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Splendour in the Grass

Monday, September 20

Day the music died, again: Splendour admits defeat, looks to next July

Another 2021 music festival has toppled, with the organisers of Splendour in the Grass rescheduling the planned November event to next July and calling on music lovers to get vaccinated to help festivals get back on their feet.

From pig pens to drive-ins - why our favourite festivals may never be the same

With our major events and festivals working feverishly to be back within months, COVID-19 measures may mean things may never again be the same for festival-goers, as Katrina Beikoff reports

The once bustling main street of Airlie Beach is now empty. ABC News: Tim Shepherd

Cairns, Byron will be slowest to emerge from economic rubble

Hard-hit tourism and hospitality hubs Byron Bay and Cairns are among important regional centres likely to emerge slowest from the economic rubble of the coronavirus crisis, says an international team of researchers.

Hard to Imagine how bad singing inspired these good Sports

When Tim Nelson, the singer of Brisbane band Cub Sport, saw the now much-derided video of celebrities such as Gal Gadot, Natalie Portman, Mark Ruffalo, Jimmy Fallon and Will Ferrell, singing an off-key rendition of John Lennon’s ‘Imagine’, he knew he, too, had to do something.

A quantum leap: No need to be blinded by science

Since it first kicked off in the River City with a big bang in 2016, the World Science Festival Brisbane has become a fixture on Queensland’s cultural calendar.