The gender imbalance in music festival line-ups persists this year, despite the noise in promoters ears getting louder. Kirsten Johnstone asks why this is still an issue.

There’s an Instagram account called lineupswithoutmales dedicated to photoshopping bands with no female members out of festival posters in NZ and Australia. Too many are bare. Why is there still such an imbalance? When around 22 percent of registered songwriters identify as female, why is this not reflected on our festival stages?