Tomorrowland has unveiled the full lineup for CORE Melbourne, the first Australian edition of its nature-driven CORE concept, set for Saturday, 28 November 2026 at Flemington Racecourse. The debut event will bring the brand’s house-and-techno-focused offshoot to Melbourne with a bill led by Honey Dijon, Moodymann, Kobosil and Daria Kolosova.
The announcement is drawing attention now because it gives dance music fans the first clear picture of what tomorrowland melbourne will look like when it lands in the city next year. TSHA is also on the lineup, while Mall Grab and Effy will play an exclusive back-to-back set, adding local pull to a roster built around avant-garde club sounds rather than the Belgian festival’s sprawling mainstage EDM scale.
Jennifer Loveless, Jnett, Dino Lenny, Fumi, Hannah D and Hitmiløw are also booked, alongside back-to-back sets from Lola Voss and Billy Currie and from Noise Mafia and Peterblue. That mix points to a festival that wants to read as curated and selective, not oversized, even as it takes over one of Melbourne’s premier outdoor event spaces.
That is where the pitch and the setting start to rub against each other. CORE is being sold as a boutique, nature-led experience, yet Flemington Racecourse is a major Melbourne venue built for large-scale gatherings, and the production plans lean into that reality with a multi-stage layout, a human face stage structure and design that blends technology with the outdoor elements.
What remains unanswered is how many stages the event will use, how many tickets will go on sale and when buyers will get their first chance to secure them. For now, the line-up and date are locked, and CORE Melbourne has made its first move from concept to concrete event.
