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Evening Standard
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Miriam Burrell

Splendour in the Grass: Australia’s largest music festival hit by wild weather forcing day one cancellation

The music festival site turned into a muddy hell for punters

(Picture: Getty Images)

Downpours, flooding, mud and washed-out tents have meant the first day of one of Australia’s largest music festivals has been cancelled.

Performances on the main stages at Splendour in the Grass in Byron Bay, New South Wales were cancelled as organisers decided to “err on the side of caution”.

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