Tierra Whack, The Horrors & Beth Gibbons Headline Dark Mofo 2025 Lineup
Dark Mofo returns with an action-packed lineup that also includes Baroness, Machine Girl and Clown Core.
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After taking a year off in 2024, Dark Mofo returns this year with an absolute belter of a musical lineup featuring genre-bending acts from across the globe.
The first Dark Mofo under new artistic director Chris Twite runs from Thursday, June 5 to Sunday, June 15 and sees the return of all the festival’s regular programs, including the Winter Feast, Night Mass, the Nude Solstice Swim and the burning of the Ogoh-Ogoh.
The musical program is exceptional, with Dark Mofo securing 17 Australian exclusives, including R&B rap star Tierra Whack, UK goth rockers The Horrors, Portishead vocalist Beth Gibbons, prog metal act Baroness and electronic duo Machine Girl.
Other international highlights include American electro act Boy Harsher, weird jazz metal act Clown Core, Brooklyn rockers DIIV, singer-songwriter Jessica Pratt and post-punk band Crime & The City Solution.
The Aussie contingent includes Thelma Plum, Gut Health, Methyl Ethel, The Peep Tempel, Divide and Dissolve and many more.
Festival subscribers have access to tickets from 9:30am local time on Wednesday, April 9. Sign up here. General on-sale begins at 11:30am on Wednesday, April 9 via the Dark Mofo website.
This year’s arts program is another sensory overload, with some of the highlights including a two-hour performance featuring artist Paula Garcia and a stunt man driving around the Regatta Grounds, culminating in a head-on collision, Havana-born artist Carlos Martiel being imprisoned inside an hourglass, and a selection of divisive and confronting film screenings.
“Dark Mofo is back!” said Artistic Director Chris Twite. “Once again, we will bathe the city in red, filling it with art and taking over disused and hidden spaces all across Nipaluna/Hobart. Night Mass—the late-night labyrinth of revelry—will carve new paths through the city, and a host of Australian-exclusive artists from around the world will storm our stages.”
Dark Mofo runs from Thursday, June 5 to Sunday, June 15 across Hobart. The Nude Solstice Swim takes place on June 21. For ticketing information, visit darkmofo.net.au.
