Crowbar Celebrates Its 13th Birthday With Week-Long Gig Series

Beloved live music institution Crowbar is celebrating its 13th birthday this December, today announcing a week-long gig series for its venues in Sydney and Brisbane.

With a stacked list of local and international talent, the chaos begins in Sydney on Wednesday, 17 December, with a performance from the genre-defying rockers RedHook. Punk stars The Chats are up next, followed by Montreal death metal icons Cryptopsy and Australian music icons Spiderbait.

In both cities, a secret headliner will take to the stage. Brisbane will also feature Cryptopsy, Spiderbait, and The Chats, with Queensland locals The Buoys bringing their brand of alt-rock to the venue.

You can find the day-by-day breakdown of the celebrations below, with more acts and surprises to be announced in the lead-up to the shows.

Tickets for the Brisbane events are available here, and tickets to the Sydney shows can be found here.

“Australia’s iconic live music venue Crowbar is celebrating its 13th birthday in 2025, marking over a decade of blood, sweat and beers since opening in 2012,” venue operators commented in a statement.

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They added, “With thousands of bands through its doors and millions of pints poured, Crowbar will mark the milestone with a week-long party in both Sydney and Brisbane in December.”

Crowbar Brisbane opened its doors in 2012 and closed in 2020 due to difficulties brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. Last November, it returned by taking over the empty space that was left upon The Zoo’s devastating closure.

Over the course of a weekend-long reopening, Crowbar Brisbane hosted acts including COG, Hope D, WAAX, Tropical Fuck Storm, and many more.