Brisbane’s Night at The Parkland is returning in 2026. After a breakout debut last year, the open-air concert series will stretch across three weekends this September inside the sprawling greenery of Roma Street Parkland, pulling together a lineup that reads like a collision between Australian music institution, nostalgia rush and festival afterparty.
The expanded series will host nine nights of music, with everyone from The Cruel Sea and Magic Dirt to Missy Higgins, PNAU and Aloe Blacc transforming the subtropical inner-city venue into one of Australia’s more eclectic live music gatherings.
Opening weekend leans heavily into Australian alternative rock history. The Cruel Sea and Magic Dirt will launch proceedings with a special performance celebrating thirty years of Three Legged Dog, an album that helped define a particular strain of smoky, late-night Australian rock in the mid-90s. Meanwhile, Katie Noonan brings her acclaimed interpretation of Grace to the series, revisiting one of the most mythologised records of the 90s through a performance that has already sold out theatres around the country.
Elsewhere, nostalgia and reinvention continue colliding. Yesterday’s Gone: The Fleetwood Mac Legacy promises a carefully reconstructed dive into the world of Fleetwood Mac, while Human Nature arrive armed with their polished Motown-infused crowd-pleasers on All The Hits Live.
But Night at The Parkland is also clearly chasing scale rather than simply sentimentality. Aloe Blacc’s appearance marks his first Australian performance in seven years as part of his Wake Me Up Tour, while The Temper Trap return with the kind of widescreen indie-rock anthems that once dominated festival fields across the globe.
Then there’s the final weekend, which pivots sharply from reflective singalongs into full-scale release. ICEHOUSE return following a sold-out appearance last year, while PNAU’s unseated “dancefloor only” performance feels specifically engineered to turn Roma Street Parkland into a giant outdoor rave beneath the Brisbane skyline. Closing night duties fall to Missy Higgins, whose catalogue of emotionally open songwriting feels almost purpose-built for an outdoor spring evening.
NIGHT AT THE PARKLAND
September 4 – 20, 2026
ROMA STREET PARKLAND, BRISBANE
FRIDAY 4 THE CRUEL SEA and MAGIC DIRT
SATURDAY 5 KATIE NOONAN: JEFF BUCKLEY’S GRACE
SUNDAY 6 YESTERDAY’S GONE: THE FLEETWOOD MAC LEGACY
FRIDAY 11 ALOE BLACC
SATURDAY 12 THE TEMPER TRAP
SUNDAY 13 HUMAN NATURE – ALL THE HITS LIVE
FRIDAY 18 ICEHOUSE
SATURDAY 19 PNAU
SUNDAY 20 MISSY HIGGINS
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