We interrupt your common viewing to announce that Australia’s largest various travelling music competition, aka Good Things Festival is quick upon us and it’s the most important one but! We’re not kiddin’ once we’re saying tickets are nearly bought out with lower than 500 tickets left for Brisbane, Melbourne is nearly at 90% bought out and Sydney at 80%.

Good Things come to those that wait and we’re thrilled to announce the headline sideshows from a few of the artists on the massive Good Things Festival line up. That is the primary and solely sideshow announcement and there will probably be no extra sideshows introduced. Set your alarm clocks as these tickets received’t final.

Common tickets are on sale: Friday 20 October @ 9am native time
www.goodthingsfestival.com

LIMP BIZKIT
SUNDAY 26 November – SPARK ARENA, AUCKLAND*
WEDNESDAY 29 NOVEMBER – HORDERN PAVILION, SYDNEY*
WEDNESDAY 6 DECEMBER – FORTITUDE MUSIC HALL, BRISBANE
FRIDAY 8 DECEMBER – JOHN CAIN ARENA, MELBOURNE
*with particular friends HANABIE.

LIMP BIZKIT are one of the crucial defining nu Metallic bands of all time. Solid in Florida within the mid 90s with a raucous fusion of rock, metallic and hip hop, they now have six studio albums underneath their belts, together with their #1 charting albums Vital Different (1999) and Chocolate Starfish and the Scorching Canine Flavored Water (2000) in addition to their most up-to-date full size Nonetheless Sucks (2021), LIMP BIZKIT have additionally acquired three Grammy Award nominations, wins on the Billboard Music Awards and Kerrang! Awards, and an induction into MTV’s Complete Request Stay Corridor of Fame in 2001.

A band who can social gathering prefer it’s 1999 a number of a long time on, LIMP BIZKIT‘s palpitating array of rock, metallic, rap and past is as potent as ever, inciting mosh pits and rock’n’roll riot in a method solely frontman Fred Durst and co. actually can. From their generation-defining singles like Break Stuff, Rollin’ (Air Raid Car) and Nookie to newer cuts that preserve the social gathering vibes ferociously pumping, it’s plain that LIMP BIZKIT as as electrifying now as they had been when nu metallic first reigned supreme.

DEVO 
SUNDAY 26 NOVEMBER – ICC SUPER THEATRE, SYDNEY
WEDNESDAY 29 NOVEMBER – QPAC, BRISBANE
WEDNESDAY 6 DECEMBER – PALAIS THEATRE, MELBOURNE

American new wave legends DEVO will probably be performing their last-ever Australian appearances saying Goodbye to 50 years of De-Evolution. Recorded underneath the auspices of pioneering producer Brian Eno, 1978’s Q: Are We Not Males? A: We Are Devo! was seen as a name to arms by some and have become an underground hit. Others discovered DEVO’s sound, imagery, and materials threatening.

The band broke by means of to the mainstream with 1980’s Freedom of Selection, which contained the platinum-selling hit single, Whip It, and represented a peak of their songwriting. The video turned an MTV smash, juxtaposing the band’s low-budget futuristic look in opposition to a down-home farm setting and hints of S&M.

Albums, New Traditionalists and Oh NO It’s DEVO! continued their 1980’s decade world touring success accompanied by the hit songs, Stunning World and That’s Good respectively. In1990 the band left the world of touring and recording to pursue movie and TV tasks.

I PREVAIL 
WITH SPECIAL GUESTS THE PLOT IN YOU
TUESDAY 28 NOVEMBER – EATONS HILL HOTEL, BRISBANE

Since first becoming a member of forces within the metro Detroit space again in the summertime of 2013, I PREVAIL have made an immense influence on the world of different music and have rapidly turned one in all rock’s largest breakthrough bands. 2019’s Trauma took issues to an entire new degree whereas in 2022, they elevated themselves with the discharge of True Energy.

Rising to an area degree standing and receiving two Grammy Nominations — for Finest Rock Album for Trauma and Finest Metallic Efficiency for his or her single, Bow Down, they’re rising to the height of the choice music world and making main, plain waves past it and are kicking into an entire new gear.

After racking up over 100 million streams and receiving reward from Billboard, Rock Sound, Different Press, and extra, THE PLOT IN YOU launched their fifth album, Swan Tune in 2021. Final yr, the band’s 2018-released single FEEL NOTHING was formally licensed Gold by the RIAA and the track is a digital success story that also streams over 2 million instances and has loved an thrilling beyond-viral second on TikTok. The monitor seems on the band’s album DISPOSE.

