Rising Tickets

RISING, Melbourne’s rapturous winter festival of new art, music and performance, today unveils its 2025 program featuring indie-pop sensation Suki Waterhouse!

RISING - MUSIC

In an Australian exclusive, British cool girl, Suki Waterhouse is jetting to RISING for her debut Australian performances. After the runway shows, the hits and the heartbreaks, she’s back leaning even harder into the ephemeral punch of her music. She’ll light the mirror balls and showcase her new album Memoirs of a Sparklemuffin with her full band, starting with an intimate performance at the Athenaeum.

Ned Collette, with his smouldering songwriting style reminiscent of Nick Drake and Leonard Cohen, teams up with Leah Senior and Michael Beach, three artists whose haunting, late-night melodies could melt through the thickest of walls. Together, they’ve dreamed up the New Rampant Optimism Roadshow, a raw, shoot-from-the-hip revue that brings unexpected levity to the often intense, dark world of folk. Joined by Naarm legends like Mick Turner of Dirty Three on guitar and Chris Abrahams of The Necks on piano, plus a special appearance by US underground rock icon Thalia Zedek, this one-night-only event at the Athenaeum promises a rollicking, unrepeatable experience.

RISING - THEATRE

The cult-favourite rock musical, known for its boundary-pushing storytelling and glam-punk attitude, Hedwig and The Angry Inch, will make its return in a bold new Australian production at RISING, bringing the raw, glitter-soaked energy of the original to The Athenaeum Theatre. Filipino-Australian singer Seann Miley Moore, discovered on The Voice, takes on the iconic role as a “slip of a girly boy” Berliner who goes to marry an American soldier but ends up abandoned in Kansas, on the cusp of another doomed romance. Torn between an idealistic vision of love and the urge to burn it all down. Hedwig is poised with a battered mic and a rhythm section full of Korean-born military wives, ready to test the limits of self-creation.