Good Things announces Korn, Sum 41 will headline 2024 festival
Good Things has dropped the line-up for its 2024 music festival, bringing in international rockers alongside Aussie classics.
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Good Things has dropped the line-up for this year’s festival after successfully campaigning to welcome 16 and 17-year-olds to their Sydney shows.
Californian nu metal band Korn will headline the event, bringing hits including Freak On a Leash 30 years on from their debut self-titled album.
The band has earnt two Grammy Awards and several platinum album certifications over the last three decades and previously performed at Download festival in 2018.
The festival will bring Canadian rockers Sum 41 to Aussie shores for the last time after the band announced last year they would disband following a world tour and the release of their album Heaven x Hell.
The band shot to fame with their 2001 album All Killer, No Filler, with hits Fat Lip and In Too Deep cementing themselves as pop-punk anthems.
Frontman Deryck Whibley said he’s proud of what the band had achieved, but now it’s time to “call it quits”.
“It’s the right time to walk away from it. I’m putting all of my energy into what’s ahead. This is going to be the biggest tour of our lives, and I want to make it the best show we’ve ever done. That’s it,” he said.
Violent Femmes will also take to the stage 41 years after their hit Blister In The Sun.
Melbourne rockers Jet will bring classics Are You Gonna Be My Girl and Rollover DJ from their album Get Born, which celebrated its 20th birthday last year.
The band was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame last November.
German metalcore band Electric Callboy will bring viral hits Hypa Hypa and We Got The Moves to the stage, while The Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan will perform supported by The Delta Riggs, flicking through his solo catalogue for the gig as well as iconic tracks from The Smashing Pumpkins.
Aussie punk band The Living End, hailed as one of Australia’s greatest live bands, has also been added to the bill, bringing classic tracks Prisoner of Society and Second Solution for the band’s only live performances of the year.
Dragon, known for classics April Sun In Cuba and Are You Old Enough, is tipped to perform, while Bowling For Soup is poised to bring alt-rock hits like 1985 as they celebrate 30 years since they formed in Texas.
Sleeping With Sirens, with tracks If You Can’t Hang and If I’m James Dean, You’re Audrey Hepburn, are also tipped to rock the event.
The stacked line up is completed with Mastodon, Kerry King, The Gaslight Anthem, L7, Northlane, Alpha Wolf, The Butterfly Effect, 311, AViVA, Destroy Boys, Dragon, Frank Turner And The Sleeping Souls, From Ashes To New, Grandson, Highly Suspect, Imminence, Killing Heidi (Performing ‘Reflector’ In Full), Loathe, Reliqa and Taylor Acorn.
Festivalgoers will again be able to see a host of stunts, including knife-throwing, at STAGE 666.
The announcement follows the successful petition of Good Things to welcome 16 and 17-year-olds (with the supervision of a parent or guardian) to the Sydney event this year after facing pushback in NSW despite Melbourne and Brisbane hosting festivals open to those 15 and older.
Good Things promoter Chris O’Brien said he was “so happy” the petition was successful and emphasised the importance of supporting the festivals that are still kicking, as 10 festivals, including Splendour In The Grass and Groovin The Moo, were cancelled this year.
“I can guarantee you we’re like a duck on the water,” Mr O’Brien said.
“It might look OK on the surface, but underneath we’re paddling pretty hard, and it feels like it’s not a smooth lake.”
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