UPDATE: 27.03.2024 – 4:20pm
It’s official, Splendour in the Grass 2024 has been cancelled.
A press release was sent at 4.20pm, it says:
‘With a heavy heart, we’re announcing the cancellation of Splendour in the Grass 2024, originally scheduled from Friday 19 July to Sunday 21 July in Ngarindjin / North Byron Parklands.
We know there were many fans excited for this year’s line-up and all the great artists planning to join us, but due to unexpected events we’ll be taking the year off. Ticket holders will be refunded automatically by Moshtix. We thank you for your understanding and will be working hard to be back in future years.
Jessica Ducrou and Paul Piticco, Co-CEOs of Secret Sounds made a joint statement:
‘We’re heartbroken to be missing a year especially after more than two decades in operation. This festival has always been a huge community effort, and we’d like to thank everyone for their support and overall faith. We hope to be back in the future.’
If you have purchased tickets for Splendour in the Grass 2024, you don’t need to do anything – your ticket(s) will be automatically refunded back to your credit card/PayPal account and Moshtix will let you know when this has been done. Refunds will be processed within the next 5-10 business days. If your card details have changed, please wait for Moshtix to contact you directly regarding this.
If you’re unable to see the refund in your account within 5 business days from receiving confirmation it has been processed, please contact your financial institution before contacting Moshtix.
Please understand our customer service team and the Moshtix Fan Support teams are incredibly busy at the moment, so we encourage you not to contact us. Instead, you can find lots of information and answers to your questions in our information portal at tixsupport.moshtix.com.au
‘We’re sorry for any disappointment caused. Thank you very much for your patience.’
It is being widely reported that Splendour in the Grass 2024 has been cancelled, although there is no official statement as yet from organisers Secret Sounds.
Just two weeks since the announcement of the official line-up, which included Kylie Minogue, Arcade Fire and Future, it now looks like the major annual mid-winter music festival at North Byron Parklands will not be going ahead. Ticket sales were due to open via Moshtix on 31 March.
The Splendour news comes after the cancellations of other major music festivals recently, including Falls and Groovin’ the Moo, reportedly due to the cost of living crisis and other issues.
At the same of publication, there is still no official word on the reasons for the cancellation of Splendour in the Grass, with the website remaining unchanged. There is also no word on whether the $100,000 of taxpayers money paid recently by the federal government to the festival will be refunded.
Byron Bay Bluesfest has announced that despite the recent wet weather, all is in readiness for festivities at Tyagarah to begin tomorrow, as planned.
well done to all of the community protestors, we won!
north byron parklands is done!
Yes Karma indeed.
This organisation ignored the warnings from community and the ruling of the Land and Environment Court that a festival on flood prone land at Yelgun was “not a suitable development for that site”. The disaster of 2022 was not unexpected-it was always a disaster waiting to happen. People are not going to spend large amounts for tickets to events when there’s every likelyhood of cancellation due to weather events which will become more frequent and intense due to global warming.
The dire economic predictions from some due to the cancellation of this event need to be questioned. When so many shops in the region are empty it doesn’t seem that the spin about the economic benefits to the community from these massive events has ever eventuated.
NOT ONE MORE CENT of ratepayers’ or taxpayers’ money should be spent trying to rescue this foreseen disaster and putting peoples’ lives in danger.
think about climate change,
the festival will be too hot for people to go and the health risks are crazy for young people
increased flooding will mean the site is highly dangerous for people to escape in the likely event of a climate emergency
the festival generates heaps of carbon emissions adding to future climate change, its a never ending cycle of disaster
Notice how this all started as soon as that volcano exploded and destabilised the India Ocean Dipole? History shows we will have 8-10 years of capricious weather. Happens every time apparently.
You should go into comedy. Climate change – you’re hilarious
None of what you wrote actually makes sense….logically speaking. IPCC panel says extreme weather events are no more frequent nor intense than 200 years ago. No-one but climate extremists are claiming weather apocalypse.
Hip hip hooray !
Oh well people won’t be happy till there is nothing left to look forward too, festival wise. It’s human to gather together and celebrate being young. Why can’t somewhere be found for the festival that won’t upset those who oppose it in the swamplands?
The residents opposition was against the site not the festival (it is adjacent to Gazetted Wetlands and Nature Reserve and the significant site forest’s wildlife were “protected” from multi day noise and lights by a joke of a hessian screen), and the sites rich Aboriginal heritage campsites and artifact sites “protected’ by covering them with dirt. Splendour did try taking the event to Qld after the Land and Environment Court rejected the Byron DA, but they didnt sell out tickets there as it couldnt market itself as a Byron ‘hippy’ vibe. The failure to get everyone out quickly at the flood event should be a wake up – if it was a bush fire there would have been a very different result. Splendour is majority owned by the USA, billion dollars a year, Live Nation Corp ( as are all of the 3 Falls Festivals – the local minority owners also alleged they had some input into the Byron Falls cancellation – I doubt it, the sale to Live Nation handed Splendour and the Falls Australian Music Culture to the USA Corp. (Live Nation has also been buying up Australian city venues and Ticketing Agencies). The flooded event saw Splendour fined $100,000, but the State Govt just gave $100,000 back to them – ahh the NSW GST revenue. And they kept on getting State Govt allowances to increase people on site ( now 58,000) despite being fined twice for noise breaches and once for breaching the number of people on site (all 3 after complaints from residents where the residents costs of getting professional noise monitoring cost more than Splendours fines!!).
Yes Getmeoutahere, the hubris here is a bit lacking in empathy for the loss of opportunity to the performing arts community – particularly the lesser known artists – and the disappointment of festival goers. Perhaps a lesson could be learnt though about ignoring inconvenient planning advice and business models that rely on 50,000 plus attendees to be profitable.
Believe it or not, some older people are genuinely concerned about your safety in the event of an evacuation being necessary. And they’re genuinely concerned about the environment you’ll be lumbered with longer than we will.
There was no need to hold festivals on flood prone land putting people’s safety at risk. There’s a perfectly adequate festival site at Tyagarah which is available most of the year apart from Easter.
The organisers were warned of the risks of the Yelgun site but went ahead anyway. It seems the event has become old hat-young people expect something better than mud for the exhorbitant amounts they pay.
A shame to all those bands and local performers/stall holders/small businesses that will suffer due to this. The youngsters as well will miss an important event of the year. However, with the controversy the 2022 year left for this event and the local community and wildlife. I’m sure those opposed that have to endure this yearly event (koalas too) would be more than happy to see a 12 month break. I’d even go further to say that a bi-yearly proposal be discussed at council. These mega festivals leave a trail of mess for the environment. So the land could do with a break and hold this event only every 2 years. Makes more sense financially speaking for this organisation, so they can prepare better, with funding also by the government for example!