Arrival Festival

14/05/2026

• TWO WEEKS TO GO

Wednesday is about to sell out. All other shows moving very fast. We cannot wait to see you all.

Tickets: www.arrivalfestival.com

05/05/2026

• 3 weeks until we meet again. Where will we be seeing you?

PS. Wednesday is about to sell out. Drifting Clouds, Kindred Spirits + Smoked Trout are sold out. All other shows moving very fast.

Tickets: www.arrivalfestival.com

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22/04/2026

• One Month To Go ⏳

Wednesday, Drifting Clouds + Kindred Spirits are all about to sell out. No more tickets will be added.

All other shows are moving very quickly. Still a few more tricks up our sleeve.

Full Programme: www.arrivalfestival.com

06/04/2026

• INSTALMENT 002

MUSIC—SPACE—CONNECTION.

ARRIVAL returns to Walyalup (Fremantle) this May/June for 11 shows across four venues - The Naval Store, Wyola, Buffalo Club + the Derbal Yerrigan. Featuring:

Cate Le Bon [UK]
Wednesday [USA]
Dry Cleaning [UK]
Chanel Beads [USA]
Purelink [USA]
Wax’o Paradiso [MEL]
RONA. [MEL/NT]
Walrus: Nicholas Allbrook & Friends [PER]
Oren Ambarchi [DE]
Drifting Clouds [NT]
Alias Error [SYD]
Bridget Small & Nick Ure [MEL]

+ A—Z

Affirmations • Agapantha • Augie Was Here • Bad Whip • Blood Knows • Bort Sampson • Brie • Denny • Dreamspeed• Mei Saraswati • Montana B2B Nape • No Bride • Pale Ribbons Tossed Into The Dark • Smoked Trout • Smol Fish • Symmetrical Dogs • T3YOID • YESNA • Acknowledgement of Country w/ Michael Spratt + More TBA

Tickets are on sale now and MOVING VERY FAST. Explore the full programme: www.arrivalfestival.com

04/04/2026

• DRY CLEANING [UK]

Sat June 6

w/ Walrus ( & Friends)

[NOTE: Tickets to this show are selling VERY FAST!]

Dry Cleaning need little to no introduction. Their latest record ‘Secret Love’ (produced by fellow ARRIVAL artist Cate Le Bon) cements the London four-pieces place in rock’s avant-garde catalysing the Reaganite paranoia of early 80s US punk and hardcore with the dry strut of Keith Richards, stoner rock, dystopian degradation, playful no wave and pastoral fingerpicking, while Florence’s,delivery, meticulously calibrated to her bandmates’ soundscapes, asserts her in a lineage of spoken-word artists stretching from Laurie Anderson to Life Without Buildings’ Sue Tompkins. The follow-up to 2021’s ‘New Long Leg’ and 2022’s ‘Stumpwork’ started life in Peckham rehearsal spaces, all four members writing, playing and responding to each other in the room: in Dry Cleaning, music and lyrics form an inseparable, generative whole. We are thrilled to have them close the second edition of ARRIVAL.

03/04/2026

• FEVER DREAM W/ ALIAS ERROR

+ Bort Sampson [Ambient, Noise]
T3YOID [Witch House]
AFFIRMATIONS [Black/Death Metal]

Thu June 4freo

“Was he a beast, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were coming to light.”

Rich atmospheres and angelic vocals meet blast beats and anguished shrieks, lead by Berlin via Sydney’s Alias Error – a singer, songwriter and DJ known for her eponymous and timeless debut album ‘a.s.o’ released to critical acclaim in 2023. Alia’s signature hypnotic vocals speak of restraint and release, moving fluidly from the elegiac to the euphoric. Collaborations with RIP Swirl, JASSS & James K have further cemented her position as an uncompromising star spanning effortlessly between ethereal dream-pop to the more moodier corners of electronic spaces.

02/04/2026

• CHANEL BEADS [USA]

Wed June 3

w/

[NOTE: Tickets for this show are selling fast!]

At once a hazy relic and a digital snapshot of the human experience, Chanel Beads’ 2024 debut album ‘Your Day Will Come’ announced Shane Lavers as a new force in experimental music. Throughout the album, Lavers captures the many contradictions of modern existence and the strange infiniteness of the digital world blurring lines through unconventional song structures of post-punk, pop and electronic. As he intentionally prints his songs down to embed fried artefacts and ghostly remains, the resulting songs have a time-collapsing quality, both transitionary and timeless.

