Splendour In The Grass
Splendour in the Grass and Falls Festival organisers Secret Sounds Group have received a grant of over $1.5 million to launch a new music festival in 2021. As the Sydney Morning Herald reports, it’s the largest grant delivered to an arts and entertainment project in NSW as part of the federal government’s Restart Investment to […]
In an alternate universe, chances are you’d be getting yourself prepped for the trip to North Bryon for this year’s Splendour in the Grass, which was originally set to take place next weekend. COVID-19 may have forced festival organisers to cancel this year’s event and set their sights on 2021, but if you’re feeling a […]
Splendour in the Grass has announced that this year’s festival will not be taking place, with organisers shifting the event to July 2021, with a lineup that will likely include much of this year’s planned bill. “We have been monitoring the situation closely for the past few months and while Australia is now moving into […]
Aussies won’t be able to attend a music festival or a nightclub until there is a coronavirus vaccine, according to Australia’s Chief Medical Officer, Dr Brendan Murphy. It’s bad news for festivals like Splendour In The Grass, with organisers postponing the annual festival until October 2020 in the hope that the COVID-19 pandemic would be […]
Since Rage Against the Machine announced their much-anticipated reunion earlier this month, the question on Aussie fans’ lips has been “Okay, but when are they coming here?” Well, if a supposedly leaked tour poster is to be believed, the answer appears to be next July. As Tone Deaf reports, a post has been circulating which lists […]
A New South Wales police officer has admitted that 19 strip searches he conducted over two days at Splendour in the Grass in 2018 may have been illegal, during questioning at the Law Enforcement Conduct Commission’s investigation into possible misconduct around strip search powers by NSW police. The senior constable said that while police had a […]
Chance The Rapper’s forthcoming album finally has a name; The Big Day. We’ve known that there’s been a follow-up coming to 2016’s Grammy-winning mixtape Colouring Book since Feb, when Chance teased its release. Now, following the May release of single ‘GRoCERIES’, Chance has dropped the album name and release date of July 26. PB = PB […]
Mates, if you’re Splendour-bound this weekend, you might want to bring something warm. As the festival approaches and set times have been revealed, the only thing left to do is sort your wardrobe and pack your bags – that’s where the weather comes in. The latest from the Bureau of Meteorology is that it’ll be a […]
If you can’t make it to Byron Bay and are starting to feel the FOMO prior to Splendour in the Grass this weekend, the next best thing to physically attending the festival has been revealed. Triple j will be streaming 35 live sets from across the festival, including full sets from Chance the Rapper and […]
This year’s Splendour In The Grass is so close you can almost taste it. And now – drum roll, please – the festival’s set times have been released along with an event map, so you can start carefully curating everything you want to see at North Byron Parklands this July 19th-21st. They’ve also unveiled My […]
