Laneway Festival Starts Teasing 2026 Events: Dates & Venues Confirmed
The line-up is coming sooner than you think...
Laneway Festival Brisbane 2024 (Credit: Charlie Hardy)
Laneway Festival is gearing up to unveil its 2026 events, sharing teasers on social media and sending a “coming soon” email to subscribers.
This morning, Laneway Festival organisers confirmed the dates and venues for next year’s highly anticipated events—including venue changes and even a city change in Queensland.
After nearly a decade of shows in Brisbane, the Laneway team will head south for the first time. As the Brisbane site is being prepared for the 2032 Olympics, Laneway will make its Gold Coast debut at Southport Sharks.
In South Australia, the festival will relocate to Adelaide Showgrounds, and in Western Australia, the event will move to Arena Joondalup in Perth. Meanwhile, Melbourne and Sydney punters will return to Flemington Racecourse and Centennial Park, respectively. You can see the dates and venues below.
Not only have festival organisers revealed the dates and venues, they’ve also shared when the line-up will be announced: less than 48 hours away on Thursday, 18 September, at 8:10 am AEST.
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Laneway, which turns 21 in 2026, has had quite the history, growing from hosting events in actual laneways across the country to massive events in Australia and New Zealand, locking in huge international and homegrown names.
This year’s festival, headlined by Charli XCX and featuring names such as Clairo, beabadoobee, BICEP, and stacks more, sold out almost immediately as the events had “received more registrations than available pre-sale tickets.”
Laneway 2025 was attended by 200,000 music fans across sold-out dates in Auckland, Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, Adelaide, and Perth, becoming the most successful event in the festival’s 20-year history. 40,000 punters also attended the Laneway Festival sideshows.
Earlier this year, festival co-founders Danny Rogers and Jerome Borazio addressed the pressure of putting on an event that matched 2025's success, stating: “We’re not sure how we’re going to top this one, but our firm belief is that the quality of the line-up will be the thing to keep fans, and artists, coming back.”
Of today’s announcement, they added: “It’s incredible to be celebrating 21 years of Laneway. What began as a little street party in a Melbourne laneway has grown into a summer ritual across Australia and New Zealand. Every year we’re blown away by the response from the artists, fans, and community that make Laneway so special — 2026 is about honouring that history while looking to the future.”
Yesterday (15 September), the Laneway team shared a “coming soon” post on Instagram, followed by a post commemorating its upcoming 21st anniversary.
No line-up hints have dropped surrounding the 2026 festival, but as the 2024 line-up featured hip-hop and alternative R&B acts such as Stormzy, Steve Lacy and Dominic Fike, and this year’s event focused more on EDM and indie pop, we reckon Laneway 2026 might do something a little bit different.
You can head here to explore The Music’s Laneway 2026 line-up predictions.
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LANEWAY FESTIVAL 2026
AUCKLAND / Tāmaki Makaurau (18+)
Thursday 5 February 2026 – Western Springs
GOLD COAST / Yugambeh Jagun (16+)
Saturday 7 February 2026 — Southport Sharks
SYDNEY / Gadigal & Bidjigal (16+)
Sunday 8 February 2026 — Centennial Park
MELBOURNE / Wurundjeri Biik (16+)
Friday 13 February 2026 — Flemington Park
ADELAIDE / Kaurna Yerta (16+)
Saturday 14 February 2026 — Adelaide Showgrounds
PERTH / Whadjuk Boodjar (16+)
Sunday 15 February 2026 — Arena Joondalup
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