As Easter approaches, so to does the East Coast Blues & Roots festival, held in Byron Bay every Easter long weekend. This year its going to be massive, with the likes of The Black Crowes, John Butler Trio, Wilco, Jeff Martin, Sinead O’Connor, Keith Urban, Eskimo Joe, Maceo Parker, Don McLean, Gotye,...

For those who don’t know, the Big Day Out is an annual music festival touring Australia and New Zealand. It orginated in Sydney in 1992, and has since grown to include Melbourne, the Gold Coast, Adelaide, Perth and Auckland. I’ve been regularly attending the Gold Coast BDO for more years than I...

Lucky for me, I am just young enough to miss the phenomenon of touring international acts skipping Brisbane on their Australia tours. Being the third largest city in the country, it seems to me that would have made these so-called “tours” rather abrupt. After spending the better part of a day at...