Splendour in the Grass - 2009

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Bloc Party
The Flaming Lips
Janes Addiction
MGMT
Hilltop Hoods
Grinspoon
Midnight Juggernauts
The Specials
Augie March
Sarah Blasko
Friendly Fires
White Lies
Little Birdy
Josh Pyke
The Gutter Twins
Birds of Tokyo
Manchester Orchestra
Decoder Ring
Lost Valentinos
Bob Evans
Yuksek
Kram
Yves Klein Blue
Leader Cheetah
Jack Ladder
The Middle East
Polaroid Fame
Glass Towers

Splendour In the Grass is an annual music, arts and youth culture event which has taken place on the outskirts of Byron Bay each July/August since 2001. Past years have featured a staggering array of the world's leading music talent including Coldplay, Bloc Party, Arctic Monkeys, Queens of the Stone Age, Moby, Brian Wilson and many, many more.

As well as the latest and best in music from Australia and overseas, the festival also features local arts and crafts, creative performance and cuisine.

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.

Many who attend choose to immerse themselves in the full ‘Splendour experience’ by taking advantage of the on-site camping adjacent to the festival site. Campers set up their tents right outside the festival gates and quickly establish their own Splendour village for the weekend.