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FINELY TUNED
celebrate 20 years
following a record-breaking
summer with 70,000 tickets
sold in a single month!LOST PARADISE | THE WORKS | LOST SUNDAYS | ABOVE | LOST BAGGAGE
The trailblazing dancefloor curators at Finely Tuned are kicking off 2026 with a bang, celebrating 20 years in the business off the back of a record-breaking summer that saw 70,000 tickets sold in a single month, inclusive of their flagship Lost Paradise festival, the inaugural warehouse series THE WORKS, and a packed run of headline shows and tours.
Founded in 2006 and based in Bondi, Sydney, Finely Tuned has spent two decades building and curating culture-led live music and event experiences nationwide, from events such as We Love Sounds Festival, Knotfest, AGWA Yacht Club, Lost Sundays, Above and Paradise Club to large-scale brand activations through their agency, LAYERS.
The Finely Tuned team has presented headline shows and national tours with a wide range of internationally respected artists as well as homegrown heroes, including Black Coffee, Dom Dolla, Caribou, Lola Young, Interplanetary Criminal, Peggy Gou, DJ Boring, Job Jobse, Bicep, Fish56Octagon, Carl Cox, Jeff Mills and Cub Sport, among many others.
Founder, Simon Beckingham says: “Twenty years ago, we didn’t have a grand plan – just a love of music and a commitment to doing things properly. Finely Tuned grew because of the artists, the community and the belief that Australia deserves world-class experiences. We’re so grateful to be here, still evolving and still as passionate as we were twenty years ago”.
Across its eleven years, Lost Paradise has built a reputation as one of Australia’s most culturally defining summer festivals, hosting lineups featuring the likes of Fisher, Flume, Kelis, Arctic Monkeys, Lil Nas X, Peggy Gou, Jamie xx, RÜFÜS DU SOL, M.I.A and heaps more. With each edition, the festival has continued to evolve, balancing forward thinking music programming with a focus on wellness, creativity and community.
Selling out in record time and for the fourth consecutive year, the 2025 edition returned to Darkinjung Country / Glenworth Valley from 28 December to 1 January, welcoming tens of thousands for four days of music, movement and shared escape.
Early arrivals were welcomed by WOLTERS and Bella Claxton warming up the Lost Disco stage on day one, before Odd Mob drew one of the first major surges of the weekend. Across the site, the festival’s signature worlds were in full swing – the FELLR pop-up pulsed all night long, Paradise Club returned to its hilltop home for the second year and Shambhala Fields offered space for reflection, movement and connection. My Mum’s Disco provided the singalongs as always, while Hydralyte Hydration Station provided a mist of tunes we didn’t know we needed.
As more campers rolled in on day two, the Arcadia stage opened with standout performances, from BIG WETT’s bouncy electro rhythms, a euphoric return from Ben Böhmer, Balu Brigada’s indie-pop grit and Confidence Man’s strut-heavy, synth-fuelled chaos, before we all rode down the boulevard with Duke Dumont. While Lost Disco hit harder with genre-blurring sets from X CLUB., VTSS and a strobe-lit, BPM-pushing performance from I Hate Models, before Notion closed the night at Paradise Club.
Day three saw Kath Ebbs kick things off with Cowboy C*ntry Line Dancing, early-afternoon groove from Omar+, rule-breaking energy from DJ Heartstring, while INJI brought club-pop with a wink and late addition Keli Holiday had doofsticks swaying. Irish powerhouse KETTAMA delivered one of the weekend’s most talked-about sets, unleashing sledgehammer house energy, before Underworld’s highly anticipated performance brought a generation-spanning moment to the valley.
New Year’s Eve delivered a fitting finale, as Maribou State fused soul, club roots and cinematic textures, Channel Tres layered hip hop grit with effortless dance-floor cool and Chris Stussy whipped the crowd into a fist-bumping frenzy. Hot Dub Time Machine and Jazzy counted down the clocks before Josh Baker’s set kept the crowds rolling into the new year.
Running across late December 2025 and January 2026 at Sydney’s Carriageworks, THE WORKS marked a major new chapter for Finely Tuned – a multi-show warehouse event series inspired by the world’s most iconic electronic music spaces such as London’s Printworks and Drumsheds. Featuring a global lineup spanning underground favourites and festival heavyweights, such as Underworld, I Hate Models, Ben Böhmer, Chris Stussy and more. The inaugural run has already delivered standout moments, including Underworld’s show, which Sydney Morning Herald awarded ★★★★½ stars, praising how “through the billows, light speared; on the spine of the ceiling, shapes ran rivers. Intentional or not, the effect was surreal and not unwelcome, with punters invited to surrender completely to the sound”.
With multiple dates already sold out, including CamelPhat’s pac
Lost Sundays Block Party is Finely Tuned’s ground-breaking CBD series that welcomes more than 25,000 attendees across five to six editions annually. Taking over Sydney’s ivy for multi-stage block parties, the event has become a defining part of the city’s music calendar. Returning for a second time this month, the next instalment lands on Sunday 25 January, spanning 10 hours across four stages with 20 artists. Catch DJ Seinfeld, X-Coast, Locklead, Ned Bennett, IsGwan, D Stone, Aldonna and more. Early Entry and Second Release tickets are still available, head to the Moshtix website before it’s too late!
At a time when live music feels more essential than ever, Finely Tuned continues to create spaces where people can gather, move and connect, reflecting both the scale of what has been built over 20 years and the demand for what comes next.
.THE WORKS
29 Dec 2025- 25 Jan 2026 (Carriageworks, Gadigal Land/Sydney)
LOST SUNDAYS BLOCK PARTY
Sunday 25 January – ivy, Sydney
DJ Seinfeld, X-Coast, Ned Bennett, Locklead, D Stone + moreLOST PARADISE
Presented by Finely Tuned, PayPal & triple j
Sunday 28 December 2025 – Thursday 1 January 2026
Glenworth Valley / Darkinjung Country
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AMNPLIFY – DB
My nickname is “The Amnplifier”. Why? Because around here my focus is on being a conduit for providing greater outcomes that people come here for. My day to day “work” is living in the moment, and I love helping others concentrate on finding their connection to themselves through their experiences.
Why start a music environment? The truth is I love music, I love writing, and I love life. I work with musicians every day, and I feel certain that I will be until they put me in the ground. I have been managing people in businesses of some sort for over thirty five years so along the way I have developed some “wisdom” from my regular and constant “observations”.
Amnplify your experience. That is what we want you to do here, and if you want to let me know why you do, or don’t, shoot me a message on Facebook.
Hope you enjoy yourself here and find something that hits you somewhere.
