While there’s been a lot of Aussie music festivals that have grown from strength to strength (eg. Falls Festival, Groovin The Moo, and Splendour In The Grass), solid favourites (Meredith, Golden Plains), as well as some new additions to the roster (such as Festival Of The Sun, The Plot, Outside In, Let Them Eat Cake), it’s been hard to ignore the squeeze in the festival market that’s seen bigger players merge and others fall over. We look back over the years at an extensive chronology of the music festivals that – for many reasons – didn’t make it in the end, to see whether the music festival bubble may be bursting from the early ’00s boom, or simply resetting for the future. Breathe deep, here we go.
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