Festival Faves for Summer

Return to Rio 

You don’t have to fly to Brazil to go to Rio. Head to the Hawkesbury for the highly anticipated next installment of the Return to Rio music festival. Revel in three days of music, a pumping pool party and Australia’s most colourful fancy-dress celebration. The ultimate summer closing party includes water aerobics, meditation, pilates and yoga with a guarantee of queue-free bars, flushing toilets and hot showers. Pitch a tent among kangaroos or treat yo’self to riverside air-conditioned cabin accommodation.

Golden tickets are available now and any remaining tickets will be on general release from Jan 15, 2015.

Mar 20-22, 2015, The Del Rio Riverside Resort, The Hawkesbury River 

Headlining: Get Physical’s M.A.N.D.Y, LTJ Bukem, Brandon Block, Guti

Other Summer festival highlights include:

Stereosonic, Nov 29-30, Sydney Showgrounds

Headlining: Skrillex, Alesso, Steve Aoki, Showtek, Porter Robinson, Calvin Harris, Tiesto, Diplo, Disclosure

Field Day, Jan 1, The Domain

Headlining: SBTRK, Alt-J, Dillon Francis, Rufus

Icebergs NYD Party, Jan 1, Bondi Beach

Headlining: Bag Raiders, Poolside, Sneaky Sound System

Future Music Festival, Feb 28, Royal Randwick Racecourse

Headlining: Drake, Avicii, The Prodigy, Martin Garrix, Afrojack, Knife Party

Soundwave, Feb 28-Mar 1, Olympic Park

Headlining: Slipknot, Slash, Faith No More, Soundgarden, Incubus, Fall Out Boy, Marilyn Manso

St Jerome’s Laneway Festival, Feb 1, Sydney College of the Arts

Headlining: Andy Bull, Angel Olsen, Banks, Vic Mensa, Highasakite, Little Dragon, Sohn