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Isabella Corbett

‘The Best We Could’: Splendour Organisers Break Their Silence After Wet ‘N Wild Festival Weekend

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ll know by now that this year’s Splendour In The Grass was chaos. From punters (and cars) getting bogged down in normal mud to reports of noxious mud
ABCJess Ducrou 

“We were in a really difficult position,” she said.

“We have insurance, we could have cancelled the entire event. So it wasn’t a financial decision for us to go forward.

“It was more about considering how long it had been since Splendour had happened. The fact that so many people had come into the area for it. And the fact so many people were relying on it and working for it.”

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“We had new information from the SES and the weather bureau that there was a low that developed up near Brisbane and was headed down toward North Byron Parklands,” she said.

“Our first priority was to keep people safe. It was the right thing to do.”

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“I think some of the drivers got sick,” she said.

“It’s something we’ll have to take up with the bus company.”

“You can plan, and we definitely overbooked on everything because we were expecting some impacts. But you just can’t get everything right,” Ms Ducrou said.

“And I think the weather certainly affected the ability to just roll through it.

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