Good Things 2025 line-up: Tool, Weezer, Garbage, James Reyne to perform in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane as festival unveils bill

Australia’s premier rock and metal festival has announced a monster bill to hit stages in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane in December.

Good Things 2025 will be headlined by prog metal titans Tool, visiting Australia for the first time since early 2020. The Los Angeles quartet — fronted by the enigmatic Maynard James Keenan — have performed only sporadically in 2025, most recently at Ozzy Osbourne’s Back to the Beginning farewell show last month in Birmingham just weeks before the Black Sabbath icon’s death at 76.

A healthy dose of Nineties nostalgia will be on offer courtesy of Weezer and Garbage, the latter returning to Australia for the first time in more than a decade. Traditionally one of their strongest markets, the foursome of Shirley Manson, Butch Vig, Steve Marker and Duke Erikson head down under on the back of their eighth studio album Let All That We Imagine Be the Light with hits from their multi-platinum albums Garbage (1995) and beautifulgarbage (2001) in tow.

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Elsewhere, following in the footsteps of fellow Aussie pub rock icons Boom Crash Opera and Dragon, former Australian Crawl frontman and ARIA Hall of Fame member James Reyne will bring classic tunes such as Reckless, The Boys Light Up and Slave to the festival stage.

Other local acts on the bill include Perth’s Make Them Suffer, pop-punkers Tonight Alive and Melbourne four-piece Civic.

American rockers Weezer performing in Paris last month. Credit: Kristy Sparow/Getty Images

Fans of legendary punk outfit Refused, meanwhile, will get a chance to see the band on their farewell tour. Originally forming in 1991, the Swedish band first split seven years later while touring the US in support of their seminal 1998 album The Shape Of Punk To Come before reforming in 2012.

The travelling circus kicks off on December 5 at Melbourne’s Flemington Racecourse before heading to Sydney and Brisbane on December 6 and 7 respectively.

The Sydney leg will head west to the Showground at Olympic Park — previously home to spiritual predecessors Soundwave and the Big Day Out — for the first time, having been staged in the eastern suburbs’ Centennial Park since 2019.

Tickets for all shows go on sale from 10am on Thursday, August 21, with a pre-sale on Tuesday, August 19 accessible by signing up at www.goodthingsfestival.com.au

GOOD THINGS FESTIVAL LINE-UP:

TOOL

Weezer

Garbage | All Time Low | Machine Head | The All-American Rejects

Knocked Loose | Lorna Shore | Refused | New Found Glory | Make Them Suffer

In Alphabetical Order:

Plus the chaos of Stage 666.