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“St Kilda Festival always puts on a fantastic show – 2026 continues this tradition,” said Port Phillip Council Mayor Alex Makin.

“It's really helped me," Butler explained. "A lot of people think it's cheating.”

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“I'm sorry that I was unable to come out here for you cos that's my main goal every night,” Chillinit told fans.

“I wasn’t planning on working tonight,” the singer joked with the audience gathered to see Billy Joel tribute act Turnstiles.

"The AO LIVE line-up is locked, the nights are stacked, and THIS is what summer sounds like."

'Stranger Things' creators The Duffer Brothers explained that when it came to using Prince in the series finale, they had "never talked about a song choice as much as we did for that moment."

"I want to thank everybody that came to the show," Cudi said after his brief run of Aussie festival dates. "Everybody that was losing their shit to every song, singing every word."