As a licensing change denies unchaperoned under-18s entry to one of Australia’s biggest festivals, we asked readers to recount their own experience
My dad and I were going to go to the original date , then that was cancelled and rescheduled for 7 and 8 October. I had just finished freshers’ week at a northern uni, but my new boyfriend and I played hooky and travelled down on the coach for Saturday night. We stayed in a YHA on the Friday evening and then planned to travel back on the overnight coach on Saturday after the concert. On the day it was cold, wet and windy.
I’ve been to many gigs since, and some of those have been epic, but that one tops it all for the adventure. Unchaperoned, unexpected and unknown to my parents until afterwards.describes himself as a “rebellious and difficult oldest child” growing up in a household where adults acted like children and thought he was “grown up” before his teens.
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