COREY TAYLOR
TUESDAY 28 NOVEMBER – METRO THEATRE, SYDNEY
WEDNESDAY 29 NOVEMBER – NORTHCOTE THEATRE, MELBOURNE

Uncompromising, unfiltered, and plain in any area, COREY TAYLOR  continues to influence tradition because the frontman for each Grammy Award-winning multi-Platinum juggernaut Slipknot and Platinum rock drive Stone Bitter. Taylor is a New York Instances best-selling writer in addition to an actor with a myriad movie and tv credit. Impacting generations of followers and friends alike, his voice has rallied thousands and thousands of followers throughout the globe. Globally Slipknot boast 13 Platinum and 44 Gold albums, three of which debuted at Quantity One on the Billboard 200 (All Hope is Gone, .5 the Grey
Chapter, and We Are Not Your Type).

The Australian reveals will see COREY TAYLOR carry out solo and tracks from his newest solo studio album, CMF2.

PENNYWISE 
TUESDAY 5 DECEMBER – THE TIVOLI, BRISBANE
WEDNESDAY 6 DECEMBER – COOLANGATTA HOTEL, GOLD COAST
FRIDAY 8 DECEMBER – DRIFTERS WHARF, CENTRAL COAST
SATURDAY 9 DECEMBER – TORQUAY HOTEL, TORQUAY

Flying the flag for all issues raucous, Golden State staples PENNYWISE will flex their fiery aptitude, with the enduring California punk rockers aren’t any strangers to our shores.

Shaped within the South Bay of Los Angeles—a neighbourhood with a wealthy punk-rock historical past, PENNYWISE started in 1988. The band went on to amass a global following with their relentless touring and a melodic, high-energy sound fusing basic punk, surf punk, and blistering hardcore. By means of the years, they’ve solidified their place in punk historical past with 12 albums underneath their belts and iconic songs like ‘Fuck Authority,’ ‘Alien,’ and ‘Bro Hymn’ (their timeless ode to brotherhood and departed associates).

Resolutely work outdoors the margins of the mainstream, the band has emerged as an enduringly vibrant staple on the worldwide touring circuit.

ENTER SHIKARI 
MONDAY 4 DECEMBER – THE TRIFFID, BRISBANE
WEDNESDAY 6 DECEMBER – LIBERTY MUSIC HALL, SYDNEY

Since forming again in 2003, ENTER SHIKARI have gone on to launch seven full-length albums with their newest launch, A Kiss For The Complete World, debuting #1 on the UK chart, whereas garnering ongoing business acclaim, and a number of awards for good measure. And armed with high-octane lashings of punk, electronica and alt rock palettes alongside private lyricism and oft-politically charged thematics, ENTER SHIKARI proceed to be one of the crucial magnetic forces within the trendy musical panorama.

ENTER SHIKARI have performed someplace within the area of 3000 reside reveals across the globe, together with three headline arena-sized excursions within the UK, substantial UK / Europe area helps with The Prodigy, Linking Park and 30 Seconds To Mars, and extra massive and small festivals than it might be potential to checklist totally on this area. 2023 kicked straight off with the announcement of their new album, and what turned generally known as the Residency Tour, which took in 5 British cities over the course of 1 week, repeating for 3 months.

BEHEMOTH
FRIDAY 24 NOVEMBER – POWERSTATION, AUCKLAND
MONDAY 27 NOVEMBER – THE TRIFFID, BRISBANE
WEDNESDAY 29 NOVEMBER – THE GOV, ADELAIDE
TUESDAY 5 DECEMBER – MAX WATTS, MELBOURNE

Within the annals of metallic there isn’t any band extra synonymous with an loyal dedication to the single-minded defiance of expectation than BEHEMOTH. Over the course of their exceptional 31-year profession, these Polish hellraisers – spearheaded by Adam Darski, aka Nergal – are extra than simply the architects of their nation’s legendary excessive metallic scene. Over the course of three a long time and former 11 albums, Nergal’s singular imaginative and prescient has cast BEHEMOTH into one thing excess of a mere black metallic band.

Past any confines of style, they’ve grown to develop into nothing lower than the personification of riot, individuality and unflinching self-expression knowledgeable by a literate worldview and worldliness that’s resulted in a locking of horns with all the things from the mainstream press to the Polish Catholic church – most notably manifesting in Nergal’s trial for blasphemy in 2010 that solely served to reveal the deep-seated hypocrisies that his music seeks to problem. It additionally highlighted the distinct lack of fucks that he has to present.

