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Yours and Owls is a brand and annual music festival that is held in Wollongong, Australia. It originally started as a coffee shop, then a gallery and restaurant space, then a music venue, then pop-up gigs, a record label, and now holds an annual music festival. in addition to events throughout the year in local venues.

The National Live Music Awards (NLMAs) are a broad recognition of Australia's diverse live industry, celebrating the success of the Australian live scene. The awards commenced in 2016.

Due to COVID-19 restrictions, the 2020 Yours and Owls festival was moved from its usual October date to 2021.

On April 16th 2021, Youtube comedian FriendlyJordies uploaded a video titled "Cancel Culture KILLS Artists (Yours and Owls)" that detailed their negative experience with Yours and Owls through a series of e-mails claiming that FriendlyJordies is racist to Aboriginals due to 'a couple of staff reacting to a tiktok video' of him, despite his views being in-line with the elders of the area in question. In the video, Jordies describes Yours and Owls as a 'hipster mafia' that has 'replicated the function of a tick' who, through majority control of venue management in Wollongong, have a stranglehold on artists and control who is and isn't allowed to operate in Wollongong with financial stability. It currently has over 290,000 views and 22,000 likes.