Meredith Music Festival 2025 Line-Up

Clockwise from top left: TV On The Radio, Atarashii Gakko!, Colin Hay, Perfume Genius

Details: By Staff Writers; Aug 15

Staff Writers

Our eclectic team of writers from around Australia – and some beyond.

15 August 2025

A big happy 33rd to Meredith Music Festival – an Aussie music festival staple which returns once again to Victoria later this year.

The festival, which sold out almost immediately last year, will take over the Meredith Supernatural Amphitheatre for three days and two nights. . . And each ticket sold helps many organisations to do good things in the Golden Plains district.

The amphitheatre is the perfect space for Meredith. It’s a permanent, purpose-built underground wonderland, providing optimal conditions for festival frivolities. As for who’s playing in 2025, let’s just say it’s a custom-cut line-up, built to accentuate the evolving atmospherics of the venue. There’s explorers, enjoiners, defiers, compellers, believers, trippers, trovers and troupers.

“I am writing to share some news from the Supernatural Amphitheatre. The line-up for the 33rd annual Meredith is here,” Aunty Meredith says. “The second round of the ballot is open now until 10:33pm on Tuesday 19 August. Enter here.”

“The ballot was introduced in 2007 to distribute Meredith tickets in an equitable and stress-free manner, as there are far more people interested in coming along than tickets available. Being in the ballot means you get first crack at tickets.”

First up for 2025, TV On The Radio – a group whose mutant art-rock ruptured ‘00s NYC, lifting the post-9/11 fog and encouraging the masses to dance again. After a hiatus, they’re back.

Next is Atarashii Gakko, blading out of Japan like four pinballs in frenzy mode. Mizyu, Rin, Suzuka and Kanon are raring to go, with a mission to crush mediocrity, embrace the way out, and save you from burn-out culture.

Perfume Genius is known for sketching a different vibe with every record – from ‘Too Bright’ to ‘Set Your Heart On Fire’. Audiences can expect shape-shifting, chair-dancing, bouquet-lashing catharsis.

Good things come in threes, and that’s proved in Folk Bitch Trio: Gracie, Jeanie and Heide. They’re more than a genre. . . They spin surreal and funny tales into musical confessionals: top-shelf tunes with melting harmonies that make you feel things.

Colin Hay has had a remarkable life. A national treasure, Colin grew up in a music shop in Scotland before moving to Melbourne. There, he wrote some songs that went to #1 worldwide and have had more than a billion streams. He’s won a GRAMMY, has sold more than 30 million records, and his band Men At Work (‘Down Under’) fired the shot that started the ‘80s.

And there’s plenty more where that came from.

Meredith Music Festival is on at Meredith Supernatural Amphitheatre 5-7 December.