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Brand new Aussie music festival announces 2026 tour dates… but can it save the country's failing industry?


Metalcore band Parkway Drive has announced a new music festival, and it could be the big break the live music scene has been waiting for.

Between February and March, the heavy metal music gig will do a full lap of the map, kicking off in Perth, then Adelaide, several locations in Victoria and NSW, Byron Bay, and Sandstone Point, Queensland. Parkway Drive, who recently played a special 'black tie' event at the Sydney Opera House, tested the waters with their festival format in Europe last year, taking Fit For A King and Thy Art Is Murder to Germany for a head-banging night of music. The festival will take a new form, called Listen Out Presents, which will involve 'one-off carefully curated parties in killer locations around Australia all year long'.

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