Music festivals
Splendour no more: Saul to sell Byron Bay’s premier festival site
The former home of the Splendour in the Grass festival is being sold by a conglomerate that includes arts events veteran Brandon Saul.
- Carolyn Cummins
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‘Could’ve gone to Europe instead’: Festival-goers’ Esoteric journey ends stranded in chaos
Trent Harris-Maher and his fiance spent about $5000 on a bush doof trip to regional Victoria that ended in shambles. They’re not alone.
- Cassandra Morgan
Kneecap the latest act to play Fed Square, but they won’t be the last
The open-air space has become the city’s most happening venue for live music this summer, but it wasn’t by accident.
- Karl Quinn
‘Dance the pain away’: Cancelled festival offers consolation party in Melbourne
Fans of Esoteric festival, which was cancelled when Buloke Shire denied a permit at the last minute, have been invited to an alternative event on Sunday.
- Hannah Kennelly
A levy on tickets, discounts for young fans: Live music probe makes recommendations
A federal inquiry into Australia’s live music industry has tabled its final report, providing advice to government on how to support the struggling sector.
- Karl Quinn
‘Utterly devastated’: Popular regional festival cancelled at eleventh hour
A music and art festival which swells a small regional town six-fold has been cancelled one day before it was due to start leaving the town’s businesses devastated.
- Alexander Darling
‘It’s about time’: Ella Hooper on why female artists need Roar Fest
A revolutionary music festival – with an all-women line-up – is coming to St Kilda this weekend.
- Kerrie O'Brien
How a popular bush doof festival became a gastro nightmare — and now faces the axe
A council in regional Victoria wants to block a psychedelic festival scheduled on Labour Day, citing health and safety concerns after a gastro outbreak last year.
- Hannah Kennelly and Alexander Darling
‘Crazy not to do it again’: Fraudster returns with Fyre Festival 2
After eight years, a prison sentence and a scathing documentary, Billy McFarland is back with a sequel, with tickets priced up to $1.7 million and no acts yet confirmed.
- Daniel Lo Surdo
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First NSW music festival to allow pill testing revealed
The announcement marks a major win for drug reform advocates who have long called for pill testing in the state.
- Michael McGowan
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