SEPULTURA
SUNDAY 26 NOVEMBER – METROPOLIS, FREMANTLE
TUESDAY 28 NOVEMBER – THE GOV, ADELAIDE
WEDNESDAY 29 NOVEMBER – MAX WATTS, MELBOURNE
MONDAY 4 DECEMBER – PRINCESS THEATRE, BRISBANE

It goes with out saying that the worldwide metallic scene wouldn’t be the identical with out SEPULTURA. For practically 40 years now, the Brazilian icons are usually not solely a band revered worldwide; they’ve been, are and endlessly will probably be on the very forefront of Thrash Metallic, trailblazing ever since they launched their long-since legendary debut album Morbid Visions in 1986.

Whereas rapidly establishing themselves as leaders of the second wave of Thrash already within the late eighties, to today they by no means got here even near stagnation. Now three albums deep into what could very nicely be their strongest incarnation but, SEPULTURA are an unleashed energy to be reckoned with, uniting bucketloads of expertise and youthful vigour in a very revived method.

TAKING BACK SUNDAY
WEDNESDAY 29 NOVEMBER – 170 RUSSELL, MELBOURNE
TUESDAY 5 DECEMBER – PRINCESS THEATRE, BRISBANE
WEDNESDAY 6 DECEMBER – FACTORY THEATRE, SYDNEY

TAKING BACK SUNDAY are extraordinarily excited heading into 2023 with their eighth studio album, 152, out on the finish of the month. From the band’s landmark 2002 debut Inform All Your Pals to 2016’s Tidal Wave, TAKING BACK SUNDAY has developed from a key participant in an early 2000s scene to a style defying rock band with out ever ceasing to push the restrictions of their sound.

In between all of their fixed touring with acts like My Chemical Romance, Jimmy Eat World, Third Eye Blind and others,. TAKING BACK SUNDAY are greatest identified for his or her explosive riffs, affecting vocals, and epic choruses that has resonated with their viewers for thus lengthy.

PVRIS
WITH SPECIAL GUESTS MAGNOLIA PARK & CHEZ
TUESDAY 28 NOVEMBER – FACTORY THEATRE, SYDNEY
WEDNESDAY 29 NOVEMBER – CROXTON BANDROOM, MELBOURNE
TUESDAY 5 DECEMBER – THE TRIFFID, BRISBANE

Over the previous decade, producer, singer/songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Lyndsey Gunnulfsen has trailblazed her personal path together with her genre-breaking mission PVRIS. EVERGREEN marks Gunnulfsen’s most cinematic sonic and visible mission up to now.

2023 marks PVRIS‘ most critically-acclaimed and thrilling chapter. From Coachella, to Studying And Leeds, to Lollapalooza, Gunnulfsen has solidified PVRIS as a global touring phenomenon. All through her profession, Gunnulfsen’s dynamic vocal skills and instrumentation transcend effortlessly throughout her largely co-produced catalog, from enchanting and angelic harmonies, to aggressive and gritty deliveries that rival a few of rock’s best.

Prolific five-piece MAGNOLIA PARK will probably be releasing their new album Halloween Mixtape II on October 27. It’s the observe as much as 2022’s debut document Baku’s Revenge and non secular counterpart to 2021’s Halloween Mixtape, Their kaleidoscopic fusion of sound is on show greater than ever as their aesthetic is a up to date fusion of magnetic pop, punk, nu-metal, hip-hop, phonk and 2000s theatre-emo.

SLAUGHTER TO PREVAIL
TUESDAY 28 NOVEMBER – 170 RUSSELL, MELBOURNE
TUESDAY 5 DECEMBER – MANNING BAR, SYDNEY
WEDNESDAY 6 DECEMBER – THE GOV, ADELAIDE

SLAUGHTER TO PREVAIL emerges from the darkest corners of the metallic scene, wielding an uncompromising sound that resonates with the depth of a thousand thunderstorms. Led by the formidable frontman, Alex Horrible, their ferocious mix of deathcore and blackened metallic is a sonic onslaught that leaves no survivors.

Initially shaped in Russia, the band made the daring resolution to relocate to Florida, USA, within the wake of the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Firmly standing in opposition to violence and battle, they carry a powerful message of unity and peace by means of their music.

Their relentless pursuit of metallic domination has led them to overcome phases throughout the US. From their electrifying headline excursions in 2022 and 2023, which noticed sold-out reveals reverberating with their signature mix of aggression and melody, to headlining prestigious festivals reminiscent of So What in Dallas, Inkcarceration in Mansfield, and Blue Ridge in Alton.

Brace your self for the reign of SLAUGHTER TO PREVAIL the sonic architects of chaos.

