Splendour in the Grass festivalgoers are calling for refunds after thousands of patrons were told to turn around from the North Byron Parklands campgrounds after waiting in line for 15 hours and being forced to sleep in their cars overnight.
As a result of the chaos, some festivalgoers have called for Splendour in the Grass to refund their tickets, while others have suggested the event should be cancelled.Jaide Fisher, 26, who travelled with her friend and partner from the Hawkesbury, was still lining up outside the festival at 8.30am on Friday, after arriving at 5.30pm on Thursday.
“We don’t even want to go in any more, but we won’t leave if we’re going to waste all that money. After this experience I’ll likely never go again,” she said as her line-up time clicked over to 15 hours.they were concerned about how they were going to get into the site on Friday in time to perform. It’s the festival’s first return since 2019, and organisers had upped the capacity from 40,000 to 50,000 – adding additional pressure to campsites, walkways and performing areas.
“We only made it about 4kms in those eight hours. We didn’t move at all for the last two,” Harrington said. Another attendee, Jacqui Withers, managed to get into the site and set up her tent but was forced to sleep in her car due to the rain flooding her tent.Freshwater resident Acacia Middlemist, 21, said she and her friends waited nine hours to get into the gates on Thursday.Middlemist said the festival needed to be cancelled.
sarah_keoghan oz_f To hold an outdoor festival in July is to take a gamble with the wea. Historically, the ‘rain tumbles down in July’ (folk song lyrics, 1946).
sarah_keoghan oz_f Suck it up princess. Harden up.
sarah_keoghan oz_f Have you shit your pants today? No, then that's a good day.
sarah_keoghan oz_f Woodstock...
sarah_keoghan oz_f Wow!! Some real haters, of course they’ve not battled through war or relative hardship but it’s still a shit situation, all you haters sit down and shut up!
sarah_keoghan oz_f That’s day 1, it ain’t improving. Shit for the festival go-ers, horrible for the organisers, but hell, call it off!
sarah_keoghan oz_f Clearly haven't experienced much hardship if voluntary festival failure is the worst thing. Get over yourselves.
sarah_keoghan oz_f Who cares, people are dying of covid in this country, countless families are being affected by reinfections and HCW are pushed to the brink. Stupid to be attending a festival during a major covid wave. How entitled.
sarah_keoghan oz_f Great to see our wonderful helpful police sticking the knife in. dogs
sarah_keoghan oz_f You should be thankful you’ve lived a privileged life
sarah_keoghan oz_f It’s not Ukraine, get a fucking grip.
sarah_keoghan oz_f If that’s the grimmest night of your life you are doing ok
sarah_keoghan oz_f Grim? I hope this is satire.
sarah_keoghan oz_f That’s the grimmest night of your life? 😂 you poor soul
sarah_keoghan oz_f Ah the great tales of Aussie hardship - Fromelles, the depression, Kokoda, Cyclone Tracy and now ‘it rained heaps at Splendor!’
sarah_keoghan oz_f Did you get Acacia Middlemist’s name from BetootaAdvocate ?
sarah_keoghan oz_f Put it down to experience and donate your money to the artists.
sarah_keoghan oz_f You haven’t lived much of a life then. Wait till something really “grim” actually happens.
sarah_keoghan oz_f It's not like the Northern Rivers has flooded *checks notes* three times this year, there's no way they could have known.
sarah_keoghan oz_f Byron/Belongil had 22mm of rain in the 24hrs to 9am today How poorly organized is this shot show?
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