
Farmer & The Owl Festival 2019 - A Letter From The Directors
With only four days until Farmer and the Owl Festival lands in Wollongong, we want to reassure everyone that although the headlines (and policies) are changing by the hour ….. THE FARMER AND THE OWL FESTIVAL SHOW WILL GO ON! NO ONE WILL RAIN ON OUR INCREDIBLE MUSIC PARADE!!!

“DON’T KILL LIVE MUSIC” Tomorrows Sydney Rally - Speakers & Appearances Announced
In one week, Australians and the Australian Music Industry have made it very clear they refuse to stand by and let the Berejiklian Government take away access to music and culture festivals in NSW, Australia.
Find out more about tomorrows Rally in Sydney and/or sign the petition now!

Ozzy Osbourne Cancels Download 2019 Appearance, Airbourne join the lineup
Sadly; Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee and Grammy®-winning singer and songwriter Ozzy Osbourne has announced today that he must, unfortunately, cancel shows in Australia, New Zealand and Japan. This follows news of the postponement of the entire UK and European leg of his NO MORE TOURS 2 tour on doctors’ orders.
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Splore 2019 releases entertainment schedule!
Splore Festival 2019 has released their entertainment schedule so that festival-goers can plan ahead and minimise the day-of-stress of having to choose from 100 music & performance acts. As well as mind blowing performances, Splore has commissioned 15 art projects staged throughout the beautiful Tapapakanga Park to explore this 21-24 of February.

Nostalgia & Coastella Festivals join forces to provide strong music lineups & a unique festival experience
Christchurch’s Nostalgia festival and the Wellington/Kapiti Coasts Coastella have joined forces to ensure their futures as independent, unique and innovative music events. Both festivals value the importance of programming emerging local artists, shown this year through bands The Beths, The Miltones and Soaked Oats.

Don’t Kill Live Music Rally Thursday February 21st Hyde Park Sydney
AN OPEN LETTER TO MUSIC AND CULTURE LOVERS OF AUSTRALIA
DON’T LET THE BEREJIKLIAN GOVERNMENT
KILL LIVE MUSIC

AUCKLAND FRINGE FESTIVAL: Toil and Trouble
Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’ – but not like you’ve seen it before!

Splore Festival 2019 releases performing arts programme
Splore Festival’s performing arts programme will include space cats, glowing faeries and a mysterious woman dancing in a tree. A flying wheelchair complete with acrobat, a girl dancing on wine bottles and a boylesque beauty, with muscles that sparkle.

Introducing; the Ascension Stage to Download 2019!
Download Festival 2019 are excited to announce the Ascension Stage! A new stage showcasing those blistering acts that are on the rise to be the headliners of tomorrow….

Florence and the Machine are all set for Laneway Festival 2019
Florence and the Machine delivered an amazing show recently in Perth and are set to do the same for Laneway 2019.

Milk & Honey Festival announced for International Women's Day
One night
Three cities
Four venues
Over twenty artists in celebration of International Women’s Day Friday March 8th 2019.

Auckland Folk Festival update for Auckland Anniversary Weekend
The Auckland Folk Festival will be back this summer with an interesting, both ethnically and gender diverse line-up of local and international artists.

Laneway - Robinson in, but Billie Eilish out
Auckland Laneway has added three more artists to the already stellar 2019 festival line-up, with sensational Kiwi pop singer Robinson

WOMAD schedule for 2019 revealed
See your festival favourites perform twice or schedule your weekend around the exclusive one-off performances.

Australian & NZ acts announced to play SXSW
The South by Southwest® Music Festival (SXSW®) has announced the second wave of Showcasing Artists invited to perform at the 2019 event.

Seven new acts added to WOMAD New Zealand 2019
WOMAD New Zealand has revealed seven new acts to join the exciting and diverse 2019 festival lineup.

GOOD THINGS FESTIVAL 2018 - IMPORTANT SYDNEY UPDATE
Bad news from the Good Things Festival crew. While Good Things Festival believes that live music is for all-ages, the NSW state government and police department heavily disagree. This decision was hard on the Good Things Festival organisers but promises of excessive police presence, and the ever-looming threat of no-more-music-festivals in NSW, means that the Sydney show will be R18 only. All under-18s will be contacted for refund; Melbourne and Brisbane events remain unaffected.

Australias Good Things Festival 2018 - TIMETABLES & LOCAL SUPPORT ACTS ANNOUNCED!
Australia’s Good Things Festival has once and for all emerged from the vast unknowns, bringing forth a new era for Australian alternative music fans, ushered in by an unstoppable army of some of the heaviest, and most alternative bands the universe has on offer in 2018!

Coastella 2019 line-up revealed
New Zealand’s most talked about boutique music festival Coastella returns to the stunning Kapiti Coast with an eclectic trans tasman lineup.

DOWNLOAD FESTIVAL AUSTRALIA 2019 - Second Lineup Announced!
2018 saw the Australian debut of the world’s premier rock and metal festival Download! 30,000 heavy music fans descended on Flemington christening Melbourne into the Download family alongside Donington UK, (the spiritual home of rock), Paris France, Madrid Spain. In 2019, Download returns to Melbourne and will head north to serve up a mammoth line up of sonic brutality and great times to Sydney-siders for the very first time!
Heres the second line-up announcement!