WHILE SHE SLEEPS
WITH SPECIAL GUEST BLOOM
TUESDAY 28 NOVEMBER – HOLLYWOOD, AUCKLAND
THURSDAY 30 NOVEMBER – STAY GOLD, MELBOURNE
TUESDAY 5 DECEMBER – THE BRIGHTSIDE, BRISBANE

Some bands play it protected on the subject of taking their subsequent steps. However then, WHILE SHE SLEEPS have by no means been “some band”. The Sheffield quintet have made a profession out of confounding expectations, be it by means of their dizzying mix of crushing metallic, guttural hardcore and arena-worthy hooks, or the best way they’ve carried themselves over an explosive, 17-year profession.

Their long-awaited sixth studio album is due in March 2024 which is able to see them enter the brand new period of WHILE SHE SLEEPS. They bought out their latest UK headline tour supported by Bury Tomorrow and Polaris together with the enduring Alexandra Palace in London.

Shaped in 2017, Sydney Metalcore group, BLOOM mix fierce sounds and impassioned lyrics to have fun their affect and usher in a brand new period of heavy music in Australia. After the discharge of their second EP In Passing, BLOOM accomplished a 19 date Australian tour in 2021, then adopted up with the discharge of Sink Into the Soil.  SITS noticed them tackle their first headline tour round Australia, together with nationwide excursions supporting Void Of Imaginative and prescient, Holding Absence, Ocean Grove and Unhealthy Omens alongside quite a few bought out headline reveals and competition appearances at UNIFY Gathering and CVLTFEST alongside the best way.

HANABIE.
TUESDAY 28 NOVEMBER – STAY GOLD, MELBOURNE
MONDAY 4 DECEMBER – THE BRIGHTSIDE, BRISBANE

Forming in 2015, Japanese metalcore outfit HANABIE. mix metallic, hardcore, hip hop, electronica and J-pop with Harajuku-inspired aesthetics. Brandishing their secret weapons, pop, genre-less music and kawaii neo-Japanese model, HANABIE. additionally embrace tongue-in-cheek lyricism, as witnessed most just lately on their 2023 album Reborn Famous person! in addition to on their debut 2021 full size Lady’s Reform Manifest. Beforehand acting at Aftershock, Louder Than Life and Blue Ridge Rock Festival, HANABIE. are a breath of sharpened contemporary air within the heavy realms, and a must-see in a reside setting.

ROYAL & THE SERPENT
WEDNESDAY 29 NOVEMBER – CROWBAR, SYDNEY
MONDAY 4 DECEMBER – STAY GOLD, MELBOURNE

RIAA Gold-certified singer-songwriter ROYAL & THE SERPENT is an artist solely unafraid to reveal the deepest and darkest components of her psyche. Initially from New Jersey, she first took up guitar at age 14 with assist from the then-six-year-old sister of her buddy Donna Missal then relocated to L.A. at age 18. Because of the thrill behind songs like 2019’s Weddings & Funerals and Salvador Dali—and to her electrifying reside present—she ultimately inked a take care of Atlantic.

Royal’s unfiltered songwriting has proved wildly resonant to her ever-growing fanbase and led to such triumphs as touring with Demi Lovato and making an look on the pop celebrity’s newest full-length. She’s carried out at main festivals like When We Had been Younger and Firefly and toured with artists like grandson and PVRIS. Made with producers like Zakk Cervini (Yungblud, Poppy), Keith Sorrells (Demi Lovato, Pink Sweat$), and David Dahlquist (Hayley Kiyoko, Pierce the Veil).

GOOD THINGS FESTIVAL 2023 LINE UP:
Fall Out Boy
Limp Bizkit
Devo (The Farewell Tour Celebrating 50 Years)
I Prevail | Bullet For My Valentine | Corey Taylor
Pennywise | Spiderbait | Slowly Slowly | Enter Shikari
Behemoth | Sepultura | Taking Again Sunday | PVRIS

In Alphabetical Order:
Bloom | Increase Crash Opera | Eskimo Joe | Frenzal Rhomb | Hanabie | Jebediah | Luca Brasi
Magnolia Park | Make Them Endure | Ocean Sleeper | Royal & The Serpent | Brief Stack
Slaughter To Prevail | Stand Atlantic | Tapestry | The Plot In You | Whereas She Sleeps

DATES AND VENUES:
Friday 1 December – Flemington Racecourse, Melbourne (LIC AA 15+)
Saturday 2 December – Centennial Park, Sydney (18+)
Sunday 3 December – Brisbane Showgrounds, Brisbane (LIC AA 15+)

Tickets on sale now at http://goodthings.oztix.com.au/

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