Splendour In The Grass Festival 2008
Splendour In The Grass is an annual Australian music festival in New South Wales. This year’s festival, set to take place between August 2 and 3, the same weekend as Lollapalooza in the United States, recently revealed its initial lineup.
Devo, Wolfmother, Sigur Ros, The Living End, The Presets, Tricky, Vampire Weekend, Ben Lee, Cold War Kids, The Fratellis, The Wombats, Pnau, Laura Marling, The Vines, The Grates, Operator Please, Band of Horses, Van She, The Panics, Gyroscope, MSTRKRFT, Lightspeed Champion, The Brown Bird From Windy Hill, Scribe, The Music, The Gin Club
Tickets are currently available via qjump.au
The festival is on the top of most discerning Australian music fan’s wish-lists of must-go Festivals, which combined with the event’s relatively small capacity compared to many of the summer festivals, results in feverish activity on the day tickets go on sale. This year’s festival will be the eighth Splendour In the Grass. The two-day event accommodates 17,500 people and has sold out in advance in each year of its existence, often within hours of going on sale – all tickets to last year’s festival were snapped up in just 5 hours, while the preceding three years’ events sold out in a little over a day.
Ugh, looks like we’ll have to count out Cold War Kids and Band of Horses for Lollapalooza now. This is a bummer.