Day: 14 June 2026

Open Season

Going against the grain: How GRAIN founder Chris Langenberg built Brisbane’s most ambitious festival

There are two ways to look at a music festival. The first is as a punter: scanning the lineup, dropping your money months in advance, navigating timetable clashes, dehydration and the inevitable post-gig blues that follow. The second is to wonder how any of it happens at all: how dozens of artists, venues, schedules, budgets…

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Hair

Free love and flower power take the stage with HAIR, the tribal love-rock musical

If you need any evidence that history repeats itself, look no further than this 1960s rock musical, HAIR. Celebrating an age of freedom, rebellion against war, and experimentation, tackling issues of race, sexuality and gender identity. HAIR takes us back to the 1960s/70s counterculture hippie movement whose obstacles are not so dissimilar from those we…

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