Overview
Tenth birthdays are a big deal, especially when you're an Australian music festival that's been navigating a pandemic and the resulting difficult time for the industry for half of your run, and also grappling with the impact of La Niña. Yours and Owls has been on quite the rollercoaster ride across the past decade, clearly, so of course it's celebrating its milestone birthday with a massive lineup.
Fontaines DC, Denzel Curry, The Kooks and Goo Goo Dolls lead the roster of talent taking to the stage in Wollongong across Saturday, March 1–Sunday, March 2, 2025. Orville Peck, Hockey Dad, The Jungle Giants, Peach PRC and The Veronicas are also on the bill, as are Elderbrook, Honey Dijon, JPEGMafia and Salute — and plenty more.
When Yours and Owls revealed that it wasn't going ahead in 2024, joining the long list of music festivals scrapping plans for this year, it thankfully only put its fun on hold for 2025. Returning in 2025 was always the intention — and this is a lineup worth waiting for.
Yours and Owls didn't completely sit 2024 out, however. Earlier in October, it held a pre-party, aka the event you put on when you can't put on the full festival experience at your usual time of the year because it doesn't work for your headliners' calendars. So, a tunes-filled shindig still took over the University of Wollongong campus — complete with Golden Features, Peking Duk, Alice Ivy, Anna Lunoe and more — to keep things warm for next year.
Affectionately labelled "Gong Christmas", Yours and Owls 2025 will feature four stages across its two-day run, plus a feast of local arts — and food and drinks — beyond the tunes.
The lineup arrives just a week after the fest locked in its dates for next year. Confirmation that the event will be back next year follows locked-in details for the end of 2024 and the beginning of 2025 for a heap of fellow festivals, such as Laneway, Golden Plains, Bluesfest (for the last time), Wildlands, Good Things, Lost Paradise, Beyond The Valley and Meredith.
Yours and Owls Lineup 2025
Fontaines DC
Denzel Curry
The Kooks
Goo Goo Dolls
Elderbrook
Hockey Dad
Honey Dijon
JPEGMafia
The Jungle Giants
Orville Peck
Peach PRC
Salute
The Veronicas
Allday
Babe Rainbow
Coterie
Cyril
Dice
The Dreggs
Frankie Stew & Harvey Gunn
Grentperez
Isabel Larosa
Magdalena Bay
May A
Mark Blair
Pond
Richy Mitch & The Coal Miners
Sam Tompkins
San Cisco
Slowly Slowly
Sycco
Wunderhorse
Battlesnake
Bean Magazine
Bodyjar
The Belair Lip Bombs
C.O.F.F.I.N
Crocodylus
Keli Holiday
Kitschen Boy
Le Shiv
Miss Kaninna
Nick Ward
Ra Ra Viper
Satin Cali
Total Tommy
Y.O.G.A
Yours and Owls returns to Wollongong on Saturday, March 1–Sunday, March 2, 2025. Presale tickets start at 9am AEDT on Tuesday, October 29 with general sales at 9am AEDT on Wednesday, October 30 — head to the festival website for more details.
Top image: Ian Laidlaw.