Australia's Spilt Milk festival is coming back. Organizers confirmed the 2026 return on Friday, July 17, with a teaser video shared across the festival's social media channels, according to Billboard. The clip showed members of the public naming their favorite Australian music festivals before cutting to footage of a packed crowd and a large stage production. The video ended with the 2026 confirmation, though no dates, locations, or lineup were announced.
The announcement follows a 2025 edition that sold out across all four host cities: Ballarat, Perth, Canberra, and the Gold Coast. Last year's lineup was headlined by Kendrick Lamar and included Doechii, Dominic Fike, Sara Landry, ScHoolboy Q, sombr, Nessa Barrett, and Don West, among others. Organizers later added Genesis Owusu, Larissa Lambert, and Lotte Gallagher to the bill ahead of the December run. Demand was so high that presale registrations exceeded available tickets before sales even opened.
Spilt Milk launched in Canberra in 2016 and has expanded steadily since. It added Ballarat and the Gold Coast in 2019 and brought Perth into the rotation in 2023. The 2019 Ballarat event holds a somber distinction in music history. It was Juice WRLD's final live performance, held one week before the rapper's death.
The festival paused during the COVID-19 pandemic and returned in 2022. Organizers skipped the 2024 edition entirely, citing a difficult period for the Australian festival market that also saw several other prominent events cancelled or placed on hiatus.
Previous Spilt Milk lineups have included Post Malone, Lorde, Flume, Khalid, Steve Lacy, Latto, Dom Dolla, FISHER, and Peach PRC. The festival has grown into one of Australia's largest touring events over its decade-long run.
No further details about the 2026 edition have been released.
