Organisers of the Byron Bay music festival underplayed the reality of the situation as rain and transport woes created a perfect storm that left punters shell-shocked
of this year’s Splendour in the Grass festival, the event’s latest Twitter update read: “You won’t see any disposable cups at Splendour bars.”
We were staying in an AirBnB, and as we headed down to catch a bus to the venue the next morning, news filtered out that day one of the festival had been cancelled – despite assurances hours earlier that it would go ahead “rain, hail or shine”. The poor campers who braved a night of water sports on site were appeased with a few DJ tents throbbing repetitive beats into their sleep-derived brains.
Underplaying the reality of the situation was a constant theme that seemed deceptive at best, and bordered on dangerous. The festival had been cancelled for the previous two years and, as the weekend drew closer, it weathered major last-minute lineup changes and The party line was that there was a completely unforeseeable one-in-50-year weather event. But Byron was‘Underplaying the reality of the situation was a constant theme.
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