Australia’s Wildlands Festival goes coast-to-coast early next year with a bill headlined by Dom Dolla, Kid Cudi, and Addison Rae.
They’re joined on the lineup by the likes of Chris Stussy, KETTAMA, Luude, 070 Shake and Cassian.
The single-day show will kick off for the first time at Brisbane Showgrounds on Jan. 1, 2026, then crosses the country to Perth – a distance of about 2,700 miles – for a party Jan. 3 at Arena Joondalup.
“This marks a new chapter for Wildlands in Queensland,” reads a statement from organizers, as Brisbane swaps its previous New Year’s Eve slot “for the fresh energy of New Year’s Day allowing all headliners to play in peak time slots.”
Wildlands Festival is produced by Untitled Group, the team behind Beyond The Valley, which this week unveiled its year-end show, set for Dec. 28-Jan. 1 at Barunah Plains, Victoria, about 80 miles south west of Melbourne.
Presale tickets for Wildlands go on sale Tuesday, August 26th, at 6pm local time.
Earlier this month, organizers announced the “difficult decision” to cut Adelaide from the forthcoming Wildlands trek, the South Australian capital officially “taking a break this year.”
The message continues, “This isn’t a call we wanted to make, especially after three strong years in South Australia, but the landscape has shifted, and the viability of delivering the event at the standard we hold ourselves to simply isn’t possible this season.”
Wildlands festival began in Brisbane in 2019, and then expanded to Adelaide and Perth in 2022.
The traveling, dance-focused festival contributed to Untitled Group’s “record-breaking” year in 2024, raking over 85,000 attendees across three dates.
Dance music festivals are the most numerous, and most popular in Australia’s festivals landscape. Although many events have struggled due to mounting talent and operational costs, changing ticket buying behaviour, climate change and other factors, Untitled Group and its flagship fest BTV this year celebrate their tenth anniversary.
