Parkway Drive are leveling up Australia’s heavy music scene with the launch of Park Waves, a touring pageant set to hit 11 cities and regional facilities in February and March 2026.
The primary wave of the lineup, revealed Monday (July 15), consists of Parkway Drive and The Amity Affliction co-headlining for the primary time on house soil, alongside Northlane, Alpha Wolf and Story of the Yr. Extra acts are anticipated to be introduced within the coming months.
“The imaginative and prescient for that is the largest endeavor in Parkway’s historical past. A touring pageant run by the band, for the followers. It’s a large deal for us, so we needed to make it particular,” frontman Winston McCall stated in an announcement.
“Not solely is the road up stacked, for the primary time on house soil, we’ll be bringing the enduring and unstoppable – The Amity Affliction. Parkway, Amity, Australia. It’s by no means been greater. That is the complete pageant expertise, a day to take pleasure in, join and get wild. We will’t wait to see you there.”
Billed as half music pageant and half touring sideshow, Park Waves guarantees a full sensory expertise for followers aged 16 and up, with circus performers, carnival rides, meals vans and what the band describes as “a full day of chaos, group and catharsis.” The run kicks off Feb. 14 in Perth earlier than heading by Adelaide, Geelong, Wollongong, Maitland and different cities, wrapping March 15 at Queensland’s Sandstone Level Lodge. The Byron Bay cease is pending last council approval.
The pageant announcement caps a landmark 12 months for Parkway Drive, who offered out the Sydney Opera Home in beneath three minutes earlier this 12 months and launched Australia’s first-ever heavy music cruise, Hellbound, which offered out in seven minutes. The Amity Affliction have additionally maintained their standing as one in all Australia’s most profitable heavy exports, with their 2023 album Not With out My Ghosts debuting at No. 2 on the ARIA Albums Chart and spawning the Prime 20 rock radio hit “Present Me Your God.”
Tickets for Park Waves shall be obtainable through a number of pre-sales forward of most of the people on-sale. Parkway Nation fan membership members can entry an unique pre-sale beginning Tuesday, July 22 at 9 a.m. native time. A Destroy All Traces pre-sale follows at 5 p.m. that afternoon. Normal public tickets go on sale Thursday, July 24 at 10 a.m. native time through parkwavesfestival.com, with a restricted pay-over-four-months choice additionally obtainable.
Park Waves Competition 2026
Feb. 14 at Langley Park, Perth, WA
Feb. 20 at Adelaide Showground, SA
Feb. 22 at Geelong Showgrounds, VIC
Feb. 28 at Caribbean Gardens, Scoresby, VIC
Mar. 1 at Bendigo Jockey Membership, VIC
Mar. 5 at Thomas Dalton Park, Wollongong, NSW
Mar. 7 at Sydney Dragway, Japanese Creek, NSW
Mar. 8 at Maitland Showground, NSW
Mar. 12 at Queens Park, Toowoomba, QLD
Mar. 14 at Cavanbah Centre, Byron Bay, NSW (topic to council approval)
Mar. 15 at Sandstone Level Lodge, QLD