Features

TMN speaks to Simon Daly, co-creator of Lost Lands festival and the original Falls Festival, about environmental sustainability, gender balance and the joy of hearing lions roar at a music festival.

We chatted to the big cheese at Forbes Street Studios about what he does all day besides listen to the sweet, sweet sound of tunes being born...

Mitch Lowe and Pato Alvarez have established themselves as major players on the New Zealand festival market – and are now keen to explore new opportunities in Australia and other overseas markets.…

Why do music industry professionals always feel the pressure to both never make a mistakes, and always put up a front that all their projects are killing it? This only makes failure feel impossible…

Don’t just ask once. Don’t settle for “I’m fine.” Don’t give up the conversation so damn easily.

"The zero to five year age bracket is really the age range where children are developing the sense of identity and self most profoundly. To only feed them with unlocalised content, it just seems like a really crazy thing to do."

The whole trope of a foreign band being “big in Japan” is one that’s been done to death. In the 1960s surf garage rockers The Ventures were arguably the instigators of the cliche. They were a pop…

Most people believe that they are individuals and that they do things out of their own free will, but according to behavioural scientist Breanna Wright (BehaviourWorks Australia), we’re actually…

An important conversation was given a platform and a spark at BIGSOUND last week when five music industry figures, who are also mothers, delivered a panel titled The Mothers of All Strength In Music.…

"Nobody owes you a career, you are not entitled to it. You have to earn it. And life is not an Instagram story"