Heavy Congress is a free Sunday party that will celebrate the heavy-hitters of Melbourne’s thriving sound system culture. There’s few buildings in Melbourne’s CBD that are as historic as the Melbourne Town Hall. A classically designed, ornately furnished bluestone wonder that dates all the way back to 1870, the building has acted as a thriving […]
Photo: James Gillot
Words by Tom Parker
Offering 24 hours of the festival’s favourite local and international techno, trance, dub and glitch artists.
To say Rainbow Serpent has had a tough time of it lately would be an understatement. After bushfires prevented their 2020 instalment from going ahead at the normal date, it took another wicked phenomenon to disallow it’s ensuing Easter event to go ahead. Suddenly, Rainbow were refunding two festivals in the space of three months.
As we stand here now, in mid-to-late January, normally punters would be readying their getups, packing their cars, and gearing themselves up for another pilgrimage to Rainbow’s iconic festival site. For the second year running, however, that won’t be the case.