UPDATE: Splendour In The Grass 2018 Sells Out, Resale Details Announced
ORIGINAL STORY: With the 2018 Splendour In The Grass lineup just days away, details have emerged of how locals can be the first to get their hands on tickets.
While the festival’s much-hyped new roster will be unveiled this Wednesday morning, residents from in and around Byron Bay will be able to purchase tickets this upcoming weekend, before everyone else.
Local venue The Northern Hotel (35/43 Jonson Street, Byron Bay) will be hosting the locals sale between 10am and 4pm on Sunday, 15th April, before tickets are expected to go on sale to the public the following week, News Corp reports.
Residents who live within any of the postcodes between (and including) 2478 and 2484 will be able to buy tickets before they go on sale to everyone else, but they’ll need to show some ID with their home address and postcode to prove their local-ness.
Locals will be able to buy tickets for up to four people, and will need the name and birthday of each person they’re buying a ticket for. Sales will only be via Visa or Mastercard (no cash), and the tickets will be emailed to the buyer at a later date.
Locals are also being told not to queue up before 10am, as there isn’t a limited allocation of tickets for sale.
Splendour ticket prices will be announced later this week, when organisers announce this year’s Splendour lineup.
A Splendour members pre-sale is also expected to take place prior to tickets going on sale to the general public.
Splendour In The Grass is set to return to North Byron Parklands between 20th and 22nd July. Last year’s lineup was headlined by Queens Of The Stone Age, The xx and LCD Soundsystem, and you can read up on six acts we think just might play this year’s festival, below.
Splendour In The Grass 2018: 6 Acts We Think Will Play (And Why)
Splendour In The Grass 2018
Friday, 20th — Sunday, 22nd July
North Byron Parklands, Byron Bay
Tickets: Official Website
Acts Who Will Probably Play Splendour In The Grass 2018 (And Why)
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The Wombats
Why? Because they said so. They're the only group to publicly state they are "definitely" performing at Splendour this year. -
Franz Ferdinand
Why? They recently told Music Feeds they "have plans to come back over" to Australia "soon", and given they've just released their latest album Always Ascending, a Splendour appearance makes a lot of sense. -
MGMT
Why? They recently said they will be "setting foot on Australian soil this year", and they're also playing Japan's Fuji Rock Festival, which often shares a number of acts with Splendour. Chances are high, it seems. -
Superorganism
Why? They recently told Music Feeds they will "definitely" be touring Australia this year "for a whole bunch of shows". They're also playing Fuji Rock Festival, and have enough space in their schedule for a Splendour set. -
Kendrick Lamar
Why? Kendrick is also playing Fuji Rock Festival, and given his success in the latest triple j Hottest 100 (and the fact he last performed in Australia in 2016), we think he could well be a headline act at Splendour 2018. -
Arctic Monkeys
Why? They've got a suspicious Splendour-sized hole in their tour schedule, new music on the way and would be an A+ score for Splendour. It's still just rumour, but it's a big one.
