The chaos started early. Fifteen-plus-hour waits – with no food or water provided – to get into a campsite that was mostly under water. No staff on site to lead cars through. No information from anyone with authority. As news outlets started relaying the miserable conditions 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.”
Friends of ours who drove a campervan from Sydney couldn’t even get through the gates; after 20 hours behind the wheel, as other cars ahead of them in the line ran out of petrol and/or got bogged in the mud, they called it a night at 3.30am and slept in a Woolies underground car park.
