‘I don’t need to go to a three day camping festival’: The generational shift hurting live music
A generational shift in live music appetites is attributing to the current crisis festivals are experiencing in Australia, according to a key industry figure.
Appearing on a new episode of Mumbrella’s one-on-one podcast, Ministry of Sound Australia CEO Tim McGee said the local live event scene is in a “pretty dire place”, on the back of cancellations of major events like Splendour in the Grass, Spilt Milk and Groovin the Moo.
Some of that can be attributed to the damage the COVID pandemic put on the scene, but according to McGee, some of that relates to the key festival demographics in 2024, especially with dance crowds.
“There is definitely a phenomenon going on where a large portion of the crowd are not interested in being fed 40 things at once,” he told host Neil Griffiths.
