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Festivals 2018

21 September 2018

  • Stuart Skelton as Peter Grimes

    Peter Grimes review: show goes on despite nightmare mishap

    Cast rallies after star singer Stuart Skelton suffers pollen allergies during opera

8 September 2018

  • The crowd at Labour Live in London in June

    'You can have a voice': political festivals on the rise in UK

    Return of Tory-led Big Tent Ideas festival is part of a growing trend so far dominated by the left

3 September 2018

  • Australian actor and comedian Magda Szubanski at her “funeral” at the Melbourne Writers Festival, 2018.

    Melbourne writers' festival roundup: seven things we learned

    Magda Szubanski is flawless, bubble baths are trite, it’s cool to be buried in a cardboard box, and everyone has an opinion on the MWF

1 September 2018

  • Ta-Nehisi Coates

    Ta-Nehisi Coates might not feel hopeful but he makes us feel like change is coming

    Nayuka Gorrie
    US writer told Melbourne audiences that joy was more important than hope, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try to create both

24 August 2018

  • Germaine Greer

    Performance art, nudity and a ‘place where people can hug’. What are writers’ festivals for, anyway?

    Writers’ festivals are reinventing themselves as they wrestle with cultural flash points and competition

13 August 2018

  • 2018 Outside Lands Music And Arts Festival - Lands End Stage - Day 3<br>SAN FRANCISCO, CA - AUGUST 12: Janelle Monae performs on the Lands End Stage during the 2018 Outside Lands Music And Arts Festival at Golden Gate Park on August 12, 2018 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic)

    Janelle Monáe, the Weeknd and more at Outside Lands – in pictures

    Florence and the Machine and James Blake were among the biggest acts at the festival in San Francisco’s Golden Gate park

9 August 2018

  • Kate Howden, Andrew Greenan and Fleur de Bray in The Cloak and Dagger Affair at Tête à Tête opera festival 2018.

    Tête à Tête opera festival review – brave and baffling new operatic worlds

    At its best, the short opera festival offered sophisticated glimpses of the future of the genre, at its worst - free biscuits aside - were black holes and bemusement

23 July 2018

  • Splendour in the Grass festivalgoers

    Splendour in the Grass review – a distinctly pure kind of joy

    Kendrick Lamar embraces his Pulitzer, Vampire Weekend surprises and 30,000 festival-goers get covered in glitter

23 June 2018

  • Indigenous Australian authors Alexis Wright, Tony Birch and Claire Coleman.

    Indigenous voices have never been more important to Australian literature

    Timmah Ball
    Opportunities for Indigenous writers have grown but we must ensure they’re driven by Indigenous values

17 June 2018

  • Secret Solstice

    The festival makeover: swords, gong baths and gigs in a volcano

    New experiences, great food and yoga have become a big draw as audiences demand more for their money

9 June 2018

  • One of the neon red inverted crucifixes on Hobart’s waterfront as part of Dark Mofo

    Dark Mofo: Mona founder unperturbed by controversy over inverted crosses

    Festival’s creative director Leigh Carmichael says provocation is part of museum’s DNA

28 May 2018

  • Cat Power

    Cat Power on Moon Pix: 'I'm alive today because of those songs'

    Twenty years on, Chan Marshall remembers how it felt to write the album that became her ‘salvation’

27 May 2018

  • The Magic Numbers

    Unite steps in to save Labour’s struggling ‘Glastonbury’

    Labour Live Festival at White Hart Lane in north London has had poor ticket sales

16 May 2018

  • Bureau of Meteoranxiety at NextWave 2018

    Artificial intelligence: it may be our future but can it write a play?

    AI is the spectre haunting the workforce but theatre is exploring its creative possibilities

13 May 2018

  • Anne-Marie.

    Anne-Marie: ‘I’ve looked inside a festival loo before … not nice’

  • From left: Mabel; DJ Khaled; Brockhampton; Shawn Mende; SZA and Sigrid.

    SZA, Brockhampton and Sigrid: 2018’s festival anthems

  • MNEK.

    MNEK: ‘The tent thing is not going to happen’

  • Gaz Coombes; Liam Gallagher; Jack White; Gorillaz and Sia.

    Liam Gallagher, Jack White, Damon Albarn: how to grow old gracefully in rock

  • Zane Lowe v Beyoncé, Lilly Allen v Alex Turner: the cringiest festival TV moments

  • Dani Filth: ‘Marilyn Manson is a likable fellow, so I’d give him my wet wipes’

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