Overview
Australia's music festival scene hasn't had a great run in 2024, with everything from Splendour in the Grass and Groovin the Moo to Harvest Rock and Spilt Milk cancelling — but two end-of-year staples are returning to celebrate 2024 turning into 2025 with live tunes. Victoria's Beyond The Valley and New South Wales' Lost Paradise also have something else in common: plenty of the same acts on their respective lineups.
Beyond The Valley dropped its roster for this year first, and now it's Lost Paradise's turn a day later, with Fisher, Tinashe, Royel Otis among the big names doing double duty. Accordingly, if you're looking to travel to a regional spot for a huge music fest on and around New Year's Eve, you have choices.
Jess Bowen
After initially locking in its Saturday, December 28, 2024–Wednesday, January 1, 2025 dates back in July, Lost Paradise has unveiled a lineup filled with must-see names, all headed to the Glenworth Valley on the New South Wales Central Coast an hour out of Sydney. Flight Facilities doing their Decades mix is another massive highlight. So are Marlon Hoffstadt, Sammy Virji, SG Lewis, Confidence Man, DJ Boring and Kita Alexander, across a multi-day fest that features live music and DJ sets spanning both international and Australian talents, and regularly sells out — 2023's fest did.
Tunes are just one part of the Lost Paradise experience. Art, culture, wellness, and food and drink also get a look in, with the 2024 event also spanning Dr Karl getting chatting, yoga and healing arts, craft sessions, workshops and more. So, you can not only farewell one year and see in the next with a party, but by relaxing, feasting and learning something.
Making 2024's Lost Paradise extra special: the fact that this year marks ten years for the fest, which has become a go-to way to wrap up one year and embrace the next since 2014 — including if you're keen to camp for its duration.
Just as in 2023, this year's Lost Paradise is also opting to steer away from a traditional first-, second- and third-release ticket strategy. Instead, ticket prices gently increase in accordance with demand, while maintaining fair market pricing.
It's also committing to sustainability by using almost 100-percent recyclable materials in its decor and staging — and art — while implementing recycling across the site, waste sorting and a pledge for attendees that requires ticketholders to acknowledge their own environmental responsibility.
Lost Paradise 2024 Lineup:
Arcadia:
Fisher
Tinashe
Royel Otis
Caribou
Flight Facilities (Decades set)
AJ Tracey
Confidence Man
Teenage Dads
The Rions
Glass Beams
Pretty Girl (live)
Neil Frances
Flowdan & Neffa-T
Lola Young
Telenova
Kita Alexander
Rum Jungle
Nick Ward
Don West
Radio Free Alice
Total Tommy
Djanaba
Casual Fan
Surely Shirley
Civic Video
Micra
Krystal Rivvers
Micah Jey
Green Hand Band
Triple J Unearthed winner
Lost Disco & Paradise Club:
Marlon Hoffstadt
Sammy Virji
Denis Sulta
KI/KI
DJ BORING
Sg Lewis
Tinlicker (DJ set)
Interplanetary Criminal
Girls Don't Sync
Oden & Fatzo (live)
Malugi
CC:Disco!
Sally C
Fish56octagon
Chloé Caillet
Jennifer Cardini
Moxie
Little Fritter
Sarah Story
Dameeeela
James Pepper
Caleb Jackson
Elijah Something
Who Is Arcadia B2b Half Cut
Lost Soundsystem
Conspiracy Crew
Entity
Uncle Ru
Disco Dora
Chloe Harry Hooper
Mash
Gabriella Spritz
Sasha Milani B2b Fuchsia
Sim Select
Tokyo Sexwale
Dayzzi B2b Daug
Cozi
Oscill8
Oliiv
+ more to be announced
Shambhala Fields:
Dr Karl
Aretha Brown
You Wouldn't (with Will Gibbs and Pat Clifton)
Cooper Chapman
Plastic Free Mermaid
Emmanuel Asante
Rache Moore
Gwyn Williams
Damon Gameau
First Nations Culture with Uncle Phil
+ more to be announced
Jordan K Munns
Byravyna
Byravyna
Lost Paradise returns to Glenworth Valley, New South Wales from Saturday, December 28, 2024–Wednesday, January 1, 2025. To sign up for presale tickets, head to the festival's website — with presales starting on Tuesday, August 27 and general sales on Wednesday, August 28.
Images: Jess Bowen, Jordan K Munns, Byravyna and Amar Gera.