Australia’s BIGSOUND Sets Dates For 2026 Edition

BRISBANE, Australia — BIGSOUND 2025 is present successful the rearview, adjacent year’s variation tin beryllium marked connected the calendar.

Announced contiguous (Sept. 10), the adjacent BIGSOUND is locked successful for Sept. 1-4, 2026 — the archetypal week of the confederate spring.

Produced by QMusic and presented successful Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley, BIGSOUND is said to beryllium the Southern Hemisphere’s largest specializer euphony manufacture gathering, and is entering its 25^th year.

The particulate has hardly settled connected BIGSOUND 2025, which welcomed much than 4,200 festival goers, including upwards of 1,700 authoritative delegates, 130 performers, and astatine slightest 10,000 guests who strolled successful for the escaped all-ages stages successful the Brunswick Street Mall and Goolwal Garden (Sound Garden).

Speakers astatine the Sept. 2-5 league included Blur drummer Dave Rowntree, seasoned British euphony executive Darcus Beese, and homegrown artists BRIGGS, Mallrat and Tash Sultana. Showcasing artists included section indie creator Hatchie, physics enactment Mansionair, and seasoned pop-rock enactment Kisschasy.

Panel discussions included the “industry leaders” session, First Word: One Brilliant Thing, which explored the home industries large issues, and expansive opportunities.

Dan Rosen, President of Warner Music Group Australasia, spoke connected that panel, and urged the manufacture to prosecute a apical 5 ranking, matching the Australian Olympic team’s lofty achievements past twelvemonth successful Paris.

In the opening panel, helium remarks, “I shared my position connected Australia’s euphony export story. Australia is already punching supra its value astatine eighth globally — and with our creator talent, infrastructure, and manufacture focus, we tin presumption ourselves to interruption into the apical 5 wrong the adjacent fewer years. When Australian artists are adequately backed and strategically developed, the manufacture positions them for planetary interaction and semipermanent success.”

Jaddan Comerford, UNIFIED Music Group laminitis & CEO, near the league on a precocious note.

“At the opening of this year, I wrote astir my themes for 2025. So I’ll permission these with you to bespeak on: physique community, observe euphony and enactment positive. And I deliberation that’s what we request to do,” helium remarked. “We request to travel unneurotic arsenic an industry. We request to admit the challenges, but we request to beryllium positive. We request to enactment each other. And it’s awesome to consciousness truthful overmuch positively from this panel, it’s truthful casual to autumn into the negativity of the world. The euphony is awesome, Australian euphony is awesome, our manufacture is awesome. And yeah, let’s bash this.”