LOOKOUT festival will head to Perth on its 2027 run.
Announced today, WA will get to kick off festivities on Thursday, March 4th, 2027, at Kings Park & Botanic Garden, which is co-headlined by +LIVE+ and Stone Temple Pilots.
Supporting them are Australian acts The Living End and Magic Dirt.
It’s a lineup built around a period when alternative rock didn’t just sit on the fringes of popular culture — it took over.
For +LIVE+, that meant albums like Throwing Copper and Secret Samadhi, and songs including “Lightning Crashes”, “I Alone” and “All Over You”. The band have sold more than 23 million albums worldwide, with Throwing Copper becoming one of the defining rock releases of the 1990s.
Stone Temple Pilots arrive with an equally formidable catalogue. Their 1992 debut Core introduced the world to “Plush”, “Sex Type Thing” and “Wicked Garden”, beginning a run that would ultimately see the band sell more than 70 million albums worldwide.
Then there’s 4 Non Blondes.
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Led by Linda Perry, the band’s “What’s Up?” became one of the decade’s most instantly recognisable songs. Perry would go on to become one of modern pop’s most influential songwriters and producers, working with artists including P!nk, Christina Aguilera, Alicia Keys, Adele and Miley Cyrus.
Seeing her return to the stage with 4 Non Blondes makes LOOKOUT considerably more than another trip down the nostalgia circuit.
And representing Australia is Magic Dirt, the Geelong-born band whose noisy, uncompromising take on alternative rock made them one of the country’s defining acts of the same era.
LOOKOUT will take the four acts around the country across ten shows, beginning at Adelaide Entertainment Centre on March 6th before travelling through Bendigo, Canberra, Melbourne, Mornington, Wollongong, Sydney, the Hunter Valley, Broadbeach and Brisbane.
For anyone who lived through alternative rock’s commercial explosion, the appeal is obvious.
For everyone who didn’t, this might be the closest thing to experiencing it in real time.
For more information on tour and tickets, click here.
LOOKOUT 2027
Thursday 4th March
Kings Park & Botanic Garden, Perth
Saturday 6th March
Adelaide Entertainment Centre, Adelaide
Sunday 7th March
Bendigo Racecourse, Bendigo
Wednesday 10th March
AIS Arena, Canberra
Thursday 11th March
Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne
Saturday 13th March
Mornington Racecourse, Mornington
Wednesday 17th March
WIN Entertainment Centre, Wollongong
Thursday 18th March
Afterpay Arena, Sydney
Saturday 20th March
Roche Estate, Hunter Valley
Sunday 21st March
Kurrawa Park, Broadbeach
Wednesday 24th March
Brisbane Entertainment Centre, Brisbane
