FOMO 2019
The first two days of a Coronial Inquest into drug-related deaths at NSW music festivals over summer have yielded some disturbing revelations. To start with, the court heard yesterday that Central Coast teenager Alex Ross King’s fatal overdose at Sydney’s FOMO festival back in January was tragically avoidable, with her friends saying the 19-year-old panic-swallowed […]
A 20-year-old Central Coast man has been charged with supplying drugs which police reportedly believe are linked to the death of 19-year-old Alex Ross-King, who died after attending the Sydney leg of FOMO Festival on Saturday. NSW Police raided a home in Mount Elliott on Wednesday and arrested two men, aged 20 and 23. Police […]
Family members of a 19-year-old woman who died after taking an unknown substance at the Sydney leg of FOMO Festival on the weekend have begged New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian to implement pill testing. Alexandra Ross-King died in Westmead Hospital on Saturday night, with her family by her side. Festival organisers said they were […]
A 19-year-old woman has reportedly died from a suspected overdose while attending the Sydney leg of FOMO Festival yesterday. According to a police statement, the woman was taken from the festival at Parramatta at around 6pm last night to Westmead Hospital but died later that evening. The statement also said that 146 people were searched, […]
Rapper Lil Pump has cancelled his planned trip to Australia for FOMO Festival, after failing to obtain a visa to tour the country. In a statement released on Thursday, FOMO organisers said, “Due to recent arrests and a failure to comply with Australian work visa application requirements, FOMO regret to announce that Lil Pump is […]
FOMO Festival has added four new acts to its 2019 lineup, before it returns to stages in Brisbane, Adelaide, Sydney and Melbourne in January. With Nicki Minaj, Rae Sremmurd and Lil Pump already announced at the top of the lineup, organisers have now announced that one triple j Unearthed act will open festivities in each […]
Get keen because the mofos at FOMO have just announced a fistful of sideshows for some of the 2019 lineup‘s biggest international drawcards. American hip-hop duo Rae Sremmurd head up an all ages gig in Sydney, which goes on top of their previously-announced headlining slot at Perth’s new FOMO By Night festival. On the heels […]
Summer festival FOMO has announced an all-ages Brisbane instalment of its FOMO By Night event, after the city’s regular daytime leg of FOMO sold out. FOMO By Night will see a selection of FOMO acts perform at Brisbane Showgrounds on Friday, 4th January, including the likes of Nicki Minaj, Lil Pump, Mura Masa and San […]
FOMO Festival has continued its expansion with the announcement that it will hit Perth for the very first time in 2019, with a handful of FOMO acts. The FOMO By Night event — a smaller “night time edition” of FOMO (it hit Melbourne last year, before the city cops the full FOMO experience in 2019) […]
Lil Pump, one of FOMO Festival’s headline acts for 2019, has told fans he is going to jail for “a couple months” after violating his probation in California. The 18-year-old ‘Gucci Gang’ rapper, who is due to make his Australian debut at FOMO in January, took to Instagram today to tell fans he’s “gotta go […]
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