing Ghosts, Cosmic Psychos, Electric Callboy, Jinjer, Kisschasy (performing United Paper People in full), Lacuna Coil, Nova Twins, Ocean Grove, Paledusk, Redhook, Regurgitator, Sleeping With Sirens, Soulfly, Teenage Joans, The Gloom In The Corner, The Story So Far, Thornhill, Those Who Dream, To The Grave, You Am I.
