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Beyond the Valley and Lost Paradise share 26 acts over the same five days

49 of Beyond the Valley's 84 acts are booked at another festival during its five days. No bill on our calendar shares more of itself with its own week.

Most festivals don't share their week with anyone. Our upcoming calendar has 502 pairs of festivals whose dates genuinely overlap. 416 of those pairs have no act in common at all.

Beyond the Valley is the opposite. It runs 28 December to 1 January on Barunah Plains, west of Melbourne, with 84 named acts. 49 of them are also booked at another festival running on some of those same five days. Of the 95 bills we hold with 20 or more names, none has more.

Two campsites, one lineup

Most of that is one festival. Lost Paradise runs the same five days in Glenworth Valley, north of Sydney. That's 525 miles away, measured between the venue coordinates we store for both. The two bills share 26 acts.

That is the biggest overlap between any two overlapping festivals on our calendar.

Second place right now is Beyond the Valley again: the 21 it shares with Wildlands Brisbane on New Year's Eve. Wildlands comes from the same promoter, so that one is a company routing its own bill. Lost Paradise is a different promoter.

The 26 include John Summit, Skepta, Overmono, Nia Archives and Armand van Helden, with KI/KI, Hamdi and Dean Turnley among the rest. Lost Paradise has 48 named acts, so more than half of its lineup is also on Beyond the Valley's.

Acts also booked at another festival on the same days

Acts also booked at another festival on the same daysBeyond the Valley 84 names on the bill, 49 of which booked elsewhere those days, Rhythm and Vines 122 names on the bill, 40 of which booked elsewhere those days, Lost Paradise 48 names on the bill, 33 of which booked elsewhere those days, Rolling Meadows 74 names on the bill, 27 of which booked elsewhere those days, Wildlands Brisbane 26 names on the bill, 22 of which booked elsewhere those days, Decadence Arizona 43 names on the bill, 19 of which booked elsewhere those daysnames on the billof which booked elsewhere those daysBeyond the Valley84Rhythm and Vines122Lost Paradise48Rolling Meadows74Wildlands Brisbane26Decadence Arizona43
The six upcoming bills, of 95 with 20 or more named acts, with the most acts also booked at a festival whose dates overlap theirs. Placeholder rows like "Lineup TBA" are excluded.

The top five are all in Australia or New Zealand over New Year. The first bill from anywhere else is Decadence Arizona, at 19.

A tour, not a clash

22 festivals on our calendar overlap Beyond the Valley's dates. A typical bill overlaps six. Five days straddling New Year's Eve will do that.

But the extra overlap mostly isn't where the shared acts are. 13 of those 22 festivals are in North America, and between them they share two acts with Beyond the Valley. The other 47 shared names are booked only elsewhere in Australia or New Zealand that week.

Some of them are covering a lot of ground. John Summit, KI/KI and Hamdi are each on four bills inside those five days: Beyond the Valley, Lost Paradise, Rhythm and Vines in Gisborne, and Wildlands Brisbane. That's two countries.

We hold no set times for either Beyond the Valley or Lost Paradise, and our lineups for both aren't split by day. So we can't tell you whether any of the 26 are due on both stages on the same night. The likely answer is the ordinary one: one night in Victoria, another in New South Wales. When the schedules land they'll be in the app.

The rest of the bill, straight

None of this makes Beyond the Valley an exclusive booking. 31 of its 84 acts play no other festival we hold this year. That puts it 55th of 95, the middle of the pack. None of the 84 is on our Most Booked top ten. At 84 names it's joint 17th for size on the calendar.

So this is not a festival with a strange lineup. It's a big New Year's bill that shares a large part of itself with another big New Year's bill up the coast, on the same five days.

If you're going

For nine acts on the bill, this week is all that's left of their year on our books. Skepta, The Jungle Giants and Tommy Holohan each hold exactly two upcoming festival dates, and they are Beyond the Valley and Lost Paradise. Either ticket gets you all three.

Choosing between the two? The 26 shared names won't decide it. The other 58 on Beyond the Valley and the other 22 on Lost Paradise will, so read those lists side by side before you pick a campsite.

None of the festivals named here is in our ticket feed, so this post carries no ticket links.

Every figure here was computed on 12 November 2026 from our own upcoming catalog: 200 festivals, 95 of them with 20 or more named acts, drawn from 3,584 distinct artist names. Placeholder rows such as Lineup TBA are filtered before counting, artist matching is case-insensitive, and overlaps are computed by true date-range intersection rather than by bucketing dates into weekends. Distances are great-circle, from the venue coordinates stored on each festival.

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