When Pigs Fly — festival guide

At a glance

Dates

31–31 Dec 2026 (1 day)

Location

Collingwood Children's Farm, Melbourne, Australia

Sound

Live Music · DJ Sets

Tickets

€45 – €72 · 2 tiers tracked

Line-up announced

18 artists so far

The story

When Pigs Fly is a New Year's Eve festival held at the Collingwood Children's Farm in Naarm (Melbourne), Australia. This festival is celebrating its fifth edition, featuring live music and DJ sets throughout the day and into the night. Notable artists performing include Drifting Clouds, Intermood, AceMo, and Suze Ijó. The event is set for December 31.

When Pigs Fly is a live music, dj sets festival at Collingwood Children's Farm in Melbourne, Australia. The December 2026 edition runs 31–31 Dec 2026.

Announced so far: Mikalah Watego, Drifting Clouds, Suze Ijó, AceMo, Cuerpo Negro, DJ Matab, DJ PGZ and DJ rahaan and 10 more. Expect stages split between Live Music and DJ Sets.

Everything happens at Collingwood Children's Farm, in Melbourne. Melbourne is the base for the trip: it is where the affordable beds, the late trains and the after-parties are, and where prices climb fastest as the dates approach.

When Pigs Fly keeps the same calendar slot each year: December 2026 for this edition, opening on a Thursday and closing on a Thursday. It is a winter date, so indoor stages and a warm place to sleep matter more than they would in July — and off-season travel is often cheaper. That slot matters for the budget — flights and rooms in Melbourne are priced for the festival weekend, not the week around it, so shifting your arrival by a day often saves more than any ticket tier does.

• Fifth annual edition
• Date: December 31
• Venue: Collingwood Children's Farm
• Live acts and DJ sets
• Notable performers include Drifting Clouds, AceMo, Suze Ijó

What the trip costs from Paris

Door to door from Paris, a trip to When Pigs Fly works out at roughly €2,179 per person on the cheapest combination we track — a higher-budget weekend, mostly because of the travel leg.

The ticket is only 2% of that: the rest is getting there and sleeping somewhere, which is exactly the part most ticket sites leave out.

Cheapest travel we price is air · 26h 49m each way, at €1,964 return.

Planning the trip, step by step

1. 1Book the ticket first: tiers at When Pigs Fly are sold in waves and the cheapest wave is gone long before the line-up is complete.
2. 2Then price the travel from Paris — Cinderella compares train, bus, car and flight for the same dates, and the cheapest option is not always the obvious one.
3. 3Reserve 2 nights rather than 1: the last night of a festival almost always ends after the last train home.
4. 4Follow When Pigs Fly on Cinderella to be emailed when a ticket price drops or a new tier opens.

Line-up, day by day

• Day 1 — Thursday 31 December

  Mikalah Watego, Drifting Clouds, Suze Ijó, AceMo, Cuerpo Negro, DJ Matab, DJ PGZ, DJ rahaan, Intermood, JALE, Muiscaya, Ottorongo, Rawdrum, SELENA, Sheidita, Silentjay, SIMONA, Tornado Wallace

Full line-up

Ordered as the poster reads it — headliners first, then most booked to least. Each name opens that artist's festival dates.

Past editions

Dates are the event's recurring calendar slot, so treat them as approximate — the organiser keeps the official archive.

• 2025

  31–31 Dec 2025 (approx.)

  Regulars: Mikalah Watego, Drifting Clouds, Suze Ijó

• 2024

  31–31 Dec 2024 (approx.)

  Regulars: Drifting Clouds, Suze Ijó, AceMo

• 2023

  31–31 Dec 2023 (approx.)

  Regulars: Suze Ijó, AceMo, Cuerpo Negro

Travel tips from Paris

• The site itself is Collingwood Children's Farm, in Melbourne.
• Book a bed in Melbourne early — rooms around a festival sell out before the last ticket tier does.

• air26h 49m · €1,964