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St Jerome’s Laneway Festival is returning for the first year since 2020.

‘Never been about headliners’: Behind Laneway’s trend-defying success

During a perilous time for music events, the festival’s celebrating its 20th anniversary. What’s its secret?

  • Jonathan Seidler

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Live Nation stages the Splendour in the Grass and Falls festivals in Australia. Skeggs performs at Splendour in 2023.

Splendour in the Grass cancelled for second year in a row

Last year organisers announced the festival was “taking the year off”, but Splendour will not be back in 2025.

  • Nell Geraets
Pete Murray performs to a crowd of around 12,000 people in the Outback at last year’s Mundi Mundi Bash. 

These music festivals defied the trend and sold out. What’s the trick?

Defying the gloomy trend of cancellations, Strawberry Fields, Mundi Mundi Bash and Harbourlife have all sold out. Is there a pattern here for festivals to emulate?

  • Karl Quinn
Former Liberal prime minister John Howard.

John Howard and a patriotic dessert menu: The Liberal Party turns 80

Ahead of Peter Dutton’s savage speech at the Liberals’ 80th federal council, the party’s top figures gathered in Sydney for an evening of factional festivities.

  • Kishor Napier-Raman
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Ticketmaster, Splendour in the Grass owner investigated by US government

Australia’s live music industry could be in for a massive shake-up, if the US forces Live Nation to offload its ticketing arm.

  • Karl Quinn
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The ‘capitalist nonsense’ killing Melbourne’s live music scene

Cash Savage still remembers the first time she played to sold-out crowd at Fitzroy’s Old Bar. She’s growing increasingly dismayed about the future of the city’s iconic gig culture.

  • Melissa Cunningham
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Festivals ‘in the thick of a real crisis’, says Music Australia chief

The number of 18 to 24-year-olds attending music festivals has dropped in the past five years, with a new report warning rising costs and overpolicing are key factors.

  • Karl Quinn
Flume performing at the 2013 One Night Stand in Dubbo

ABC and triple j revive One Night Stand music festival

The ABC’s youth broadcaster is supporting an industry blighted by the cancellation of high-profile multi-day outings.

  • Calum Jaspan
Floodlights at Meredith Music.

Kids have not ‘gone soft’ when it comes to music festivals

The rapid decline of music festivals in Australia is symptomatic of a bigger problem – and it’s not the fault of young people.

  • Millie Muroi
“Chuggy,” Bob Dylan said, “this is one of the best tours I’ve ever done.”

I’ve sent Bob Dylan love letters for years, and I just got a reply!

When I interviewed legendary music promoter Michael Chugg this week, he had a surprise for me.

  • Peter FitzSimons

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