Listen Out is an annual Australian music festival held in Sydney, Perth, Melbourne and Brisbane since September 2013.
Each Listen Out concert is a one-day event attracting both domestic and international hip-hop, indie, and electronic musicians.
[2] In parallel with the festival national youth radio Triple J runs an Unearthed competition, where the state winner performs at their capital's venue.
[4] Listen Out's inaugural tour commenced on 28 September 2013 in Sydney, before proceeding to Perth and then Melbourne and finishing in Brisbane.
Each year the winners of the annual Triple J Unearthed competition for each state were given a time slot for the related Listen Out concert.
[38] The 2014 version of listen had 37 festival attendees arrested in Melbourne for drug offences.
[39] The Sydney leg of the 2015 tour had seven people were arrested due to drug supply, with one carrying over 100 MDMA pills.
[40] In the 2016 run of the Listen Out, during the Victorian leg of the tour a woman aged 27 died of a suspected drug overdose.
[47] 12 people were taken to hospital at the NSW festival and 7 of these were found to be drug related issues.
[47] Fuzzy representatives replied that governments should be more open to pill testing in order to create safer festivals.