Splendour is set to be soggy:A guide to wet weather festival dressing

Splendour is set to be soggy:A guide to wet weather festival dressing

How to keep the rain and mud off and still pull a “look” at this weekend’s Splendour in the Grass.

  • byLauren Ironmonger

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Safety or liberty? Welcome to the pandemic’s personal paradox phase

Safety or liberty? Welcome to the pandemic’s personal paradox phase

Partisan allegiances are on a collision course with personal preferences as we try to find the right balance of health and freedom.

  • byParnell Palme McGuinness
The kids are all right,but the nanny state can’t let it be

The kids are all right,but the nanny state can’t let it be

Going to live music without a responsible adult is a rite of passage. Spare a thought for 16- to 18-year-olds who now cannot go to Splendour in the Grass on their own next weekend.

  • byJenna Price
Last-minute licensing change throws Splendour into disarray

Last-minute licensing change throws Splendour into disarray

People aged under 18 won’t be able to attend Australia’s largest musical festival unless accompanied by an adult,for the first time in its history.

  • byMartin Boulton
The six next-gen music acts you need to listen to right now

The six next-gen music acts you need to listen to right now

From a Gold Coast busker to a Korean-Australian hip-hop collective and a TikTok star,these acts are the rising stars on the Australian music scene.

  • byCraig Mathieson
Popular rapper arrested at Sydney shopping centre after not wearing mask

Popular rapper arrested at Sydney shopping centre after not wearing mask

The rapper shared footage online of the arrest,which he said occurred when he and his mother were Christmas shopping.

  • byDaniella White
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The virtual music festival:a pandemic one-off or trip to the future?

The virtual music festival:a pandemic one-off or trip to the future?

Splendour XR,the recent virtual reality Australian music festival,could prove a permanent addition to our post-pandemic festival scene.

  • byNick Miller
I went to the world’s first virtual music concert and all I got was an unsexy robot suit and a headache
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I went to the world’s first virtual music concert and all I got was an unsexy robot suit and a headache

I never work out how or why I’m hearing that cartoon cow dude “moo” at me repeatedly.

  • byMichael Dwyer
Can’t get to Splendour in the Grass? Buy a ticket for your virtual self
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Can’t get to Splendour in the Grass? Buy a ticket for your virtual self

Is an Australian “world-first extended reality” festival the future of music?

  • byMichael Dwyer
Splendour in the Grass creators to launch new music festival in 2021

Splendour in the Grass creators to launch new music festival in 2021

The creators of the Splendour in the Grass festival have received more than $1.5 million to underwrite a new festival in 2021.

  • byLinda Morris
International music acts could record while stuck in Australian quarantine

International music acts could record while stuck in Australian quarantine

It's time for some innovative thinking to get live music back on its feet,so we convened a roundtable with some of the biggest names in the industry.

  • byKarl Quinn andNathanael Cooper