BIGSOUND 2019

At the risk of being branded a dangerous lunatic by everyone who’s still in recovery mode almost a fortnight on, I’m going to come right out and say that BIGSOUND is one of my favourite weeks of the whole damn year. It’s Australia’s sun-drenched, beer-soaked music industry summer camp; part thinktank, part music festival, part […]

Is BIGSOUND Australia’s answer to SXSW? It’s not an inaccurate analogy. Now in its 18th year, the annual event is as much a conference as it is a music festival. The 2019 edition will see a heck load of speeches, panels and storytelling crammed into four absurdly active weekdays. More than 150 artists will perform […]

In a sentence this writer truly cannot believe he is writing, everyone’s fave team player Andy King is heading to Australia to keynote BIGSOUND 2019 and suddenly everything feels right again. In case you have forgotten or, god forbid, never heard about it at all, Andy King became famous after Netflix’s documentary FYRE: The Greatest Party […]

As BIGSOUND festival draws ever closer, the esteemed Brisbane event has finally given us the first lot of notable names who will be appearing – the first round of international speakers and buyers. Leading the announcement is Terry McBride of Canada’s Nettwerk Music, whose roster includes Father John Misty, Xavier Rudd and Stereophonics. McBride will […]

Aussie music’s week of weeks, BIGSOUND, is gearing up for its 2019 run and now the legends behind the event have announced some key details about what’s going down this year. First of all, we know when BIGSOUND 2019 will be happening – Tuesday, 3rd – Friday, 6th September. It will return to its home […]


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