LOVE: Kendrick Lamar Is Headlining Spilt Milk's Huge 2025 Lineup, with Doechii, Sara Landry and Dominic Fike for Company
ScHoolboy Q, d4vd, Nessa Barrett, Sofia Isella, Skin on Skin, sombr, Club Angel and The Rions are also on the bill.
The return of Spilt Milk for 2025 was already massive news, after the Australian music festival sat out 2024. This year's events in Ballarat, Perth, Canberra and on the Gold Coast just got even bigger, thanks to a huge lineup headlined by Kendrick Lamar. DAMN. LOVE. Quoting those album and song titles fits right now, with the Pulitzer Music Prize-winning musician heading Down Under in this same year that he put on a helluva Super Bowl halftime show.
Just as he did in 2022, Lamar has a December date with Australia, playing 2025's run of Spilt Milk fests across two weekends — hitting two locations on each. It all starts on Saturday, December 6 at Victoria Park in Ballarat, before venturing across the country to Claremont Showground in Perth on Sunday, December 7. Then, it's Canberra's turn at Exhibition Park on Saturday, December 13, followed by a trip to the Gold Coast Sports Precinct on Sunday, December 14.
That's a headliner worth waiting a year for — and Lamar has company from Doechii, Sara Landry, Dominic Fike and ScHoolboy Q for starters. Also on the bill: d4vd, Nessa Barrett, Sofia Isella, Skin On Skin, sombr, Club Angel, The Dreggs and The Rions, plus more.
The lineup comes just a day after Spilt Milk confirmed its 2025 comeback — after skipping 2024 because, as organisers said at the time, it "couldn't get you the Spilt Milk you deserve this year". Instead, it still popped up in a few cities to throw events it dubbed house parties, with Troye Sivan, Glass Animals and G Flip leading the lineup while the full Spilt Milk experience was on hold.
In 2025, festivalgoers can also look forward to the return of sing-alongs at Guilty Pleasures, plus country bar Howdy Howdy and the Bus Da Move party bus. The art component will feature artists from Studio A.
Originally only popping up in Canberra, then expanding to Ballarat, then the Gold Coast and finally also to Perth, multi-city one-dayer Spilt Milk had cemented its spot as a must-attend event on the annual Aussie calendar before it took a year off, including for its lineups — and for its food offering as well.
Its 2025 return is immense, not just due to its now-dropped lineup, but because not every fest that sat 2024 out has made a comeback. Sadly, both Groovin the Moo and Splendour in the Grass have scrapped their events in both years.
Spilt Milk 2025 Lineup
Kendrick Lamar
Doechii
Sara Landry
Dominic Fike
ScHoolboy Q
d4vd
Nessa Barrett
Skin on Skin
sombr
Baby J
Chance Peña
Club Angel
Don West
Ennaria
Esha Tewari
Lyric
Mia Wray
Ninajirachi
Rebecca Black
Rum Jungle
Sofia Isella
South Summit
The Dreggs
The Rions
Spilt Milk 2025 Dates and Venues
Saturday, December 6 — Victoria Park, Ballarat
Sunday, December 7 — Claremont Showground, Perth
Saturday, December 13 — Exhibition Park, Canberra
Sunday, December 14 — Gold Coast Sports Precinct, Gold Coast
Spilt Milk is returning in December 2025, heading to Ballarat, Perth, Canberra and the Gold Coast — with ticket requests open from Friday, May 2, the presales from Thursday, May 8 and general ticket sales from Friday, May 9 (at 8am AEST for Canberra, 9am AEST for Ballarat, 10am AEST for Perth and 11am AEST for the Gold Coast). Head to the festival website for more information
Spilt Milk: Jordan K Munns, Mackenzie Sweetnam, Jess Gleeson and Billy Zammit.
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