Australia’s biggest music festival, Splendour In The Grass, is struggling to sell tickets and has lost a major international drawcard with Lewis Capaldi cancelling his upcoming shows.
Last year’s sold-out event began with heavy rain falling on the North Byron Parklands festival site, and the opening day was cancelled. The sold-out crowd of 50,000 was 15,000 people bigger than the 2019 festival. The 2020 and 2021 events were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The festival has historically sold out within hours, and high ticket demand has previously caused the festival website to crash. Two decades ago 12,500 people attended the inaugural, one-day festival. The next year was a two-day event, and it expanded to three days in 2009. After crowd numbers jumped to 30,000 in 2014, ticket sales ballooned to 50,000 last year.
Ducrou said changes have been made to better respond to bad weather after last year’s opening day was cancelled, campgrounds flooded, and transportation failures left people stranded for hours. “We’ll take time off ... and allow some space to re-imagine how Falls will look in the future,” Ducrou said in a statement last month.
“If you want to be less kind,” the mayor told this masthead, “after the February and March weather events, knowing the site and the long-term weather forecast predicting heavy rain, I don’t think they [the organisers] can say they were caught unaware by the weather.”
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