Australia’s Spilt Milk festival has officially signaled that it will be back in 2026, ending a stretch of quiet with a new teaser video shared across its social media accounts on Friday, July 17. The clip opens with people on the street being asked to name their favorite Australian music festivals before shifting to scenes of a dense crowd and a large festival stage. It closes with the announcement that Spilt Milk will return next year.
For now, organizers have not revealed when the festival will take place, where it will be held or which artists will be involved. The teaser serves as the first step in the event’s 2026 rollout after a strong 2025 edition that sold out in all four of its host cities: Ballarat, Perth, Canberra and the Gold Coast.
Last year’s lineup was led by Kendrick Lamar and also included Doechii, Dominic Fike, Sara Landry, ScHoolboy Q, sombr, Nessa Barrett, Don West and others. The bill was later expanded with Genesis Owusu, Larissa Lambert and Lotte Gallagher ahead of the December dates. According to the report, demand was so high that presale registrations outnumbered available tickets before sales even opened, and each of the four shows ultimately sold out.
First launched in Canberra in 2016, Spilt Milk has grown into one of Australia’s major touring festivals. It expanded to Ballarat and the Gold Coast in 2019 and added Perth in 2023. The 2019 Ballarat stop also marked Juice WRLD’s final live performance, one week before his death. Like much of the live music sector in Australia, the festival paused during the COVID-19 pandemic, returned in 2022, and skipped 2024 during a difficult period for the festival market.
Source: billboard.com
