WILDLANDS NYE 2026 | Meanjin - Brisbane — festival guide
Brisbane Showgrounds, Brisbane, Australia31–31 Dec 2026 · 1 day73 days to go
At a glance
- Dates
- 31–31 Dec 2026 (1 day)
- Location
- Brisbane Showgrounds, Brisbane, Australia
- Sound
- Hip-Hop · Electronic
- Crowd
- around 25,490 people
- Tickets
- €138 · 1 tier tracked
- Venue type
- Urban venue
- Best nearby base
- Brisbane · 0 km · about 0 min
- On-site camping
- Not listed
The story
WILDLANDS NYE 2026 is a music festival taking place at the Brisbane Showgrounds in Fortitude Valley, Queensland, Australia, from December 31, 2026, to January 1, 2027. The festival features a diverse lineup of artists including Skepta and John Summit. The venue has a capacity of 25,490 attendees. Concert doors will open at 14:30, with tickets priced at AU $229.99.
WILDLANDS NYE 2026 | Meanjin - Brisbane is a hip-hop, electronic festival at Brisbane Showgrounds in Brisbane, Australia. The December 2026 edition runs 31–31 Dec 2026. It draws around 25,490 people.
Expect stages split between Hip-Hop and Electronic.
At around 25,490 attendees it sits in the mid-to-large bracket — big stages and big production, but still walkable end to end. Everything happens at Brisbane Showgrounds, in Brisbane. Brisbane · 0 km · about 0 min is the organiser's practical nearby base for accommodation and transfers to the festival site.
WILDLANDS NYE 2026 | Meanjin - Brisbane 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 Brisbane 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.
- Capacity: 25,490
- Doors open at 14:30
- On sale for 2 months
- Price: AU $229.99
Venue, camping & access
- Venue type
- Urban venue
- Best nearby base
- Brisbane · 0 km · about 0 min
- Camping
- No on-site camping is listed by the organiser.
What the trip costs from Paris
Ticket from
€138
Return transport
€1,938
air · 26h 30m each way
Place to stay
€136
Hostel / camping · 1 night
Total door to door
€2,212
Door to door from Paris, a trip to WILDLANDS NYE 2026 | Meanjin - Brisbane works out at roughly €2,212 per person on the cheapest combination we track — a higher-budget weekend, mostly because of the travel leg.
The ticket is only 6% 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 30m each way, at €1,938 return.
See every ticket tier and travel option →Planning the trip, step by step
- 1Book the ticket first: tiers at WILDLANDS NYE 2026 | Meanjin - Brisbane are sold in waves and the cheapest wave is gone long before the line-up is complete.
- 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.
- 3Reserve 2 nights rather than 1: the last night of a festival almost always ends after the last train home.
- 4Follow WILDLANDS NYE 2026 | Meanjin - Brisbane on Cinderella to be emailed when a ticket price drops or a new tier opens.
Full line-up
Ordered as the poster reads it — headliners first, then most booked to least. Each name opens that artist's festival dates.
The organiser hasn't published the line-up for WILDLANDS NYE 2026 | Meanjin - Brisbane yet. It appears here — with a page for every artist — as soon as names are confirmed.
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.)
2024
31–31 Dec 2024 (approx.)
2023
31–31 Dec 2023 (approx.)
Travel tips from Paris
- The site itself is Brisbane Showgrounds, in Brisbane.
- Book a bed in Brisbane early — rooms around a festival sell out before the last ticket tier does.
- air26h 30m · €1,938