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The MATRIA installation at the Royal Exhibition Building.

Like being inside your mother’s womb: Melbourne’s new choose-your-own-adventure artwork

Melbourne’s Now or Never festival kicks off on Thursday with a giant pink inflatable installation covering half of the inside of the heritage-listed Royal Exhibition Building.

  • Gemma Grant and Anthony Segaert

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While much of Sydney has a very subdued start to 2022. Party people where not detred by Covid to attend the music festival, Field Day in Sydney's Domain. Attendes had to prove vacination, or get a Rapid antigen test for Covid, show proof of ID, be scanned by a metel detector for weapons and sniffer dogs, sat regualry by people who people ushered off for a more through search for illegal drugs, 1 January 2022.

‘How has that happened?’ Labor challenged over $1m funding to global music festival giant

The Greens are calling for $1 million paid out to the Listen Out and Field Day festivals be returned to taxpayers.

  • Linda Morris
Kirsha Kaechele celebrating the reopening of the Ladies Lounge at Mona.

‘Like seeing society unravel’: Kirsha Kaechele’s unlikely return to the Gold Coast is a genius fit

After vowing never to return to the Glitter Strip, the artist and curator is in Queensland with one of her most celebrated works, and an unexpected twist.

  • Courtney Kruk
Kate was 18 when she was strip searched by police at a Sydney music festival.

Kate was forced to strip naked at a Sydney festival. She still has nightmares about it

NSW Police strip searched more than 80,000 people looking for drugs. Less than one in 10 were convicted of an offence.

  • Riley Walter
Bob Vylan’s performance at Glastonbury Festival, as well as Kneecap’s set, is being investigated by police.

Why police are investigating Bob Vylan and Kneecap’s Glastonbury sets – and what comes next

Five words chanted from a stage have echoed around the world in a mess the BBC thought it had successfully outmanoeuvred. It was wrong.

  • Bronte Gossling and Nick Newling
Bob Vylan performs at the Glastonbury Festival on Saturday.

Kneecap, Bob Vylan Glastonbury gigs under criminal investigation

The US also revoked the visas for the rap punk duo Bob Vylan ahead of a planned American tour after they led crowds of music fans in chanting “death” to the Israeli military.

  • Sylvia Hui
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Glastonbury 2025

Glastonbury 2025: Lewis Capaldi’s epic return, Aussie stars and the death of brat

The annual festival has come to its close, with a heavy dose of controversy, surprise and homegrown talent.

  • Nick Newling
The Q150 Shed in Augathella, prior to being transported to Wynnum and restored.

How a miraculous outback find changed the fortunes of the Wynnum Fringe

With Dolly, Wesley, Tex and more, the 2025 festival has a country music line-up worthy of the Grand Ole Opry – plus an outback treasure finding a new home in Wynnum.

  • Nick Dent
Festivalgoers during the first weekend of the 2025 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, in Indio, Calif.

Concert tickets prices are skyrocketing. Fans have come up with a worrying solution

The flurry of international superstars touring Australia is prompting hundreds of thousands of music fans to find alternative ways to pay to avoid missing out.

  • Nick Newling
MONOLITH was part of the 2025 Rising Festival.

Melbourne doesn’t give up its secrets easily. This festival is delving below its surface

From a shaky start, this year’s Rising Festival shows it is maturing into a distinctive and diverse event.

  • Cameron Woodhead