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Neil Young famously wrote Southern Man and Alabama about racism in the south.

Neil Young pulls out of Glastonbury over BBC involvement

The singer said he had been booked to play the festival this summer but objected to the broadcaster’s “corporate control”.

  • Anita Singh

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Beyond the Valley music festival.

Festival-goer overdoses on first day of Victorian pill-testing trial

Paramedics were called to the Beyond the Valley festival after a man in his 20s suffered a drug overdose.

  • Rachael Dexter and Marta Pascual Juanola
Pill testing will be allowed at about a dozen NSW music festivals from 2025 in a major trial of the service.

Pill testing to go ahead at NSW summer music festivals

After years of calls for pill-testing services, a 12-month trial in time for the summer music festival season in early 2025 will be unveiled on Thursday.

  • Michael McGowan
The Bluefest crowd in 2022.

In Bluesfest we trust? The art, and cost, of Peter Noble’s backflip

At a time when many music festivals are doing it tough, comments by Bluesfest founder Peter Noble have done no favours to the sector.

  • Karl Quinn
The organisers of alternative music festival Good Things have been accused of ignoring allegations of men groping women, filming up women’s skirts and abusing those who turned down their advances at events around the country.

Good Things festival accused of ignoring groping, upskirting and harassment reports

One email to organisers includes claims of witnessing “men filming up girls’ skirts the whole day” and seeing people being groped.

  • Courtney Kruk
Premier Roger Cook taps his SmartRider.

Summer of thrifty ride: Government brings back free transport, flags public holiday change

In an event-studded Perth weekend, the state government has announced a repeat of last year’s free public transport over summer.

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Blondie performing at Pandemonium

The text messages that reveal the pandemonium behind a cancelled music festival

The festival made headlines for being “disrespectful”. Now, the organisers are demanding compensation.

  • Harriet Alexander
APRA AMCOS, the musical performing rights organisation, says while artists international income is up, the domestic industry has not fully recovered post-pandemic.

Aussie musicians’ international incomes are at an all-time high. But the picture at home is not so healthy

Australia is at risk of a “musical brain drain” as artists head overseas in search of better money.

  • Penry Buckley
Police Minister Yasmin Catley’s review of strip search practices has not yielded any change

Police strip-searched 51 children in a year despite Labor’s promised review

It has been 12 months since the NSW police minister promised to review the strip-searching of children. She has held only three meetings.

  • Michael McGowan
A rock fan crowdsurfs at the sellout Big Day Out concert at the Melbourne Showgrounds in 1994. More than 20,000 people, mostly aged under 26, gathered to see 39 local and overseas bands.

Thongs and crowd-surfing: Why live music events can’t afford insurance

A federal inquiry has heard from insurers about rising premiums for venues and festivals. They say unpredictable weather events – and crowd behaviour – are partly to blame.

  • Penry Buckley

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