SIDEFEST 2026

Music festivals don’t have to be in a big paddock, or at a showground, or only on the east coast. Some music festivals feel more like catching up with mates at your favourite watering hole, they strive to give you that feeling of the great “stumble-upon”, where you catch a band for the first time and immediately go “Yep, this is for me.”

Sidefest is one such festival. Born from the depths of mid-Covid Perth by a yearning for deeper connection within their playground, Sly Withers work with their team to create an in-venue festival that is uniquely theirs: both local and scene-local within Australia, with a huge focus on community-building and an ethos that rising tides lift all boats.

With that, let’s introduce you to Sidefest 2026 at the Rosemount Hotel, across three stages: featuring Adelaide’s finest The Tullamarines headlining Friday 20 November, with US shoegaze-rockers Slow Mass joining an all-star WA cast including smol fish, Noah Dillon, Symmetrical Dogs, Ursula and more. Sly Withers then head up Saturday 21 November with a huge bag of mates in tow: Towns (SA), Bad Neighbour (QLD), Rowena Wise (VIC via Margaret River), and local legends Ratsalad, The Points, Clancy, Ratking and heaps more.

It’s a scene health check. It’s a big party with your mates. It’s community first. It’s keen to grow, slowly, with you. It’s exactly what you make it, and if the last four festivals are anything to go by, it’s gonna be a helluva weekend.

Tickets are cheaper than a bad haircut and more likely to get ya outta the house. Be there or be square.