Food, Music And Art Festivals Are Cropping Up In Perth—Here’s The 2025 Lineup So Far
Sure Christmas is good, but have you ever heard your fave song live from the shoulders of a stranger? This is the exact scenario getting us pumped up for a big summer of festivals.
While the music industry has been hit hard these past few years, and the likes of Groovin The Moo canceling their festival runs this year, there’s still plenty of ragers taking place over summer. To help you map out your year of good times, we've rounded up some of the best music festivals going down in WA in 2025 and beyond.
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Music Festivals
Kendrick Lamar Is Headlining Spilt Milk In Summer 2025
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Update 24 Nov: Spilt Milk has officially added ARIA Award–winner and all-round genre-bending powerhouse Genesis Owusu to its already stacked 2025 lineup. With three shows sold out and Perth down to its final tickets, the festival is gearing up to be massive. Set times drop tomorrow via the Spilt Milk app, so you can start mapping out exactly how many sets you can sprint between.
Mega Australian music festival Spilt Milk has just announced its highly-anticipated return in summer 2025. After taking a year off in 2024, the music festival is back with a bang—kicking off in Ballarat before heading west to Perth for its second ever Perth installment on Sunday 7 December, before heading back to its home ground in Canberra, then wrapping up on the Gold Coast.
And the lineup? We got you. Spilt Milk will bring hip-hop luminary Kendrick Lamar, Billboard Woman of the Year Doechii, heavyweight American DJ Sara Landry, singer/songwriter Dominic Fike and rap legend ScHoolboy Q to all four locations. These global heavyweights will be appearing alongside Nessa Barrett, Sofia Isella, Skin On Skin, sombr, Club Angel, The Rions, South Summit and more.
Mark your calendars—Spilt Milk season is on. Sign up here to secure a ticket when they go on sale.
The Details
SNACK NYE
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Get your glitter, your sequins, and your sparklers ready, because New Years Eve is headed our way at a disturbingly fast pace. The only thing to do is embrace it, and what better way than by going to WA’s biggest NYE festival, SNACK?
The Claremont Showgrounds will transform into an NYE playground on this prestigious final day of 2025, with stacks of entertainment ready to keep you up all night. They’ve got a silent disco, a foam party snow park, sumo wrestling in the beer garden, bumper cars and thrill rides, and obviously all the food trucks and bars you’ll need to make it to midnight. This year is also introducing SIN CITY, a lawless arena of showgirls, pole dancers, tattoo parlours, a kissing booth, and in the true spirit of Las Vegas, a wedding chapel. Queue Waking Up In Vegas by Katy Perry.
But it might be worth going solely for the music acts, because you’ve got a DJ set from Pendulum on The Pyramid stage, and legendary two-piece Peking Duk sound-tracking the big midnight countdown.
So, get into your snackiest outfit and grab your tickets now to bring the new year in right!
The Details:
When: 5pm – 1am, Wednesday 31 December 2025
Where: Claremont Showgrounds
Book tickets here.
Surrender NYE
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Experience an open-air New Years rave with Surrender this year, where you can celebrate all things 2025 under the stars (or just be glad it’s over). In an Australian exclusive performance, global R&B icon Kaytranada is going to be leading the countdown with a headlining performance you cannot miss, supported by his brother and longtime collaborator Lou Phelps.
With world-class production, fireworks, and Perth’s skyline as the backdrop, Surrender NYE promises to be the New Year’s Eve festival we’ve been waiting for. What better place to make the New Years resolutions you definitely won’t keep?
The Details:
When: 5pm – 1am, Wednesday 31 December 2025
Where: Langley Park, Perth
Book tickets here.
Food Festivals
Perth Gin & Food Festival
Friday 17 to Sunday 19 October
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This is the fifth year that this festival has been hosted by Perth, and this year it is leveling up. With over 40 distilleries in attendance, the Perth Gin & Food Festival will not only be bringing back the best gin in town, but will be including some tasty food options too! Your ticket will give you unlimited gin samples, a tasting glass, tonic soda water and a cool tote bag. Plus you can join some pretty epic masterclasses! Enjoy an afternoon of chatting and tasting Aussie craft distillers as they tell you all about the creation process, or enjoy a session of cocktail tasting as you learn how they developed the flavours. These masterclasses are selling quickly, so click the link below to secure yours! If you find a new favourite, buy a bottle to take home. Last year’s festival was such a success that this year the event is accompanied by a range of delicious food options, including stands from local products and produce. Don’t miss the chance to enjoy the second success of this festival.
The Details
When: Friday 17 to Sunday 19 October
Where: Perth Convention And Exhibition Centre, Perth
Book here.
UnWined Subiaco
Saturday 25 October to Sunday 26 October
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Subi’s favourite park gets fancy as UnWined Subiaco toasts for their 15th birthday with over 50 WA wineries pouring 300+ wines you’re bound to love. Every ticket gets you a Plumm glass on entry, so venture in and sip your way through boutique vino, craft beer, cider, and small-batch spirits, all paired with bites from some of Perth’s best gourmet tapas stalls.
