The boutique Sugar Mountain 2017 festival fell on an inauspicious weekend following Melbourne’s Bourke Street tragedy and then coinciding with Donald Trump’s Presidential inauguration. A rival promoter even announced a PJ Harvey show on the same day. Yet Sugar Mountain, returning to the Victorian College Of The Arts’ stately Southbank campus, epitomises Melbourne’s cultural life – and the cool kids cherish it. It’s…
The festival landscape has undergone major upheaval in the last three years, and Covid’s long-term impact on the music industry…