Continuing to break new ground together with support from collaborators singer-songwriter Maya McGory and classically trained experimental violinist Zachary Paul, Chanel Beads has toured with headline shows in the UK and North America, opened for Lorde, Mount Kimbie and played Pitchfork Music Festival and SXSW. A self-observational project that offered an insightful philosophy into focusing only on what we can control, we are thrilled to welcome Chanel Beads for their debut Australian performance at ARRIVAL.

01/04/2026

• OREN AMBARCHI [DE/AU]

Mon June 1 (Public Holiday)freo
w/ .ribbons

Oren Ambarchi is an Australian multi-instrumentalist based in Berlin whose practice focuses on the exploration of the guitar. He is a prolific solo artist and consummate collaborator who has performed and recorded with a diverse array of artists over the last three decades including; Fennesz, Charlemagne Palestine, Sunn 0)), crys cole, Thomas Brinkmann, Keiji Haino, Alvin Lucier, John Zorn, Annea Lockwood, Alvin Curran, Loren Connors, Manuel Gottsching/Ash Ra, Merzbow, Jim O’Rourke, Keith Rowe, David Rosenboom, Akio Suzuki, Phill Niblock, John Tilbury, Richard Pinhas, Evan Parker, Fire! and many more. He has released numerous recordings over the years for labels such as Touch, Editions Mego, Drag City, PAN, Kranky, Staubgold and Tzadik. Since 2009 Ambarchi has run the Black Truffle record label. Ambarchi’s latest album (together with Johan Berthling and Andreas Werliin) is Ghosted III released via US label Drag City.

This event is proudly co-presented by .list, a Boorloo-based label for exploratory music. Tone List’s operations are supported by the WA Government.

24/03/2026

• INSTALMENT 002

MUSIC—SPACE—CONNECTION.

ARRIVAL returns to Walyalup (Fremantle) this May/June for 11 shows across four venues - The Naval Store, Wyola, Buffalo Club + the Derbal Yerrigan. Featuring:

Cate Le Bon [UK]
Wednesday [USA]
Dry Cleaning [UK]
Chanel Beads [USA]
Purelink [USA]
Wax’o Paradiso [MEL]
RONA. [MEL/NT]
Walrus: Nicholas Allbrook & Friends [PER]
Oren Ambarchi [DE]
Drifting Clouds [NT]
Alias Error [SYD]
Bridget Small & Nick Ure [MEL]

+ A—Z

Affirmations • Agapantha • Augie Was Here • Bad Whip • Blood Knows • Bort Sampson • Brie • Denny • Dreamspeed• Mei Saraswati • Montana B2B Nape • No Bride • Pale Ribbons Tossed Into The Dark • Smoked Trout • Smol Fish • Symmetrical Dogs • T3YOID • YESNA • Acknowledgement of Country w/ Michael Spratt + More TBA

Tickets are on sale now. Explore the full programme:

MUSIC—SPACE—CONNECTION. ARRIVAL is a flagship Western Australian winter music festival held in the heart of Walyalup (Fremantle) across four venues in May/June - The Naval Store, Wyola Club, Buffalo Club & the Derbal Yerrigan. The festival bridges the gap for Western Australia in the Winter nati...

12/03/2026

May 27—June 6, 2026

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17/06/2025

• Help us create ARRIVAL Instalment 002

Our small team needed some time to decompress, but we just wanted to say from the bottom of our hearts…thank you so much to each and every one of you for all of your support for the inaugural edition of ARRIVAL. This was a completely independent festival born out of the change we wanted to see - to continue to make WA a culturally relevant and viable touring market for international and national touring artists, activate non-commercial venue spaces, provide high quality affordable evens for the community, and provide opportunities for WA’s incredible pool of local talent. Thank you to all of the incredible artists, workers and punters who made this such an incredibly special first year. The collective joy we experienced was not lost on us for one moment.

Running an event of this scale always comes with great risk and external funding rarely prioritises boundary pushing programmes like ours, so we are calling on all patrons and members of our community to help us to keep going into 2026. We are so passionate about Western Australia and its ongoing significance as a hub for music, arts and culture. If you have the means to do so, every dollar you contribute before the end of the financial year via the Australian Cultural Fund counts as a tax deductible donation and helps us continue on our mission to build the festival for years to come.

With love, ARRIVAL.

Link: https://artists.australianculturalfund.org.au/s/project/a2EMn00000MTNNxMAP/arrival-festival-instalment-001

📷 Duncan Wright