Tom Ballard

Sydney’s Homebake Music Festival has been cancelled.

Tex Perkins has taken to Facebook to take a dig at DIG, the ABC’s digital radio station for what he considers to have been “unprofessional conduct” after they used information from an interview not due air until late October to spill the beans on Homebake.

The all-Australian (plus Blondie and some kiwis) festival Homebake has delivered its second artist announcement.

Chugg Entertainment has partnered with Homebake Music, Film, Comedy & Arts Festival producers IMC and Village Sounds to co-produce Homebake.

Blondie will play Homebake.

Icehouse front man Iva Davies has filmed a video for Tourism Australia highlighting the importance contemporary music has played in the Great Southern Land.

Brighton-born Passenger, a.k.a. Mike Rosenberg, has spent most of this month heading around the country stopping into the major cities and playing his 21st century folk to adoring audiences, but now fans out of the cities will get a chance to check him out.