Bondi Beach NYE Festival: Fuzzy reveals first details on the “new Shore Thing”

• The first details have been released about Fuzzy’s new Bondi Beach NYE Festival.
• The yet-to-be-named festival will keep the local community at its core.
• Fuzzy used to produce Shore Thing, Bondi’s signature NYE festival, until it was cancelled in 2014.

Details about Fuzzy’s brand new Bondi Beach NYE festival have started to slowly trickle in, as we speed towards the tail-end of 2025.

We first heard word about a new NYE festival coming back to Bondi Beach earlier this year, with locals immediately getting nostalgic about Fuzzy’s once-iconic Shore Thing, an end-of-year celebration that was pitched just inches from the famous golden sands with headliners over the years including Underworld, Calvin Harris, Skrillex and Snoop Dogg.

While Shore Thing was cancelled in 2014, following complaints of too much antisocial behaviour, Waverley Council passed a new motion to produce a festival, banked on the hopes it’d “bring energy back to Bondi” and prop up the local economy.

Fuzzy, who produce some of Sydney’s longest-running festivals, including New Year’s Day staple Field Day and the epic Harbourlife, will helm the new-look Bondi Beach New Year’s Eve Festival with promises of a “world-class event with global energy and distinctly Bondi attitude.”

To help quell the chaos of New Year’s Eve, there will be a family-friendly celebration running alongside the festival with Bondi Beach as its backdrop. The plan is to carve out an exclusive space for people of all ages, with food trucks, roaming entertainment and a 9pm fireworks display. Unlike the 18+ Bondi Beach NYE Festival, the family-friendly event will be free with pre-registration.

“This is a party we’ve wanted to throw for a long time,” said Fuzzy’s Managing Director Adelle Robinson.

“We’ve got a deep history with Bondi, and to return on New Year’s Eve feels pretty special. It’s an iconic location and the perfect backdrop for what we have planned. We can’t wait to share more soon.”

Details are yet to be announced on the size of the festival (Shore Thing had a capacity of 15,000), but Fuzzy has said that the new Bondi festival will have community at its core. There are plans to feature local performers (whether exclusively or not, we don’t know yet) and partner with local businesses while supporting local charities.

Details about ticket sales will be released by Fuzzy soon, and Sydney Travel Guide will keep you updated as we learn more. For now, block out December 31, 2025, you’ve got some partying to do.