Overview
Melburnians, add a regular trip — or several — to enjoy live tunes at Palace Foreshore to your calendar. A couple of years on from the site's initial comeback as an outdoor music venue, the St Kilda spot has locked in plans to host gigs annually. First up: a 2025 season between late-February and mid-March, when the pop-up precinct will welcome Honey Dijon, Fontaines DC and Denzel Curry, plus Magdalena Bay, The Kooks, Maribou State and Six60, to its stage.
There's more to come on the 2025 lineup, which'll run between Thursday, February 27–Saturday, March 16, and also more to come in future years, too. Whoever else gets behind the microphone — as curated by a team led by Dark Mofo alum Jay Rayner and Thomas Supple — they'll be doing so at a location that boasts Port Phillip Bay as a backdrop.
2025's season kicks off with The Kooks with Bristol Maroney, before unfurling the rest of its program on various days and dates across its three-week duration. If you want to see Fontaines DC, take note: the Dublin-born outfit's Saturday, March 8 gig has already sold out, while their Monday, March 10 show is selling fast.
As well listening to an ace soundtrack, punters will be able to hit up the site's bars, grab a bite from an array of food trucks and tuck into their food on the venue's grassed hill as the sun sets. Wonder Pies, Fritz's Wieners, Smashville, The Lil Dumpling Van, Billy van Creamy, Juicello and Little Eutopia Brew Bar will be on hand, serving up everything from pies, bratwursts, Nashville-style burgers and dumplings to ice cream, juice, gourmet toasties and coffee.
Theo Cottle
"We've been lucky to convince some of the world's hottest bands right now to fly in and play their headline shows with us. Really, St Kilda does a lot of the work for us. We just send them photos of sunsets, crowds and the epic venue location, and they're super keen to come out," said Rayner. "
"After curating festivals and programs all over the country it's a real homecoming working on the Palace Foreshore," added Supple. "As a card-carrying supporter of the St Kilda Football Club, and with strong memories of my grandmother's house in Elwood, I've got a real affinity with the beachside suburb, and it lives large in my memory as the place where I had some of my earliest and most formative live music and nightclub experiences."
Palace Foreshore 2025 Lineup (So Far)
Thursday, February 27: The Kooks with Bristol Maroney
Friday, February 28: Maribou State
Friday, March 7: Magdalena Bay
Sunday, March 2: Denzel Curry
Saturday, March 8: Fontaines DC — SOLD OUT
Sunday, March 9: Honey Dijon
Monday, March 10: Fontaines DC
Friday, March 14: Six60
Palace Foreshore's 2025 season runs from Thursday, February 27–Saturday, March 16. For more information and tickets, head to the precinct's website.