Laneway Festival Has Added 'Stranger Things' Star Joe Keery, AKA Djo, to Its 2025 Lineup

How do you make a huge Charli XCX-headlined festival lineup even bigger? If you're Laneway Festival 2025, you add a piece of Stranger Things to the bill. Before general tickets for next year's events go on sale, organisers have added Joe Keery to the lineup as Djo, who'll be performing live in Australia and New Zealand for the first time ever.

When the roster of acts initially dropped, it sparked a question: how much green will be seen at 2025's Laneway Festival given that it's bringing Brat summer Down Under? Now, here's another: how glorious will Keery's hair be when the 'End of the Beginning' talent takes to the stage?

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Laneway has also announced another change, with the Sydney event moving locations. Instead of taking place at Sydney Showground, the fest's Harbour City stop is settling in at Centennial Park.

For company when the event kicks off in Auckland on Thursday, February 6, the hits Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth, Charlie XCX and Djo will be joined by Beabadoobee, Clairo, Barry Can't Swim and Remi Wolf. Also on the list: BICEP doing their CHROMA AV DJ set, Olivia Dean, Eyedress and Skegss — and STÜM, RONA, Hamdi, Joey Valence & Brae, 2hollis, Fcukers, Ninajirachi, Julie, Girl and Girl, and more.

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The event started by Danny Rogers and Jerome Borazio in the mid-00s is playing Western Springs in Auckland, then hopping over the ditch to Brisbane Showgrounds, the aforementioned Centennial Park in Sydney, Melbourne's Flemington Park, Bonython Park in Adelaide and Wellington Square in Perth.

Laneway joins the list of festivals locking in their comebacks after a tough year of cancellations across the live music scene, alongside Golden Plains, Bluesfest (for the last time), Wildlands, Good Things, Lost Paradise, Beyond The Valley and Meredith.

Laneway Festival 2025 Lineup

Charli XCX
Beabadoobee
Clairo
Barry Can't Swim
BICEP present CHROMA (AV DJ set)
Djo
Remi Wolf
Olivia Dean
Eyedress
Skegss
STÜM
RONA
Hamdi
Joey Valence & Brae
2hollis
Fcukers
Ninajirachi
Julie
Girl and Girl
+ Triple J unearthed winners

Laneway Festival 2025 Dates and Venues

Thursday, February 6 – Western Springs, Auckland / Tāmaki Makaurau
Saturday, February 8 — Brisbane Showgrounds, Brisbane / Turrbal Targun
Sunday, February 9 — Centennial Park, Sydney / Burramattagal Land & Wangal Land
Friday, February 14 — Flemington Park, Melbourne / Wurundjeri Biik
Saturday, February 15 — Bonython Park, Adelaide / Kaurna Yerta
Sunday, February 16 — Wellington Square, Perth / Whadjuk Boodjar

St Jerome's Laneway Festival is touring Australia and New Zealand in February 2025. Head to the festival's website for further details, and to get tickets in general sales from 10am local time on Wednesday, October 16, 2024.

Top Djo image: Guido Gazzilli. Laneway images: Charlie Hardy / Daniel Boud / Maclay Heriot / Cedric Tang.