In 2026, Sydney Harbour will be home to another edition of the punk rock cruise, Schooner or Later.

Next year’s event will be headlined by the one and only Frenzal Rhomb, who return to the boat for the first time since 2018. They’ll be accompanied by Melbourne’s Mid Youth Crisis for a co-headlining bill that won’t be repeated anytime soon. They’ll be joined by special guests ARSE and Melvic Centre.

The 2026 event will take place on Sunday, 15 February, from 2 pm to 6 pm AEDT. Four hours cruising across Sydney Harbour will begin from Casino Wharf in Pyrmont. Punters aged 18 and above are welcome, and younger fans can also attend, provided a guardian accompanies them.

Tickets will be available at 12 pm AEDT this Thursday, 20 November. You can register and secure your place at next year’s event here, with more information available on the Chopdog Entertainment website.

Schooner or Later is a guaranteed good time, having hosted bands such as Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Unwritten Law, Lagwagon, and more. With strong line-ups and offering a unique live music experience, tickets sell out quickly every year.

Promoting the event on social media, Frenzal Rhomb quipped, “It’s back! SCHOONER OR LATER - The original, the biggest and the best punk rock boat on Sydney Harbour. (unconfirmed).”

Earlier this year, Frenzal Rhomb’s Lindsay McDougall told a hilarious story of when the band hid from Slipknot at Big Day Out after printing t-shirts that mocked the American nu-metal outfit.

“We were selling a t-shirt that had cartoon drawings on the front with little kids’ masks that we were wearing—little kids’ masks made of paper plates and macaroni, that sort of thing. And on the back of it, it just said ‘Shitknot,’” McDougall explained.

After hearing laughter, he continued, “Very funny, yes, correct. But the second we saw the members of Slipknot backstage, very unmasked and very muscly—they were walking backstage, pointing at our dressing room—we went and hid in the Tarago.”

From May to October, Frenzal Rhomb toured regionally on their A Man’s (Still) Not A Camel 25th Anniversary Tour, celebrating 25-ish years of A Man’s Not A Camel.

Upon announcing the tour, the band wrote, “It is a failure of the major political parties and stain on the very history of this great nation, that simply because you live outside of the major city centres, for the last two and a half decades you have been deprived of sweet guitar riffs, 90s slap bass, sick drum beats, and harmonised rhymes about beer.

“The FRPP’s (that is, the Frenzal Rhomb Political Party) A Man’s Not A Camelpaign pledges to end that drought, and bring the songs of Frenzal Rhomb’s majestic, iconic, exalted album A Man’s Not A Camel BACK to regional Australia.”

SCHOONER OR LATER 2026 - Sydney Harbour Cruise

FRENZAL RHOMB + MID YOUTH CRISIS

with ARSE & MELVIC CENTRE

SUNDAY 15 FEBRUARY 15 - Casino Wharf, Pyrmont