The Timber Yard

The Timber Yard is a 1,500-capacity live-event warehouse in Port Melbourne, where a former timber and furniture-industrial site now accommodates club-scale electronic bills, pop shows and R&B events. Its defining feature is sheer adaptability: the main Warehouse can hold 1,500 standing guests, while a turfed outdoor Yard extends the footprint through retractable barn doors. Expect an event-space approach to concerts, with room for sizeable stages, production and a moving crowd.

Factory floor to dance floor

Brothers Gideon and Asher Luber founded The Timber Yard with Adam McKenzie and Joshua Paneth after the group found a dilapidated Port Melbourne furniture factory in 2016. They spent several years converting the building, retaining elements of its timber-storage and fabrication past, before opening the venue in 2019.

Its early operating story carries the mark of a difficult moment for every gathering space. In a venue anniversary post, the four directors described 2019 as their first year of operation, then deferred a birthday celebration after live events were halted the following year; they marked the return by treating 2021 as a second year. That interruption helps explain the venue’s mixed model: weekend music events sit alongside weddings, conferences and private hires.

Built for the big-room bill

The Timber Yard books across formats, with DJ-led dance parties forming the regular weekend core and a current concert mix that also reaches pop, R&B and classical crossover. The room suits shows designed as full-scale events: the temperature-controlled Warehouse offers a broad standing floor, and sliding barn doors connect it to the outdoor Yard for extra circulation. Six interconnected spaces, green rooms and permanent in-house AV support large productions, while the flexible configuration can tighten the scale for smaller crowds.