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Good Things Festival is nearly upon us, with the Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane events set to ignite on Friday 6 December, Saturday 7 December and Sunday 8 December respectively; and a heap of headline sideshows in the mix for good measure!
Helmed by headliners Korn, the Good Things lineup boasts a horde of old and new favourites, spanning local and international acts from across the heavy and alternative scenes that truly offers something for everyone; and this year, Sydney's Centennial Park festival date will also be a 16+ event for the first time ever.
Ahead of the festival and impending horde of headline sideshows on the extremely near horizon, Good Things Festival has been running a series of videos bringing you all of the news and artist fun, with the weekly news segment All The Good Things and the official pre-festival interview series Good Things Brings bringing you chats directly with the artists themselves; and also helmed by The Soundcheck's Tiana Speter, aka yours truly speaking to you here.
Previously on the series, we've had heavy juggernauts Mastodon, and t P-Nut from iconic Nebraska-hailing icons 311. But today, we're featuring Jaret Reddick from Bowling For Soup.
Bowling For Soup are pop punk legends. Celebrating their 30th anniversary as a band, the Grammy-nominated Texan four piece smashed their way into the public consciousness at the start of the millennium and have stayed there ever since. With hits like Girl All The Bad Guys Want, 1985, High School Never Ends and the Disney-powered Today Is Gonna Be A Great Day (from Phineas and Ferb), there's a good chance most people you know will know at least one "BFS" song. Their 2022 album Pop Drunk Snot Bread was hailed as their best album in 15 years, a tribute to their enduring ability to put out great songs all the way through their career.
Arena fillers and festival headliners in their second home of the UK, Bowling For Soup are masters of making every show a very personal experience, whether they are playing to 500 people or 50,000! BFS are currently on the form of their lives - playing to some of their biggest US crowds in years while celebrating the 20th anniversary of their hit album A Hangover You Don't Deserve. Returning to Australia for the first time in well over a decade, BFS can't wait to give their fans down under an evening they'll never forget.
For our chat, Jaret and I chatted Australian memories, revisiting A Hangover You Don't Deserve two decades on, sideshows with Taylor Acorn and more. Grab a watch below and definitely don't miss this lot when they hit the Good Things stages next month!
GOOD THINGS FESTIVAL 2024
For ticket info and more, head here
LINE UP:
Korn
Sum 41
Violent Femmes
Electric Callboy | Billy Corgan | Mastodon | Kerry King
The Gaslight Anthem | Jet | The Living End | L7 | Northlane
Bowling For Soup | Alpha Wolf | Sleeping With Sirens | The Butterfly Effect | 311
In Alphabetical Order:
AViVA | Destroy Boys | Dragon | Frank Turner And The Sleeping Souls
From Ashes To New | Grandson | Highly Suspect | Imminence
Killing Heidi (Performing ‘Reflector’ In Full) | Loathe | Reliqa | Taylor Acorn
Plus the return of Stage 666!
DATES AND VENUES:
Friday 6 December - Flemington Racecourse, Melbourne (15+)
Saturday 7 December - Centennial Park, Sydney (16+
)Sunday 8 December - Brisbane Showgrounds, Brisbane (15+)
311 HEADLINE SIDESHOWS:
Wednesday 4 December - 170 Russell, Melbourne
Tuesday 10 December - The Triffid, Brisbane
Wednesday 11 December - Liberty Hall, Sydney
BY TIANA SPETER