Yours and Owls Isn't Hosting Its Next Festival Until 2025 — But It's Throwing a 2024 Pre-Party First

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, how do you respond? If you're Wollongong's Yours and Owls, you postpone until next year while throwing a pre-party in-between so that this year doesn't miss out. So, the fest won't be going ahead this October in the same format as previous years; however, there will still be tunes-filled shindig at the University of Wollongong campus with an impressive lineup of musicians.

Golden Features, Peking Duk, Alice Ivy and Anna Lunoe lead a lineup that'll ensure that no Yours and Owls devotee has a gap in their spring plans. Also on the bill: Cxloe, Hellcat Speedracer, Ninajirachi and Running Touch. They'll all take to the stage on Saturday, October 12, 2024, at the spot that the fest only turned into its new site in 2023 after it was forced to cancel in 2022 when La Niña flooded its Stuart Park venue.

Jess Gleeson

Plenty of the above names are familiar with Yours and Owls — and will now help the festival get into the celebratory spirit ahead of putting on its tenth-birthday event in 2025. Details for the full next fest haven't yet been revealed, including those headliners, with organisers noting that they're on the way "real soon".

Affectionately labelled 'Gong Christmas', Yours and Owls will host its birthday pre-shenanigans at UOW as part of the fest and university's three-year partnership, with the all-weather solutions available at the campus cited as one of the driving factors behind the team-up — plus the uni's picturesque green spaces and a mutual commitment towards carbon-emission reduction.

2023's Yours and Owls featured Oliver Tree, Chet Faker and Descendents, and also Hilltop Hoods, Earl Sweatshirt, Golden Features, Ocean Alley, Flight Facilities and Pendulum — so expect 2025's fest to be worth waiting for.

2024's pre-party is keeping prices affordable, too, starting at $89.95 in the presale period that runs from 8.30am AEST on Wednesday, July 10, before general sales kick off at 8.30am AEST on Thursday, July 11.

Ian Laidlaw

Yours and Owls Tenth Birthday Pre-Party Lineup:

Golden Features
Peking Duk
Alice Ivy
Anna Lunoe
Cxloe
Hellcat Speedracer
Ninajirachi
Running Touch

Ruby Bowland

Yours and Owls will return in 2025, with details to be confirmed — but it'll throw a Tenth Birthday Pre-Party on Saturday, October 12, 2024 at the University of Wollongong, Northfields Ave, Wollongong. Presale tickets to the pre-party will drop from 8.30am AEST on Wednesday, July 10, then general sales from 8.30am AEST on Thursday, July 11. Head to the festival website for more details.

Top image: Ian Laidlaw.