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Esoteric Festival has gone into voluntary administration after the sudden cancellation of its 2025 event in Donald, Victoria. The company behind it, Esoteric Festival Pty Ltd, owes more than A$2.8 million to ticketholders, suppliers, contractors, and staff. The collapse follows the last-minute revocation of the festival’s occupancy permit by a municipal building surveyor. With 11,000 expected attendees, the permit was pulled just days before gates were set to open, citing health and safety concerns tied

Organisers of Boom Festival and Portuguese authorities are facing mounting pressure to investigate an alleged plot by far-left activists to target Israeli festivalgoers at next month’s Boom Festival 2025, following explosive claims by a whistle-blower who says she witnessed discussions of violent and potentially deadly plans within a private messaging group.

Shankra Festival, the well-known psychedelic trance gathering in the Swiss Alps, has officially cancelled its 2025 edition after severe flooding at its site in Lostallo. The announcement was made in an open letter from festival founders Mahi and Madu Murugar, who described a series of setbacks that have made it impossible to move forward with next year’s event. The most recent blow came in June 2024, when intense storms caused the nearby river to overflow,

Psy-Fi Festival, one of Europe’s most iconic psychedelic music gatherings, continues to find itself surrounded by uncertainty. After years of turbulence—including cancellations in 2020, 2021, 2022, and a last-minute cancellation in 2024—the festival’s organizers announced earlier this year that Psy-Fi would make a fresh start in Sarow, Germany for its 2025 edition. That announcement, welcomed by longtime attendees and artists alike, came with the reassurance that local authorities in Sarow were supportive of the event.

In an unexpected and unsettling turn for the UK’s electronic music scene, the beloved Noisily Festival of Music & Arts has been quietly cancelled just three months ahead of its scheduled return. Without a formal statement from the festival’s organizers, the news came to light when Ticketmaster suspended ticket sales late Thursday night and began issuing notifications and automatic refunds to ticket holders. Originally set to take place from 10 – 13 July 2025 in

In an alarming turn of events at this year’s Free Earth Festival in Greece, renowned artist Kevin from the IONO Records act Atacama found himself in a nightmarish confrontation that has cast a dark shadow over the event. The highly regarded psytrance festival attended by thousands, was marred by an incident of shocking aggression. According to Kevin, what was supposed to be a celebratory post-performance moment turned into a distressing altercation. After wrapping up his

In a somber development at this year’s Burning Man festival, a woman was discovered unresponsive on Sunday morning and was subsequently pronounced dead despite emergency efforts to save her life. According to official reports from Burning Man organizers, the woman was found at approximately 11:29 a.m., with emergency personnel on-site unable to revive her. Pershing County Sheriff Jerry Allen confirmed that his deputies were alerted to the incident at 11:37 a.m. The cause of death

Ozora Festival 2024, one of the largest editions in its history with over 50,000 attendees, has been marred by a tragic incident involving a man from New Zealand who died after jumping into a massive bonfire. The bonfire, a central feature of the festival designed to provide warmth and foster a communal atmosphere, became the scene of a heartbreaking event on the evening of Thursday, 1 August. The man, in his 30s and travelling alone