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Scores of people were also charged with drug offences at festivals on the weekend.

Some famous faces have already escaped the mud-soaked festival by working kilometres out of the flooded desert.

After almost 30 years running simultaneous events around the country, the beloved New Year's Eve event has been canned.

The iconic and beloved Newtown Festival has called curtains on the annual event, some 40 years after it was first established.

Bluesfest has dropped Sticky Fingers from its 2023 line-up after two other big acts pulled out over the controversial Sydney band's inclusion.

Victoria and New South Wales have refused calls, including from some coroners, to open pill testing facilities this. 

The April festival has been embroiled in controversy after organisers announced Sticky Fingers would be performing sparking two big names to withdraw their performances.

What started 30 years ago as one night at a local club with a roll call of Elvis impersonators, is now a five-day festival of the King that draws more than 25,000 visitors to the NSW town.

The NSW government's claim strip searches at music festivals could be reasonable even if a judge finds they were unlawful has been criticised as illogical.

Disaster struck at the Medusa Festival in the town of Cullera near Valencia on Saturday. The festival has been suspended.

Harvest Rock went from scrapped to saved in the space of just 12 hours after a controversial power play over the city council.

Organisers of NSW festival Splendour in the Grass have apologised after hundreds of wet revellers were forced to wait hours for transport in queues on Saturday night.

Around 200,000 revellers have packed into the Glastonbury Music Festival in England.

Thousands of hardcore Elvis Presley fans are descending upon the central-west New South Wales town of Parkes to attend the annual Parkes Elvis Festival, which was cancelled in 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic

Calling him a "father, husband, mentor and most of all a legend", West's family said the music lover passed away peacefully in his sleep on Thursday morning.

Witnesses saw tents set up with live music and DJs playing to "a lot of people".

Organisers estimate the cancellation will cost the greater Hunter Valley region $5.2 million, with tens of thousands of people affected.

A nine-year-old boy who was trampled on during a crowd crush at Travis Scott's Astroworld festival in Houston has tragically died from his injuries.

A 22-year-old university student who was critically injured at the Astroworld festival in Houston has died, bringing the death toll to nine.

More than 20 lawsuits have already been filed, accusing organisers of failing to take simple crowd-control steps or staff properly.

Before rapper Travis Scott took the stage on Friday night at his sold-out Astroworld Festival, Houston's police chief had a "brief and respectful" meeting with him to discuss safety concerns.

Concertgoers at a highly anticipated US music festival on Friday night say they were shocked to witness how the event brewed into pandemonium

The crowd at a Houston music festival suddenly surged toward the stage during a performance by rapper Travis Scott, squeezing fans so tightly together that they could not breathe or move their arms.

Bluesfest in Byron Bay has officially been cancelled less than 24 hours from when it was due to begin throwing the travel plans of thousands over the long weekend into chaos.

Australian rock legend, Daryl Braithwaite has been forced to cancel his concert and 30th anniversary of "The Horses" after being hospitalised in Melbourne.

A music festival on Queensland's Stradbroke Island was shut down after a huge fight broke out between revellers.

As Australia continues to enforce tough restrictions to contain the spread of CVOID-19, key events normally enjoyed by thousands could be canned.

Tamworth Regional Council tonight voted to suspend all events they run for the festival, citing COVID-19 as the main issue.

A drive-in music festival will be held on the Sunshine Coast in July, as the industry tries to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.

A person infected with the coronavirus attended the women's T20 World Cup final at the MCG, while another went to the Golden Plains music festival.

Tasmania's iconic music and arts festival Dark Mofo, to be headlined by Bon Iver, has been cancelled over coronavirus fears.

A security guard is behind bars tonight, charged with attacking three police officers he was meant to be assisting at a music festival in inner Melbourne.

Fans and impersonators are heading to the NSW town of Parkes for the annual Elvis festival.

Revellers at the annual Falls Festival on Victoria's Great Ocean Road have to leave, with organisers cancelling the rest of the four-day event due to extreme weather.

Deadly Lego-shaped MDMA pills at least double the common dose have been seized in northern NSW.

The 18-year-old Blakehurst woman was strip searched by NSW Police at the Epik Music Festival at Sydney Showground yesterday after sniffer dogs alerted officers.

Amnesty bins will be available at music festivals across NSW in the wake of recommendations following a spate of drugs deaths, the premier has announced.

Public hearing looks at the treatment of three teen boys at Lost City Festival earlier this year.

Friends are remembering a 24-year-old Victorian man who died at a music festival just north of the Victorian border as "funny", "down to earth" and "genuine."

A man has died of a suspected drug overdose at a music festival in NSW's south west this morning.

Testing of confiscated drugs at Victorian music festivals could be undertaken by paramedics, with party-goers informed of dangerous substances via social media or emergency texts.

An inquest into six drug-related deaths at NSW music festivals has found much can be done to prevent drug deaths, with "compelling" evidence in favour of pill testing.

Legislation to reinstate a controversial licensing scheme for NSW music festivals is set to be brought before the state parliament.

A NSW government frontbencher has preempted a coroner's report into deaths at NSW music festivals by saying he wouldn't accept pill-testing measures.

Organisers of a music festival that expected more than 10,000 visitors to a remote part of the US desert have cancelled the event due to safety concerns.

By the time Jimi Hendrix closed out Woodstock with his blistering rendition of The Star Spangled Banner, nearly all of the half-million strong army of hippies and baby boomers at the legendary 1969 rock festival had already left.

Thermal imaging is among a number of measures proposed by the FOMO music festival in a pledge to increase revellers' safety.