Splendour in the Grass 2023.

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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Disappointed Esoteric festival-goer Trent Harris-Maher,pictured at another festival in 2017.

‘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:Mochara,DJ Provai and Moglai Bap,in Melbourne.

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
The 2025 Esoteric Festival,which features psychedelic music and art,has been cancelled after it was refused a permit.

‘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
Amyl&The Sniffers in action in Melbourne on January 24.

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
Esoteric Festival is a large Australian bush doof – a regional rave gathering featuring psychedelic music and art.

‘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
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Ella Hooper.

‘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
Esoteric Festival is a large Australian bush doof – a regional rave gathering featuring psychedelic music and art.

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 andAlexander Darling
Billy McFarland,who was handed a six-year prison term for criminal conduct associated with the 2017 Fyre Festival,has launched Fyre 2.

‘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
Wollongong’s Yours and Owls festival.

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