The Golden Plains 2025 line-up has dropped. And its splendid ...
Music lovers are still spying Meredith Music Festival on their summer horizon, which means ‘tis the season to unleash the first line-up for its Autumn companion, Golden Plains.
Cherished for its sense of music discovery and community, the revered Victorian festival returns in March 2025. Taking place over the Labour Day weekend, Golden Plains XVII will see an enviable bill of overseas and local acts lighting up the Supernatural Amphitheatre on Wadawurrung Land.
Now look, the Golden Plains line-up is always of the highest quality. A weekend in the Sup in March should be on your bucket list if you haven't done it before. But there's something about the 2025 line-up that makes it feel like this could truly be one for the ages.
Hitting the 'Sup as part of her first Australian tour since 2017, PJ Harvey will captivate with material from last year's beguiling I Inside the Old Year Dying alongside reinventions of her sterling back catalogue.
Evolution has defined PJ Harvey's career, from the raw vitality of 1992 debut album Dry and the Steve Albini-produced angst of Rid of Me, to the gothic poetry of Let England Shake (2011) and The Hope Six Demolition Project (2016).
She's been a live highlight ever since her first Ausralian tour in 2001, Harvey is a captivating performer whose stagecraft evolves alongside her shapeshifting sound.
Ireland's incredible Fontaines D.C. might be one of the biggest rock bands coming through right now. We've been unashamedly obsessed with the band since their early singles and their recently released fourth album Romance might be their finest yet.
Their return to Australia has been anticipated since the cancellation of Splendour In The Grass earlier this year and they'll absolutely demolish the Sup when they take flight.
The Dewaele brothers have made incredible records as Soulwax, but it's as their party starting crew 2manydjs that they'll return to Australia in 2025.
These expert selectors and musicians are second-to-none when it comes to keeping a dancefloor pumping and what better place to experience them in action than Golden Plains?
Sun Ra Arkestra, one of the pre-eminent free jazz acts of all time, will send us to the stratosphere when they rip in at the Sup next year.
Stars of their own (not quite) fictional biopic, Irish rappers Kneecap add Golden Plains to their already booming debut Aussie tour.
American R&B band Durand Jones & the Indications will bring a hefty dose of soul to proceedings; conscious hip hop icon Bahamadia will show us why she's been such a formidable figure for the past 30-odd years, and shapeshifting garage punks OSEES will continue their dominance of the underground with another welcome visit.
Genre-bending LA duo Magdalena Bay are behind one of the year's wildest listens Imaginal Disk, and their effortless, kaleidoscopic fusion of synthpop, prog rock, and early internet aesthetics will make for a stunning spectacle on the main stage.
The Australian contigent of the bill is on point too, with the likes of Thelma Plum, Grace Cummings, Mulga Bore Hard Rock, Skeleten, Jada Weazel and more will prove that we have some of the most exciting artists on the planet right now.
There’s certainly a lot more to chew on but here’s the full line-up as it stands:
PJ Harvey, Fontaines D.C., 2 Many DJs, Duran Jones & The Indications, Magdalena Bay, OSEES, Kneecap, Thelma Plum, Grace Cummings, Bahamadia, Hermanos Gutiérrez, CCL, Ela Minus, Bonny Light Horseman, Adriana, Mulga Bore Hard Rock, Wet Kiss, Teether & Kuya Neil, Skeleten, Zjoso, Jada Weazel, Elliot & Vincent, Sun Ra Arkestra, Storytelling with Uncle Barry, and more
Golden Plains runs from Saturday 8 to Monday 10 March over Victoria’s Labour Day weekend, hosted at the Supernatural Amphitheatre in Meredith on Wadawurrung Land.
As is tradition, tickets are available via ballot, and you can get yourself sorted with a sign up here.
