A Promising Prediction For When Live Music Will Return To Australia
For the past few months because of COVID-19, Australia has been on lock-down, meaning a complete shut-down of gatherings, which of course includes concerts and music festivals.
There’s been a lot of reports by the media about when live music will return, however in most cases it’s largely speculative with no concrete backing, so we wanted to put something more meaningful out there.
First of all, there’s two types of predictions to make:
- When will live music return to Australia?
- When will international acts return to Australia?
Let’s break each one down.
When will live music return to Australia
As a result of Australia doing well to contain the spread of COVID-19, we are now experiencing a relaxing of lock-down restrictions. For example in NSW cafe’s and restaurants have started to open with pubs/clubs already expanding their patronage to 50 people — all with no surge in new cases. This is a promising sign that we’re well on our way back to small to medium sized gatherings. In fact in our app we’ve seen a gig or two announced for this month, for example this one. As borders are still closed, when we say “concerts” we mean only local acts, but thankfully we have a great local scene with a diverse set of talent to get excited about.
The announcement of Falls Festival pressing ahead (with an all Aussie lineup) for this new years period is a great sign that we will be seeing large gatherings in the form of festivals returning by at latest December. So if we continue to experience no surge of COVID-19 cases in the next few months, expect more festivals to be announced for the summer of 2020/2021 and probably even as early as this Spring.
When will international acts return to Australia
This question is essentially akin to when Australia will open up its borders. This, we have no reliable prediction. However, if we go by statements from high profile music heads like Michael Gudinski (head of Frontier Touring) it will be only until February or March that we’ll start seeing international acts touring Australia again.
We’ve also been given information from touring companies that a few noticeable Hip-Hop acts have already been booked for tours in February and March — so get excited for this summer folks, it’s going to be special.
How to stay updated with new announcements?
Get our concert tracker app. It will alert you when any artist you listen to announces a concert in your city, and it also has a full gig guide that shows all concerts happening around your area.
We’ve also updated the app to send you alerts for live stream concerts — it’s everything you need to stay on top of all concert related announcements.
Didn’t read the article, want a short summary?
Small sized concerts are slowly being organised as of this month in NSW, large scale festivals have been announced for late December with the high chance of more getting announced for Spring. To stay up to date with all concert news, download our concert tracker app.
