I need a ’90s fix, and I needed it yesterday.
There’s been a bit of a em0-alt punk hole lately, and Good Things Festival’s 2026 lineup is just the thing to fill it.
Limp Bizkit are leading this year’s East Coast run, joined by Simple Plan, Spiritbox, Polaris, The All-American Rejects, Bad Religion, Alexisonfire, Grinspoon and a truly ridiculous amount of heavy music.
There’s plenty here for anyone who grew up somewhere between nu-metal, pop punk, hardcore and alternative rock, but rest assured, this isn’t purely an exercise in nostalgia.
Spiritbox, SPEED, Bilmuri, House of Protection, Future Palace and Headwreck bring plenty of newer blood, while the older guard are showing up with some genuinely good reasons to care.
Alexisonfire will perform Crisis in full, Millencolin are doing Pennybridge Pioneers front-to-back, Bad Religion are celebrating 45+1 years, and Ministry will play their final Australian shows.
Elsewhere there’s MxPx, Neck Deep, P.O.D., The Devil Wears Prada, Slowly Slowly, Choirboys, All Them Witches, The Black Queen, LØLØ, Voice of Baceprot and plenty more.
Good Things hits Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne on December 4, Sydney Showground on December 5 and Brisbane Showgrounds on December 6, with all three events 16+.
Pre-sale tickets go on sale Tuesday August 18 at 10am AEST, with general sale following Thursday August 20 at 10am AEST.
Good Things Festival 2026 lineup
Limp Bizkit
Simple Plan | Spiritbox
Polaris | The All-American Rejects | Bad Religion
Alexisonfire – performing Crisis in full | Grinspoon
Millencolin – performing Pennybridge Pioneers in full | Bilmuri
Ministry – Farewell Australia | Chad Gray
MxPx | Neck Deep
SPEED | Slowly Slowly | P.O.D. | The Devil Wears Prada | Choirboys
Plus All Them Witches, The Black Queen, Future Palace, Headwreck, The Home Team, House of Protection, ivri, Kami Kehoe, Locked Shut, LØLØ, vianova, Voice of Baceprot and Stage 666.
There are lineups you look at and think, yeah, that’ll be fun. Then there are lineups that immediately scratch an itch you didn’t realise had been getting increasingly annoying.
This feels like the latter.
A little dirty, a little nostalgic, and plenty loud.
Like I said: I need a ’90s fix, and I needed it yesterday.
Head to Good Things Festival’s website for more info.
