Splendour In The Grass 2022

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Splendour in the Grass music festival hit by Byron Bay's wild ... (ABC News)

Splendour in the Grass organisers have begun diverting campers away from the site of the popular festival where heavy rain is causing havoc.

"The weather and staff shortages were all worse than expected. Hopefully they can find some inside once the main festival gates open. "I'm so thankful I brought my gumboots. "It's not Splendour in the Grass this year, it's Splendour in the Mud." Please be patient — we hear you," they wrote on Thursday night. "It was not moving, that's for sure.

'The grimmest night of my life': Chaos at Splendour in the Grass as ... (The Sydney Morning Herald)

A major queue of cars waiting to get into the campgrounds formed on Thursday afternoon as recent heavy rainfall across the Northern Rivers caused the festival ...

“It’s so unsafe to be camping here. We made up a very uncomfortable bed onto our Eskys in the tray of the ute,” she said. Get it here. After this experience I’ll likely never go again,” she said as her line-up time clicked over to 15 hours. Artists due to be performing on Friday told The Age and the Herald they were concerned about how they were going to get into the site on Friday in time to perform. Splendour in the Grass festivalgoers are calling for refunds after thousands of patrons were told to turn around from the North Byron Parklands campgrounds after waiting in line for 15 hours and being forced to sleep in their cars overnight.

Total chaos at Splendour in the Grass (NEWS.com.au)

The first Splendour in the Grass festival in three years has been derailed by wet and muddy conditions, with punters sharing wild footage from the flooded ...

Unfortunately for festivalgoers, the less-than-ideal weather is set to continue. The township of Byron Bay is expected to receive to be hit with rainy and windy conditions during the entirety of the festival. The campsites weren’t much better. And there’s more bad weather on the way, with the Bureau of Meteorology forecasting a 100 per cent chance of rain on Friday and a high chance of showers on Saturday in the Byron Bay region. The conditions at the festival at deteriorating rapidly, with people now calling for the event to be cancelled. People arriving for the four-day festival yesterday were faced with 12 hour queues just to get into the camping grounds, with organisers forced to extend the entry hours to try and get people into the festival.

Splendour In The Grass 2022: punters brave rain and mud in videos ... (NME.com)

Punters are starting to share their experiences of Splendour In The Grass, particularly of the weather conditions and muddy festival site.

♬ original sound – ESOSA ♬ original sound – frankie 🙂 Other TikToks show attendees in their campsites under a gloomy sky.

Splendour In The Grass hit with heavy rain, forced to close some ... (9News)

The festival posted on social media that the heavy rain and flooding around Byron Bay meant campers and vehicles could no longer be accepted at North Byron ...