Good Things
TICKETING INFORMATION
Korn, Sum 41, Violet Femmes
with Electric Callboy, Billy Corgan, Mastodon, Kerry King + more
ALL TIX: $239.90
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Are you ready for the madcap chaos of Australia’s largest travelling music festival? Good Things season returns with a head-spinning lineup fit for a fever dream. Across three East Coast dates, this year’s Good Things Festival will deliver a trip down the rabbit hole with a stacked bill of international heavyweights, old favourites, hungry up-and-comers, and Aussie staples. And in a boon for younger attendees, Sydney’s Centennial Park festival date will be a 16+ event for the first time!
No one has cultivated a cult of personality quite like KORN. As the coveted headliners for Good Things Festival 2024, the Californian nu-metal pioneers will be celebrating the thirtieth anniversary of their landmark self-titled debut album and a career trajectory that speak volumes: two GRAMMY® Award wins, multi-platinum album certifications, and over 40 million records sold worldwide. Continually pushing the limits of the alternative, metal, and rock across their back catalogue, KORN’s unwavering sonic vision incorporates everything from dubstep and hip-hop to the bagpipe sections of frontman Jonathan Davis. Forever for the freaks, KORN’s Good Things appearance will find them in fine form and off the leash.
KORN
SUM 41
Sum 41 never fit in. They didn’t give a shit or try to either. Instead, they came out of the gate swinging with a signature style punctuated by pop punk singalongs and hard-hitting heavy metal proficiency. As a result, they’ve cast an unmatched shadow over popular culture, tracing back to their turn-of-the-century domination of TRL up to a rapturous set at the inaugural When We Were Young Festival.
VIOLENT FEMMES
Violent Femmes formed in 1981 as an acoustic punk band playing on the streets of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Their main influences at that time were Gene Vincent and the Blue Caps and The Velvet Underground. Their goal was to rock harder than any other acoustic act on the planet.
After being rejected for an audition by a local nightclub, the Femmes set up outside a Pretenders gig and began to play. Pretenders’ lead singer Chrissie Hynde asked them to open that night’s show, which gave the young band a publicity boost and caught the attention of Richard Hell, who invited the Femmes to open for him in NYC. A rave review in the New York Times eventually led to a record deal, which in turn spawned worldwide touring.
ELECTRIC CALLBOY
Electric Callboy stands out with a unique sound blending 90s pop synths, alternative rock, and metalcore. Their innovative experiments, like merging German Schlager with deathcore in "Hurricane" and crafting hardstyle-influenced industrial metalcore in "Parasite," showcase their versatility. Their reinterpretation of Cascada's "Everytime We Touch" also highlights their mastery of various genres.
With over 2 million monthly Spotify listeners and more than 1.7 million combined followers across YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, X, and TikTok, Electric Callboy is rapidly becoming a major force in German metal.
BILLY CORGAN
Beyond founding and fronting GRAMMY® Award-winning band The Smashing Pumpkins, Billy Corgan stands out as a solo artist, producer, songwriter, poet, wrestling promoter, podcast host, and café owner.
His solo catalog comprises TheFutureEmbrace [2005], Aegea [2014], Ogilala [2017], and, most recently, Cotillions [2019]. In the studio, he has notably collaborated with everyone from Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath, Rick Ocasek, Cheap Trick, Ray Davies, New Order, Marianne Faithful, and Scorpions to Korn, Phantogram, The Veronicas, and Code Orange.
MASTODON
GRAMMY® Award-winning band Mastodon have quietly evolved into one of the most influential, inimitable, and iconic rock bands of the modern era. Since emerging in 2000, the Atlanta quartet have defied both sonic and thematic boundaries with an uncategorizable, undeniable, and uncompromising vision unlike anything else in music.
This vision manifested over the course of canonical albums such as Leviathan, which landed on Rolling Stone’s coveted The 100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time.
KERRY KING
Slayer’s final gig on November 30, 2019, in Los Angeles marked a new beginning for guitarist Kerry King. Though Slayer had ended, King wasn’t done; he had more brutal music brewing which brought to life his first solo album, From Hell I Rise, released on May 17, 2024.King is excited about the album, confident it stands up to anything in Slayer’s history.
The album features Slayer drummer Paul Bostaph, guitarist Phil Demmel, bassist Kyle Sanders, and vocalist Mark Osegueda, a friend from the early ‘80s thrash scene. The band’s sound remains fiercely aggressive, with themes touching on war, politics, and societal issues.