Little 23 SIMZ

We’ve being doing Splendour for a while now and if there’s one thing we’ve learnt it’s that you have to plan out your sets if you want to see them. Here’s what is on our itinerary. Friday. First up, get around Toby Cregan’s last show with the Skeggs. It’ll be a send off set no doubt. Grab another bev and stick around the amphitheatre for 070 Shake, she’s a weapon who you definitely won’t want to miss. Sudan Archives is next at the Mix Up stage who will change your perspective on violins entirely. Get some food into your belly between sets before the lovely Loyle Carner takes the stage. Plus Lizzo! Holy. And then lose your friends and spend the rest of the night trying to find them. Saturday, I hope you like fish because it’s another day of straight tunas. Today you’ve got Hellcat Speedracer to really get you going early. Tune into the Forum to wrap your brain around the Voice To Parliament. Then it’s Automatic, with a little R&R time before Benee. From here on out you’re pretty much back to back with sets from King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Sam Fender, Pussy Riot , the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Plus our cover girl, the one and only Little Simz . Sprint back to the amphitheatre for Flume, because he knows how to do it but give up completely on trying to get working phone reception because the entire festival will be at this one. By Sunday the tops of your feet will start to hurt because there’s actually no part left of your leg that hasn’t been worked to death. Contemplate if this is what a marathon runner feels like on the daily and vouch to never take up that sport while refuelling yourself with a bacon and egg roll and a Berocca. I’d be starting the day off with Gimmy, which should time you over with enough music energy to last until Royel Otis at the GW McLennan Tent. Catch the first half of Thelma Plum’s set before IDLES, amphitheatre, 7:30. You’d be an idiot to miss that one and by then you’ll probably no longer be able to walk.

MASTHEAD

EDITOR SAM HETHERINGTON ASSOCIATE EDITOR NAZ KAWAKAMI CREATIVE DIRECTOR CAMPBELL MILLIGAN CEO RACHEL BLACKLEY

COMMERCIAL DIRECTOR JAMIE BREWER SENIOR ACCOUNT MANAGER RACHEL MOODY DESIGNER D’ARCY LAYCOCK

CONTENT PRODUCER BRESCIA GIBSON DISTRIBUTION CORY ROBERTS ACCOUNTS GEORGIA SHENTON INTERN WILL RICKWOOD

CONTRIBUTING WRITERS VAUGHAN BLAKEY, CHLOE BORICH, TIA HENRICKS, JAMES ROYCE, ISABELLE WEBSTER

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CONTRIBUTING ARTIST JAKEY PEDRO

SPECIAL THANKS TO

JESS DUCROU, PAUL PITICCO, JADE SKELLY, GABE CRAMB, LAYLA CARROLL, MONIQUE MCINNES, KRISTY ROSSER, AIMEE STEWART,

We respectfully acknowledge the original and traditional custodians of this land the Minyunbal Country which is a part of the Greater Bundjalung Nation We also respectfully acknowledge the wider Northern Rivers Aboriginal communities and elders both past, present and emerging.

Splendour In The Grass 2023

We’re here, we’ve made it, it’s Splendour In The Grass 2023. If you’re reading this, that means you’ve made it too. Well done. Good on you for spending seventeen years picking out your outfit and telling your tinder crush you’ll be front left at The Forest around 6pm waiting to be kissed. Music festivals are the kind of things that make me believe in humans again. A brief moment in time when there is a little less hate and a little less sadness. I mean there’s not very many places where losing all your friends can actually be enjoyable. Or when getting on a total stranger’s shoulders seems like a completely acceptable and even somewhat fun thing to do. Music festivals are here to remind us that we’re here for a good time, together on this silly little planet, however fleeting it is. Music from Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Little Simz and IDLES helps too. And some more from Royel Otis, RVG, Jack River, PNAU, King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard, Sudan Archives, Del Water Gap, Marlon Williams, Teenage Dads and Lastlings too. Look after each other out there, put down your phone and tell that person next to you that you love them.

Sam x