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Splendour in the Grass

April 2024

  • Festivalgoers at Splendour in the Grass

    Australian arts in focus
    Australian music insiders take aim at ‘tick-a-box’ government funding for festivals

  • Crowds at last year's Splendour in the Grass festival in the North Byron Parklands

    Australian arts in focus
    The Australian company behind Splendour has a rich parent – so why does it need millions in public money?

March 2024

  • The crowd at last year’s Splendour in the Grass

    First Groovin the Moo, now Splendour: why are Australia’s music festivals falling over?

  • Splendour In The Grass

    Australian arts in focus
    Splendour in the Grass music festival cancelled for 2024 due to ‘unexpected events’

July 2023

  • Festival goers enjoying the music at Splendour In The Grass.

    Splendour in the Grass 2023 – in pictures

    No mud, just fans, fashion and good tunes as the 2023 Splendour in the Grass music festival kicks off in Byron Bay. Getty Images photographer Matt Jelonek captures the Friday fun

March 2023

  • Lizzo on stage with backup dancers

    Lizzo to headline 2023 Splendour in the Grass a year after festival chaos

    News of the Grammy award-winner’s performance comes weeks after organisers apologised again for how wild weather and traffic were handled last year

August 2022

  • Two people in gumboots and rain ponchos stand in a field looking out to the rainbow-coloured Splendour in the Grass sign on a grass hill

    Splendour in the Grass attenders told to monitor for symptoms of meningococcal disease after Sydney man’s death

    Music festival organisers say they are notifying patrons after two infections reported in people who visited Byron Bay site

July 2022

  • A flooded campsite at Splendour in the Grass 2022. Organisers of the music festival say they ‘did everything we could considering the circumstances’.

    Australian arts in focus
    Splendour in the Grass 2022 fiasco was foreseeable and ‘just plain dangerous’, local councillors say

  • First Day Of Splendour In The Grass Cancelled Due To Heavy Rain<br>BYRON BAY, AUSTRALIA - JULY 22: A festival goer is seen in mud during Splendour in the Grass 2022 at North Byron Parklands on July 22, 2022 in Byron Bay, Australia. Festival organisers have cancelled the first day of performances at Splendour in the Grass due to heavy rain at the festival site. (Photo by Matt Jelonek/Getty Images)

    Splendour in the Grass 2022: bus chaos, noxious mud and public urination at an ‘unbelievably awful’ time

  • Clare O'Neil, home affairs minister.

    Australia news live
    Australia records 102 Covid deaths – as it happened

  • A general view of Splendour in the Grass 2022 at North Byron Parklands on July 22, 2022 in Byron Bay,

    ‘Be patient, kind and safe’: Splendour in the Grass revellers make most of muddy conditions

  • Camping areas under water at Splendour in the Grass festival 2022 – video

  • Splendour in the Grass chaos: first day of music festival cancelled amid wild weather

  • Australian arts in focus
    Splendour in the Grass: claim organisers didn’t know about under-18s rule contradicted by NSW authorities

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