Enjoy live music from the central gazebo, picnic spots where you can chill out after a few glasses, and even frozen wine slushies courtesy of the Smooth FM crew. Stock the cellar, pre-shop for Chrissy gifts, or just have some sips in the sunshine.
The Details:
When: Saturday 25 October & Sunday 26 October
Where: Market Square Park, Subiaco
Find out more here.
Picnic Festival
Friday 28 November to Saturday 29 November
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Picnic Festival combines all the best parts of silly season into one deliciously chaotic weekender filled with food and bev experiences, plenty of room to dance, and classic carnival rides. Expect gourmet food trucks dishing up great eats, alongside a Flavour Cave where you’ll find live cooking demos and tastings from culinary masters.
After eating your way through the grounds, head to Top Up’s Barrel Room for curated wine pairings, or swing by Booze Barn by Nockturnal for whisky, gin, rum, and beer tastings from top-tier local and international liquor brands.
When you’re ready to dance, themed ‘party pods’ have music selections for every taste: disco bangers and mirror balls at Neon Disco, country anthems and line dancing at Honky Tonk Hideout, rock riffs at Triple M’s Riff City, and nostalgic 80s–00s jams at Mixtape Mill.
Throw in a silent disco, carnival rides, a pop-up comedy club, and Shorebreak Bar for when you need a breather, and you’ve got the ultimate end of year playground with everything on offer.
The Details:
When: Friday 28 November & Saturday 29 November
Where: South Perth Foreshore
Get your tickets here.
Exmouth Wild Prawns Festival
Thursday 9 April to Sunday 12 April 2026
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In an electrifying first-of-its-kind event, the Exmouth Wild Prawn Festival will be bringing the most delicious treasures of the sea right to your plate, alongside an unforgettable line-up of immersive experiences that make the prawns taste that much sweeter.
The glittering Exmouth coastline might be a feast for your eyes, but it’s also one of Australia’s most carefully managed marine environments, and the proof is in the pudding (or, the prawns). Exmouth Wild Prawns have a distinct sweetness and texture that develops from the pristine ocean ecosystem, and this festival is celebrating it in style.
Spanning four days along the Exmouth Gulf, the festival begins with the Welcoming of the Fleet, a tradition usually only seen by locals that carries the first catch of the season home. The next day will see the Mantarays Ningaloo Beach Feast serving prawns in six culinary styles from chilled to grilled, paired with delicious WA wines. The third day is all about celebrating the wharf, with vessel tours of working prawn trawlers, buckets of fresh prawns to peel, local distilleries, cooking demos and a community market right by the water. Finally, we’re saying adieu with The Exmouth Prawn Trail, a true foodie quest that takes you all over Exmouth to taste the signature prawn dishes from local eateries.
The Details:
When: 9 – 12 April 2026
Where: Exmouth Gulf
Arts Festivals
Mandurah Arts Festival
Friday 12 September - Sunday 12 October
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Mandurah is set to come alive once again in 2025 with the Mandurah Arts Festival, a month-long program of fun, creativity and artistic excellence. The perfect opportunity for a quick trip down south, this festival will shine the spotlight upon some of WA’s best talents with an eclectic and exciting program of events. With an event list yet to be announced, you can expect exhibitions, performances, workshops and so much more. There will be events perfect for the whole family! With the full itinerary in the works, keep an eye out for updates on venues and times at the link below.
The Details:
When: Friday 12 September - Sunday 12 October
Where: Mandurah
Find out more here.
Groundswell
Saturday 11 October to Sunday 12 October
Groundswell is a Scarb’s-based festival mash-up. Think surf meets skate meets markets, food and coastal music.
Kicking off at dawn with a silent disco on the sand before a dip in the ocean as the sun rises (make sure to get tickets from Dawnbreak, over 1500 have been sold already!), there’s a weekend long schedule of surf showdowns, including the Groundswell Surf Comp. There’s also Club Shakas, inclusive surf sessions for women, non-binary folks, and ‘girls who surf badly’, and a free Surfers Rescue 365 course if you want to level up your ocean safety skills. Hit the Scarborough foreshore bowl for skatecomps, or check out the 3x3 basketball comp.
This year, it’s not just for spectators, as the ‘Have A Go’ Zone invites everyone to try their hand (or board) at BMX, skate, rollerskating, and basketball, no matter your skill level. Then it’s over to Groundswell Live for music in the amphitheater, or Tipi Village for yoga, tarot, ocean dips, and pottery under the sun.
The Details:
When: Saturday 11 October to Sunday 12 October
Where: Scarborough Foreshore, Scarborough
Fremantle Biennale
Thursday 13 November to Sunday 30 November
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The Fremantle Biennale returns this Kambarang season, and it transforms Freo’s streets, waterways, and coastlines into living, breathing art spaces. This year’s theme, Sanctuary, unpacks what it means to seek and share spaces of care and resistance.
What does that actually translate to? Wrestling as performance art, a sound sauna, and a pink-lake-inspired installation you can walk through. Live mics are scattered across the port city, capturing the sounds of Freo (waves, wind, traffic, silence) and remixing them in real time. It’s a suburb wide takeover that brings out the best of Noongar art installations.
The Details:
When: Thursday 13 November to Sunday 30 November
Where: Across Fremantle
Find out more here.
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