It's time for Australian Music festivals to wake up and smell the roses....

News flash the 90's are OVER, yes no one pays for music, no expects to pay full price for tickets to any concerts, any festivals, any theatre or any live event (thanks Lasttix and other last minute discount sites) it's a last minute world we live in.

And in the eyes of Homebake the price, the venue, the dreadful line up and the ideal summer day of Australian was destroyed by outbursts on social media and lack of interest when it came to putting your credit card details into the void of the Opera House's website.

Homebake is not alone, Harvest (making two from three Domain festivals to fail in 2013 - Field Day seems to still have a cult following), Big Day Out scrapped an unwanted second day (why do that? wait for the first to fill and then drop a second if required maybe?), Supafest (seeya later) & Movement Festival could make Danity nervous about the latest Urban festival featuring Eminem.

So why are Australian's over music festivals? Is it because the drinks are way over priced? Is it because the toilets are something out of a third world country? Could it be the line ups are getting more and more average? Or is it just because the average festival goer is getting old. I am of the later, I am getting old, can't stand all the boys parading around on steroids and the girls with short enough pants for you to see their tampon strings.

Yes the late 90's/early 2000's saw Music Festivals rise, but like all good things they come to an end and with every amateur hour promoter under the sun putting on their own style of a musical festival or event, the whole experience and quality is just becoming one hell of an average day/night out.

So where from here? In the old days their was Homebake, Big Day Out and a couple of other festivals held just in one or two states. Maybe we should go back to that model, with too many festivals and not many bands rising up it's hard to fill those big line ups.

Australia it's time to reclaim the festival circuit and embrace the good brands and hope the rip offs disappear as quickly as they popped up and ruined what once was a music lovers dream, a day in the sun, good bands, a light beverage and plenty of daggy dancing.