Peter Noble delivers U-turn on Bluesfest future

Bluesfest organiser Peter Noble has performed a U-turn on the fate of the Australian institution, revealing its immediate future is safe amid its best sales yet.

In August, the Byron Bay festival director announced that the event’s 2025 edition would be its “final curtain call”, only to leave the door open for its return just a few weeks later.

Now, Noble tells IQ that his clarion call was largely a ploy to attract the attention of the state government, which he says declined to invest in Bluesfest during a difficult time for the economy.

“August was a time of great disappointment,” explains Noble. “We had said to the government ‘Look, we need investment at this time, the cost of living crisis is really affecting events…

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