Climate crisis could kill off Australian music festivals, report warns

Exclusive: As they wait on latest weather forecasts, concert goers delay buying tickets. But this has caused some major events to cancel

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Music festivals are a threatened species that could die out if they fail to adapt to the climate crisis.

While soaring insurance and production costs, disruptions to supply chains, mass cancellations and shifts in consumer buying habits have all contributed to a flailing live music scene, extreme and unpredictable weather is an underlying contributor to these factors, an RMIT University report has found.

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