RISING 2025 Is Set to Close with a Huge Free Subterranean Gig by Briggs, BARKAA and More in the Yet-to-Open Anzac Station
First Nations label BAD APPLES MUSIC is curating Track Work — Music From the Underground, which is taking place 20-plus metres below St Kilda Road.
RISING 2025 keeps inching closer, with the Melbourne music, art, culture and architecture festival set to take over the Victorian capital across Wednesday, June 4–Sunday, June 15 — and it isn't done adding to its lineup just yet. How do you close out 12 jam-packed winter days, not to mention an event where you could be playing mini-golf in Flinders Street Station Ballroom one moment, then enjoying Pakistani R&B and Punjabi rap the next? With a literally underground five-hour gig that's making Melbourne history.
The fest has announced Track Work — Music From the Underground, which will take audiences to a brand-new location. Feel like you've seen live tunes at every venue in the Victorian capital there is? You haven't headed 20-plus metres below St Kilda Road to the yet-to-open Anzac Station for a gig before.
First Nations label BAD APPLES MUSIC is behind the event, with Briggs, BARKAA, Birdz and Jayteehazard on the lineup. Headline sets, DJs, MCs: they're all on the bill at this daytime concert, which is running from 11am–4pm on Sunday, June 15. Also huge: the fact that admission is free.
Alongside the entertainment, Track Work doubles as a chance to take a self-guided walk-through of the station — and to see Tracks, the new public artwork from Victorian First Nations artist Maree Clarke, which features the fur seal and fairy penguin among other animals that live in Bunurong / Boonwurrung Country's coastal climes.
"Track Work is a uniquely Melbourne moment — a chance to experience two of the most important, original and charismatic voices in music in this country. Briggs, BARKAA and their BAD APPLES MUSIC family will reveal one of the city's most significant new spaces with a baptism of bass and beats in a free afternoon of DJs, MCs and celebration," said RISING Co-Artistic Director Hannah Fox, announcing the event.
"As a powerful finale for RISING, we're thrilled to partner with Metro Tunnel Creative Program and BAD APPLES MUSIC to create something bold, fun, unexpected and unrepeatable."
Also on the RISING lineup, as previously announced: a free installation by a teamLab alum, exclusive Suki Waterhouse gigs, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Yasiin Bey with Talib Kweli, Portishead's Beth Gibbons, Aotearoa favourite Marlon Williams, Olivier-winning hip-hop dance work BLKDOG, Zoë Coombs Marr's new variety show, a film retrospective dedicated to Miranda July, Tropical Fuck Storm playing The Forum, Melbourne Art Trams' latest iteration and much, much more.
Isaac Turier
Track Work — Music From the Underground takes place from 11am–4pm on Sunday, June 15, 2025 at Anzac Station, Melbourne, with entry via the Domain Road and Albert Road station entrances. Entry is free but booking is required via the festival's website.
RISING 2025 runs from Wednesday, June 4–Sunday, June 15 across Melbourne. Head to the event's website for further information.
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